Jade Raymond, who was appointed as Google Stadia's vice president back in 2019, has announced her new Montreal-based independent studio, Haven Studios. Even if it is a new studio, Raymond already revealed that they are "already hard at work on an unannounced IP" for PlayStation in PlayStation Blog post.

"We want to create worlds where players can escape, have fun, express themselves, and find community. We want to pour our passion into a project," Raymond writes. "We want to make something wondrous for people to experience. Because we believe in the power of games to bring joy to people’s lives. And Sony does, too. Their commitment to excellence is unmatched. It’s why I couldn’t be happier for their backing and support."

Jade Raymond introduces Haven, a new Montreal-based game development studio working on an original, new IP for PlayStation: https://t.co/98Iug9Em0V pic.twitter.com/hTjLsDNbbV

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) March 16, 2021

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To recall, Jade Raymond parted ways with Google last month when Google Stadia's game development studios shut down. Previously, she worked as a manager with EA and as a producer for Assassin’s Creed while at Ubisoft.

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[Jonna]

Generally speaking you are only as good as your last project...
Equally if you are foolish enough to sign on to work on stadia and don't run for the hills after you hear their plans (this is to say not putting a local server farm in every city to minimise ping and the pricing format on top of that) then you probably deserve everything you get. I will hope she had to stick around to get some shares or something.

Did you work at Stadia and have inside knowledge of the contracts signed between individuals and parties?

 

[FAST6191]

Did you work at Stadia and have inside knowledge of the contracts signed between individuals and parties?

I did not. Not sure what bearing that has on my reply though.

 

[Jonna]

I did not. Not sure what bearing that has on my reply though.

Actually, disregard my post. I had a point, and as I was typing it, I completely defeated myself because I just recalled a post saying she quit Google, not that Google fired her or let her go.

 

[Bladexdsl]

"Screw you guys, I'll make my own Stadia, with blackjack, and hookers!"

forget the blackjack!

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I'm not liking these worlds:

"We want to create worlds where players can escape, have fun, express themselves, and find community."

Last point scares me. .-.

aye

I don't know what crossed your mind, but on my mind games with community usually reward players with boxes and if you have gems you can buy more boxes for more incredible rewards! It is super duper fun!!!

(I highlighted some words for unknown reasons)

 

[white187]

sad

 

[FAST6191]

I'm not liking these worlds:

"We want to create worlds where players can escape, have fun, express themselves, and find community."

Last point scares me. .-.

"Community" is marketing buzzword 101/basic requirements these days.

Investors see community somewhere in the mission statement and they think "phew less advertising" and "ooh self sustaining long term income" and to be fair they are not wrong -- if a community sticks around they will do advertising for you, be around to buy the next game (possibly even preorder it from you and thus fund the development of it), be around to buy all the expansion packs/ports/"pay us cash for 10 minutes of work that was free once upon a time" skins, keep the servers hopping, keep the mods flowing (which also serves to reduce your support costs if modders fix it for free, and might also be recruited from).

If you just have a basic website then you have to buy (more) expensive adverts, buy expensive reviews, do some marketing stunts... all of which cost money in addition to losing the various perks above.

 

[Skelletonike]

aye

I don't know what crossed your mind, but on my mind games with community usually reward players with boxes and if you have gems you can buy more boxes for more incredible rewards! It is super duper fun!!!

(I highlighted some words for unknown reasons)

That's also annoying, but tbh, what worries me the most is another

"Community" is marketing buzzword 101/basic requirements these days.

Investors see community somewhere in the mission statement and they think "phew less advertising" and "ooh self sustaining long term income" and to be fair they are not wrong -- if a community sticks around they will do advertising for you, be around to buy the next game (possibly even preorder it from you and thus fund the development of it), be around to buy all the expansion packs/ports/"pay us cash for 10 minutes of work that was free once upon a time" skins, keep the servers hopping, keep the mods flowing (which also serves to reduce your support costs if modders fix it for free, and might also be recruited from).

If you just have a basic website then you have to buy (more) expensive adverts, buy expensive reviews, do some marketing stunts... all of which cost money in addition to losing the various perks above.

What worries me is that it will probably be another Battle Royale, there are plenty of those already.