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Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
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Real Time Strategy
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Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs is the new expansion pack for the best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) title of 2005, Age of Empires III from Ensemble Studios and Microsoft Game Studios. Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs will engage gamers of ...
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09-11-06 Review for Pc
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Ensemble talks about closure
Ensemble Studios director of technology Dave Pottinger sat down with Shacknews and said that he feels Microsoft's decision to close down the studio makes little sense:
I would like to cry out to see if there's still someone who cares about just making enough money to earn a decent income and at the same time release great products. But I guess it would be a cry in the dark as even the current financial crysis that's affecting us all won't change much in how "businesses" are run these days.
Dave Pottinger: Yeah, it honestly doesn't make a lot of sense. But that's their prerogative
Dave Pottinger: They... they have a plan. We're not in it the way that we used to be. It's... they're making the choice that they need to make to be profitable, and make the right choice for the shareholders and things like that. It's hard to look at the stuff Ensemble's done and equate those two things, and justify it in that sense, but...
Ensemble's Age of Empires franchise made about 700 million dollars profit but I guess in these days' economics that isn't good enough anymore. Shareholders want profit, and more profit just isn't enough anymore. It has to be tons more profit and it has to be now and not tomorrow.Dave Pottinger: They... they have a plan. We're not in it the way that we used to be. It's... they're making the choice that they need to make to be profitable, and make the right choice for the shareholders and things like that. It's hard to look at the stuff Ensemble's done and equate those two things, and justify it in that sense, but...
I would like to cry out to see if there's still someone who cares about just making enough money to earn a decent income and at the same time release great products. But I guess it would be a cry in the dark as even the current financial crysis that's affecting us all won't change much in how "businesses" are run these days.
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