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Apparently many truckloads of money were lost when they tried to get into video games with Nokia's nGage, which fell miserably flat.

Here's Kevin Siembada's appeal for people to buy $50 prints and become a Friend Of Palladium, and here's the Slashdot thread.

I'm not a huge fan of Palladium's games, they're just D&D warmed over, and I've heard that Kevin can be a major PITA if someone publishes a review of one of his products that is in the least bit negative. I did like the massive background systems that he had in place and I wrote more than one program to generate said backgrounds just because I thought they were cool.

I doubt people realize how frail game companies are, even the biggies like SPI and Avalon Hill eventually died. I imagine Wiz Kids and WotC have enough size, momentum, and professional business management behind them to survive for a long time, but that's speculation on my part and ya never know.

Date: 2006-04-21 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magic-rat.livejournal.com
Siembieda's rep within the business was more than enough for me to avoid his games completely. Being a PITA is one thing; threatening a lawsuit for copyright infringement is something else altogether.

And that's all I have to say about that.

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