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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2013, 11:16:34 AM »
I'm afraid that this happens everywhere, not just in the games industry. With any commercial business, the main goal is to make money for the shareholders (and it's not good enough to simply make a profit, there must also be year on year growth). Often people at the top are lawyers/accountants and likely also risk averse to spending money on something that may be great but unproven (or in this case, not in line with the branding or direction they want the company to take). They also tend to look at visible obvious costs, but fail to consider lost opportunities or hidden costs.

And often they look for short term gains in order to make themselves look good for their end of year bonus, neglecting the long term good of the company, and even leaving a mess for someone else in the future to clean up, when they have long moved on. It basically comes down to greed and selfishness.

Modern corporate culture. They are now so obsessed with quarterly profits and cutting overhead to he point that they are perfectly willing to sell off the long range viability of the company. In other words, converting a company's future to year-end bonuses for the greedy "takers" at the top.

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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #31 on: October 03, 2013, 12:16:15 PM »
Can your loyal backers get yachts too?  ...No?  Cigarette boat then?

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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #32 on: October 03, 2013, 12:17:18 PM »
Yachts for everyone! Even for Collector and Goatmeal!


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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2013, 01:44:40 PM »
I heard something about yachts?
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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #34 on: October 03, 2013, 02:07:56 PM »
I heard something about yachts?

"No soup yacht for you!"

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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #35 on: October 03, 2013, 03:21:11 PM »
It may end up being one yacht with all of us on there.

By Yacht, I mean motorboat.

By motorboat, I mean paddleboat.

By paddleboat, I mean this.




and by this, I really mean this.



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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #36 on: October 03, 2013, 08:58:59 PM »
Merged the two threads, from general IQ and Banter into this one thread.
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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #37 on: October 04, 2013, 05:44:57 AM »
When you all have boats I hope you'll do better than this:
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Re: How LucasArts Fell Apart
« Reply #38 on: October 11, 2013, 04:44:33 AM »
I'll just drift follow around documenting the parties and accidents.