S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Developers Say “Nothing is Certain” About Future

If you were hoping Monday would bring cheerful news about the future of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developers GSC Game World, prepare for a dash of disappointment.

The studio has been acting erratic since reports started breaking about layoffs and the purported cancelling of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Twitter updates were posted and deleted, and then everything went silent.

GSC Game World has since gone public with what could only be considered a disheartening update.

“We will do our best to continue,” said the company’s official Twitter account. “However, at this moment, nothing is certain. Our website will continue, with the forum & tech support. The shop will continue until the nearest planned items sell out.”

The status of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. remains uncertain, as does GSC Game World as a whole. Stay tuned.

Hopefully STALKER 2 ends up being made.

Kind of depressing.

B.U.M.M.E.R.

the status of stalker is that grigorovich owns the IP and most of the things that have been rumored have him taking off for some reason.

"gscstalker S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Our website will continue, with the forum & tech support. The shop will continue until the nearest planned items sell out. (uploaded now)"

Yeah... this really sucks. :[

I hope that some western publisher swoops in and snatches-up the team and ip.

WTF did someone run off with all the money?

"nothing is certain"...in wasteland Russia.

"Nothing is certain"

Such is life in the zone.

You can really tell that this wasn't written by Alex Navarro because the first news piece had such a 'Don't give a fuck' undertone. Thank you Patrick for not being an asshole.

I really hope GSC doesn't go under. STALKER is a unique game and there's really nothing else that plays, looks or feels like it. It's one of my favourite series of games and I would be really bummed out if the game was cancelled.

Dave's not happy!

Nooooo! Damn they were some great games

I really hope someting turns up possitive here. This seems like a super sudden change for the company, especially when just a few months ago they were coming out with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. clothing lines!

stalker was the only reason i kept a gaming pc around. hope they'll figure out something.

There was a rumor going around that the Ukrainian government might buy them out. That would be good news.

Meh valve will perchase Stalker2 at a low low price and turn it into a atmosfearic large map death match shooter and selling extra inventory space as micro transactions as its "answer to BF3" You will not get unlocks in stalker 2 u will just find stuff "only be able to carry so much (saved unlocks) and artifacts will be like killstreeks turning indervidual players into Boss.. i expect it to not have teams and be FFA perhaps with large maps and a location based voip you can use"if u decide to team up with follow stalkers on your feild of battle that is.

man that would be a rad game. go gogogogo Valve re package this game actualy and you could even call it Half life Stalker and mish mash what you have done on HL3 with this.. and just make a awsome game.. yer...

I own all the STALKER games yet haven't played any of them :[ I really ought to buy a better computer.

That sucks

Thanks Patrick. Thanks for ruining a perfectly good Monday.

@Heath said:

Meh valve will perchase Stalker2 at a low low price and turn it into a atmosfearic large map death match shooter and selling extra inventory space as micro transactions as its "answer to BF3" You will not get unlocks in stalker 2 u will just find stuff "only be able to carry so much (saved unlocks) and artifacts will be like killstreeks turning indervidual players into Boss.. i expect it to not have teams and be FFA perhaps with large maps and a location based voip you can use"if u decide to team up with follow stalkers on your feild of battle that is.

man that would be a rad game. go gogogogo Valve re package this game actualy and you could even call it Half life Stalker and mish mash what you have done on HL3 with this.. and just make a awsome game.. yer...

Sorry to shit all over your stream of consciousness design document but this sounds like a pretty bad idea, bro.

Get out of here STALKER

I hope THQ or 2k pick up the rights and the developers to the franchise .....I don't want Activision or EA to even look at it.

Well, it's official: 2012 is ruined

Sell yourselves to activision, you'll pump out a STALKER game every year for a decade and the quality will go down as a whole, but then at least they'll be more STALKER to balance out all the other FPS games out there.

I loved the first one, have yet to play the expansions.

Well at least I am aware of the kind of games coming from that area of the world, if I may generalize. The same quality you see in other games like The Witcher 2 and Metro 2033. they may seem somewhat askew to western dev'ed games, but they have proved unique. And I have all three stalker games, Chernobyl and Pripyat on hard disk..Pripyat was even the collectors or limited ed. Not much really, and I got it for 39.00 dollars, but now I value the hell out of it.

In other news, MW3- er, Activision gains $16 billion in revenue from their slaves at Infinity Ward.

What game will I turn to now for NPCs that keep calling me "bro"?

@IAmNotBatman: Same. I finally have a computer that is powerful enough but Window's space on the HDD is inefficient.

will still be one of my favorite and imo, most underrated franchises to date; that's really too bad if GSC is done...

sounds like a line from the game[imagine russian accent] ;)

If you haven't played any of this series, you've been missing out. Sad to hear they're in some trouble.

I've owned STALKER ever since it released, but never seemed to have a good time to really sit down and dig into it. Had a lot of false starts, getting a couple hours in before putting it on the back burner again. Recently reinstalled it, along with the STALKER Complete 2009 mod (highly recommend this) and am really enjoying it, sixteen hours in. Looking forward to the expansions -- which makes it really sad to hear that STALKER 2 is unlikely to see the light of day now.

Man, if I was a multimillionare this is one of the thinks I'd do. Write these guys a big fat check to finish this game. I want to play it.

Well, it's official: 2012 is ruined

This sucks. As broken as the first game was, it was fantastic ones the STALKER 2009 mod came out for it. I mean even the game alone once patched is probably one of my favorite games this gen, with or without mods. It was a total 180 degree spin from the "guided experience" crap we have been getting from overly scripted games all this generation!

@MjHealy said:

B.U.M.M.E.R.

its like a director breaking out with a hit and then following it up with sequels from that hit again and again and again never coming up with something new. You wonder why they are failing.... lol

Fuck...I really enjoyed Call of Pripyat and Shadow of Chernobyl

Why can't something else die.

Oh Woe.

That's a real shame. The first game was an amazing experience.