college activity related to HTC

[Raphael]

I am a student of Administration school (don't know what it would be called in USA, i guess its called economic science, not sure) and i had 2 hours to make a study about an innovator and alive company that focuses on something else than the old paradigm of profit. so the students started to discuss apple and things like that but the only company that could come to my head was HTC hehe sorry guys. so i made my best to represent what i understand of the HiTech Creations and the whole comunity evolved starting by its mission plan exposed on the ahwiki and examining all the interactive "mood" between  the company and the exterior market, i just want to say thanks to you for keeping this company up and i want to congratulate all the company for the development of Aces High. I would post my work here but it is all written in portuguese so i don't think it would have any use. also i HAD to simplify a lot of things because there are so many areas, its a shame I'm not brave enough to explore every single area that HTC acts directly and indirectly because it would be to much and i don't think that is what the teacher actually wants. haha i don't really care for my grade, just happy i had this idea.
I don't know if i would post it here or on the o club, sorry if i made the wrong choice.

[ozrocker]

  Good Work Raphael!


                                                      <S> Oz

[Pigslilspaz]

I've actually used HTC in discussions before with teachers. One actually had played for 2-3 years, sadly I couldn't convince him to let me "borrow" his equipment.

[bustr]

My wife is working on a Masters in Educational WEB Design. In here most recent class she had to write a paper on Internet MMO game theory and culture in relation to how that will affect student learning expectations and response. Because of years of watching me play AH and listening to me talk about AH, she included it in her demographic profileing.

Attention spans of nats. Big shiny things that go PIU, PIU, PIU ...boooooMMMM.......... 

[Bear76]

My wife is working on a Masters in Educational WEB Design. In here most recent class she had to write a paper on Internet MMO game theory and culture in relation to how that will affect student learning expectations and response. Because of years of watching me play AH and listening to me talk about AH, she included it in her demographic profileing.

Attention spans of nats. Big shiny things that go PIU, PIU, PIU ...boooooMMMM.......... 

I'd love to hear her analysis of the "oink" 

[Krusty]

Another might be Valve (Half-Life originator)

Here's a pretty long interview... IMO has a bit of fluff in it:
http://www.develop-online.net/features/1184/The-Valve-manifesto

But there's some interesting commentary on how they run their business buried in the gushing adoration.

[bustr]

I'd love to hear her analysis of the "oink" 

It's better than having me trolling for love notes from ursus leviculus with my spare time. The oink for her is part of the territory.

Short attention spans and an affinity to visual communication media while lacking in person to person interactive skills is a problem many companies are finding as a common theme these days. Knowing how to taylor training venues to impart needed functional business skills can be a nightmare. Just read these forums some time.

Need me to shorten my word count to keep you awake??....

[Vinkman]

I am a student of Administration school (don't know what it would be called in USA, i guess its called economic science, not sure) and i had 2 hours to make a study about an innovator and alive company that focuses on something else than the old paradigm of profit. so the students started to discuss apple and things like that but the only company that could come to my head was HTC hehe sorry guys. so i made my best to represent what i understand of the HiTech Creations and the whole comunity evolved starting by its mission plan exposed on the ahwiki and examining all the interactive "mood" between  the company and the exterior market, i just want to say thanks to you for keeping this company up and i want to congratulate all the company for the development of Aces High. I would post my work here but it is all written in portuguese so i don't think it would have any use. also i HAD to simplify a lot of things because there are so many areas, its a shame I'm not brave enough to explore every single area that HTC acts directly and indirectly because it would be to much and i don't think that is what the teacher actually wants. haha i don't really care for my grade, just happy i had this idea.
I don't know if i would post it here or on the o club, sorry if i made the wrong choice.

It is tough to find companies that don't focus on the old Paradigm of making a profit....because.....   

[hitech]

It is tough to find companies that don't focus on the old Paradigm of making a profit....because.....   

Some of us just hide it very well.

HiTech

[Bear76]

It's better than having me trolling for love notes from ursus leviculus with my spare time. The oink for her is part of the territory.

Short attention spans and an affinity to visual communication media while lacking in person to person interactive skills is a problem many companies are finding as a common theme these days. Knowing how to taylor training venues to impart needed functional business skills can be a nightmare. Just read these forums some time.

Need me to shorten my word count to keep you awake??....

 

"Need for attention" would have sufficed 

[BnZs]

Completely American owned.

You can count the number of people on the team on your hands.

You can talk, directly on the phone, to the head honcho if you have reason.

And they just happen to make the best product out there...so much better than the nearest competition (where it counts) that its not even a contest.

And tech support speaks English. Or at least Texan. 

Yeah, the company deserves highlighting in economics class all across this nation.

[Vinkman]

Some of us just hide it very well.

HiTech

I hope you're making a huge pile of money because you deserve it.   

I was implying that companies that don't focus on making a profit, aren't around to be studied. 

[Vinkman]

Some of us just hide it very well.

HiTech

And by the way, I've run some quick math...

4,000 players [from Lusche's stats]
some must be 2 week free trials. [10-20%]
Leaving 3500 paid subscribers.
@ $15.00/month@ 12 months/year
=  $630,000 in yearly gross operating capitol.

Subtract:

Salaries for 7 employees
Office space rental
Office equipment [computer purchace or leasing]
Development software licenses.
Server equipment and software licensing
Internet Bandwith (!)
Insurance
Taxes (!)

It doesn't seem like there's a lot left over. I've seen you post that you put every cent you make back into this company and it's very easy to see how true that must be.

I wasn't joking when I said I hope you are making a big pile of money, but the numbers suggest passion for this game must be a big part of it. As a result of all my speculation, I actually do fear, at times, that one day all the whining and complainting will cause your passion to fade and the money won't be enough to keep you going.

So if kudos are worth anything toward you maintaining that passion, I hope this helps...

I love this game!


  to you and the team,

Vinkman

[hitech]

......I've seen you post that you put every cent you make back into this company ....

I never said this, I said I put every cent I had to START the company.

HTC Is doing very well, I just hope the economy comes back soon so we can be back to doing super fantastic.



HiTech

[Raphael]

Yeah, the company deserves highlighting in economics class all across this nation.

Im brazillian... is not about the country the company is in, is about the focus walking away from the neoclassicism where the only formula that matered was Total profit= Total recipe - Total cost; of course you need it in the capitalist system but I am talking about the new focuses.
i wish i could know more about the way the company works in the inside tho, meaning in structure.
for what i can guess here (i could be REALLY wrong here) is that it doesnt work on the participative mode, but it also looks like there is a nice and comfortable work mood that follows on the mission plan: "...experienced cohesive team that enjoys its work..."
What i mean is that i know that the idea is to use this mood and image to get the bigger level of satisfaction inside and outside the company but i have no idea how and that is what makes me so curious but i guess this isnt a subject for forums and also i dont know if it would be confortable for the company to comunicate all that. (even tho it would reinforce the image of strong comunication HTC has).