25-06-2004 23:48									#1
	vivendi closing Sierra and Impressions? Tired of ads?

yeah, saw that elsewhere. Though they will keep the Sierra name. Also heard that Impressions guys were forming a new company under a different name to make citybuilders.

Your thoughts?

	26-06-2004 00:05									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

The Sierra as i know it is long gone and for nostalgia there's always FreeSCI.


No tears lost...

	26-06-2004 00:27									#3
	Put an end to popups!

I'd heard that Vivendi was itself struggling? So i guess if it controls the other names then it follows it would need to restructure its assests?

It a shame but for me most of the good games companies from times gone(Microprose/SSI/Sierra/Impressions/etc) have been bought up by the evil empire, and been responsible for some real awful software - so much so that the names mean nothing to me now(when once they stood for quality).
Its the reviews and the gossip on the forums that make me purchase a game these days, not the company making it

	26-06-2004 03:58									#4
	Re: vivendi closing Sierra and Impressions? Increase the size of your Attachments

quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark Your thoughts?

Sierra name = Atari name; doesn't mean anything to me, as well it shouldn't; the company's dead, and been dead for a while. If not legally then game-creation-wise.

New citybuilder - a mix of and .

Because I love them, citybuilders, and have been an active part of the community for the past few from the get-go, including the upcoming Children of the Nile.

Because for this CotN game, they are using the old Empire Earth engine, and it doesn't look so hot. Though they've said many times they've improved upon it, so I am hoping for the best. Though admittedly, the transition from 2D to 3D has not always been successfuly for franchises like this in the past.

	26-06-2004 04:12									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

I still love that Caesar II. Unfortunately the copy I have is so trashed that it hardly runs anymore on my computer.. Oh well at least I have good memories of it as one of my first CD-ROM games. The game was a whopping 20 MB

	26-06-2004 04:36									#6
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Sierra is dead already, as others have said, alas.

	26-06-2004 08:58									#7
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

I was about to ask, have Sierra released anything of interest lately? Alas, they were once giants.

	26-06-2004 14:33									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Weren't they the ones who released Half Life?

	28-06-2004 16:14									#9
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I can't say that I'm too sorry to see Sierra go - while they certainly released more then their fair share of classic games, their corporate strategies bugged me. Their habit of spamming your computer in advertising material was particularly anoying - every time I installed one of their games I had to hunt through the task bars and hard drive to remove links to Sierra websites, demos for games I'm not interested in, etc. This was always a big disincentive for me to let anything by Sierra anywhere near my computer.