Re: Dark City Games etc

[Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Joe Hartley wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:02:18 -0400
> "David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > As for OGRE I know what SJ did with it. That was definitely a vanity 
> > project. And I'm pretty sure he lost money on it.
>
> As I recall (and I'm too undercaffeinated to hunt in the archives), 
> when SJ separated from Metagaming, the terms allowed him to take 
> either TFT or Ogre/GEV.
>
> I'm not so sure that he lost money on Ogre; the kickstarter was wildly 
> popular and got them almost a million dollars.  They kept adding 
> content because they kept getting the backing.

You can loose a lot of money on a too successful crowdfunding campaign. 
Steve has written about it. They learned a few lessons with Ogre.

BTW all this talk about Howard coming after Steve isn't it a bit moot? 
Have anyone heard or seem from him the last 15 years or more?

-andreas

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