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Eversince the fall of the iron curtain it's basically the same over here, although in Europe we perhaps have less hostile takeovers than in the US and for a long time shareholders interests were only one among many. Instead they had to arrange themselves with everyone else and somewhat everyone...

As far as I know most software companies didn't have stocks when they made the best titles. In fact the day moneymaking, shareholders and greed gained the upper hand and the firms let the publishers take over was when a lot of the creativity died away. Just think back to the late 90s when one...

Call me a communist but I have no pity with the average shareholder who just buys to exploit a company and specualte on it's exsistence.

Almost sounds like the Enron story. As for Fargo, ok thought you meant Feargus. Ofcourse that might really be the case concering Iply but what about the others? Seems all of them made themselves vunerable to a takeover when they went to the stockmarket. Imho they should have left it as it was...

Actually it might not be quite as bad, from what I've heard Obsidian is producing Kotor2, thus those two companies are working together closely. Bioware might actually hand it over to them since 17 out of 18 employees are former BIS staff according to Furgus and have Fallout experience. Not to...

Well, never had any problems making money. Selling ten leather armors and some pistols from those dead raiders and voila you should have enough cash. But even if there were less money in the Fallout enviroment that would be a GOOD thing imho. Think about other games were you get immense riches...

Ya, absolutely and who can blame them. Due to online shops one can now buy games uncensored and in their original format. The problem for the non online shopper is that the particular software on the index isn't allowed to be advertised for or shelved thus only few shops will offer it, not only...

Well must say for me it wasn't so much Interplay, since I always prefered Microprose, SSI or Lucasfilm over it. Apart from Conquest of the New World almost all Iplay titles I liked were by Black Isle (BG and FO) so I'll miss them more than Iply. Basically it's all the same though, these were...

Yep, government here thinks it's their duty to protect us (apparently the youth but it more or less goes for all) from pixelar scenes of violence, might result in us running amok afterall. There is a link you see. :roll: They've forced companies to censor several games over the years...

Sure looks like a crook. What a mofo, why did he have to buy up Interplay if he wanted a console videogames company?! That interview is dated 2002, but there already he revealed his evil plans very bluntly. I too remember when the software industry was very small and somehow I'm glad that it's...

Hi, first of all. :) I got to know FO like some of the others, through the Junktown Demo which was on PC Magazines at the time. Tbh I wasn't immediately hooked. I did like it, like when the people got riddled by the SMG but thought it was merely a Jagged Alliance clone located post apoc, not...