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    By: ShadowRam This person is cool! x Show Full Post
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    Companies dont make games. People do.
    Sell Ubi, quit, start new company.

    Sell that, quit, start new company.

    rinse and repeat. Little guys win.

    Us consumers just need to know 'who' were actually buying games from.
    Need to pay attention to more of the actual game
    designers/programmer/artists then the actual company.

    Think its bout time we started looking at 'who' the director is of games like we do with movies, instead of who publishes/produces them.

    We know John Carmack makes good stuff, if he left ID, would ID games still be great?... if the real players of Ubi left and started their own company, do we really care if EA buys the name?...
    Dec 20, 2004 6:45am PST
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    Companies dont make games. People do. Sell Ubi, quit, start new company. Sell that, quit, start new c... : ShadowRamThis person is cool!

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    • Ubisoft is also a publisher. If the people left to form their own company then who would fund and publis... : TwiLyghtThis person is cool!
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      Given that Carmack makes engines, not games, I'd say id would still put out the same games it has before. : Terpfen
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        ^LAME POST ALERT. How many times do you need to hear that id makes most of it's money off of it's GAMES ... : SludgeheadThis person is cool!
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          ^POSSIBLE LAME POST. After rereading your post I suppose it's technically correct that Carmack makes eng... : SludgeheadThis person is cool!
          • Dude don't flame unnecessarily. All he said is Carmack is a programmer, not a game designer. : SpiderMonkeyThis person is cool!
        • AGREED, if it's supposed to be a low blow in reference to Doom 3 : cam3lt0sisThis person is cool!
    • Like many people before you, you totally overestimate the number of people with a clue who buy video game... : FlatlineDixay
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      In order for that to be possible, you would need OMG XBOX HUGE amounts of money. Starting a publisher ... : jason bergmanThis person is cool!
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        Just for the sake of argument, if direct online purchasing methods like Steam ever become a viable model... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
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          Would people stop this stupid argument? Stuff like Steam still costs money, development costs ALOT of ... : dmillerThis person is cool!
          • Steam is just software, it can be licensed out to other developers. As for development costs, well... ... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
    • you need MONIES to start a company : byorn
    • Most of the time that talent gets diluted into existing developers, the group rarely has the resources to... : SpaecKowThis person is cool!