38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.
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Famm
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Rofl, this shit was how many millions in the hole and it was going to be FTP without nickel and dimeing? How the fuck exactly was it ever going to break even, and its still RI's fault? Get bent. You were too deep in to see the forest for the trees. You ex-38 people have some serious Stockholm syndrome shit going on.
Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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It's weird. The more I hear from former employees, the more I think that there is a crazy Cult of Curt that makes the Pantheon Cult of Brad seem sane and rational. While the final nails in the coffin of 38 Studios may have been politically driven, they were just putting a stop to an endeavor that wasn't going anywhere.
kegkilla
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sounds like nobody at that studio ever bothered doing any fucking work.
Gavinmad
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Eomer
Trakanon Raider
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I just think it's extremely ironic that Schilling blames "politics" for his tax credit scheme falling apart, when it was politics that even made it possible in the first place, and that's saying nothing of the 75 million or however much money he had previously gotten from the state. Were it not for politics in the first place, the company would have gone out of business years prior when it burned through the last of his cash.
Eomer
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Keep scale in mind though. One is something like a $140,000 fuck up. The other is a $60,000,000-90,000,000 fuck up, depending on what the true figure spent was.
I really loved the Kingdoms of Amalur single player, it's really sad that there will be no hope for anything else ever on that setting.
Famm
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Except, as we just read on this page, that was BHG's game. Nothing ever actually got produced by 38S.
Reckoning got carried away with it, but the core game was solid and a sequel could've been great. For a first swing, I think BHG did a solid job.
One of the bigger issues was how easy it was even on hard. By the halfway mark you were unstoppable and even the biggest bosses were bitches.
One of the bigger issues was how easy it was even on hard. By the halfway mark you were unstoppable and even the biggest bosses were bitches.
Yeah I never did many side quests and really enjoyed Reckoning. Got about ~20 hours out of it to finish the main story line, which is about the same as I put into Skyrim doing just the main quest line as well. Bought an Xbox copy for my brother and he loved it.
shabushabu
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Greyform
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I don't think Schilling was full of shit, but more like a Pie In The Sky dreamer who almost pulled it off but ran out of gas and funds before it was ever realized. Which I guess is exactly the definition of Pie in the sky.
I do think the game might have been pretty good but I have no idea how he was ever going to see a return on that massive investment going F2P.
Also gratz Curt, I'm glad you're doing well.
I do think the game might have been pretty good but I have no idea how he was ever going to see a return on that massive investment going F2P.
Also gratz Curt, I'm glad you're doing well.