Stampers leave Rare

[Paco]

The founders/main game designers leaving a game company is never good. Sorry.

See:
Chris Roberts and Richard Garriot from Origin Systems/EA
Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds from Microprose/Spectrum HoloByte
Warren Spector and Ion Storm Austin

etc, etc.

What's true for one isn't always true for the other. Fact of the matter is we don't know what's going to happen.

Also, the Stamper Bros. haven't been the main game designers for a while now. They mostly step in with some input, but hardly work to flesh it out. Greg Mayles, who is stepping up as president, however, has had his hands in most every game since Donkey Kong Country.