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THQ Moving Away From Red Faction Franchise

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by Matthew Kato on July 27, 2011 at 05:28 PM

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THQ has reported the results for its fiscal first quarter 2012, ending on June 20, 2011, and Brian Farrell, THQ's CEO and president, calls it disappointing. Worst of all, Farrell says the company is moving on from the Red Faction franchise after the last two games were too "niche" in their sales.

"We are disappointed in our first quarter financial performance," said Farrell. "Sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and our licensed kids titles were below our expectations, and the late release of UFC Personal Trainer also adversely impacted the quarter.”

"Given that [Red Faction] now in two successive versions has [only] found a niche, we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way," Farrell stated. Farrell explained that the company is looking for its core titles to hit high bars in both quality and sales.

Looking at the big picture, net sales were up for the quarter ($195.2 million) as compared to the prior year period ($149.4 million), but the company reported a net loss of $38.4 million as compared to $30.1 million in the prior year period.

Still, Farrell was upbeat in pointing out some of the games coming out by the end of the year, including Saints Row: The Third, WWE '12, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The company is also looking forward to bringing the uDraw tablet to PS3 and Xbox 360, publishing a game from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios in 2013, and reaping the benefits of former Assassin's Creed series creative director Patrice Désilets joining THQ's Montreal studio.

[via Gamasutra]

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Filed under: News, THQ, Brian Farrell, red faction: armageddon, Patrice Désilets, warhammer 40, thq montreal, udraw, saints row: the third, WWE '12, 000: Space Marine, Turtle Rock Studios

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by kyjoe9 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:19 PM

Demo was fun, but felt like I played this before on other games
by vaugna16 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:20 PM

i kind of expected this.
by ArcadeFire Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:20 PM

Yeah the demo was fun but the game sucked.
by Admiral Ackbar Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:34 PM

IT'S A TRAP!
by Velimir Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:37 PM

Well of course, it wasn't a COD clone, it wasn't profitable! DON'T NEED IT!
by Super Poncho Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:38 PM

If Armageddon would have been more like Guerrilla, then I would have bought it.
by highrishman420 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:40 PM

That makes me sad. The original Red Faction broke me into FPS games, and is definitely in my top three games of all-time. (The other two games being Dead Space and Dead Space 2 :-D) I bought Red Faction: Guerrilla day one, and I still play it sometimes. That being said, I played the demo of RF: Armageddon and decided not to buy it. I will rent it though. Honestly I think if they had just taken Red Faction back to it's roots in the FPS genre, it could've done more. Maybe that's just the die-hard Red Faction fan in me.
by LB11 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:43 PM

No wonder, Armageddon sucks.
by jdmoyer Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:48 PM

And here I was hoping for a return to the Red Faction FPS series. Oh well. I still have Guerrilla to finish up and Armageddon to buy. I just hope that THQ doesn't kill S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
by Cody Gilley Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:48 PM

Well it went from a open world game to linear cheesy Sci-Fi rip off game. The narrative was generic, the characters uninteresting, the multiplayer was gone, and the game is 1/4 as long as the original.
by The Cursed Gamer Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:50 PM

Well after hearing that it was gonna be a linear shooter and then playing the demo I said to myself, "Well that's one thing to add to my rent list." Guerrilla was a great game but Armageddon just seemed a decent game.
by conner187 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:52 PM

Good now they can focus on making Homefront 2 even better
by Agano25 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:53 PM

Good, take some to ask yourselves "Oh my god what did we do to Red Faction?" over and over again.
by backspacer Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:54 PM

I hope Saint's Row 3 will sell many copies. If not I think THQ might consider to close Volition and that would be very sad.
by Kyledk05 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:58 PM

I'm not really surprised by the low sales of Armageddon. I bought Guerrilla a few months ago and even though the story is generic, the gameplay is crazy fun and more than makes up for it. I just don't think a linear version of Guerrilla sounds very fun.
by Louis Marcos Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 05:59 PM

That's a shame. Red Faction is a lot of fun, and the destruction allows for a lot of potential. Armageddon wasn't great, but Guerrilla was amazing and I'd love another open world one, or perhaps a Red Faction RPG?
by bloodninja15 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 06:15 PM

Red Faction 2 on ps2 was the best. Multiplayer on that was insane with bots. Me and my brother would get a rpg and just blow a big ass hole in a wall the wait for the cpus. It was mad fun.
by Conman315 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 06:18 PM

Well maybe you shouldnt have made Armaggedon the way you did.
by SpartanKangaroo Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 06:22 PM

Im not surprised thous games dident do that well i beat the first one but was soo bored by the end i just dident care what happened.
by Vurtax Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 06:30 PM

THQ could've been in for such a good year had it not been the letdowns that were Homefront, RF: Armageddon, MX vs. ATV Alive, and several more.

It's such a shame too, I was really cheering for the second-tier publisher to make a sizable impact on the industry this year and yet they let us down so far.