I cashed in my 'investments' for a VW Camper
That then broke down all the time - still it was fun for a year
ON topic:
Did you get the shares as part of being on the Activsion team? Just intrested if game companies do the same thing as other corprate buisness...... (just tell me to sod-off if its too nosy, or ignore me
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Im thinking of getting involved, so im curious about all the Industry gossip.
As a long time game player(kinda from the begining almost),and small time game designer(board games/rpgs/choose your own adventure books etc), It puzzles me about some of the directions the Industry has taken.....something just doesnt 'sit' right...in terms of customers getting the product that the medium could offer. Well alot of the time anyway. I have seen that as the technology has progressed - it doesnt or hasn't always translated into the same thing for the software.
To bring it to the CTP games, i would say that these could have been the best of the genre(for me and others here they are, but we're a minority), and for whatever reasons they just didn't make it. My gut feeling on this is that it was the production company that dropped the ball somewhere, as it does happen on many occasions with increasing regularity as the years go by.
Im not saying games in the 'old days' were all roses, in fact there were some real stinkers(loads in fact), but it was the pioneer stage. Its strange that the same mistakes are being made like 20 years later? I know your sort of out of the industry, and your situation to me seems kinda tied in with what i see are the consequences of the direction the industry took over the years.
Whats your thoughts on this? I dont know how long you've been intrested in video games, and im a gentleman of sorts so i wont ask
But have you noticed a change through your time as a player and creator?


ON topic:
Did you get the shares as part of being on the Activsion team? Just intrested if game companies do the same thing as other corprate buisness...... (just tell me to sod-off if its too nosy, or ignore me

Im thinking of getting involved, so im curious about all the Industry gossip.
As a long time game player(kinda from the begining almost),and small time game designer(board games/rpgs/choose your own adventure books etc), It puzzles me about some of the directions the Industry has taken.....something just doesnt 'sit' right...in terms of customers getting the product that the medium could offer. Well alot of the time anyway. I have seen that as the technology has progressed - it doesnt or hasn't always translated into the same thing for the software.
To bring it to the CTP games, i would say that these could have been the best of the genre(for me and others here they are, but we're a minority), and for whatever reasons they just didn't make it. My gut feeling on this is that it was the production company that dropped the ball somewhere, as it does happen on many occasions with increasing regularity as the years go by.
Im not saying games in the 'old days' were all roses, in fact there were some real stinkers(loads in fact), but it was the pioneer stage. Its strange that the same mistakes are being made like 20 years later? I know your sort of out of the industry, and your situation to me seems kinda tied in with what i see are the consequences of the direction the industry took over the years.
Whats your thoughts on this? I dont know how long you've been intrested in video games, and im a gentleman of sorts so i wont ask

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