> Is it me or has Warner picked two pretty poor games companies to get
It has been my opinion that no game company of any size has ever been able to
keep up with published schedules. I've played with wargames and such for
almost 20 yrs and rarely have I ever seen a product come out when scheduled.
CarWars Tanks was announced a couple of years before it actually hit the
market. Large companies like Avalon Hill are no better then AOG in this
respect. They all get anxious and announce horribly optomistic release dates.
My two bits
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> On Oct 23, 1997 at 2:56:07 PM, axe@knuth.mtsu.edu (Tracy Hale) wrote:
> It has been my opinion that no game company of any size has ever been
Company: "It will be out in September."
Customer: "Which September?"
chrisw
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:
> On Oct 23, 1997 at 2:56:07 PM, axe@knuth.mtsu.edu (Tracy Hale) wrote:
Actually, T$R, whatever its other faults, was very good with deadlines. But
generally, you are right. It's just that it's not just gaming, it's pretty
much the entire publishing industry, from software to books (newspapers and
magazines being the notable exception).
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:09:39 +0200 (EET)
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:
wrote:
> >
Look at Starcraft for instance. It was supposed to be out at the beginning of
the year and now its out at Christmas of this year. I hope.
> On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 15:33:20 +0000, ngilsena@indigo.ie wrote:
> Look at Starcraft for instance. It was supposed to be out at the
Mikko was right, however. Before TSR's cash flow problems, there stuff came
out pretty much on schedule and they paid their writers pretty much on
schedule. When they ran into the cash crunch last year, the first sign was
their delay in paying their writers. Anything scheduled for the fall of 1996
and beyond was hampered by their financial problems and the company's near
death experience.