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Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by ameen »

Out of all the titles listed on there. Split/Second suffered the worst fate. One of the best arcade racers when it released with an excellent MP (on PC at least).

If managed properly, it could've ended up as popular as CoD4 or CS. Every person I know who played it loved it. It could've been the one franchise that would've unseated NFS as the undisputed champion for arcade racers and put them on the map for a new multiplayer experience. Instead, it suffered the worst possible fate for a product of its quality.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by philh »

a_imho wrote: post #40
de_Selby wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was very confused by the good reviews too, it was literally the exact same story as A New Hope. I don't hold much hope for the next films.

Imo it is not very surprising, classical hype machine thing to the t. Even if we don't need to be told what to like, it is easier to play along and pretend we enjoyed it, even convince ourselves it was good, than admitting we were lead on and it is pretty bland. Of course, Occam is screaming every time a big budget IP blockbuster is coming, we just prefer not to pay attention. Without hindsight I might add. The next…

> it is easier to play along and pretend we enjoyed it, even convince ourselves it was good, than admitting we were lead on and it is pretty bland

Even easier than this is to actually enjoy things. I didn't like it myself, but I'm happy to believe that my friends did.

Why do you claim people are pretending to like TFA but not the prequels?

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by bluedino »

pinewurst wrote: post #4
Animats wrote: post #2

Acquiring and trashing companies is seriously annoying. Disney did this to about a half dozen game companies. Google is doing it to about a half dozen robotics companies. In both cases, the acquisitions were initially seen as positive. In both cases, the parent company had no clue what to do with what they bought. I have a friend who works at a company recently acquired by Microsoft, a company whose product was not M…

Disney: this isn't surprising. I don't think people realize how bureaucratically corporate Disney is, almost a parody at the level of "Brazil". They are a good employer though if one finds a happy place there with excellent benefits. QNX: a lovely embedded and even service OS. I used it for encryption and stream management in a game-cartridge-over cable-TV headend. They also included a bag of chocolate chip cookies i…

>> the agonizing (and multiply failed) Hotmail transition from Unix to Windows

Can you share more? I was fascinated by Hotmail and the documents Microsoft published about the transition made it seem like it went very well.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by madaxe_again »

Animats wrote: post #2

Acquiring and trashing companies is seriously annoying. Disney did this to about a half dozen game companies. Google is doing it to about a half dozen robotics companies. In both cases, the acquisitions were initially seen as positive. In both cases, the parent company had no clue what to do with what they bought. I have a friend who works at a company recently acquired by Microsoft, a company whose product was not M…

No buyer in an acquisition ever understands what they're buying. They believe they do, and usually the seller believes they do too.

It usually takes a year post deal for everything to come out of the woodwork. Sometimes it ends happily, sometimes not. It's down to serendipity.

Actually, generally, nobody has a clue what they're doing, ever, but they believe they do, and that's good enough, more often than not.

Acquisition deals happen almost by accident, and for reasons which are rarely rational.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by mhurron »

bitwize wrote: post #3

Disney should just let Square Enix handle their gamibg ventures. Somehow they could turn a 14-year-old girl's crossover fanfic into a phenomenal series and franchise in its own right (I of course am referring to Kingdom Hearts).

> Disney should just let Square Enix handle their gamibg ventures.

That's actually pretty funny, with SE also being a shadow of it's former self.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by tigershark »

gambiting wrote: post #33
de_Selby wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was very confused by the good reviews too, it was literally the exact same story as A New Hope. I don't hold much hope for the next films.

The film had the impossible task of pleasing both old and new viewers of the franchise. It succeeded immensely in that regard, old viewers could recognize the nods to the old trilogy, while new viewers were presented with a very well made film that (in my opinion) surpasses the original trilogy in literally every way. If I had to rate it I would definitely rate it higher than new hope.

No way that a film as mediocre as that can be comparable to the original trilogy. Saying that it is even better is a complete nonsense.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by gambiting »

tigershark wrote: post #46
gambiting wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The film had the impossible task of pleasing both old and new viewers of the franchise. It succeeded immensely in that regard, old viewers could recognize the nods to the old trilogy, while new viewers were presented with a very well made film that (in my opinion) surpasses the original trilogy in literally every way. If I had to rate it I would definitely rate it higher than new hope.

No way that a film as mediocre as that can be comparable to the original trilogy. Saying that it is even better is a complete nonsense.

I love the original trilogy. I really do, my nostalgia towards it is very strong. But if you take off the nostalgia-tinted glasses for a second, you will see that original trilogy(ROTJ especially) has very poor dialogue, the filming and pacing is passable. ESB is the best of the three, but Force Awakens is easily on par with that film, and definitely better than ewok-filled ROTJ.

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by pinewurst »

bluedino wrote: post #43
pinewurst wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney: this isn't surprising. I don't think people realize how bureaucratically corporate Disney is, almost a parody at the level of "Brazil". They are a good employer though if one finds a happy place there with excellent benefits. QNX: a lovely embedded and even service OS. I used it for encryption and stream management in a game-cartridge-over cable-TV headend. They also included a bag of chocolate chip cookies i…

>> the agonizing (and multiply failed) Hotmail transition from Unix to Windows Can you share more? I was fascinated by Hotmail and the documents Microsoft published about the transition made it seem like it went very well.

I'm afraid that I don't remember much after all this time but MS was of course lying through its collective teeth.

I didn't write this, but it matches what I saw close up: http://jimbojones.livejournal.com/23143.html

Re: Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong

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Post by pinewurst »

derefr wrote: post #22
pinewurst wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney: this isn't surprising. I don't think people realize how bureaucratically corporate Disney is, almost a parody at the level of "Brazil". They are a good employer though if one finds a happy place there with excellent benefits. QNX: a lovely embedded and even service OS. I used it for encryption and stream management in a game-cartridge-over cable-TV headend. They also included a bag of chocolate chip cookies i…

> game-cartridge-over cable-TV headend PlayCable or Sega Channel? :)

It was a dead branch in the evolution of Sega Channel relating to XBAND. I felt like I had to enter the Witness Protection Program soon after. :)
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