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The Bill
Roper Interview on 1Up is a Q&A with the cofounder of Flagship Studios about
the developer that is in essence deceased at this point, as well as thoughts on
Diablo III and other topics later on. As to the subject of Flagship, they
ask about what he can discuss (at one point he makes a pointed reference to
Hanbitsoft not honoring their nondisclosure agreements), and he describes
efforts at paying off institutions and employees still owed money by Flagship
and the attempts to save the company from going under. His comment about losing
the Mythos IP, indicates he thinks the new owners got less than they
bargained for: Yeah. But I think part of it is -- the challenge they face
is -- it's like if somebody says, "Hey, I made you a loan against your Ferrari,
[and] now the loan's due, so I want the Ferrari." And I say, "Great, here's a
box of parts, because I didn't actually finish building the car yet." So they
have it, but it's not done, and they don't have any of the engineers that were
there that know how to build the game or use the tools or use the tech or
anything. So yes, you have it, but you have it where it is, which isn't done
yet. It's a lot different from a movie. With a film you can say, "Here's all the
footage. Get some competent guys with an Avid system, and you could piece
something together. Go shoot some more scenes. Release the film." Totally
different situation here. There isn't just a quick way you can slap something
together. So I think that they're facing a big challenge: How to actually get a
shippable title out of this without that team being there anymore.
Unfortunately, it isn't something we didn't kind of warn them about. We said,
"We want to know what you guys will do." We had transition service agreements
that we have done everything we can to fulfill. Flagship at this point is unable
to actually provide those transition services. I don't have programmers anymore,
or artists to work on the title, but we provided them with all the personal
contact information with anyone they wanted. After that the onus is on them as
far as whether or not to bring those people in.
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@ WyldKat
Wow wait what?
You're talking about...Garriott, the father of Ultima and MMOs along with Koster who has advocated totally free gameplay in his MMOs (being UO and Pre-suck SWG) and Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame?
Seriously...where do I begin?
All of these people, even Derek love him or hate him, have all produced something that is immortalized in gaming history. Ultima series, Ultima Online, Pre-CU Star Wars Galaxies, The Wing Commander series. In fact all of those stated were ruined by the parent companies, not the designers. I would hardly call Derek's games failures either, sure they are not topping the sales charts but they clearly do well enough to earn him a living and fund successive sequels so I think he's found what works for him. It seems a bit like you dug up that comment just because he's reading, no? I couldn't have said it any better. Then again, you're probably more level headed and more eloquent than most of us who have to endure posting to asshats on a forum we love and which goes back to the good old days of gaming.
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Game developers are just human beings who happen to make games for a living. If you want to hold us up to higher standards of conduct, then go ahead ...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them |
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Hey Bill |
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Also, Bill |
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