Alphadream files for bankruptcy

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Well, this is the end, beautiful friends
Alphadream, of the Mario and Luigi's series has filed for bankruptcy.
While I hope the series can continue another way, I hope the workers can find new jobs
 
Yeah, I shared this earlier in another thread, just gonna say that while the company is bankrupt, the series and IP remain as well as the people working on it. The future for Mario & Luigi games is really uncertain now as well as the characters from those series' fates. Moreso, Paper Mario's future is also uncertain too since we haven't heard a single chirp about a Paper Mario game for console, but at least Intelligent Systems, also developer for Fire Emblem and WarioWare, is probably financially well off. Anyhow, people might pin the blame on the two vastly underperforming remakes we had, understandable since they were lazy remakes, but I think the company was probably going down well before those two remakes and might be the reason those remakes weren't that good. Dream Team had high production values with quality sprites, really nice music, and whatnot, but people noticed that there were reused assets since and maybe that was a symptom of the decline? As well as the utter lack of a console Mario & Luigi game for Switch despite demands for it? Can't be too sure. What I'm sure of is that this is dismaying to read about and I do also really hope the workers find a job. I know they needed a break from making Mario & Luigi games, but I didn't figure they were already financially dire.
 
nintendo owns the ip, hopefully the developers can get together in a new name and continue making m&l games, since it's the people behind the company responsible for the games, not the brand name. nd cube was such as an example of a series developed under a new name that continued and have the same people.

that still means we wouldn't get a new m&l in a long while though, not until the developers get these things sorted out.
 
This is a unexpected and saddening turn of events, I hope that maybe some of the previous guys that worked on the series can reformed under another moniker and keep the dream alive.
 
Not shocked but also shocked? It's weird. I knew they were kind of leaning off the edge of the cliff with how poorly their games have been doing lately, but I didn't think they'd actually fucking fly off.
Dr. Baby Luigi said:
nintendo owns the ip, hopefully the developers can get together in a new name and continue making m&l games, since it's the people behind the company responsible for the games, not the brand name. nd cube was such as an example of a series developed under a new name that continued and have the same people.

that still means we wouldn't get a new m&l in a long while though, not until the developers get these things sorted out.
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ND Cube had a lot of Hudson employees by the time they started on the Mario Party series. Unless AlphaDream employees start up a new company soon, I doubt the same thing will happen here
 
Mario's Painting said:
Yeah, I shared this earlier in another thread, just gonna say that while the company is bankrupt, the series and IP remain as well as the people working on it. The future for Mario & Luigi games is really uncertain now as well as the characters from those series' fates. Moreso, Paper Mario's future is also uncertain too since we haven't heard a single chirp about a Paper Mario game for console, but at least Intelligent Systems, also developer for Fire Emblem and WarioWare, is probably financially well off.
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I don't quite see that Paper Mario's future is considered uncertain only because I never felt that it's overdue for a new Paper Mario game. After all, it's not like the series is biennial or triennial in a way one would expect Mario Party or Mario & Sonic to be. Perhaps to those who are hungry for a Paper Mario game with qualities they like in Thousand Year Door they might be, but I felt that Paper Mario is handled well even if not everybody agrees with the way it's handled now.

Perhaps if Mario & Luigi couldn't continue as it is, then the staff of Mario & Luigi could work on Paper Mario and that might appease to the fans of both.

Thank you for reading.
 
I can't say I'm all that surprised. They were only making M&L games and the sales of those had been in steady decline for years.
 
That hurts my soul. M&L was the only consistently good Mario RPG series left. It's also given life to so many of my favorite characters including my namesake. I really hope the devs can band together again somehow and revive the series, or at least let its characters be used in the rest of the franchise. I'd hate to see everything this series contributed in an eternal limbo :(