(Shocking) News!!!!! - Page 6

Spoo · #51 March 8th, 2005, 11:51 PM

Sounds like bad news to me. I hope I'm wrong.

Suicide Junkie · #52 March 8th, 2005, 11:53 PM

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Joachim said:
What does this mean for the race to SEV tourney? What about the Beta slots and SEV copies?

The beta slots are given out by Aaron himself.
I'm one of the contributors to the SE5 copy prizes, and this dosen't change that.

geoschmo · #53 March 8th, 2005, 11:57 PM

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Joachim said:
What does this mean for the race to SEV tourney? What about the Beta slots and SEV copies?

All of the promised swag for the tourney was worked out between Tesco and Malfador. The publisher doesn't usually get involved in that stuff unless it's something they are setting up themselves, which Shrapnel was not in this case. It shouldn't have any affect at all.

Joachim · #54 March 9th, 2005, 12:06 AM

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geoschmo said:

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Joachim said:
What does this mean for the race to SEV tourney? What about the Beta slots and SEV copies?

All of the promised swag for the tourney was worked out between Tesco and Malfador. The publisher doesn't usually get involved in that stuff unless it's something they are setting up themselves, which Shrapnel was not in this case. It shouldn't have any affect at all.

Cool, not that I dont have a major personal interest in the outcome of the Atull game....

David E. Gervais · #55 March 9th, 2005, 12:08 AM

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S.R. Krol said:
One thing that I'm surprised about that seems to have been forgotten is that Strategy First (a)is in bankruptcy (b)is now going to direct downloads...e.g. no retail
-Scott

Well, the last I heard the 'filing for bankruptcy protection' was about a year ago, since December the company has shown positive cash-flow and are slowly getting back above ground.

They have struck a deal for more online outlets for their games but this is in addition to their retail stuff.

I sure wish people would tell the whole story and not these half-facts that serve no purpose other than to generate worries in the fans.

Aaron is the one funding the development of SE5 and he is in 100% control of the quallity and schedule for SE5. Beta slots and prizes for the PBW tournament are not affected by this news in the least.

Nuf said, Cheers!

Phoenix-D · #56 March 9th, 2005, 12:49 AM

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PS: As far as GalCiv and Strategy First goes Brad Wardell, creator of GalCiv broke off with SF awhile back. Once again, search for it and you'll find his take on the deal.

They did? The galciv website still has "Published by Strategy First" on it.

thorfrog · #57 March 9th, 2005, 12:49 AM

Well your welcome to your opinion but I think CIV3 and GalCiv were great. Galciv has been handled well by Strategy First and so will SE:V. Well I can hope.

Phoenix-D · #58 March 9th, 2005, 12:52 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Hmmm Shrapnel has overseas sales sites for Dominions so I figure they would for SEV if it was here.

Those networks might have been setup after SEIV was released. There was definitely a lot of "I can't get the game!" complaining.

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Folks.. Keep in mind that the same number of sales of SEV as SEIV had will give give Aaron the same money that SEIV did.

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With the shelfware+advertising model there is a substantial outlay of money from the publisher which gets paid back with interest before the developer starts getting any checks.

One of these is not like the other!

Renegade 13 · #59 March 9th, 2005, 01:45 AM

Is it just me, or are some posts in this thread being deleted

I'm positive I just read a post at the top of the thread by Geo I think, and now it's gone!

Combat Wombat · #60 March 9th, 2005, 01:47 AM

OMG renegade you are right fyrons post is gone and geos post is gone!