d'Spair on 16/12/2009 at 11:21
Quote Posted by MoroseTroll
I dream that Mr. Yoichi Wada would join us, taffers, here at TTLG :angel:... How do you think: is it possible :)?
You mean he would sign the petition? That would be pathetic.
jtr7 on 16/12/2009 at 11:37
That would be bizarre. He's the recipient.
MoroseTroll on 16/12/2009 at 13:47
Quote Posted by d'Spair
You mean he would sign the petition? That would be pathetic.
No, I mean that Mr. Wada could play Thief and become a taffer.
New Horizon on 16/12/2009 at 14:09
Quote Posted by MoroseTroll
It seems that yet another Eidos employee has signed this petition, Peter Smith :).
P.S. 993 signs.
I don't think Peter is an employee of Eidos. Pretty sure his moderating services are a volunteer position. He has been doing it for years.
Yandros on 16/12/2009 at 14:13
I can confirm that. :cheeky:
MoroseTroll on 17/12/2009 at 08:54
Anyway, he works for Eidos :). Who knows, maybe some day somebody from Eidos will follow his and René's example.
P.S. 994 signs.
d'Spair on 17/12/2009 at 11:57
Quote Posted by MoroseTroll
Anyway, he works for Eidos :). Who knows, maybe some day somebody from Eidos will follow his and René's example.
What example?
jtr7 on 17/12/2009 at 12:39
d'Spair: Signing the petition or helping out on the inside.
Except, Peter Smith is not an Eidos employee, but like most Administrators and Mods of forums, he's an unpaid volunteer and has to make a living outside of it.
Eidos and Eidos-Montréal are very different institutions, though the name suggests they are nearly the same. Eidos, the game publisher, has been absorbed into Square-Enix and no longer exists, and Eidos-Montréal is a brand new game developer. Square-Enix will be EM's publisher, among other things, and are the major source of the monies funding the games, especially since EM hasn't sold a single game yet.
René, however, is getting a paycheque, not from Eidos, but Eidos-Montréal, and is probably not getting any money specifically for his Admin work at the Eidos (a brand, not a company, now) fora, but only as far as being EM's Marketing Coordinator/Community Manager requires him to have duties involving the fora.
Any official corrections to the above are welcome.:)
d'Spair on 17/12/2009 at 14:25
Quote Posted by jtr7
d'Spair: Signing the petition or helping out on the inside.
So far neither Rene nor anybody else from Eidos has done anything more than saying 'well, the source code might be found someday but nothing is promised'. I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm picturing the state of the case so far. So there are no particular examples to follow.
Even if we assume that Rene has been knocking at Eidos' doors for all these months asking Eidos/SE employees to find the long-lost source code somewhere in the archives (which I believe don't exist anymore), I doubt anybody at the head offices were responding to this seriously.
Unless Eidos wants to make some profit from releasing this source code
if they find it - let's say, if they want to sell it as a bonus content in Thief 4 Collector's Edition.
Call me a cynical pessimist (and you would be right), but I don't believe Eidos will move a muscle in order to find the source code that 1000 fans of a long-forgotten (mainstream-wise) game want. This is just too much work and bothering for almost no effect.
