Interplay - rats leaving the sinking ship.

[Ratty Sr.]

I can understand love for the company, but it was obviously not the same company it was long before it touched Herve's hands. His touch only sealed Interplay's fate.

You underestimate human capacity for self-delusion. Go check Majorem forums for a fresh example.

 

[One-Eye]

Rosh, and well everyone else too, Phil wasn't delusional and he wasn't trying to just keep it alive. He was in a very difficult position he just couldn't walk out on. Can't go into details but he was trapped. BUT he was also trying to make something happen.

As to someone mentioned waiting for a miracle, but it was more like trying to make one happen unfortunately certain people ignored any counsel that could have bailed their asses out.

Phil is a good guy. I don't want to see him painted with the same brush as the Brothers Caen. There is a long line of people that want to string them up as a pinata with a Super-sledge to take swings with at it and they deserve it, trust me I am in that line.


One-eye

 

[Roshambo]

Rosh, and well everyone else too, Phil wasn't delusional and he wasn't trying to just keep it alive. He was in a very difficult position he just couldn't walk out on. Can't go into details but he was trapped. BUT he was also trying to make something happen.

Riiiight. Just like everyone else at BIS couldn't have walked out until Feargus, because of the Interplay stigma around employees. My vote would have been to leave after having found new job prospects that actually offered some longevity, but at such a time when it was becoming obvious things were going sour (years in the making so...yeah), but that's just common sense. Maybe I'm not too keen to bend over for a moronic Frenchman.

Not my cuppa, folks.

 

[Chromosome 25]

You're ignoring things like how much equity he had in a public company, his fiduciary responsibility as a company director, anti-compete covenants, or employment contracts. Phil wasn't in the same class as a Feargus (a senior manager whatever title he liked to give himself). You make it sound like he was a designer or something and could just give IPLY the heave-ho the second he rolled out of bed with a bad attitude.

Regardless, you are talking about someone you don't know and haven't met. It is easy to judge someone based on half-truths and innuendo. I am just saying you are wrong, based on first-hand knowledge.

 

[Roshambo]

You're ignoring things like how much equity he had in a public company, his fiduciary responsibility as a company director, anti-compete covenants, or employment contracts. Phil wasn't in the same class as a Feargus (a senior manager whatever title he liked to give himself).

You're right. All of those are reasons to keep working at said place and then act like it's such a travesty you're being put in such a position, and then remain there for any length of time rather than look towards Your Future™ versus Company Drone. Welcome to reality, you are allowed to think for yourself and you do not have to remain in such a position unless you're looking to better it.

Yes, what ever was I thinking? Yes, anal sex appears to be quite popular around Hollywood as of late. I never knew assrape by a Frenchman was anything anyone would enjoy, but you never can tell.

You make it sound like he was a designer or something and could just give IPLY the heave-ho the second he rolled out of bed with a bad attitude.

No, I mistook him for an adult who had some capability to control their own life, rather than play company drone, get repeatedly screwed, and then act like the repetitive screwing is such a crime. If they weren't going to do anything about it and repeatedly act like a gimp in a mask and ball gag, I can't be too sympathetic.

Of course, for some special people, life is indeed a box of chocolates.

Regardless, you are talking about someone you don't know and haven't met. It is easy to judge someone based on half-truths and innuendo. I am just saying you are wrong, based on first-hand knowledge.

I'm sure he throws a wonderful barbecue on the weekends. Give him my regards. No tongue.

 

[Chromosome 25]

Ignorance is its own reward. So glad you are all-seeing and all-knowing. Perhaps you'd like to comment on something else you know nothing about?

 

[Bradylama]

"What's that boss? Longer hours? Why of course! I'd love to work on the weekend every weekend until the undeterminable completion of the project! You're the boss!"

"Job searching? Why of course not, boss! I love the company! I wouldn't even THINK of looking for another job! You're the boss!"

"Anal sex? Why I'd love to, boss! You're the boss! You know, I was telling the wife the other day, 'I have a feeling I might need an enema for some reason."

 

[Roshambo]

Ignorance is its own reward.

I would hardly count years of being dicked over and in such a poor position to be counted as "reward", but hey, go ahead and call it whatever you like.

So glad you are all-seeing and all-knowing.

I know someone has to be an asshole and point out common sense discernable from common facts.

Perhaps you'd like to comment on something else you know nothing about?

How about business; though how I and others who don't have a business degree have easily spotted this from a long time off? Would you like to say that the issues around Interplay FOR YEARS haven't existed, or that we're making it up, too? Hell, you yourself have pointed out when things turn sour. If someone cements their future into something so risky when it looked chancy to begin with, and then stuck with it, that's not my problem. Nor do I think it worthy of sympathy as they were either stupid, or well, stupid. Public company, things started to go rocky, then the French took over. How long ago was that? How long do people need for a wake-up call? If there's one thing more sickening than the asskissing in the game industry, it's the denial and excuse game.

Nah, I'll just sit back and chuckle as people who were too complacent to control their own future bemoan their fate or have others bemoan for them. I don't give a flying fuck because the writing was on the wall YEARS AGO. If someone was that stupid to bind themselves into a company they had such little controlling position at any point, including their own option to resign or quit, then they were, no other way to put it, stupid. You know, the Cluepon might have been redeemable at the moment he found out that he had essentially little control as director or the company might not have such a bright future. I could give sympathy if that happened for a few months and yet it went on for how long? I'm not exactly cruel or expecting too much, here, but if the situation was so precarious and intolerable, it really didn't look like he was doing much to provide otherwise for himself.

Sticking it out until the end and cash in on the EA boo-hoo bandwagon, fuck 'im. Now the situation is final, and now there's the stigma that he's an ex-Interplay employee, AND with a title that suggests he had something to do with the operation of the company. To point out some more common sense, for a lot of US job prospects that means your resumé goes right into the shredder.

FUCKING BRILLIANT!

Or, you know, he could try to pretend he didn't have a job for those years and hope they don't know...