Microsoft has learned that features alone haven't been enough to persuade its users to move to newer OS versions, so they are giving the vulnerability angle a try:
"Hey, buy our newest product, we still fix those vulnerabilities. You do still care about the security of your data, don't you?"
I can't see why MS would choose to not support a product that many customers are willing to continue to pay for support for. The support charges should be gaged to cover support costs.
Even EA games that far back weren't developed by EA... EA has always been a publish and they have used the major record labels as their role models.
The don't give a damn about innovation, it's all about the numbers, screw innovation, product loyalty, customer services, quality or anything else that may get in the way of profit.
Oh, and let's not forget what would have been Maxis's swansong, Simsville. EA forced them to can what had potential to be one of their best products ever in order to focus on SimsOnline (what a huge f'n joke).
For you budding game developers out there, take this as a lesson, do not get your funding from your publisher, they will bleed you dry. Maintain control of your product, developement house, name, and trademarks at all cost!
Oh, and don't think EA is alone in the evil empire, Infogrames, Interplay, Activision, and even MS has their problems.
Let's look at MS as an example, they entered into a deal with Terminal Reality a few years back to make Fury3 and the Monster Truck Madness series... MS was turning TR into liquid cash when the original members of TR pooled their resources and bought their company back from MS. TR left that deal with less money than the went into it.
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Microsoft has learned that features alone haven't been enough to persuade its users to move to newer OS versions, so they are giving the vulnerability angle a try:
"Hey, buy our newest product, we still fix those vulnerabilities. You do still care about the security of your data, don't you?"
I can't see why MS would choose to not support a product that many customers are willing to continue to pay for support for. The support charges should be gaged to cover support costs.
Even EA games that far back weren't developed by EA... EA has always been a publish and they have used the major record labels as their role models.
The don't give a damn about innovation, it's all about the numbers, screw innovation, product loyalty, customer services, quality or anything else that may get in the way of profit.
Oh, and let's not forget what would have been Maxis's swansong, Simsville. EA forced them to can what had potential to be one of their best products ever in order to focus on SimsOnline (what a huge f'n joke).
For you budding game developers out there, take this as a lesson, do not get your funding from your publisher, they will bleed you dry. Maintain control of your product, developement house, name, and trademarks at all cost!
Oh, and don't think EA is alone in the evil empire, Infogrames, Interplay, Activision, and even MS has their problems.
Let's look at MS as an example, they entered into a deal with Terminal Reality a few years back to make Fury3 and the Monster Truck Madness series... MS was turning TR into liquid cash when the original members of TR pooled their resources and bought their company back from MS. TR left that deal with less money than the went into it.
Be very careful out there folks...