Steve Allison is the guy gamers who like good games should be afraid of. He is the money man, and he has some scary thoughts about making games.
"A great game is one that is a financial success, period," he says. That's his metric, and he's sticking to it. This is the call of the money man. He wants to make money. If he can do it with a good game, great. If not, he doesn't care about shipping bad product as long as sells.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
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Steve Allision is right. For big budget games costing $25 million to make your not going to try something radically different if you do then you most likely will be flushing money down the drain. That's just being smart as a business and dispite the fact that gamers look at games from a purist perspective of that money should not matter, its about creating something new and unique, its just not reality on that scale.
The author suggest that we should look to the Wii, PC and DS for innovation since they can produce smaller budget games then one can on the 360 or the PS3. I guess he forgot about Flow for the PS3? Sony is allowing much smaller teams and even individuals to come up with new and innovative games that cost little to make and the cool thing is that when one is made and it does become a hit it can then be adopted into bigger production games because its been proven to be a hit with gamers. So while nex gen gaming has become more expensive to create big title games its also allowing for innovation in creating smaller unique downloadable games over the PSN.
Sorry that I did not say anything about the 360, I believe they have something similar with XNA but I am not as familar with it to talk about it but I believe its similar as well to what Sony is doing. In any event I think this nex gen of gaming platforms are also providing powerful gaming platforms to grass root teams to create and innovate the industy so I am not really worried.
Okami, Viewtiful Joe and God Hand come to mind. Those were great games, but it seems that casuals sometimes want recycled bullshit like madden and movie franchises.
Steven Allison is a moron if he thinks good means breaking even. You know, pop stars make more money than classical orchestras. I'm sure you consider pop music better than classical or jazz music because it sells more, or am I wrong you piece of shiit?.