RE: Bad B5 Sim news.

I actually interviewed the B5 Sim's former Programmer lead, and I think
they
had some severe internal engine problems (i.e. bad coders) and too
ambitious
a design.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Siefert [SMTP:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 8:31 PM
> To:	Ground Zero Games Mailing List
> Subject:	OT:  Bad B5 Sim news.
> 
> Hello all:
> 
>	Everyone remember that Sierra was going to a Babylon 5 space
combat
> simulator with realistic physics models for movenment and fantastic
> graphics of nearly every ship in the B5 pantheon?  
> 
>	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.
>	
>	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