Comments on: Missing dog and lagomorph found? http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/ Random babblings from a few digitally inclined people Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:26:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Plagiarize http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1374 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:35:27 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1374 Holliday, i have that quote in the piece above! And it is crazy to think that an internet petition might have actually done something. Holliday, i have that quote in the piece above! And it is crazy to think that an internet petition might have actually done something.

]]> by: Holliday http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1373 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:06:31 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1373 Heh, did you fellas know that the revival of Sam and Max was actually based on an online petition? One of the project leads for TellTale said he saw an online petition that had 30,000 signatures on it and it really made him take perspective on just how many people wanted this game made. Crazy eh? Heh, did you fellas know that the revival of Sam and Max was actually based on an online petition? One of the project leads for TellTale said he saw an online petition that had 30,000 signatures on it and it really made him take perspective on just how many people wanted this game made.

Crazy eh?

]]> by: Plagiarize http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1371 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:21:52 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1371 blah it was 2004. my brain isn't so good this morning. rest of my post stands though. blah it was 2004. my brain isn’t so good this morning. rest of my post stands though.

]]> by: Plagiarize http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1370 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:19:45 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1370 i misread your post about the games from 2003, but Sam and Max was cancelled in 2005. anyway, i've never argued that the numbers indicate they'd have probably lost money on the title, just that in cancelling a game for purely financial reasons, LucasArts showed that they were only in it for the money. the game was never given a chance. it might have failed, it might have been a success. at the end of the day, an accountant and market analyst decided it shouldn't get a chance. it wasn't any thing to do with the quality of the title. if accountants and market analysts are in charge of what projects live and die, you'd never have gotten the sims, or shadow of the colossus. they don't have to take risks that they think will cost me money, but i don't have to bite my tongue when they make cynical moves either. to put it another way, how many games do you know of that were cancelled by a company in no financial trouble, merely months before release, for totally financial motives? i don't know of any others, (though i wouldn't be surprised if their were) and i don't think it's the sort of thing that should be encouraged. risky games often come out of nowhere and make stacks of money. no one can say whether or not sam and max would have made money, but it's fair to say that a lot of people were pissed off by the cancellation of the game. enough to make it a success? hard to say. hard to say. i misread your post about the games from 2003, but Sam and Max was cancelled in 2005. anyway, i’ve never argued that the numbers indicate they’d have probably lost money on the title, just that in cancelling a game for purely financial reasons, LucasArts showed that they were only in it for the money. the game was never given a chance. it might have failed, it might have been a success. at the end of the day, an accountant and market analyst decided it shouldn’t get a chance. it wasn’t any thing to do with the quality of the title. if accountants and market analysts are in charge of what projects live and die, you’d never have gotten the sims, or shadow of the colossus. they don’t have to take risks that they think will cost me money, but i don’t have to bite my tongue when they make cynical moves either. to put it another way, how many games do you know of that were cancelled by a company in no financial trouble, merely months before release, for totally financial motives? i don’t know of any others, (though i wouldn’t be surprised if their were) and i don’t think it’s the sort of thing that should be encouraged. risky games often come out of nowhere and make stacks of money. no one can say whether or not sam and max would have made money, but it’s fair to say that a lot of people were pissed off by the cancellation of the game. enough to make it a success? hard to say. hard to say.

]]> by: Vermouth http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1364 Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:42:34 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2005/09/missing-dog-and-lagomorph-found/#comment-1364 What part of non-Star Wars titles=Star Wars titles. Indiana Jones, Armed and Dangerous, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Wrath Unleashed. Not Exactly a list of big selling titles. Battlefront, Rogue Squadron KOTOR, Jedi Knight series all did pretty good numbers. It doesn't take an MBA to see what you should approve and what you should cancel. What part of non-Star Wars titles=Star Wars titles. Indiana Jones, Armed and Dangerous, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Wrath Unleashed. Not Exactly a list of big selling titles. Battlefront, Rogue Squadron KOTOR, Jedi Knight series all did pretty good numbers. It doesn’t take an MBA to see what you should approve and what you should cancel.

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