Rage in Receivership

Beckham game firm calls in receivers (thanks muff) is the BBC news article with the latest bad news for embattled game developer Rage Software. The article details the company's financial woes (story), and goes on to offer this grim prognosis:
The software company that makes the David Beckham Soccer Game has collapsed, with the loss of 77 jobs.

Receivers have been appointed by Liverpool-based computer game firm Rage Software, ending hopes that a rescue package could be put together.

The Liverpool-based firm is now likely to be broken up, and any new games it is working on sold off.

The future of the remaining 85 staff will depend on the sale of the intellectual property rights of games currently in development.
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RaRe not RaGe. Thanks guys

And yeah, sorry to see them have to go, I thought Hostile Waters (know here as Antaeus Rising) was a fantastic game, I still have it installed and play it every now and then, one of my favorite games of all time. Too bad it sold about 5 copies

One comment down below kind of made me frown though.

"creating a patch costs money in dev time and if no-one is going to pay for it i.e. the publisher then there wasn't much they could really do - sadly"

Alternatively, one could say that any issues that have to be fixed by a patch SHOULD have already been working when the game was put in stores, right?
I mean, "the patch has to be paid for", didn't the gamers pay for that patch when they BOUGHT the game?

It's a different story if those issues were simply requests from the players, or additional content, etc, but if these were bugfixes, then in my opinion even a small time developer should do that patch for free if they have to.

Nnot flaming anybody here btw, I don't know any of the particulars of that game, or its patch, or if the publishers forced it out onto the street early or whatever. Just seeing more and more that developers refuse to patch the bugs in their games because "nobody is picking up the tab". Hello, the people who BOUGHT your game ALREADY picked up that tab, thank you.
This, in my opinion, is why PC gaming is losing ground so massively to console gaming. The simple fact that games these days just DON'T work. (and I'm not talking about bugs due to crappy drivers by Nvidia or a wrong Via 4-in-1, I'm talking about simple GAME bugs that are not hardware related. Not many of those in console games, but it seems the majority of PC games is rife with them these days.)

Oh well, just an opinion.

Sorry to see you go Rage, you made some great games

Creston


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