Report: Telltale Games closing down!

No official statements yet from TellTale.
Rumors indicate that TWD Final Season will end at EP2 (https://twitter.com/LawofTD/status/1043278296396357633) but nothing has been confirmed on that front.
I expect we'll get official news in the coming week.
(Cancelling it would really suck for people who were following this series though. Was planning on starting on it soon myself, but now I'm doubting...)

Perhaps. However, the buggy engine has not deterred gamers from installing and playing games created by it. Also there are people interested in using it to make their own games... otherwise there would not be posts asking for it.

"This is a perfect example as to why it is a good idea to have the episodes completed before launching the first episode as a teaser on the market, instead of developing the rest later on at risk of something unforeseen happen in the future."

Then what's the point of episodic release. In that case you have a full game and cut it up for... reasons? Might aswell drop it whole at that point since you made a full game.

Of course they can still do episodic releases.. who said they couldn't? The game would simply be finished, leaving the devs to focus their attention on other projects. The main point of this suggestion is having that completion buffer in case something unforeseen happens (as it obviously did with Telltale).

What you describe is what you had in the walking dead 1 only improved later. OK you didn't control multiple characters like in batman (bats or Bruce) or Game of Thrones, but its still was the same formula of the walking dead 1. I Never said they didn't improve a little about the formula, but they still didn't innovate enough.
play Sam and Max and compare that to the other games after the walking dead 1, different formulas.

They should have changed engines 6 games ago.

Yes, I heard about this. But they are head hunted by other companies. Capitalizm sucks by itself, and sorry, I can't change it right now while being dead.
Vladimir Lenin.

"100% finished but not ready for a release "

ERROR: LOGIC NOT FOUND.
This line literally contradicts itself.

Gone from Humble and GMG.

Only able to get from resellers now.

My understanding of why people are so fixated on it is because of the whole "your choices matter" tagline that Telltale ran around with and that... that seems to be it. I can't really see any other reason why people are so hellbent on the subject.

I've seen people complain about your choices to save one character over another not meaning anything because both characters end up dead one way or the other, but then completely miss the fact of how hard it would've been to make two separate paths from that choice on where one or the other would live until the end. I have wondered if people who passionately complain about this for hours on end are visual novel players where it is much easier to have truly differentiating story lines based on your choices.

I can't recall at the moment what the general consensus was regarding the multiple ending choices in Season 2, but I think people still found Season 1's ending to have much more of an impact than any of the S2 variants - which sounds like people would rather have one definite ending over several options.

If the choices truly branched, a single relatively early choice between A and B would be akin to writing and producing assets for entirely separate games. As much as I still dislike the word, it comes down to a certain kind of entitlement when people get caught up in their confirmation biases. People nearly always run with the assumption that the main protagonist is immortal due to plot armour, and that this immortality is only threatened at the end of a game, and yet never see fit to consider this worth criticism in terms of choices you make.

I'd like to think there is a compliment to Telltales ability to make an engaging experience hidden somewhere in all of this, but it's hard to pick out. People have taken to assuming and projecting various things about Telltale to fit a strange anger at them, or even a sardonic joy at the end of their company. It smells of the same mentality that is behind the ongoing utterances of "humble only makes bad bundles these days, they're officially dying off!" that sometimes even seem to take personal offense.

Ah well, there is one small light at the end of the tunnel. There is a chance that the rights to the telltale TWD series could be sold along, and with appropriate licensing, some other group could build the final season. It would be interesting to see a higher budget / better equipped company try their hand at it. Even if it falls short, a different take on it would be interesting. If it's bad enough or the characters seem written unevenly, we could just treat it as non-canonical and go back to scribbling our fan script where they all get a happy ending. I mean, you folks all have one of those, right? RIGHT!?

"Since when does a game story have to have different paths or endings?"
Well, if you cut out your game out of the game, perhaps atleast add something as compensation? I mean, they ARE asking, what, 30 bucks for a 6 hour story. Almost movie-levels of payment per hour.

If RPG's can do it while backed with a game, why can't TTG do it when their story is literally all you get.

Since when does a game story have to have different paths or endings?

I guess when the game itself tells you at the beginning that the story is tailored based on your choices.