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What's the matter? I thought you had "calmed down". Guess redefining one's personality is a tad harder than one's age. )

Shut up.

No. There are very few people that can make investments "for the hell of it". Most people need the money that the investment will supposedly turn for something. In the example it's unimportant if you needed the $102 for a medicine or to buy a house. And I didn't remember specifying that without the medicine you would die if you failed your first investment. LOL Let me point the obvious flaw in that statement. If you trust the welfare of your business to other investments, eventually you will find that no investments yield profit, as they were planned not to, and to rely on the success of other investments. Therefore, every single investment you make must turn profit individually and by itself, otherwise it's a failure. A positive "balance of payments" in a business doesn't necessarily preclude some investments from being total failures.

Hey! I pay for my electrons and I choose how to waste them!

Let me guess! :ph34r:

I thought you told some tale yesterday that involved your short fuse and you kicking some kid's ass? That certainly isn't very coherent with your comments today. Redefining your age didn't yield the expected results and now you are going to try redefining your personality or what?

The problem with that is that Interplay didn't instantly went down because at that time they had other sources of income. Again, look at the example of Troika. Their games didn't just "failed to sell as well as we'd have liked". Their games' lack of commercial success eventually brought their company down. There is nothing worse from a business standpoint, which means that their games were absolute failures. No. If you needed $102 to buy a medicine to save your life, getting back $99 is still an absolute failure, as is getting back $98 or $0. Getting $101 would be a failure. An extreme example, but it serves to illustrate my point. You could argue that you could still invest back your $99, but still, the first case was a wasted effort in which you have lost money and time, and decreased your chances of achieving your objective (in a developer's case, staying in business. In the example, staying alive).

In fact I find that sad, rather than humorous.

You are splitting hairs once again. Let's see, if you do something that ultimately results in (or contributes to) you going out of business, it's a failure (PST falls into this category). An absolute failure, since it causes the worst possible effect from a business standpoint. That is, exactly the opposite of what you intended with that action. Now, if you make an investment and that investment doesn't return the expected profit, it is a failure (it has failed), but it doesn't necessarily mean that it has hurt your business. All this, assuming that the predictions you make for the investments aren't unrealistic. If that's not the case, you'll be out of business soon, anyway. Well, I enjoy lying on my bed, but I know nobody's going to pay me for that. Which means that, alas, I'll have to make a living somehow. If I enjoy my job, even better. But Meier's goal was basically to make a living. As you said, everything else was just a bonus. Fair enough. But that's not much of a valid argument as backing your original statement goes, as all you are saying is that nobody really does anything to be "critically acclaimed".

Yes, it made money. Was it remotely profitable as a business initiative? No. That's what counts. I don't know what exactly do you mean by that, but in Sid Meier's case, I'm pretty sure he didn't get into the game business to be "acclaimed", but more likely, just to make a living. But hey, if "critical acclaim" is so important, I have an idea for a business but I'm somewhat sort on cash. How about you work for me and I'll pay you in "critical acclaim"?

LOL

Yes, only metaphysical and fractal-related questions, please.

Nah, I saw that one on eBay. I would have bid for it, but it's not the kind of game that comes "clean". "

Did I mention Fallout at all? No. If what you say about its sales is true, then yes, by all means, it was a failure. Perhaps it's a somewhat alien concept to you to use the same logic in two different (yet analog) reasonings leaving other subjective considerations out (in this case your blatant and badly contained fanboy-ism), but that's what, you know, people with a brain do. And people don't get into business to get "critical acclaim" for their work. Musicians do that, not software developers. Troika received "critical acclaim" for their games, and they didn't last long because their games were commercial failures. Sorry pal, but "critical acclaim", as nice as it may be, isn't edible. ) But hey, no need to get all worked up just because I have called you on an obvious contradiction. It happens to the best of us. Or perhaps it's because I have not joined in on the PST wankfest? Any initiative that contributes to drive a business to bankruptcy is an absolute failure. If all their games had sold as PST, Interplay would have gone down much earlier. BIS, too. Also, I think that you would be hard pressed to find a game that "flat out didn't sell" (as in didn't sell a single copy), but perhaps there is some case.

Keep splitting hairs. If a game meets its sales expectations, it's considered a success. If it doesn't, it's considered a failure. If it fails to cover even development costs, it's considered a total failure, and the company has to rethink their strategy or they risk going down. It was an absolute failure. It only managed to cover development costs years after it was released. Most developers wouldn't be able to survive such a blow.

You can go post it here. "

Most of you folks already know what I think about Ps:T so there's really no need to repeat myself. Those two statements are mutually contradictory, as a product is either a success or a failure commercially. In this case, and regardless of the critical acclaim received by the game, it was a failure on its own. The amount of prestige earned by its developers in the industry is irrelevant, as that is not the goal of any business endeavor, simply a welcome byproduct.

Please refrain from posting under the effects of illegal substances. KTHXBYE

Movie: The Chronicles of Riddick. This is the most likely one to happen. Game: Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines. Troika is no more and the old WoD is obsolete so... Book: Starship Troopers. The guy who wrote it is dead so chances of it happening are *slim*.

Do you work at MS tech support, by some chance?

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Because it's an attempt at making an FPS with RPG elements. It fails miserably on both accounts. And the story isn't too impressive either. You want a great FPS? Get The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Stealth, action, graphics, and an acceptable story. Featuring Vin Diesel as our favorite convicted sociopathic serial killer!

That's funny. I didn't know you were an expert in writing drivers. And it would take nothing short of that to make that kind of comment with some semblance of reason. And about the card, I happen to have exactly the 9600xt and I don't remember having too many problems. The Catalyst 3.10 package works like a charm... "

I actually chuckled at that one. Don't.