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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#258851: May 5th 2014 at 1:04:19 PM

Wait.

Wait is that an actual insurance company.

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258852: May 5th 2014 at 1:05:47 PM

Yup.

I Googled them and apparently they came about around 1955.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#258853: May 5th 2014 at 1:06:50 PM

How did they even get the rights to System Shock? Like... what is even???

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#258854: May 5th 2014 at 1:11:10 PM

Sorry. Back now.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#258855: May 5th 2014 at 1:12:01 PM

welcome back

semi-relatedly, i am gone in like 5-8 minutes

well

my caps-using did not last long i see

edited 5th May '14 1:12:25 PM by thespacephantom

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RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#258856: May 5th 2014 at 1:12:30 PM

Jekyll and Cyrus: Bringing Law and the Judiciary into Monster Hunter.

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Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#258857: May 5th 2014 at 1:12:38 PM

gg spess

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258858: May 5th 2014 at 1:15:07 PM

Well, like a lot of bureaucratic bullshit, it's much more complicated than I said initially.

All I'm seeing from news articles is that they obtained the rights to the intellectual property and whatnot of the System Shock namesake after the original studio, Looking Glass, closed down.

Mind, I have NO fucking clue why an insurance firm of all things would want to buy the rights to a somewhat obscure series.

I mean... it didn't even sell that well when it CAME OUT. It just became a cult classic in the years to come.

Apparently the director was already considering selling the rights so long as their firm received some kind of compensation for its re-release or further iterations or whatever.

War is God.
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#258859: May 5th 2014 at 1:15:48 PM

That... is odd. That is very, very odd.

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258860: May 5th 2014 at 1:18:54 PM

Trust me, I got nothin'.

All I can do is parrot what I read on the internet.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#258861: May 5th 2014 at 1:19:41 PM

Hacking is haaaaard.

I'm not even sure if what I'm trying to do is even possible.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#258862: May 5th 2014 at 1:20:30 PM

They aren't even a game company is the sad part.

But then again, the way most "game" companies are structured, the AAA ones I mean like EA and Activision, have people who are not gamers, and know nothing aout gaming beyond Co D at the top. So they might as well be a game company.

edited 5th May '14 1:21:04 PM by Azure

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#258863: May 5th 2014 at 1:23:26 PM

My best guess is they see it as a (rather risky) investment, similar to banks going nuts on mortgages.

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258864: May 5th 2014 at 1:25:05 PM

Well I mean, thinking from a businessman's perspective...

Gaming has become INCREDIBLY lucrative as of late. They're making so much money. They're making more money than most blockbuster summer releases.

Usually MUCH more.

The Call of Duty series, as you all know, has turned quite the profit.

Typically these blockbuster films also have much higher budgets in comparison. Think hundreds of millions of dollars versus MAYBE fifty million dollars (and that is a fairly liberal estimate) spent on developing yearly iterations that make a killing every damn time.

I mean... it's amazing. I'd want a slice of that pie too... provided that I was an uncaring sociopathic suit who only cared about making money hand over fist.

I highly doubt the execs in Gamestop give a crap about gaming either.

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MacDuffy from Enies Lobby Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#258865: May 5th 2014 at 1:27:21 PM

from what i hear, a large number of game publishers have zero actual background in video games, they're all from packaged goods

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#258866: May 5th 2014 at 1:28:36 PM

Runaway Adminisphere development?

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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#258867: May 5th 2014 at 1:29:00 PM

The packaged goods thing... that's from something that I saw last week.

Can't remember whose video it was, though.

MacDuffy from Enies Lobby Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#258868: May 5th 2014 at 1:29:51 PM

jom storling, no doubt

poor Carlos just can't catch a break with his name

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#258869: May 5th 2014 at 1:30:22 PM

it's butch

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258870: May 5th 2014 at 1:31:23 PM

Well like...

I would say the bigger the company, the more impersonal and bureaucratic (and hence, greedy) they become.

As much money as Valve makes, they're still not as wealthy as EA. No no no no.

Mind, Valve also has a much better customer policy.

...though I fear they too are going the way of the suit as well.

I'd say the devs would care more about gaming than the publishers. Ken Levine has said repeatedly that the people he hires are all gamers and they're all passionate about making great games.

But again, I would judge a dev by their output than just what they say.

PR bullshit and whatnot.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#258871: May 5th 2014 at 1:33:00 PM

Don't get me started on Gamestop.

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258872: May 5th 2014 at 1:36:16 PM

Hey, trust me, I get the Gamestop criticism.

I do.

But they tend to offer much better pricing overall than say... Best Buy.

I often feel regret whenever I step into a Gamestop store...

...I smell the stench of avarice everywhere.

But I can't deny that they provide good deals. Where else do I buy my games? Eh?

War is God.
MacDuffy from Enies Lobby Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#258874: May 5th 2014 at 1:38:02 PM

what duff said

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#258875: May 5th 2014 at 1:38:46 PM

That ain't an option yet.

I don't exactly have much existing credit to warrant buying all that crap with a debit/credit card.

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