You had better pay your guild dues before you forget. You are 113 months behind.
Whatever the case, the end result is more money dumped into a hole. They just haven't made successful decisions since the early 1990s.
I mean, yeah I guess it's possible that behind the scenes they've been making successful business decisions, but based on the many failures we can point at as examples and our own experiences in dealing with them, I really doubt it's the case. They've continuously neglected their primary, potentially only source of income in favor of failed project after failed project. For 30 years.
They haven't had too many failures, at least that I know of. DoE was certainly one. Hero Engine could have been, but they were able to leverage it for a fair amount of money in the end and started their mobile division which more than likely does okay. GS/DR of course are fueled by people with a unique combination of nostalgia and disposable income.
You had better pay your guild dues before you forget. You are 113 months behind.
DoE is the only failure I know of, and they have a lot of shit they've done that you just don't hear about unless you're really, really looking. Heroes Journey failed, but then again, you could wrap that up into them testing out HeroEngine. HeroEngine was a big enough success for them to not worry about jack.
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Was it though? I've never seen any information saying that it was a financial success. I'm sure it sold when it sold in the millions, but when you consider a development team over a decade, that doesn't necessarily translate into millions in profit (or really, any profit). It was purchased by Idea Fabrik in the middle of a steep economic downturn and they hired the team that made it from Simutronics. Losing a chunk of your staff and selling off the thing you've been working on for your own purposes for a decade doesn't really scream success to me. Was there some released info that I just missed about it?
Last edited by Stumplicker; 02-12-2019 at 02:04 PM.