User blog comment:D.Ryan/Irrational Games Disbanded! Future of BioShock Series Uncertain!/@comment-1330314-20140312231759

It's good to see familiar faces here. :)

It's also sad that Irrational Games is being disbanded. My guess is that BioShock Infinite sapped way too many resources and caused the studio to collapse. It's been pretty clear that the team got way too ambitious at the start and had to pare down a lot of gameplay features, including a tentative multiplayer mode, and even though the result was still the legendary game we have today it's still far less daring and innovative than the original. I'm pretty sure 2K is going to keep producing new BioShock games, but considering the rushed nature of BioShock 2 I'm not certain how the new games are going to build on the current franchise, if at all. BioShock Infinite blew the doors open for an unlimited amount of reboots (i.e. new parallel universes with similar running themes), but part of what made the games so great was Ken Levine's huge talent for storytelling and universe creation. Obviously he's not the only talented person in the company, but it's going to be extremely difficult for anyone to come up with a setting on par with his.