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Vivendi Closes Last Sierra Offices

Started by KatieHal, June 21, 2004, 08:40:18 PM

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KatieHal

From Slashdot.org

from Money.cnn.com

from Vivendi Universal

The Sierra offices of Vivendi Universal are closed, all the employees there (about 350 I think it says) laid off.

Wow. Talk about the real ending of an era.... :-\

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Grundy

Let's see if any of the ex-sierra staff want to work on KQ9!?
Since they would have nothing to do now.   :D

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Yonkey

QuoteStill, VU Games lost $250 million in 2003, chiefly due to what president Phil O'Neil referred to as "low-quality products."

Yowza! $250 MIL in losses?  :S
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Of course that's more like $250 bucks to a major corporation like that.

racx_00

Awww LSL8 wont be released now :'(

Just like the new Sam and Max that was supposed to be released :'(
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KatieHal

If you read through the articles, I believe they are still intending to release LSL8, as they list LSL among the games specifically, I know. So, it might still come out. And they are still going to use the Sierra name, but the offices were Sierra was located are closed.

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etgadsby

Folks, what's the URL on this, I'd love more details?

In some sad way I think this is a good thing. Under VU Sierra wasn't really the kind of entertainment company that I wanted to buy games from, it was a shadow of itself... if that.

Perhaps it's best to call the dead "dead" and leave it at that... ok enough with being morbid.
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KatieHal

the URLs are in my first post, Eric :) As for more details the one's in there are the only ones I know of; there may be more news on this floating about the internet.

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etgadsby

Thanks, I just noticed that...see I'm falling asleep at the wheel :'(.

I'll read them over. Thanks!
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dew7

#11
Very sad --- I guess Sierra will no longer exist soon --- so much for the glory days of Sierra in the 1990's

:'(
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#13
Quote from: dew7 on September 11, 2004, 10:29:23 PM
Very sad --- I guess Sierra will no longer exist soon --- so much for the glory days of Sierra in the 1990's

:'(

Those days were over long ago, so there's nothing sad about it. Except for all those people loosing their jobs, I guess none of them were too happy :-\
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sierra started to suck after MOE thats what sarted it

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I'm guessing someone really doesn't like MOE as that's the second time in three posts he's referred to it...
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I hate it's supposed to be a KQ game...but on it's own, it could be a good game.
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#18
kq8 wasn't THAT bad, as long as you forgot everything you knew about king's quest when you played it everything would be just fine :P

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At least I was finally able to play it recently without it crashing. :P
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