Nival US Shuts Down

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 15 Mar 2007, 18:02

By looking at <a href="/http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/857/873">Tim Lang's profile on LindedIn</a>, I found out that he recently joined a company called Spinmaster Studios as Lead Designer. Tim told me that the US office of Nival is no more:

<i>"I left Nival at the beginning of December. Due to some financial problems with their investors, the US office wasn't making as much money as they had expected, and they shut down the studio.

<a href="/http://www.spinmaster.com/index3.jsp">Spinmaster inc</a> [is] the toy company that owns the Aquadoodle and Tech Deck toy lines. We're very early in the studio building phase, and are working on some online concepts."</i>

That's a small blow to a potential Might and Magic X, for those of you who are still hoping to see this game become a reality. We wish the best of luck to Tim with his new projects!

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arturchix · Unread postby **arturchix** » 15 Mar 2007, 18:10

That's too bad.

I'd like to know what Nival US was working on - Tim was pretty excited about that project, but it wasn't MMX anyway.

HodgePodge · Unread postby **HodgePodge** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:04

Angelspit wrote:… That's a small blow to a potential Might and Magic X, for those of you who are still hoping to see this game become a reality. We wish the best of luck to Tim with his new projects!

I think it's a blessing to a potential Might & Magic X. Let's hope when UbiSoft decides to do Might & Magic X, Nival won't be the developer they choose.

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 16 Mar 2007, 00:38

M&M X by Nival, the developers of H5. There's something to wish for. Not. Rejoice!

Lepastur · Unread postby **Lepastur** » 16 Mar 2007, 03:30

I agree Kalah and HodgePodge, but I don't think Ubi will make another choice. Nival is the cheaper (and the worst I've ever seen), and the product sells due to its Name. The perfect business! Ubi only cares about money, not quality, so they will do the best for the first one and this is the choice of Nival.
Edited on Thu, Mar 15 2007, 20:33 by Lepastur

Marzhin · Unread postby **Marzhin** » 16 Mar 2007, 11:42

Woah, it was certainly short-lived o_O

Lord_Haart · Unread postby **Lord_Haart** » 16 Mar 2007, 14:09

I remember someone talking about bethesda doing mmx... now THERE's a dream... sick of ubi.

MMT seems to finally be getting somewhere though, they've expanded their beta, so something must be there to test!

Starbatron · Unread postby **Starbatron** » 16 Mar 2007, 19:47

If only Bethesda would create it...unfortunately, it has the chance of a snowball in hell.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 16 Mar 2007, 19:49

Yeah, that would be like EA launching a second series of NFL games, wouldn't it?

GrayFace · Unread postby **GrayFace** » 17 Mar 2007, 17:23

I haven't played any new Nival games, but 5 years ago they were making great games. (Allods, Evil Islands)

jeff · Unread postby **jeff** » 17 Mar 2007, 19:22

They said profits were lower than expected, did that studio release anything?

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 18 Mar 2007, 22:09

they shut down the wrong office of nival it seems ....

Starbatron · Unread postby **Starbatron** » 19 Mar 2007, 14:29

Nival is certainly not making any friends with modders...I'd say good riddance.

Sikon · Unread postby **Sikon** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:45

Nobody likes Nival

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:52

Nival doesn't like anyone either.

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:54

"In america, you don't like Nival. In Russia, Nival doesn't like you"

HodgePodge · Unread postby **HodgePodge** » 19 Mar 2007, 20:35

Gaidal Cain wrote:"In america, you don't like Nival. In Russia, Nival doesn't like you"

Us Americans didn't start out disliking Nival, it's just that they've botched Heroes V and the Editor to the point of distraction. Anyway, Nival didn't like us from the very beginning, even before Heroes 5 was released; it's nothing Americans did, they're just BIGOTS!

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 19 Mar 2007, 20:40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal

tekeeee · Unread postby **tekeeee** » 01 Apr 2007, 22:11

HodgePodge wrote:
Gaidal Cain wrote:"In america, you don't like Nival. In Russia, Nival doesn't like you"
Us Americans didn't start out disliking Nival, it's just that they've botched Heroes V and the Editor to the point of distraction. Anyway, Nival didn't like us from the very beginning, even before Heroes 5 was released; it's nothing Americans did, they're just BIGOTS!

SO I suppose Nival made Heroes 5 to punish you Americans huh?
I think y'all just didn't like Nival from the beginning I've heard a lot of complaints that it was coming from Russia or Europe and not America

I guess you were and still are one of them
Persoanlly I think Heores 5 is an average game that manages to be safe, and very similar to Heores 3, if they did anything big change then you would complain even more, maybe in heroes 6 when you see revival of series

Omega_Destroyer · Unread postby **Omega_Destroyer** » 01 Apr 2007, 22:58

After playing Night Watch, I can affirm that Nival truly hates people from all corners of the world.

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