Schilling's Green Monster Games

[Draegan]

I keep reading that that 451k units is just retail US sales and does not include international sales or digital sales.

[blackwulf]

I'm getting a very Brad McQuaid style vibe from this thing.  I wonder if the staff is going to have a fire drill to the parking lot soon.

[patience]

I keep reading that that 451k units is just retail US sales and does not include international sales or digital sales.

Bingo. Still the total is supposedly north of 600k.

The game did fine as a single player title but it isn't going to cover even a third of their debt.

[UnSub]

I'm getting a very Brad McQuaid style vibe from this thing.  I wonder if the staff is going to have a fire drill to the parking lot soon.

If that happens, it won't be a drill.

[Falconeer]

I gotta say, re-read all Curt's boasts in this thread now is popcorn material.

[Tmon]

I guess passion and lots of other peoples money aren't enough to make a successful company.  Funny how nobody ever seems to learn that lesson.

[shiznitz]

What is really sad is that if someone managed to collect all "if only people would not repeat <insert life mistake #x here" into one place, those mistakes would still happen because people would not read it.  Knowledge of the physical world is collected and passed on from generation to generation, but knowledge about life has to be re-learned by every individual on their own.

[schild]

Since this entire amateur hour company is circling the drain - we certainly don't need two threads. Since the MMOG is never getting released, I'm locking this thread and linking to the one in the other forum. Enjoy.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=19547.420

[schild]

Also, when you don't deliver, \

Ya, that's not an option.

CALLED SHOT

[schild]

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[schild]

I'll leave this thread unlocked for 48 hours. In the meanwhile, I have to return some videotapes.

[Falconeer]

What's going on here? Why today? What's new?

[schild]

Nothing new. Got bored, read an old thread when someone told me too, and proceeded to lol.

[Falconeer]

Oh then I am up for the party. I wonder at what point exactly he realized that things were not what he dreamed they were going to be. At what point it hit him that making a game was about 100000 times harder than he thought, and at what point he realized the company was in trouble and maybe it was time to stop boasting on forums.

I'd love for him to read this thread and tell us his sorry story. If I were him, I'd sirbruce my own boast posts as a form of public apology. Who knows, he could even get some respect back eventually (from someone).

[DayDream]

I'd almost put 5 bucks on him not realizing it NOW.

I mean, he might have figured out things weren't going so well when the company shut down and everyone got new jobs.  Maybe even a little bit before then, too.  But then again, maybe not.

I remember reading some article about this, and he was talking about investor meetings, and saying something like,"We'd talk and talk, and things were really energetic!  But meeting after meeting, they just didn't invest."  That's what failure looks like, Mr. Schilling, and you do not even understand that concept.

[Falconeer]

You know what's funny? He's probably thinking something like "My only mistake has been not doing a Kickstarter right before the shit hit the fan" 

[Merusk]

We know what he thinks. He's made public statements about it.  He thinks they did nothing wrong and the only reason they failed is the government of RI refused to either shovel more money into their sinking ship or forgive their debt.  When you've lived your life in a bubble of privilege why would a single reality check dent it?

[Draegan]

Did you guys see the leaked gameplay videos? It reminded me of Allods or Alganon.

[Severian]

The state is acting as a guarantor of a Bond. So the scenario in which the state would actually have to spend even a dollar of the tax payers money is a long and hard one to get down and also one that rarely if ever happens.

All things are possible, if you believe in yourself.

[Falconeer]

Did you guys see the leaked gameplay videos? It reminded me of Allods or Alganon.

I remember a leaked flythrough, not a gameplay video. Link?

[Tannhauser]

Are we still kicking this guy for following his dream and trying to make a MMO?  With some of his own money?  Hiring folks and treating them well?

History's greatest monster.

The reality is he had a dream to make a game studio and put out great games and get even richer.  Then his incompetence kicked in and he rode it into the ground taking his employees with him.

[Bzalthek]

Hiring folks and treating them well = letting people's insurance lapse and not telling them, letting them find out while they're in the birthing shed pushing out their crotch muppet oh and don't forget telling them they'd find a buyer for their old house while not really doing that and then just dropping that shit back on them.  Just a guy living his dream yo.

[Cheddar]

He destroyed families lives.  Thats the problem.

[schild]

Are we still kicking this guy for following his dream and trying to make a MMO?  With some of his own money?  Hiring folks and treating them well?

History's greatest monster.

The reality is he had a dream to make a game studio and put out great games and get even richer.  Then his incompetence kicked in and he rode it into the ground taking his employees with him.

Most dreams should remain dreams.

[Lantyssa]

Living a dream?  Awesome.  Ruining others'?  Opposite of Awesome.

[Draegan]

Did you guys see the leaked gameplay videos? It reminded me of Allods or Alganon.

I remember a leaked flythrough, not a gameplay video. Link?

I dunno where it is or if it's still around. You just followed a level 1 melee character around for 5 minutes.

[HaemishM]

You guys all forget the "leaving the state of Rhode Island on the hook for about $75 million or more in loans" thing he did too.

[WayAbvPar]

His most grievous crime was even attempting to inflict Salvatore on unsuspecting MMOG enthusiasts. That is fucking monstrous.

[Cheddar]

His most grievous crime was even attempting to inflict Salvatore on unsuspecting MMOG enthusiasts. That is fucking monstrous.

I would pay 10 bucks to see Drizzy on flying pigs.  True story.

[shiznitz]

You all know that Drizzt died, finally, right?

[Lantyssa]

No.  Details?

[Bzalthek]

He'll get resurrected.  That's Salvatore's only source or milk.

[Merusk]

Found a thread on it in the WoW forums.  He's still a featured character in the book that releases 5.0 D&D and he left no body.  "His God Took him" is the "A Wizard Did It" of D&D.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8197741230

[schild]

BACK TO THE GRAVE, THREAD.