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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. 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