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Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.

Same. A new Gabriel Knight would be fun!

Oh yeah! For some reason I was convinced that Gabriel Knight was LucasArts but nope, just misremembered.

Gabriel Knight was awesome, I'd love a new one.

Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because you were probably the right age to know the answers to the age control questions, and I was at an age where I could only download them from a BBS.

I actually didn't play the game until I was fifteen, in ~2006. I didn't know the answers, but I found out you can just hit ctrl-alt-x and skip the questions.

Take a look at how it was in 1995. InterAction (Sierra Online) magazine [PDF copy]. Article about the Larry 6 release on page 50.

https://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/IA_8_1/023_Inter...

Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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post #2

Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.

Assume Sierra owners are too young to know what Sierra games means. I was absolutely obsessed with their logo (1) at school time. 1. https://preview.redd.it/remember-sierra-games-1979-2008-they... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQi7olp-tw

The Psygnosis logo similarly has a special place in my memory

Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because you were probably the right age to know the answers to the age control questions, and I was at an age where I could only download them from a BBS.

I actually didn't play the game until I was fifteen, in ~2006. I didn't know the answers, but I found out you can just hit ctrl-alt-x and skip the questions.

I wish I had known that! Guessing and trying the answers worked too, given no internet and only having a faint idea that "age control" was not in fact part of the game itself. I learned that Bonnie and Ronnie was not in fact a thing. What is "Bonnie & Clyde"? Eh, probably some band name was my guess. It took some patience, but since it was one of 3 games I had somehow acquired (how exactly is a lost memory), I had to get past the starting quiz.

Since I also barely spoke English at the time, I got stuck in the game itself pretty soon anyway. Didn't manage to figure out how to say some things the right way. "Ken sent me" is the last thing I remember from it... and I never had any idea that the game was rather dirty until much later.

Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

#58
post #48

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Their secret is that they have hoards of fake AI Customers who will call into their client's AI Customer Support and respond to surveys saying they were extremely happy with the support, so the client has to pay for perfect simulated outcomes.

ai skeptic fanfic evolves in fascinating ways every day

just wait until you read the ai "optimist" fanfic

Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

#59
post #43

It's always interesting seeing how HN reacts to AI CX (as someone who works in this space). Yes, the tech savvy crowd loves to say how they always ask for a human and love old school phone trees in reality 50-80% of callers come in with easily answerable questions because they don't know how to nav the website and prefer to ask in natural language The vast majority of callers call in to resolve their issue, and most…

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Re: Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assume Sierra owners are too young to know what Sierra games means. I was absolutely obsessed with their logo (1) at school time. 1. https://preview.redd.it/remember-sierra-games-1979-2008-they... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQi7olp-tw

The Psygnosis logo similarly has a special place in my memory

It's simply the best looking game company logo for me.
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