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July 1, 2000 Link to this post
Game Guru: Reflections on Bungie and Microsoft
Nate Birkholz airs his views on the situation between Bungie and Microsoft in a MacCentral article called Game Guru: Reflections on Bungie and Microsoft. Here's a great quote:
Large publishers are, by nature, somewhat conservative, and they prefer to maintain a healthy measure of control. Most developers hear at first that things aren't going to change, but then the corporate babysitters, excuse me, "representatives" show up, and things start a slow slide. Other developers have successfully resisted the tides of change in similar situations, but it is exceedingly difficult. As a friend of mine at another company said months after his company were acquired by a large publisher, "My wife said she liked me just the way I was at first, and that she wouldn't try to change me; next thing I know I don't have season tickets to the hockey games anymore, but I do go to the symphony a lot, and my Camaro became a minivan."
The article is well balanced though with some serious comments about Microsoft's role, "killer apps", the loss of good friends. (Ding 09:44:16 UTC)
