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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2002, 07:00:55 am
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http://planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=3529
Shouldn't laugh at their misfortune but, well, :ha::lol:
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suckers.
It's their fault. Let them burn in hell. :ha:
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Too bad for Interplay. Should have sticked with FreeSpace.
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Originally posted by NeoHunter
Too bad for Interplay. Should have sticked with FreeSpace.
I can see how sticking with a series that didn't sell too well would do wonders for their stock profile. :confused:
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It's their fault. Let them burn in hell. :ha:
:D :yes:
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Hmmmm. 7c, eh? MVE copyrights, eh?
Interesting.
When it drops to 1c I'll buy a few thousand shares, see if I can wrangle some benefits from their downfall.
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Originally posted by 01010
I can see how sticking with a series that didn't sell too well would do wonders for their stock profile. :confused:
Freespace didnt make any money because it was unadvertised, I only learned of it after a close friend introduced it to me last year.
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Originally posted by 01010
I can see how sticking with a series that didn't sell too well would do wonders for their stock profile. :confused:
yes, but if they actually learnt to advertise
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who gets the rights if they go under?
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its our revenge :ha:
but what happends to the FS rights :(
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Originally posted by Carl
who gets the rights if they go under?
They're either claimed by debtors or auctioned off to raise the cash to repay Interplay loans and commitments (wages etc).
If someone were to buy a controlling interest in Interplay they could sell all the copyrights for £1 and truly screw the company and its associates.
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doesn't Titus own them? the copyrights would go to the parent company then.
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Titus Own Interplay but they've comissioned Vivendi (the lowest scum known to man) to handle all of Interplay's games as far as I know.
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Originally posted by Top Gun
Titus Own Interplay but they've comissioned Vivendi (the lowest scum known to man) to handle all of Interplay's games as far as I know.
Weird, never heard of Vivendi.
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:wtf:
Dude, Vivendi is one of the biggest companies in the entertainment industry.
Didn't they start out as a sewage company or something?
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Nope, Interplay use stealth technology on Freespace 2 boxes, trust me, at full strength its immpossible to see the box.
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Originally posted by an0n
They're either claimed by debtors or auctioned off to raise the cash to repay Interplay loans and commitments (wages etc).
If someone were to buy a controlling interest in Interplay they could sell all the copyrights for £1 and truly screw the company and its associates.
Yeah, but they'd get punished. It's illegal to knowingly neglect or harm the finances of a company.
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Weird, never heard of Vivendi.
Empire Earth, Arcanum, etc.
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Oh, now I remember
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Originally posted by Stunaep
yes, but if they actually learnt to advertise
wouldn't change much, it's a fact, space sims don't sell well anymore. Why do you think microsoft try mouse control and all that crap for freelancer? to try and get more customers. won't work, if you ask me, I doubt the joystick is the reason why people won't play space sims.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Yeah, but they'd get punished. It's illegal to knowingly neglect or harm the finances of a company.
That's.....going out of business
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Originally posted by 01010
I can see how sticking with a series that didn't sell too well would do wonders for their stock profile. :confused:
I disagree with that. Advertisement, like everybody just said, would have made it sell better, thus increasing Interplay's stock profile. But the idiots decided not to, so, its their funeral.
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I doubt FS woulda sold big even if it were advertised. It's not the graphics spectacular that tends to do well, and wasn't ever going to be. You could give it the best engine in the world, it still would be second-string, because there's only so much that could be worked into the FS universe.
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Originally posted by venom2506
wouldn't change much, it's a fact, space sims don't sell well anymore. Why do you think microsoft try mouse control and all that crap for freelancer? to try and get more customers. won't work, if you ask me, I doubt the joystick is the reason why people won't play space sims.
exactly- I didn't even know about freespace until I saw it next to flightsim 98...I'd never heard of it. I've also never met anyone that didn't love playing FS
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I didn't know about FreeSpace until I saw someone playing FreeSpace 1 in school. He installed it illegally. Even though it was just FreeSpace 1, I was impressed.
When FreeSpace 2 came out, I didn't hear about it until I thought I saw it somewhere in a computer shopping centre. Of course, I couldn't find the game. So, I went online and just typed www.freespace2.com and the rest is history.
So, I believe there is a huge amount of people who are very interested in FreeSpace. Only better advertisement was needed.
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I didn't learn about Freespace untill I found an ad back around 98. (It must have been in the Descent 2 box I guess.)
