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Why Do Games and Game Studios Fail?

Posted by chrisd on from the when-franchises-attack dept.

LukeG writes "This new article discusses the reason behind games and their developers failing, noting the distance of those selling the games, from those that buy them as one possible cause. Doomed games such as Bablylon 5 come under the spotlight, while the ubiquitous Duke Nukem Forever is also touched upon." For me, this article brought to mind the twin disasters of Fallout Tactics and the Farscape based game.

18 of 389 comments (clear)

  1. hi by Principito · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bye

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    "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Plato (427?-347? BC)
  2. Instant slashdotting by Mahrin+Skel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Did anyone grab a copy of the article in the 30 seconds it took their server to cry uncle?

    --Dave

    1. Re:Instant slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Read at -1. Spoilsport moderators are moderating the copies of the article to -1 redundant.

  3. Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Too many games.

  4. bar(5) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, it's gone already. So perhaps someone could tell me what those () numbers after Unix programs mean? Like foo(8) or whatever. Feel free to post anonymously so you don't lose karma on my account.

    1. Re:bar(5) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      man pages are divided into "sections":

      1) commands (crontab, open)
      2) syscalls (open, select)
      3) C library stuff (printf, sqrt)
      5) file formats (crontab, fstab)
      8) more commands (swapon, mount)

      I have no idea if 4,6, or 7 are ever used. I'm really not clear on the difference between 1 and 8. Maybe I should "man man" sometime.

      If you want to read about the crontab command, do "man 1 crontab". If you want to read about the crontab file format, do "man 5 crontab".

      -Paul Komarek (posting anonymously ;-)

    2. Re:bar(5) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks, I am much obliged! That explains it :-)

  5. MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +5, Astute!

    You, sir, area a genius!

  6. Moderators: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please give this +5 insightful, and we can all move along to the next article.

  7. Trusty /. folk by Sacarino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Always on the lookout for the dreaded /. effect, now we have 5 copies posted on the board.

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    -- El Sacarino tiene gusto de la chocha
  8. I think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wiil go watch my disney dvds and play with my
    legos.

  9. Re:The best way to save a game... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is to show more of the farscape "females" ie, Chiana, Jool

  10. Re:There are three reasons... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Profit!

    2) Profit!

    3) Profit!

  11. copyright is the problem. qjkx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ban copyrights and all will be well. Eventually we won't even have money. It will happen. I am right. You are wrong.

  12. Re:HTTP 403.9: IIS can't handle the load by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mmmm.. Anal Beastiality Celebrity Grit porn..

    Posting something like that as anonymous coward just shows that you're a fucking idiot.

    Posting something like ^that probably says a few things too.

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    -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
  13. Re:All this Article does is pose the question... by nomadic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No offense man, but you have waaaay too many capitalized letters in that post.

  14. haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ode to the goatse:

    i love the anus
    one foot in diameter
    i think i smell corn.

  15. Fightin' words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is so off-topic that I'm gonna AC this, but I couldn't let your diss of eXistenZ go unanswered.

    Fight Club is a great movie. Good acting, good direction, but the relationship between Bonham Carter and Norton just is not believable. Bonham Carter is 10,000 times more sexually interesting than Norton. The whipped chick schtick feels forced but nowhere more glaringly than at the movie's end when they're up close against each other as the towers come crashing down. This alone kills the possibility of Fight Club being a great movie.

    eXistenZ, contrary to your uninformed opinion, is an amazing movie. The movie's depiction of the topology between the actual world and the virtual world is one of the most subtle and haunting depictions of that relationship in cinematic history. Released at the same time as The Matrix (also a great movie, but whose lame ending merely nicks the movie's groundbreaking translation of John Woo), eXistenZ tells us more about the equivalence of the virtual and the actual than the Matrix could ever hope to do.

    And finally, every self-respecting geek should know Repo Man. The Suicidal Tendencies, Iggy Pop, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton--not knowing about Repo Man is like not knowing about Buckaroo Banzai. Haven't heard of that one either? You might consider adding them to your Netflix queue because these movies are the purple Kool-Aid of the cult movie world.

    msq