The State of the Industry....

While I was reading a funny article over at PCGameWorld I began to realise that this really is what the game industry is shaping up to be if it isn't already. The article while focusing on VU Games and Irrational Games follow-up to the Tribes Series; Tribes:Venegence, hits home on a lot of nessecary points. For the most part it's wrong that a publisher such as VU Games would publish a product and then leave it to dry. I think the publisher, if it chooses to fund and publish a product, should stick behind that product through thick and thin. Whether it be in the form of patches (such as in this case), support, marketing and public relations, etc. With a publisher standing behind a product, what makes you think the consumers will. For instance knowing that bugs won't be fixed and there will be no more patches for Tribes:Venegence why should I run out and buy it, better yet why should I even be wasting my time mentioning it? Why? Because of the simple fact that it seems all products that are losing publishers money are being abonadoned. For instance Jeff Tunnel Co-Founder GarageGames, and former Dynamix founder, did some of the math for VU and Tribes Venegence. You guys can check it out here.

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