Re: OT: Bad B5 Sim news.

Tom Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Mark A. Siefert wrote:
>
> > Donald Hosford wrote:
> >
> > > Oh man!  I was eagerly waiting for this!	Fooy!  Cowards!
> >
> >	  Well, Sierra's excuse is that the B5 game wouldn't have been
> > profitable.  They claimed that they sunk so much money into the
project
> > that they never would have gotten a return on the investment.
>
> highly illogical. if they cancel it, they make 0 profit. if it was 99%
> complete, they would maximise profit by finishing it and shipping it,
> unless the sales revenue would have been less than 1% of development
> costs, which strikes me as unlikely. i would guess that it was
actually
> far from finished. someone (mr Wikan?) mentioned problems with the
engine
> and the team building it, which sounds quite serious.

That ignores the horrendous costs of marketing the game. Most games I've
worked on have marketing budgets equal to or higher than the development
budgets.

Tony