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Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD

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From: thya...
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
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> Well this imbecile as you call her is a sucessful businesswoman who with
> her husband Ken, have built Sierra up into one of the biggest software
> companies today. Without her there probably wouldn't be a Sierra, though
> that would probably be good news to people like you.
> To sum up. I have played and owned many Sierra games over the years, which
> have been good, bad and indifferent, but on the whole have worked fairly
> well and the software support has been good, though some would disagree.
> Compare this to some of the bugridden products released such as the recent
> Overseer game by Access which to all intents and purposes has been a
> shambles(not my opinion), but from the many people writing to this
> newsgroup writing about their difficulties with this game. I am not talking
> about the game itself, which everyone playing it has described as very
> good, but the setup and visual effects in the game. So next time you make a
> wild statement at least get your facts right first.


>>>>>>>> Which facts? People complaining about Overseer? I can't see why that
would make KQ6 a better game and I clearly said why I don't approve her work.
And I don't care how much money Sierra makes - if selling big meant talent,
the Spice Girls would only find jobs as janitors. I haven't played Overseer
yet, but Mrs. Williams could learn a lot about game designing from Under a
Killing Moon and Pandora Directive. You say I'd be happy if Sierra didn't
exist... wrong. I'd be happy if Sierra published better games. I play games,
for God's sake, and if they were making fantastic software, I'd gladly make
the Williams a bit richer. I didn't say what I did because I thought it was
funny. In a recent issue of the British PC Gamer, I read Sierra had "wisely
chosen" not to emphasise the fact that Mask of Eternity was a King's Quest
sequel. Why? "Best avoid prejudices, as this comes from the mind of Roberta
'Phantasmagoria' Williams." Now, if Sierra itself is afraid of gamers
connecting their new release to King's Quest, something must be wrong.

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Date: 1998/03/02
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