i started something like this on the atlantica forums ( back in beta when the GM's would actualy respond to e-mails ) and it was kinda fun.

( well for me at least )

the basic idea is for people to submit ( relevant ) questions to the enviable individuals who work behind the curtain of the video game industry. those submissions would then be compiled into a formal letter and sent to where ever it needs to be sent in order to be answered.

something like a fan run interview.

but gamesas has too many titles, history and what not. so I'm not gonna even attempt to compile a full letter ...

lets just run this thread till it dies.


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my current question:

so why did gamesas go bankrupt? i personally wasn't following gamesas when it happened, as i didn't even have a PC at the time, so i probably missed something. but for me it seemed like gamesas was doing fine then a piano dropped on it .... not asking for detailed figures or finger pointing, just what the employees ( probably should be plural as its usually only Chris that's posts here ) opinions are on what went wrong and where. hay, "OC" ..... i got something for ya right here! _|_ (^.^) _|_


"MMO-RPG" = "Mass Market Oriented - Repetitive Profit Genera"
- damned things still svcked me in ...

"so why did gamesas go bankrupt?"

Providence. Whatever goes around, comes around. Internally, gamesas became a highly unethical company on the inside, so it imploded from within and went bankrupt.

Correction: gamesas has never gone bankrupt, and their stock has continued to trade throughout the time that their company was restructuring. The value and size of the company has decreased significantly, but they have never been bankrupt.

tis true, the company never went bankrupt.

Filing for protection from creditors = same as being bankrupt. Some companies do restructure after "bankruptcy" to re-emerge from the ashes, so to speak. Nevertheless, you can't deny some of the nasty things gamesas 1.0 did to its employees. I just hope that gamesas 2.0 will have learnt to have more character and integrity than its predecessor.

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gamesas never filed for protection from creditors or anything even closely resembling bankruptcy. gamesas was unable to pay all of its obligations for awhile and creditors tried unsucessfully to force gamesas into involuntary bankruptcy. gamesas was able to pay off the majority of its creditors and gamesas avoided bankruptcy by securing a deal with Bethesda for around 5.75 million dollars in which Bethesda gained all rights to Fallout except for the mmorpg, which gamesas gained the rights to under certain limited circumstances. Bethesda was, for a time, claiming that gamesas did not fulfill its end of the bargain on Fallout MMORPG, and gamesas disputed that. This all happened in April, and since then, all has been quiet. So, Bethesda did not sue gamesas, which suggests to me that a deal was struck between the 2 companies in regards to gamesas continuing to develop Fallout MMORPG.