I was a big Descent fan when it first came out. Those were the days. :)
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You know, I'm going to find it really funny when some FS fan buys Interplay for $50, makes FS3, and becomes rich and famous.
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i have $107.89 in my bank account!
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Originally posted by Dynamo
You know, I'm going to find it really funny when some FS fan buys Interplay for $50, makes FS3, and becomes rich and famous.
Originally posted by Knight Templar
i have $107.89 in my bank account!
LOL!:lol:
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I doubt FS woulda sold big even if it were advertised. It's not the graphics spectacular that tends to do well, and wasn't ever going to be. You could give it the best engine in the world, it still would be second-string, because there's only so much that could be worked into the FS universe.
yes, but it would have sold enough to warrant a third sequel.
A shame
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I doubt FS woulda sold big even if it were advertised. It's not the graphics spectacular that tends to do well, and wasn't ever going to be. You could give it the best engine in the world, it still would be second-string, because there's only so much that could be worked into the FS universe.
Ahem, so what's all this insane hype about Doom 3? The most brilliant story ever devised in the world? Amazing squad action gameplay? Couldn't POSSIBLY be the graphics engine... :rolleyes:
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Doom III looks... um... ahem... *dribbles a bit*... mmmm
Yes
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I just did the math and Interplay could be bought for $12,802.50. That's all 170,700 shares of their stock, up for sale at $0.075 per share.
Edit: I take that back, the 170,700 shares is just the average daily volume of Interplay shares traded per day. They actually have over 93 million outstanding shares bumping the purchase price to a little under $7 million.
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Originally posted by Dynamo
I just did the math and Interplay could be bought for $12,802.50. That's all 170,700 shares of their stock, up for sale at $0.075 per share.
that is, of course, if the current stockholders is willing to sell at that price.
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Blow up their HQ.
Their stock prices would nose-dive to like a 0.001c, then all 93 million would only cost: $930
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if we all contribute $200.00 or something, then we could buy the rights to FS :D then programmers like Icefire, Inquisitor, and RandomTiger could make the source code project into a new game :D
jus tkidding, ;)
but anyhow, any estimate on how much the price for the rights will cost?
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Prolly less than the ammount of C4 you'd need to level their HQ
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Prolly less than the ammount of C4 you'd need to level their HQ
Pfff. I can make high-explosives for very little.
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Originally posted by an0n
Pfff. I can make high-explosives for very little.
Yeah, so can the Palestinians.
I'm just saying, is all! Guys, why are you all looking at me like that? Guys?
Ok, I know that I just turned this into a political thread, but there's no need for that murderous glint in your eyes....
Guys...?
Oh, crap.
*runs*
:D
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Well then, let us talk buisness...
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
i have $107.89 in my bank account!
just enough to pay for the copyright and development cycle then :p
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Weird, never heard of Vivendi.
They're the french assholes that killed off Babylon5: Into the Fire. :mad: They also own USA Network, which in turn owns Scifi, which cancelled Farscape.
Let em burn for all I care. The whole lot of em.
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Originally posted by MD-2389
They're the french assholes that killed off Babylon5: Into the Fire. :mad: They also own USA Network, which in turn owns Scifi, which cancelled Farscape.
Let em burn for all I care. The whole lot of em.
Sierra cancelled ITF.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Sierra cancelled ITF.
ITF? what is that?
poor Interplay....
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Originally posted by Solid Snake
ITF? what is that?
Into The Fire, a kick ass space sim set in the Babylon 5 universe that looked set to be the next landmark space sim after Freespace 2... after a lot of mucking around and trying to save it, it finally got cancelled.
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*Reads Su's Palistinian joke*
*thinks of Stoner friend's pick up line* "
"are your parents Palistinian? Cuz' you're da bomb!"
*runs faster*
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poor Interplay....
:mad: WHAT?!?! THEY STOLE THE RIGHTS TO FS......
wait...this is better...
*gets flamethrower*
Ahhhhhh......niiiice....
*Flames Solid Snake*
oooooh, preddy colors!
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Originally posted by Thunder
Into The Fire, a kick ass space sim set in the Babylon 5 universe that looked set to be the next landmark space sim after Freespace 2... after a lot of mucking around and trying to save it, it finally got cancelled.
Has anyone ever told you, that you should become a weatherman. Or possibly an informecial guy?
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Sierra cancelled ITF.
At the behest of Vivendi. Trust me on this. This is straight from the developers.