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You need to have followed the whole story a bit more to understand. Aemon Send a noteboard - 05/06/2012 09:14:48 PM
Schilling's "bad business decisions" basically boil down to being excessively optimistic. He (a guy with no knowledge of the game development process) started a studio and set them working on two massively ambitious titles. Then he bought another company. Then he accepted a $75 million loan from Rhode Island, and moved his company there. Then his game came out and sold around 1.5 million copies. Great, right? Sure, except that the estimates I've seen said he needed to sell approximately twice that to break even. So at that point his company had burned through his money, burned through Rhode Island's money, and didn't have the funds to make it to game #2's release. He had no backup plan and no source of additional capital, so the entire staff of two game studios lost their jobs, Rhode Island got shafted their $75 million, and Schilling himself was, more or less, financially ruined. Or at least hit very hard.

So...yeah. He basically set himself up for failure from the start. In order to succeed, his brand new studio had to hit sales numbers that few companies ever see on their very first title, and had no financial capability to weather average (let alone poor) sales. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's more to the story that I don't know, but it certainly looks like he screwed over a lot of people because of unrealistic expectations and poor planning.

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Why does Blizzard insist on making me sign onto their servers ... seriously. ? ! - 30/05/2012 12:22:14 AM 1215 Views
I feel your pain bro. - 30/05/2012 03:26:04 AM 1125 Views
This is why I stopped playing Blizzard Games. - 30/05/2012 06:13:34 AM 1072 Views
Yeah, it made me want to go play D2 instead. *NM* - 30/05/2012 01:52:44 PM 574 Views
too fucking true. which is why I went to play Reckoning (fuck you, Blizzard) - 30/05/2012 01:58:56 PM 1317 Views
You know that entire studio shut down last week, right? No more Curt Schilling for you. *NM* - 30/05/2012 04:47:40 PM 545 Views
*sob* - 30/05/2012 07:03:42 PM 1292 Views
He shoulda cut himself on the ankle and worn white socks again ... - 05/06/2012 08:33:46 AM 1019 Views
why was it a poor business choice? The game sold well - 05/06/2012 07:58:13 PM 1392 Views
You need to have followed the whole story a bit more to understand. - 05/06/2012 09:14:48 PM 980 Views
mk fair enough then *NM* - 06/06/2012 01:32:15 AM 780 Views
And what a clusterfuck that was *NM* - 30/05/2012 07:35:04 PM 540 Views
It's made me furious too - 30/05/2012 02:44:58 PM 1383 Views
criminals? what laws, exactly, have been broken? - 30/05/2012 03:51:39 PM 1368 Views
Criminals against HUMANITY *NM* - 30/05/2012 05:37:44 PM 538 Views
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You know the prototypical hot coffee case was warranted, right? The plaintiff won. - 06/06/2012 10:52:52 AM 912 Views
I think it's just the first thing that pops to mind - 07/06/2012 04:56:51 PM 1520 Views
Be careful -- the fanboys might hear you... - 30/05/2012 04:56:15 PM 1171 Views
Er, are there many of those? - 30/05/2012 06:31:50 PM 974 Views
Re: Er, are there many of those? - 30/05/2012 07:34:05 PM 1234 Views
Only positive is no apparent item duping...yet *NM* - 30/05/2012 07:36:14 PM 528 Views
The funny thing is... - 30/05/2012 07:48:49 PM 1098 Views
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The biggest issues I see right now are bandwith caps & speed. - 30/05/2012 09:44:10 PM 1069 Views
Oh sure, I agree. We're definitely not there yet. - 31/05/2012 01:17:58 AM 1087 Views
Re: Oh sure, I agree. We're definitely not there yet. - 31/05/2012 02:02:55 PM 989 Views
Only $55/mo for Comcast? Consider yourself lucky. :p - 31/05/2012 04:01:44 PM 1012 Views
Sorry for your troubles, but you're something of an outlier. - 31/05/2012 07:31:53 PM 1073 Views
Hmm ... that's scary ... - 05/06/2012 09:21:42 AM 1088 Views
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Er, I agree. - 07/06/2012 03:49:29 AM 979 Views

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