Sierra shut down

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:31 am

http://www.gigex.com/general/article/?i ... urce=00001

Sierra Gets Shutdown
by Mike Meikle

The lights go out at old-school game company, Sierra, as Vivendi restructures its business.

More depressing news for the industry, Vivendi Universal Games has cut 350 staff and shut down Seattle-based Sierra. The venerable games company created some of the most popular action and adventure games in the 80's. The Sierra brand will live on in name only and projects tied to the Sierra pipeline, Half-Life 2, Ground Control II and Tribes: Vengeance are already being developed by other teams within Vivendi. Also affected by the restructuring, the Hoyle brand of card and board games have been canceled.

"Restructuring the organization and reducing our cost base are necessary to improve our operating effectiveness and profitability," said VU Games CEO Bruce Hack, in as terse a manner as possible. "This constitutes another important step in our turnaround plan aimed to better position the company for growth."

Along with VU Games restructuring, the game company is prepping up for profitability with a powerful lineup for the second half of 2004. VU Games is looking for some higher revenues with titles like World of Warcraft, Spyro: A Hero's Tail and the well-received The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

The Quest games were my favorite series back in the day, and were responsible for me taking an interest up in gaming. Unfortunate to see the end of an era.

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:44 pm

wtf Hoyle? Fuck am I supposed to play poker with now, Bicycle? Cocksuckers anyways.

Tuggan · Post by **Tuggan** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:52 pm

that was me playing oregon trail at the local library in first grade

Drunnken · Post by **Drunnken** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:11 pm

Sierra and Hoyle?

The terrorists win

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:25 pm

yeah no shit

/salute sierra and hoyle

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:21 am

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:38 pm

this made me sad

nice czech in your title, adivina 8)

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:24 pm

thx The realy question is... do you know what it means?

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:09 pm

AdivinaDarkfyre wrote:thx The realy question is... do you know what it means?

do you know what the realy question is?

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:46 pm

I met Roberta Williams back in the Dos 5 days. I was a happy little boy.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:25 am

OMG FINAWIN A TYPO OMG OMG KILL ME. I saw the extra letter when I made the post but was wondering who was gonna be sad enough to bust my ass over it so I left it. It is funny that a RL friend needs to look cool so bad that he jumps all over the opportunity and tries to make his friend look like an ass. I'll remember that

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:30 am

It means "I'm lost"... and your rant wasn't nearly as funny as Finawin's "question".

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:15 am

It will be if drama ensues!

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:21 pm

It wasn't intended to be funny, and of all things I don't give a shit what you think of it.

I'm glad someone actually knows what it means though.... is that because you looked it up? Or you actually know the language? Just curious.

Post by **DangerPaul** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:32 pm

I love Ugzug, but I am betting he looked it up.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:30 pm

Technically it only means lost, not I'm lost... but it was close enough to thrill me

Post by **Martrae** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:51 pm

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

The first few Quest games updated.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:01 pm

I meant it as a joke, but as usual she pounced down my throat aiming for my heart over it

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:12 pm

Martrae: Thanks, I'm giving KQ2 a download as I type this. Can't wait to see how it plays.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:05 pm

Sorry Fin was I'm feeling sensative lately. Perhaps you should have added a smiley....

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:03 pm

of course he translated it up. just like he tried to translate a sentence into russian in one of these threads and it was horribly wrong

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:04 pm

and beware of the KQ2 VGA remake. it has a bunch of new shit because the guy that rewrote it wanted to have more character development. it's not a carbon copy! but it's also wicked fun 8)