More on the Strategy First rumors
More on the Strategy First rumors
Company News - posted by Ausir on Tue 22 June 2004, 19:15:11
Tags: Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire; Richard Therrien; Strategy FirstHere's a more elaborate response to the <a target=_blank href=http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4609>rumors[/url] by SFI's Richard Therrien from <a target=_blank href=http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000143;p=1#000026>this thread[/url] in the Bear's Pit Forums:
In related news, Serge Popov, the maker of the unfinished and buggy Jagged Alliance 2 mod called <a target=_blank href=http://www.ideal-games.com/>Wildfire[/url], has closed the <a target=_blank href=http://www.ideal-games.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=49>Wildfire forums[/url] because he's not being paid by SFI:
I don't know who that fellow (he or she) may be. It just happen that we had no 'female' employee that was let go in quite a while, especially not one that went to Vancouver.
The only truth to this is that indeed, we had to scale somewhat down due to a number of reasons:
Firstly, we have lost a number of employees to Ubi Soft who have been raiding us and to EA who recently opened a development studio in Montreal.
Secondly, we have been moving away from fully using third party distributors to move our products around so that we will be going direct with a number of accounts (read retail stores) in the future.
The second reason has us experiencing a short-term cash crunch which is resolving itself now but that had an impact on what was left of the teams after number one above had happened.
Since we wanted to move along with both JA and Disciples, we found a studio that had the talent to get the projects started in cooperation with me and the SFI production team. For me, it was out of the question to wait 'till we had two or three fully experienced teams on board to get started, the delay since the last games had been long enough as it was.
In related news, Serge Popov, the maker of the unfinished and buggy Jagged Alliance 2 mod called <a target=_blank href=http://www.ideal-games.com/>Wildfire[/url], has closed the <a target=_blank href=http://www.ideal-games.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=49>Wildfire forums[/url] because he's not being paid by SFI:
- Dear users! I don't understand why you all write it here. SFI does not wish neither to pay (no one cent!), nor to communicate with us!!! In such a case it is silly to continue support. I don't know, how long it will last. All I can offer to you is to address all your questions related to support to SFI.
