Harebrained Schemes General Discussion Thread

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I still remember that big cigar and the taunts, Mitch, Kevin and Jordan. I hope you guys lost everything, jackasses.

Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman co-founded Harebrained Schemes, would have been paid millions when Paradox acquired the company, and seem to have departed from the company afterward.

 

[Cael]

I still remember that big cigar and the taunts, Mitch, Kevin and Jordan. I hope you guys lost everything, jackasses.

Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman co-founded Harebrained Schemes, would have been paid millions when Paradox acquired the company, and seem to have departed from the company afterward.

Karma will dictate they get runned over by a train, which will then be hit by a crashing 747.

 

[Roguey]

Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman co-founded Harebrained Schemes, would have been paid millions when Paradox acquired the company, and seem to have departed from the company afterward.

Weisman noped out but Gitelman's still there.

A lot of folks are asking about the ownership of BATTLETECH_Game and the Shadowrun trilogy. As the press release said, PDX owns those along with the code that made them. Microsoft owns the rights to BT & SR digital games.

They truly have nothing but their name and a skeleton crew. Seems like it'll take a minor miracle for them to get someone to pay them to make games now.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

They truly have nothing but their name and a skeleton crew. Seems like it'll take a minor miracle for them to get someone to pay them to make games now.

This is just being fired in all but names

The current CEO must be paid by some fat bucks if he takes this "deal", this pretty much condemens whoever left in the companies to not get anything when the company goes bankrupt

 

[almondblight]

I always got the feeling that Dragonfall was a sleeper hit, which is why it became a standalone title, and why we got a second Shadowrun Kickstarter. I imagine if SRR or SR:HK had the quality of Dragonfall, the series could have had quite a bit more mileage (Gitelman even mentioned another module after HK in one of the HK Kickstarter updates).

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I never liked them. Especially after what they did to Battletech. Not only because it was far beyond the woke standards of its time, but mainly because of how clunky the games were. The mechanical base they purchased with the brand was implemented very clumsily (the same was true in Shadowruns), and even the structure of the base, adapted from X-Com, worked so-so. The sympathy for their games on RPG Codex remains a mystery to me.

Edit: Grauken, why are you gae? Shoud call you mista?

 

[Vox Machina]

The irony here is that Microsoft will probable end up acquiring both Hairbrained Schemes AND Paradox, so it will all be moot in the end.