IainC
Developers
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Wargaming.net
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He who must not be named wrote a dev blog recently for his MMO, twenty paragraphs of alternately pointing out how awesome he is and how much of a poopy-head David Allen is is the set up for a single sentence about the actual game. The expansion pack is delayed. |
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Nebu
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Just imagine what almost a million dollars (on two lawsuits) not spent in legal costs would have done for this company and the Alganon game in terms of marketing, spin-off games, building the team etc. There are indie dev teams out there trying to raise a measly $50K to do a game – and we have to deal with this crap. Yes... because we all know that another million would have made this the game of the decade.  |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Draegan
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This game is still around? Yikes.
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Tyrnan
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Posts: 428
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So basically anything that went right was down to him and anything that went wrong wasn't his fault. If we could harness the power of that man's ego we could solve the world's energy problems.
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HaemishM
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 42630
the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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I was amazed to get an email about this. I had assumed the game had died a well-deserved death.
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Ghambit
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He's devving in a labor un-friendly market under a big tax shelter. This is why it's not going away.
Add in self-financing, minority SBA, living off the loan interest and built-in salary, working in a loss, writing down all the JobsAct asset-based bonus deprec., etc. and you're in the black 5 yrs. into the project regardless of 'success.'
Hookers&Blow till release day and then dump everything after (failed) box sales and sale/merge/bankruptcy to EA-Orlando. Rinse, wash, repeat under a new name.
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"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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schild
Administrator
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That stupid asshole has made an entire career for himself out of second chances.
What a world-class fucking idiot.
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Murgos
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You know? Looking back over the last 15 years of internet laughs it is really only fitting that DA and DS are inextricably linked forever in one horrible over-promised and vastly under-delivered farce of a game.
It's like all of their combined use-net posts all at once in 3D graphical form that you can log into and wander around in.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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It's like all of their combined use-net posts all at once in 3D graphical form that you can log into and wander around in.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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blackwulf
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His writing is really bad. You'd think if they can spend 2 million on lawyers they could at least hire someone to proofread his stuff.
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tgr
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Just another victim of cyber age discrimination.
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His writing is really bad. You'd think if they can spend 2 million on lawyers they could at least hire someone to proofread his stuff. You'd think if they can spend 1-2 million on lawyers, they'd spend money on having someone else write anything official from QOL. |
Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Tyrnan
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You'd think if they can spend 1-2 million on lawyers, they'd spend money on having someone else write anything official from QOL.
Don't be silly. Only someone with his level of awesomeness would be able to effectively communicate just how awesome he is. |
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NiX
Wiki Admin
Posts: 7770
Locomotive Pandamonium
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That stupid asshole has made an entire career for himself out of second chances.
What a world-class fucking idiot.
In this business, there are absolutely no second chances. Period. No do-overs whatsoever. If you don’t get it right the first time around, you’re pretty much done. Surprise! He disagrees, Schild! |
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Paelos
Contributor
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Yeah I NEVER see gaming devs moving on from failed games to other newer games.  The only thing more incestuous and childish than the gaming dev world is the head coaching club of the NFL. |
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Fabricated
Moderator
Posts: 8978
~Living the Dream~
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Watching the marketing video on the main page of the MMO's website is pretty hilarious. Worst animations I've seen in forever.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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HaemishM
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 42630
the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Good CHRIST, I hadn't gone to their website in forever. As a web designer, I am fucking appalled. Their background PNG is over 2 MB. And yes, those animations are super shitty. It doesn't look any better than when I did beta.
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Venkman
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You'd think if they can spend 1-2 million on lawyers, they'd spend money on having someone else write anything official from QOL.
Don't be silly. Only someone with his level of awesomeness would be able to effectively communicate just how awesome he is.  |
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Shatter
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I need to use his technique at my job
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LC
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He seems to be a big hit over at lum's forums.
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Xanthippe
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He seems to be a big hit over at lum's forums.
Only because they never read comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic. |
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