Haba
Harbinger of Decline
Another blog post by Larian's Swen Vincke:
http://www.lar.net/2012/01/09/how-larian-ended-up-self-publishing/
Somewhat interesting read, though much of this was already known to me. According to statistics, RPGs are one of them most popular genre of gaming. Taking that to account, it is quite odd that publishers apply the same thinking to every genre.
Then again, it has always been like this:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Cool-Cam.aspx
Looking at Larian I always thought we were ok on the checkboxes – my team is solid, we’re in the business for 15 years with several games having a metacritic above 80% and we’re self-sufficient. Our games also have the habbit of selling for a long time.The only thing that could stop us from making it to the walhalla of the green-light committee therefore would be that committee members just don’t like our games (or me/my studio).
We actually did make it to several green-light committees of top 10 publishers, I even sat in on a few of them to present my games, but we never managed to sign with any of them, so obviously something went wrong. Other than occasionally having to deal with idiots, the biggest common hurdle I found has always been the marketing department. I’ve learnt that in general these people don’t like RPGs. They just don’t get it.
http://www.lar.net/2012/01/09/how-larian-ended-up-self-publishing/
Somewhat interesting read, though much of this was already known to me. According to statistics, RPGs are one of them most popular genre of gaming. Taking that to account, it is quite odd that publishers apply the same thinking to every genre.
Then again, it has always been like this:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Cool-Cam.aspx