The videogame industry – like any industry – is more than capable of being a harsh mistress. Sometimes one mistake is all that is required to cause downfall.

Blue Omega, the dev team behind the less-than-stellar ‘Damnation’, have recently experienced this harsh truth first hand.

Mourn the loss of yet ANOTHER development team, after the jump.

Okay, so maybe you’re not necessarily going to “mourn” the loss of this particular team. After all, their most recent offering was – to be fair – an atrocity. Damnation was poorly made, almost to the point that you believed the dev team had something better to do during their work time, and its sales reflected that lack of effort.

That said, it’s difficult to justify that poor sales from one poor game is reason enough for what must have been an epic, company-wide speech of, “I’m afraid we have to let you go.”

These are difficult times, no matter what market you find yourself in. And losing your job due to a one-time offering of arguable incompetence is a severe price to pay.

I feel genuinely sorry for these guys, and I hope that they can somehow land on their feet after this life-shattering announcement. However, I can at least see where the execs are coming from. They paid for a game that would sell enough copies to produce a profit, and what they got was storm of slamming reviews and abysmal sales figures. But firing the entire team? That’s taking punishment to a whole new level of extreme.

Damnation was a poor game, but was it so bad that the whole dev team was canned as a result? I don’t know if any game is THAT bad. What do you guys think?

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