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[Wayback Curiosity] What happened between SJ Games and White Wolf?

Started by Reckall, March 23, 2011, 06:31:31 PM

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Cole

#30
March 25, 2011, 04:05:03 PM
Quote from: two_fishes;448138This is exactly how I feel about the Beastie Boys.

What rhymes with "generic, universal role playing system" anyway?
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#31
March 25, 2011, 07:36:38 PM
Steve Jackson seemed pretty mellow, laid-back and low-key to me. Course I wasn't looking to publish through SJG games, and didn't have any kind of licensing deal we were working on.

We just played some RPG games at a small regional convention.

In addition, my experiences have all been positive with running GURPS games at conventions with the MiB crews... They advertise pickup GURPS games, provide prize support and SWAG, even for Independent GM's, and always contribute to the Convention charity fundraisers and prize pools.

An all around first-rate gaming company! Not many of those left.

My only beef with them, is they kept Ogre out-of-print for so long, but things are finally looking up.
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#32
March 26, 2011, 07:08:06 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;448111You don't survive in this business for 30 years on dumb luck. I'd wager Steve Jackson is sharp as a tack and has good management and multi-tasking skills, as well as being a PITA perfectionist.
None of which really contradicts Kyle's point, as I understand it, that even the best of the game publishers are still gamers, and can't be expected to be otherwise.
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J Arcane

#33
March 26, 2011, 07:44:04 PM
To be blunt, most of the bitching about Steve Jackson I've heard has been from bitter wankers like SJohn that he fired years ago.

There's one or two guys who have an axe to grind just because SJ wouldn't print some shitty book, or edited out the wrong typo, and they've managed to win enough internet fanboys that the rumors of him being a total cockwit spread unquestioningly about.

SJ himself being largely reclusive in online presence just opens the door for such speculation, and so it propogates from forum to forum on and on.

I've seen very little actual reliable evidence or account that he's anything other than just some guy who happens to run a game studio.
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March 26, 2011, 08:36:35 PM
Oddly enough I've found him more accessible and available than the guys who are in charge of Pyramid and GURPS.
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jcfiala

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March 27, 2011, 03:06:59 PM
Having worked a while as the FAQ maintainer for INWO, and later on having played a game of Lego pirates with him, Steve Jackson seems like a perfectly normal guy.

Of course, for any given person, there's people out there who can't stand them for reasons that don't make sense to me anyway, so it's entirely possible that there's some folks that SJ has had a bad time with, for whatever reason.  I know that as much as I try to be a nice guy, there's times when I'm an ass, either intentionally or by mistake.  So it goes.
 
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