Not that I play any SOE games any more, but this is still a bit of a shock. There was one line in the article that made me oddly doubly glad I gave up on SOE:
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The major expenses in the gaming industry is on content and marketing, and Zapak aims to reduce the cost of publishing a game by buying out those studios and relocating them to India. This will reduce the cost drastically from $30 mn to $10mn, which will give us the advantage to channelise our funds towards marketing and other activities, the official said.[/qb]
Dear heaven...
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KaLourin painfully thought these words up:
wonder if this is the same indian company that bought, what was it.. something like a 1% stake in SOE?
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x--Noxhil2O-('-'Q) :
I hope no one figures out how much cheaper it would be to develop games in India.
Increased efficiency means nothing if product quality falls to a point where it's no longer tolerated by the market.
For SOE though I guess there's really nowhere to go but up. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 12-23-2007 at 12:24 PM.
