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| 25 JUN 2004 at 2:58pm |
plswdthSpace Cadet
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Joined: 21 JUL 2003
Status : Online | Maybe this is good news in the scheme of things? This might mean someone could snatch back up the Sierra properties that Vivendi was sitting on for cheap.....
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 3:30pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(Nothing gold can stay..........................
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 3:35pm |
RecklessJourneyman
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Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Has been reported all over since the original annoucement. It's really nothing to be sad about. The Sierra that most of 'us' refer to has been long gone for years - not long after the time Ken sold up I'd imagine. The designers/developers from that era are probably long gone with pastures new (some better and some not so I expect).
The brand of Sierra is still being retained which is normal/typical/annoying but that's life. Like the re-emergence of Atari a couple of years back. It means nothing other than an old name...
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 4:56pm |
| Deleted User | I can't say I'm surprised. Sierra really isn't a hot property anymore, and it hasn't produced a game that interests me in years. So, I'm vaguely bothered by the announcement but not much else.
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 5:47pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | What good did Sierra do to you in the last years, anyway?
I can't say I'm much bothered about this.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 6:05pm |
| Deleted User | Ok, ok I got it! You don't care!... :
I'm not too horrified, but after all that is the end of over 20 years (longer than I live!) games making. It is still sad. :'(
But, regardig to what plswdth has said, I truly wonder how this affects copyright/right issues.
Maybe the news about Sierra's downfall got something to do with Dimi's surprise?
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 6:11pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | A good guess Ana. I wondered why dimi knows about it and thought it might be something about himself and his zine.
But then again, he knows about the latest trend in adventures and maybe we have something big coming our way...
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 6:33pm |
Armand1880Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 223
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | So, does Vivendi own all of the licences that Sierra had? Such as...Gabe?
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 7:29pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
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Status : Online | As everyone already said, Sierra was already dead a long time ago...GK3 was released in 1999!
If Vivendi now owns the Sierra characters, does that mean we're gonna see a Gabriel Knight action/adventure?:
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 8:50pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Ana (25 JUN 2004 6:05pm)
Maybe the news about Sierra's downfall got something to do with Dimi's surprise?
Doh! and I thought I was on to something on the dimi surprise thread! :-/
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| 25 JUN 2004 at 10:17pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By DJ Souza (25 JUN 2004 7:28pm)
As everyone already said, Sierra was already dead a long time ago...GK3 was released in 1999!
If Vivendi now owns the Sierra characters, does that mean we're gonna see a Gabriel Knight action/adventure?:
Ack! Don't even joke about that!
Sierra's gone? This barely merits a shoulder shrug. Like LucasArts, Sierra has been dead to me for a long time. But if this changes the status of the Gabriel Knight copyrights in anyway, great!
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| 26 JUN 2004 at 5:29am |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I think games are like many other things. When a name become famous like Sierra was you can't make a game that's radicly different and use that name. People are expecting a game with that name to be simular with just a few improvments and differnt stories and it will still have to retain that original style of game play.
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| 26 JUN 2004 at 11:39pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | What does all this mean will happen to LSL: MAGNA CUM LAUDE? I assume it's still on as I havn't heard anything about it.
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| 27 JUN 2004 at 12:14am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By jalex (26 JUN 2004 11:39pm)
What does all this mean will happen to LSL: MAGNA CUM LAUDE? I assume it's still on as I havn't heard anything about it.
Right, what is going on with it?
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| 27 JUN 2004 at 12:20am |
RecklessJourneyman
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Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Unlike Sam & Max II, I wouldn't care one bit if the game was canned :-X
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| 27 JUN 2004 at 8:59am |
KazmijIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 52
Joined: 4 MAY 2004
Status : Online | LSL has already had hype and promotion and it's not going to be canned at this stage, not that I know for sure, mind you.
Sierra is no more, of course. Yet the mountains remain. Lately it seems that the hat has been passed to the Carpathians.
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| 27 JUN 2004 at 5:15pm |
gatorlawSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 377
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Well it is sad to see the doors actualy closed, but to me Sierra hasn;t been alive for a long while.
Still there are so many who got their start at Sierra and then Sierra Online. So, I am sure this is a bittersweet nostalgic moment for many.
Well I will join in on the toast to what was and add a another for what will be.
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| 27 JUN 2004 at 7:27pm |
| Deleted User | Ok people, opinion understood -
Sierra hasn't been Sierra for a long time! No need to repeat it all the time!
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