21st June 2004, 6:28 PM
http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/21/technolo.../index.htm
Different company, but similar line... Vivendi. 350 people canned. This includes the May closings of Papyrus (NASCAR sims) and Impressions (Lords of the Realm, Caesar)... the new closings are in more casual games divisions -- the Hoyle line is gone now. Oh, and the last Sierra office still operating, in Belleview, Washington, is closing. With Papyrus, Impressions, and the last Sierra office gone I think we can truly say that Sierra is utterly gone. ("But what about that new Liesure Suit Larry game?", you ask... well, what about it? It's just using an old name on a new game... not even in the same genre as the old ones and I don't exactly think that this will spark some kind of rennaisance in "Sierra" (which now has about as much right to its name as "Atari", I think)...) I know that this all started five and a half years ago, but it's just as sad now as it is then. Especially when it involves the recent deaths of great developers like Papyrus (the best truly hardcore sim racing game developer there was) and Impressions (great strategy game developer...). :(
Different company, but similar line... Vivendi. 350 people canned. This includes the May closings of Papyrus (NASCAR sims) and Impressions (Lords of the Realm, Caesar)... the new closings are in more casual games divisions -- the Hoyle line is gone now. Oh, and the last Sierra office still operating, in Belleview, Washington, is closing. With Papyrus, Impressions, and the last Sierra office gone I think we can truly say that Sierra is utterly gone. ("But what about that new Liesure Suit Larry game?", you ask... well, what about it? It's just using an old name on a new game... not even in the same genre as the old ones and I don't exactly think that this will spark some kind of rennaisance in "Sierra" (which now has about as much right to its name as "Atari", I think)...) I know that this all started five and a half years ago, but it's just as sad now as it is then. Especially when it involves the recent deaths of great developers like Papyrus (the best truly hardcore sim racing game developer there was) and Impressions (great strategy game developer...). :(
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