Schilling's Green Monster Games

[Ard]

I dunno, I'm thinking that's one of those cases where size matters 

[Rasix]

Well, they were D batteries.

 

[naum]

I'd say chucking batteries at JD Drew puts them solidly in the lead.

They did that in Pittsburgh too, when Dave Parker lurked in right field, back in the day.

Of course, nobody cares about the Pirates anymore.

[gehrig38]

For a few million dollars a year, they just don't want you to suck, I never had issues with that.

[Ard]

I'm willing to not suck for a few million a year!  And if you believe the internet, so are most people's wives 

[veredus]

That probably shouldn't have but it made me laugh.

[HaemishM]

Bah, I'm all about dogging sports figures for making too much money. But Philly fans really take the cake. The way they continue to shit on Donovan McNabb year after year is disgraceful. Yeah, he's injury prone but that franchise would have been dirt without him. It isn't like he's had more than 2 or 3 years with any sort of weapons.

Also, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn't a sitcom, it's a documentary. 

[Draegan]

Well he did puke on the field in the Super Bowl didn't he?

[Teleku]

I'd accept several million dollars a year to have people throw batteries at me.

[gehrig38]

Thing is you have to be good enough at something to have people care enough to WANT to throw batteries at you....

[schild]

Thing is you have to be good enough at something to have people care enough to WANT to throw batteries at you....

Or bad enough.

[gehrig38]

No not really.

At least as far as sports are concerned. The worst player in the big leagues is still part of the top 1/2 of 1/2 of 1% on the planet.

And really we aren't talking about talent anyway, fans don't throw batteries at players that suck, they don't care enough about them. Players that have something thrown at them are generally guys that have said something to stir a hornet's nest up amongst the fan base, or in JD's case, done something.

[Venkman]

they don't care enough about them.

Heh, you beat me to it by milliseconds. Milliseconds!

[Nebu]

Thing is you have to be good enough at something to have people care enough to WANT to throw batteries at you....

You can be one of the top 10 people in the world at what you do and still walk the streets anonymously.  I learned that working with a number of Nobel Laureates.  People don't care about what you do if they can't relate to it or understand it. 

[schild]

So what's happening here is if the game sucks, we get to throw batteries at you. Is that what I'm reading? Everyone thinks they're a designer, so if you're actually like working at a gaming company you're probably in the top 1/2 of 1/2 of a % in the world. Which apparently means people should care.

I don't even know what's going on but this is the wrong fucking forum for sports analogies or comparisons. Grats on being a millionaire for playing a childhood pasttime, news or nothing, bucko.

[gehrig38]

When they start paying people 10-15 million a year to play monopoly, then it's a game. At a little over 6B in revenue last year I think it qualifies as a business.
Regardless of any of that, if either of the games suck I'm sure there'll be no shortage of I told you so's.

The funnier thing will be when they don't, and the same group will be saying I told you so.

Until then it's chatter and speculation, with news in the coming weeks that should start to crack the door open on what we're doing.

[schild]

The funnier thing will be when they don't, and the same group will be saying I told you so.

Did you buy BHG for the thing ending in "icus?"

I've forgotten the name of their unreleased game that had a leaked video like 2 years ago shortly before they just about shuttered.

Anyway,
I suppose that would be... ironic.

PS Unless it's a company with a track record of greatness, I don't really do "chatter and speculation."

[schild]

Crucible, that's it!

[Draegan]

schild u mad?

The whole sports analogy or whatever you thought you read was a derail about which fans are worse, Philadelphia fans or Boston fans.

Because you know, some of them throw batteries.  I don't think Curt was comparing his talent on the mound to his unknown ability to create a company to make video games.

[schild]

schild u mad?

Not particularly, no. But I'm really hoping Curt isn't trying to get a miracle out of Crucible.

[gehrig38]

Anything, EVERYTHING we are putting our time/effort/money into has direct correlation to the Copernicus IP/World.
We acquired a significant amount of proprietary tech, in addition to a lot of other stuff, when we acquired BHG. Everything is being put towards Copernicus and that world.

[Bzalthek]

A great world of vapor.

[Margalis]

When BHG was shut down it was working on an RPG that was definitely not vaporware.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58087

I would assume that a fair bit of that is going into their current project, at least on the technical side.

[schild]

When BHG was shut down it was working on an RPG that was definitely not vaporware.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58087

I would assume that a fair bit of that is going into their current project, at least on the technical side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04J-QP5Sr2o

To this day, it's beyond me what Big Huge Games was doing going from what they knew to what they totally didn't know.

Anyway, I'm sure that'll get taken down by Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP also, though it was posted by Unseen64 so they'll just post it somewhere else again if it does. Personally, I think Brian Reynolds would've been the bigger pickup than Rolston on the system side, but he went over to Zynga and god knows what Curt's plan is with Crucible/Ascendant. I'm half-worried it was a short cut, which would just be not so great since the tech for Crucible looked terribad.

Edit: That said, it would've taken a great deal of "time/effort/money" as Curt put it to turn Crucible into something AAA/Totally Worth Playing, which they probably found out after acquiring BHG. 

[Stormwaltz]

To this day, it's beyond me what Big Huge Games was doing going from what they knew to what they totally didn't know.

Educating themselves?

[Count Nerfedalot]

Brian Reynolds sold himself out to Satan?   

[schild]

To this day, it's beyond me what Big Huge Games was doing going from what they knew to what they totally didn't know.

Educating themselves?

Oh hey, didn't see this post.

There are good times for educating yourself, but unless you have the funds to do it, I'm suspect of doing it when a company is at steak(!).

[Morfiend]

I didnt see this posted yet, but I didnt look very hard.

Project Mercury, published by EA.

From Kotaku.

Call it Project Mercury, and as of today, call it an EA game. The epic role-playing game that won't — confirmed! — be called The Adventures of Curt Schilling has a home and a whole lot of mystery around it.

Last week, top people involved in Project Mercury briefed Kotaku on the news being made official today that 38 Studios, the game company founded by former Boston Red Sox ace and avid gamer Curt Schilling, has signed a deal with Electronic Arts to have its mysterious, epic role-playing game published by EA's Partners label.

[Soln]

sigh

[Nebu]

sigh

It will be different this time.  Really... I promise!   

[schild]

 

[Bunk]

Is there anyone you would really consider a good choice to publish an MMO in the market today?

[Draegan]

EA will probably get one right eventually.

[schild]

Is there anyone you would really consider a good choice to publish an MMO in the market today?

That has absolutely nothing to do with the groaning going on here right now. Right now, I'd say, is in fact a pretty good time to publish an MMOG. We're talking about an RPG being published by EA though, so I'm not sure why you posted what you posted.

EA will probably get one right eventually.

They're doing fine with DICE and Visceral lately, imo, but that also has no bearing on what's happening here.

[Nebu]

Right now, I'd say, is in fact a pretty good time to publish an MMOG.

On this we agree 100%.  Sadly, I'm not sure there exists a development house that can deliver something other than WoW-done-poorly.  We've seen flashes of brilliance (first 11 levels of WAR, Tortage and AoC combat mechanics, PotBS sea combat, EvE economics, etc) but noone can seem to put together the parts to make one unified game.