People who lose $75M in a failed business should not call other people “dunces”.
I used to read his blog sometimes and I was always a little amazed at how much money he was spending on trying to make this game of his super perfect.
He was a good pitcher and probably a good “gamer.” But I suspect he really didn’t understand how the game business works and there were a lot of programmers and such out there who were ready, willing and able to take him to the cleaners.
Curt Schilling played with the Red Sox and lived in Massachusetts TOO long. He is your typical Massachusetts self-promoting DRAMA QUEEN not unlike that guy who was governor and invented Obamacare and that guy who ran for president and wind surfed in a spandex body suit. The less I see and hear from those three DRAMA QUEENS the better.
Sounds as it we might have two dunces there.
Schilling was the real dunce, and greedy, and impatient. Who in their right mind accepts a $75 million dollar loan when you have absolutely zero products on the market at the time you accept the loan. Schilling’s 38 Studio had not released a single game and had zero reputation in the game industry. He also relocated his entire staff to R.I., causing many of the designers to have to leave behind homes for sale on a very down market, homes that in the end didn’t sell and strapped many of them with huge debts. Schilling had this grand vision of creating a huge MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) and was way to impatient to take the time to build up his studio’s portfolio and reputation. And the one game they released (Kingdoms of Amalur) was only moderately successful.
