Sierra is gone.
 

http://www.gigex.com/general/article...=&source=00001

Bah, fuck you Vivendi. Fuck you in the ass with a barbed pole. :mad:

Holy crap, my friend works, or worked for sierra...haven't talked to him in ages, sounds like a phone call is in order.

Well, what a bunch corporate crapola.

Never trust a CEO whos name is Hack....

They haven't had a good game in AGES, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise.

So since they save more money who thinks the price of games is going to go down ... lmfao

Who's going to make the cards now?

Did they make "The Incredible Machine?" That game was awesome (goes to get it).

no more sierra?! That fucking sucks

Maybe now some of the great liscences can be developed by other companies, and come back to the world. KQ/QFG/SQ in the house :)

if anyone tries to intrude on my fantasy land, I'll hurt them.

Does this affect Lesuire Suit Larry?

Why'd they stop making point-and-click adventure games I'll never know... this is truly sad news...

I truly loved Kings Quest :(

i loved the old kings quest format. After KQ4, they all lost there appeal to me. Point and click just wasn't for me. I remember how a friend of mine and myself had copies of KQ1. We decided one night to beat it, and just went through the whole game in a night together ;) it rocked

Damn, I remember when Sierra used to be one of the big dogs. Sad times are these when Sierra goes out of business and half of all PC games are multi-ported. I suppose that's what happens when people are more interested in making money than in making games.

Well you got to have some source of revenue to pay for developers and production costs.

Frankly I'm not suprised, I think alot of people saw this comming.

I was hooked on Sierra's adventure games. It's sad to see them go, but yeah, they haven't put out anything memorible as of late. So can't say that they didn't have it coming I guess.

Dammit. And another one of my childhood friends is killed in the name of corporate progress.

the closest thing to recent in my mind is Gabriel Knight 3 (which was based on the traditional point and click but used a 3D world to play....totally awesome) It continued the story-line and used some really great graphics that didn't look totally crappy. Too bad Sierra didn't follow suit with a KQ/SQ game using the same style. oh well. I'll still buy HL2 whenever Vivendi/Valve decide to finally put it on the shelves.

My opinion on this is, when a company, no matter how "loved" by it's relative "community", is bound to be shutdown when it becomes unprofitable. An unprofitable company is an unsound investment, and a waste of time and effort. I agree with Krycheck's point, it should come as no surprise that a company as large as Vivendi should be willing to cut off an unprofitable division.

That sucks.

Oh well.. I can always go back and replay the old favs.. KQ5, SQ5, QFG4..

either way tits a bigtime restructuring.

I'm on a mission now to find the Space Quest Anthology, Wilco kicks my ass.

*cries*

Sierra was the company that introduced me to gaming.

excuse me whilst I go and light a candle...

how can anyone forget Phantasmagoria??????


best
game
ever

and didnt' they do leisure suit larry??

Well, it's not like they're dropping off the face of the planet. I do believe they were acquired by another company. They'll still be around, just in a different form :)

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is still due out relatively soon.