Lost a bit of confidence in this game

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Commander Azriel

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Angorak said:
In business terms it's called "diversification". Any company that doesn't soon dies.
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Oh, you mean like Call of Duty, right?

If you have a smash hit that sells like hot cakes you don't worry about "diversification". That is for when you know your IP can't support your company.
 

Tarman

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Angorak said:
In business terms it's called "diversification". Any company that doesn't soon dies.

This thread should be called " The March of the Alarmists"
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I hope it gets theme music and a show. Something plodding and dreary, with sudden pings of panicked alarm sprinkled through. It could have a nice off-Broadway run.
 

Angorak

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Commander Azriel said:
Oh, you mean like Call of Duty, right?

If you have a smash hit that sells like hot cakes you don't worry about "diversification". That is for when you know your IP can't support your company.
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Laughable....CoD has numerous iterations based on one core product...so yes they have DIVERSIFIED.
FD cannot rely on one title to carry the company.

1.1 World War II games
1.1.1 Call of Duty
1.1.2 Call of Duty 2
1.1.3 Call of Duty 3
1.2 Modern Warfare story arc
1.2.1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
1.2.2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
1.2.3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
1.3 Black Ops story arc
1.3.1 Call of Duty: World at War
1.3.2 Call of Duty: Black Ops
1.3.3 Call of Duty: Black Ops II
1.4 Ghosts story arc
1.4.1 Call of Duty: Ghosts
1.5 Advanced Warfare story arc
1.5.1 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

4 Expansions
4.1 Call of Duty: United Offensive
5 Console and handheld titles
5.1 Call of Duty: Finest Hour
5.2 Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
5.3 Call of Duty: Roads to Victory
5.4 Call of Duty: World at War – Final Fronts
5.5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized
5.6 Call of Duty: Black Ops DS
5.7 Call of Duty: Zombies 1 and 2
5.8 Call of Duty: The War Collection
5.9 Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified
5.10 Call of Duty: Strike Team
 
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Valethar

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Meh... nothing new here at all. Standard post launch shuffle in progress.

Now if they had released a statement showing they'd been acquired by EA, that would be bad news. This isn't anything to get excited about.
 

Commander Azriel

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Angorak said:
Laughable....CoD has on one core product...so yes they have DIVERSIFIED.
FD cannot rely on one title to carry the company.
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They could rely on Tycoon games and do just fine. Because they sell well. Or they could do numerous iterations based Elite IF it sold well.

You call doing 20 near identical games 'diversifying', lol?
 
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Cmdr Andy B

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Commander Azriel said:
Oh, you mean like Call of Duty, right?

If you have a smash hit that sells like hot cakes you don't worry about "diversification". That is for when you know your IP can't support your company.
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considering COD has had more than a dozen developers work on it i think you chose the wrong example, its also worth looking at Activision games, the publisher of that title, they currently have 17 games listed as 'new releases'.
 

Angorak

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Commander Azriel said:
They could rely on Tycoon games and do just fine. Because they sell well. Or they could do numerous iterations based Elite IF it sold well.
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They could indeed..
It's just foolish to start screaming "OMG FD is in trouble" when they close a offshore office. Companies reorganize and reallocate resources all the time without being in trouble.
 

Angorak

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Commander Azriel said:
Yet you just said "FD cannot rely on one title to carry the company."
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Yes I did...in response to the doomsayers reaction to the article announcing the closure and addition of the Tycoon title. I think you misunderstood.
Bottom line is you do whatever is required insure the long-term health of the company....it certainly doesn't mean that FD is in dire straights financially.
 
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Goilveig

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Commander Azriel said:
Oh, you mean like Call of Duty, right?

If you have a smash hit that sells like hot cakes you don't worry about "diversification". That is for when you know your IP can't support your company.
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CoD didn't support that company at all - if anything, it destroyed Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward pushed out one title (Call of Duty), then it was bought up by Activision, the leadership was fired, and most of the rest of the company left. Activision hired new people for its new wholly-owned subsidiary and kept the IP going.

Activision, by the way, develops many IPs.
 

Ark_Esoteric

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It doesn't mean financial "trouble" at all. For all I know it's to counteract more government regulation down the road. (BEPS comes to mind, but not exactly) The closing means fd is in it for the long haul more than anything else.
 

GT3000

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Cmdr Andy B said:
the 'frontier are hiring' link at the bottom of every newsletter.
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Is not evidence of anything suggesting that Elite is going to get any love. It isn't the only game in the stable. Never to mention that it doesn't mean anything other than Frontier is hiring people.
 
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