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November 3, 2009 by RawmeatCowboy
Filed Under: Nintendo in general
THQ is facing a tricky pre-Christmas period on the stock markets as the company's share price dropped by a further 6.5 per cent in trading yesterday, bringing the total to almost 12 per cent since last week's WWE/Jakks Pacific announcement and over 26 per cent since September 23.
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Can't say I find it shocking. THQ has always been a "meh" developer and publisher since the PS1/N64 days. They really haven't changed. I feel sorry for some actual studios with talent that use them as a publisher or have been absorbed by them.
@Hongo:
Agreed. The devs always end up with the short end of the stick.. and that's the saddest part of the story. No matter how much hardship I wish on the upper management, in the end, they're probably not going to suffer much, while the studios who work tirelessly in vain for the success that isn't going to come will end up shuttering.
This is yet another reason I'm looking to get out of IT. Development is the white-collar equivalent of being a factory worker, lest you manage to be lucky enough to create/spearhead some massively successful project... and even then, those projects will too often be shut down or not allowed to come to fruition by the executives. A vicious cycle, it is.
Agreed. The devs always end up with the short end of the stick.. and that's the saddest part of the story. No matter how much hardship I wish on the upper management, in the end, they're probably not going to suffer much, while the studios who work tirelessly in vain for the success that isn't going to come will end up shuttering.
This is yet another reason I'm looking to get out of IT. Development is the white-collar equivalent of being a factory worker, lest you manage to be lucky enough to create/spearhead some massively successful project... and even then, those projects will too often be shut down or not allowed to come to fruition by the executives. A vicious cycle, it is.
@Wiggymaster
Yeah. When I was a kid, it was my dream to work for the big dogs in the game industry (especially Nintendo). Now, I can see how independent developing and publishing is seeing a big surge in the market. The bigger the dog, the more hell it is to work for them probably.
I have some good ideas (good to me anyway) in various notepads in my desk at home, but sadly I don't think they will ever see life.
Yeah. When I was a kid, it was my dream to work for the big dogs in the game industry (especially Nintendo). Now, I can see how independent developing and publishing is seeing a big surge in the market. The bigger the dog, the more hell it is to work for them probably.
I have some good ideas (good to me anyway) in various notepads in my desk at home, but sadly I don't think they will ever see life.
Analysts may call this a delayed reaction to a tough recession. I call it karma.
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Any talent they might have had has long been laid off, only to have their execs make snarky comments about how they're "better" now... LOL.