At least two members of the studio announced they were laid off today on the game's official message boards and it sounds like less than expected sales of the game are to blame. The game's now formal level designer Petri Jarvinen stated in his farewell post, "Now this does not mean that the game is dead, it´s just that there are less people making it." We have emailed Futuremark to try to find out exactly how many people were laid off and what this means for the future of Shattered Horizon.
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It PROBABLY would have been better for their sales if they didn't arbitrarily make Shattered Horizons a DirectX 10 exclusive, thereby effectively cutting their potential market in half.
A quick look at the Steam hardware survey results shows quite plainly what a stupid idea that was.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Windows Version .... Windows XP 32 bit .... 47.97%
No one should be surprised by "less than expected sales."
Posted at 5:55AM on Dec 22nd 2009 by Jeff