OtherSide Halts Thick as Thieves Content, Builds Peer-to-Peer Co-op With Fewer Than 10 Staff
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Updated · GamingBolt · Jul 25
OtherSide Halts Thick as Thieves Content, Builds Peer-to-Peer Co-op With Fewer Than 10 Staff
3 articles · Updated · GamingBolt · Jul 25
Summary
OtherSide said Thick as Thieves will get no new content, modes or systems as the studio shrinks to fewer than 10 employees after recent cuts.
A small remaining team is instead rebuilding online co-op around peer-to-peer networking so the May PC release stays playable without dedicated cloud servers.
Megabit will take over maintenance after that work is finished, while solo offline play and two-player online co-op are expected to work much as before.
The retrenchment follows June layoffs of 17 staff after project Argos was canceled, and the studio says it currently has no plans to make future games.