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Title: Shame Really
Post by: FOGOLD on March 23, 2006, 02:01:10 AM

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5131 (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5131)

Title: Shame Really
Post by: Ghosth on March 23, 2006, 07:11:51 AM

Problem fogold is selling out while still alive is the only real way of winning for these guys.

As long as they hold the reins they have to work beucoup hours a month. Stomping out brush fires, fixing problems, dealing with people.

Depending on the terms of the contract.
Once its signed, it all becomes dells problem.

They have time on their hands, and a HUGE paycheck to go play with.
In short, they win, they have the money and the time to go enjoy it.

I don't blame them, its the way the world works.

Title: Shame Really
Post by: Krusty on March 23, 2006, 12:59:26 PM

I'd disagree. It's the way large computer-related-industries work. That does not make it a good thing.

Valve buys Counterstrike. Games goes down the crapper, no updates for almost a year, no webpage updates. The dev team totally isolates from the community that they once socialized with. CS2 is okay, sure, but it's just a port from CS. And it doesn't even have all the models that CS had.

AOL buys Netscape. Netscape I liked because it was an alternate to MSIE, it was small, compact, and efficient. AOL buys it and all of a sudden it balloons out with dozens upon dozens of directories inside each other with no files and gibberish names, and at the very end is the directory your profile is stored in. No logic anymore. Code bloat up the wazoo. Bugs. YIM installed with it (EW! Get it off! Get it off!!).

There are other examples as well. Usually when this happens:

1) The big company gets money from the "good name" of the small company, because it's already tarnished its own name

2) The "good name" of the small company is ruined because

3) The big company totally and royally screws everything up and drags the small company down the drain with it.

Alienware probably should have stayed separate.

Title: Shame Really
Post by: Bronk on March 23, 2006, 01:33:19 PM

How about another example for you.  
AW+gamestorm= great
Aw+EA=suck fest







Bronk

Edit: My reg resides in an old alienware case . Since dell is buying alienware I now have to get a new case.  I dont want anyone think it's dell related.