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| 23 APR 2009 at 9:38am |
ILoveYouIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | From Wikipedia, "Sierra Online" article:
On February 19, 2002, Sierra On-Line officially announced the change of its name to Sierra Entertainment, Inc. Sierra’s president Mike Ryder claimed in a press statement the new name would "Reflect the company's commitment to developing a broad range of entertainment products, including games for both the PC and next-generation consoles." (Quote from official press release.)
Mike Ryder, as president, was committed to restoring Sierra to its former glory and showed a great deal of interest in reigniting the series that made Sierra what it was such as King’s Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and others, and even met with some of the original designers of these series. He was determined to bring Sierra back to the top of the industry. Ultimately, Vivendi officials wanted Sierra to stay right where it was, and Ryder was sacked.
I know I'm beating a dead horse but is Activision really responsible for denying us great sequels to Sierra classics?
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| 23 APR 2009 at 2:44pm |
| Deleted User | It does appear to me as if Vivendi wants the "old" Sierra dead, and I hate them for it. > They bought them and they buried a part of them.
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| 23 APR 2009 at 2:54pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Vivendi is the sort of corporation with no soul: they don't actually produce anything; they just own things. To them nothing their subsidiaries produce are of any intrinsic value; it's all just product.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 23 APR 2009 at 4:02pm |
ILoveYouIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | Has there ever been campaigns or boycotts against them to make a point?
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| 23 APR 2009 at 5:57pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Status : Offline | I remember signing online petitions, and at least one of them had the positive result of allowing The Silver Lining to continue development.
But as for boycotts, never in the history of the medium has the gaming community managed to rally and protest against company decisions in the only way that really matters: not buying their products.
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| 23 APR 2009 at 9:39pm |
ILoveYouIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | in a way that's depressing.. there's thousands of us who want them back and who want all the Sierra games to continue. I suppose it'd need a sparkle from a major website, creating a petition or boycott against the company.
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| 24 APR 2009 at 10:51am |
GonchiSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | As far as I'm concerned, Sierra died on February 22, 1999.
But I'm not so complicated as to flee, &&or stand here in silence. &&But I'm not so simple as to not caution, &&that there aren't three minutes, or a hundred words, that could define me.&&&&[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlR-6Tw-5bE]Brief description of my person[/url] - Cuarteto de Nos
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| 1 JUN 2009 at 7:11am |
meteorIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | It's a shame. I played so many Sierra games. Their mountain logo is stuck in my head.
I love parakeets
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| 3 JUN 2009 at 4:05pm |
Simo Sakari AaltonenSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Better that than the mountain itself.
My personal feeling is that the more thoroughly they let the Sierra name stay dormant, the better the chance it will find a new incarnation in some form, at some future time and under circumstances the nature of which I would not attempt to guess beforehand.
Because surely such misjudged creations as the new so-called Larry games that are published under the name of Sierra's classic series are a better way of ensuring interest in that series wanes altogether. Very few people indeed are now clamoring for a new Larry game.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I think there needs to be a clean break with the old before the old can really be made new again.
[url=http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/album.php?u=57439][i]King's Quest[/i] & [i]Space Quest[/i] galleries (Telltale Forums)[/url]&&&&[url=http://www.adventurecompanion.com]The Adventure Companion[/url]
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| 2 SEP 2009 at 3:38pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gonchi (24 APR 2009 10:50am)
As far as I'm concerned, Sierra died on February 22, 1999.
Indeed because of those major layoffs, all the good developers behind sierra disappeared and most of them never returned to game development
but the void has been filled in by other new game developers, so it could have been worse
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| 28 JAN 2010 at 10:41am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | They are going to bring them back from the dead:
Activision will make the old sierra games aviable through gog.com, starting with Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
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