Re: OT: Bad B5 Sim news.

"Mark A. Siefert" wrote:

> Hello all:
>
>	  Well in case you haven't heard, you can forget about it. 
Sierra has
> just announce that they are splitting up their company into three
> subsidaries and they are going to be scrapping B5 along with a few
other
> projects.  The company said these games did not meet its "success
> criteria."  (WHAT?!?!?)  Sierra news structure will allow them come
out
> with a new bass fishing game and a championchip bull riding program.

I think what they mean by success criteria is that the game may actually
have
been good and satisfied its' customers the first time out, unlike
Cyberstorm II,
Starsiege, Earthsiege I& II, and so on, and so on.....

Mark

>
>
>	  First Crusade get's screwed by TNT, then Sleeping in Light
loses the
> Hugo to The Truman Show (errrrr... I thought that the Hugo was an
award
> for science ficton, not vehicles for bad comedians), and now this.  It
> has not been a good year for Babylon 5.
>
> --
> Later,
> Mark A. Siefert