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Posted January 27, 2010
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captfitz: be nice people!

Sorry, I don't change who I am for anyone, not even you...
I still say with 2 bets you need to eat 2 socks, the only way you can get out of it now is to win the smaller bet and lose the larger
Posted January 27, 2010
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captfitz: be nice people!
it will be a maximum of one sock. but i don't think i can possibly avoid it now. especially since my final guess now includes one of the previous conditions in which i would have to eat a sock.
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Navagon: Is there such a thing as edible footwear? Only now would be the time to find out. :D

Sure there is.
http://www.design2d.co.uk/daily_object/october_2006/8.htm
Posted January 27, 2010
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SHAZYZANG: I think it's The Neverhood. No basis, I just want to see it.

I agree with you! Is it owned by EA?
Post edited January 27, 2010 by xaemar
Posted January 27, 2010
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SHAZYZANG: I think it's The Neverhood. No basis, I just want to see it.
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xaemar: I agree with you! Is it owned by EA?

I guess so, since Dreamworks Interactive (the original publisher) became EA Los Angeles or something.
Posted January 27, 2010
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Miaghstir: Sure there is.
http://www.design2d.co.uk/daily_object/october_2006/8.htm

Haha! Looks like this might not be so harsh for captfitz after all.
Posted January 27, 2010
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Delixe: I still can't see Activision signing on. It just goes against everything that Kotick has worked towards for the past 10 years. If Activision has signed on then Bobby probably doesn't know about it yet.

I don't know who this Kotick is (I assume he's the AB CEO) but if he's as money hungry as you paint him, I don't see why he wouldn't join. Sierra's old game catalog is pretty much collecting dust and out come these guys saying there's a market for those old games and they can make them run on modern systems and generate revenue again, without much effort from Activision's part except striking a licensing deal.
Sounds like good business to me.
Posted January 27, 2010
Well, based on the hints I think multiple games are definitely going to be announced and I think one may just be Ultima Collection (I hope) which will probably mean EA is coming on board to gog as unlikely as I thought that would be. If that's the case then I think Black & White could be one as well. As for the other games, i'm stumped, but I do think there will be a game for each hint. I hope a Wizardry collection is one of them, but I don't see that happening atm. So.......... My final answer is: Ultima Collection, Black & White, ????, ????, ????
Sorry if i'm typing crappy, i'm a bit tired. lol.
Posted January 27, 2010
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Delixe: I still can't see Activision signing on. It just goes against everything that Kotick has worked towards for the past 10 years. If Activision has signed on then Bobby probably doesn't know about it yet.
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El_Caz: I don't know who this Kotick is (I assume he's the AB CEO) but if he's as money hungry as you paint him, I don't see why he wouldn't join. Sierra's old game catalog is pretty much collecting dust and out come these guys saying there's a market for those old games and they can make them run on modern systems and generate revenue again, without much effort from Activision's part except striking a licensing deal.
Sounds like good business to me.

You can read about him on Wikipedia, among other places.
A quote from the same page:
During a speech at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference, Kotick received significant criticism for stating, "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."
Posted January 27, 2010
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Miaghstir: You can read about him on Wikipedia, among other places.
A quote from the same page:
During a speech at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference, Kotick received significant criticism for stating, "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."

Wasn't that speech to a very specific audience? I don't quite see the correlation between that and the inability for them to join up with GOG.
Seems more that he was painting the image of himself as a harsh boss, one that would be very efficient and increase profit margins by any means necessary (as he is expected to do...).
Posted January 27, 2010
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PixyMisa: I've worked it out! The whole thing is an acrostic. If you take the letters designated by the decimal expansion of e from the words designated by the decimal expansion of pi from all the recent GOG announcements, it spells out, hmm, let's see... Tass Times in Tonetown. Is that a real game?

Can you please say how you do that expansion?
Posted January 27, 2010
I'll throw my vote in for activision/blizzard the evidence stacks up pretty well for them. As much as I'd like to believe the EA joining them 2 big publisher theory, the pesimist in me just doesn't see that happening. Saying that I'm still suprised activision/blizzard would join gog if it does indeed turn out to be true.
Posted January 27, 2010
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Wolfox: I guess so, since Dreamworks Interactive (the original publisher) became EA Los Angeles or something.
Darn, I just checked and it is. I doubt we'll ever get EA, but I hope I'm proved wrong.
Posted January 27, 2010
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TheCheese33: I'm not convinced it's EA AND Activision. They're pretty much mortal enemies right now. Their back-and-forth in the music genre is VICIOUS. I'd imagine Activision would see EA popping up on GOG and going "We'll start our OWN service! And we'll charge $499!"

I had to correct that. :-)
Posted January 27, 2010
Guys, as a small break from the announcement super multi layer guessing session;-) let me self advertise:-) the small post I wrote in different topic:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/good_game_pricing_a_lost_art/_/last
Please excuse me this self advertising, but I hope that that this could be quite interesting how we see some things in more general scope. I promise not to advertise myself too often any more;-) (just on very special occasions;)
...aaahhh.. I forget, there is also brand new new video interview:-)))))
http://biznes.onet.pl/wideo/klip.html#6066987,c=11 but for that you need to find Polish volunteers to translate main points (there quite a few of them is on gog). Actually this might not be so interesting for you as it is more business oriented and most what I said there about GOG you already know (without 1 point as far as I remember;) actually in some areas you know far more than anybody else;)
Post edited January 27, 2010 by Mikee
Posted January 27, 2010
EA catalogue > ActiBliz catalogue
However, my final guess is ActiBliz (particularly Sierra catalogue) coming to GOG.
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