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[Dark Octave]

He has ok taste in games. I could probably get along with this guy.

I judge people by their game collection.

 

[Riggs]

He has ok taste in games. I could probably get along with this guy.

I judge people by their game collection.

Same lol, he talked to me on Povar server when I played EQ at like 14 lol. He was nice guy, no idea how I found out his handle but I saw some where that he played EQ. And nobody gives a fuckkk.

 

[Some Nobody]

wonder if he's selling any of his bootstraps

Dammit. That fucking terrible OP just annoyed me but this honestly made me laugh.

But anyway, a couple things:

1. Amalur: Reckoning is probably the closest thing I got to an interesting RPG this gen, as I watched the rest manage to fuck up terribly on one thing or another. For that (and that alone), I owe the guy a thank you. It didn't "sell poorly" like one person said, since it sold well over a million copies, but its another victim of this AAA bullshit where a game needs to sell some unbelievably high amount of copies to actually turn a profit. Most likely it could've been turned into a decent franchise if BHG were allowed to make a sequel.

2. Sure, Curt Schilling is a Fox News Republican, which by definition makes him an asshole. But laughing or mocking a man who came upon financial ruin is impossible to do without simultaneously falling off your high horse...and falling a little lower than he did, too.

3. Schilling failed due to a combination of having zero idea how to run a business and being too greedy. There was like a 5-10 page article that I read on the subject awhile back, and it involved throwing money away on all types of perks for his workers, hiring some of his wife's family to help run the business despite those same people admitting they had no idea how to run a game business because it was so different from what they had always done, and failing to get investors because he didn't want to turn over a portion of the rights so he was essentially asking them to turn over cash for which they would receive...nothing. Except a portion of the profits, and it turned out there weren't any.

4. I said all that about the way Schilling ran his business to say this: you (the state) could've asked around and got this information, but you didn't. I doubt you got much of any information honestly since this was so easily obtained, and you signed the loan for the guy anyway. I really can't blame him. I could go to my state of Mississippi and ask for $50 million dollars to design my own video game, and I would certainly use that money in good faith if it was given to me...but you shouldn't fucking give it to me. The guy was a baseball player, and the only qualifications he had was, "Uhh...I play a lot of Warcraft." Fuck that. Realizing they had made a mistake was probably why the guy who was over the loan stonewalled their attempts to get investors later.

Bleh. Everytime I hear about this I get sad I'll never get to play in that world again, and worse, get depressed that a guy chased his dream (admittedly, and profit too) and ended up with crippling debt and screwing over about 200 people and their families because he was an inept businessperson. (Ironic, since Fox News Republicans are all about THE BUSINESS.)

 

[Triggerhappytel]

People still defending him because he played baseball reel gud? He's a thief, folks. No denying that.

A thief? fucking thief?! Because he was given an investment from the state and the whole business went belly-up?!!

It's too big of a gamble to help a state's economy in this manner. It wasn't a wise investment. Even you know that.

I would've been fine seeing a much smaller production which made ripples without any of the strings attached.

Yes, in retrospect it wasn't a wise investment for such an ambitious project and the studio's first game, but it's not Schilling's fault for accepting money offered by Rhode Island. Would people here refuse it, if they in the same situation were offered millions of dollars to invest in their business?

Schilling Defense Force Go!

Why are you acting like such a dick? Anyone saying it's not as simple as he took the money direct from taxpayers' hands and squandered it is part of a 'Schilling Defence Force'?!

I certainly don't feel bad for a multimillionaire who funded his childish fantasy on the backs of taxpayers.

Wait, so establishing a videogame studio is now a 'childish fantasy'?!

READ ME.

Just quoting again so everyone slagging off the whole situation sees it.

 

[AzureSkies]

I don't think anyone should deserve to be called a dick for the decisions they made running their business. He came across as a pretty nice guy.