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Buy a Piece of Acclaim

Posted by samzenpus on from the games-from-the-past dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kotaku points to the official auction site for Acclaim, the game publisher that was. The Auction includes the building and everything that was in it, including arcade games, boardroom tables, an odd collection of football helmets and 43,000 copies of video games." Our previous story of their bankruptcy.

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  1. Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is why ID software is going out of business so quickly... right?

    Oh, wait, its because their products fucking rock, and Acclaim's sucked ass.

    They failed of their own accord.

  2. If only EA could go tits up as well by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given their habit of buying some of the most innovative and successful studios (Bullfrog, Origin, Maxis) and gutting them, I can't help thinking it would be a good thing for gaming if they went under

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  3. Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff by stienman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you making the claim that if their games were not pirated Acclaim would not have failed?

    I don't agree with piracy (though, for a variety of personal reasons, I hate protection schemes that require the disk to play, or activation over the internet), but that is part of the business of computer software, like it or not. If Acclaim truly failed because of piracy, then it's due to them underestimating the extent of the piracy, or not taking proper precautions. There is no perfect solution to piracy, so any reasonable business plan must include its effects.

    As far as treating the 'creators with the respect they deserve' do you also believe that video game companies should treat the creators with the respect they deserve? And what, pray tell, respect do these various creators deserve, exactly?

    -Adam

  4. Re:Also check out: - DO NOT CHECK OUT h4xx! by JohnBaleshiski · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why people think this is funny or cool is beyond me. And why someone modded the post informative is also beyond me. Firefox "prevented 5973 popups" on that site. In addition, it's just a goatse.cx picture.

    AVOID.

  5. Re:Accalim? by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Insightful
    All of us regulars saw it, and the other one that was posted twice an hour apart ...
    I swear, in 99.99 percent of businesses, if people ran things this way then heads would roll pretty damn fast.
    Guess you haven't been to some of the places I've worked. Or that my friends have worked at :-)

    I have a theory that there's a Peter Principle for whole business sectors, not just for people in organizations. Whole business sectors "rise to their level of incompetence", and the only reason they continue to exist is that everyone else is in the same boat. It would certainly explain why Ford is still in business ... ditto Martha Stewart OmniwhateverthefuckMedia.

    Anyway, it's just a theory ...