The GameFan history thread

so you were the "6th man" or whatever the last couple issues?

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

so you were the "6th man" or whatever the last couple issues?

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To be honest, I was the whole damn team in terms of design production after a couple months there because the other designers had stopped working out of anger due to late paychecks. I was so yippy-skippy about working, I tackled a lot of the shit games layouts, and just soldiered thru for awhile. But after a few months of not getting paid, there I was alongside everyone else playing WarCraft or taking 2 hour lunches...

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Originally Posted by JesusisGod

I play under the name JesusisGod. I only play CTF and can usually be found in a Blood Glutch level.

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Thats moreorless what I always play too. I may have seen you, but there's a suprinsingly larger amount of people in Halo with Jesus in their names.

The only beef I have with Game Infomer was the fact that they made me REALLY WANT Fighting Force.

Other than that, it was awesome.

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

wasnt real. i have the Turok issue and it isnt there. it had to be PS'd in.

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It is so totally there. I'm not saying it was intential on our part, but I can see it clear as day.

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

oh wow how did i know a jeff picture was in store. seems the only thing you guys can ever reply to me. and i wasnt "owning" i was just stating the truth. this thread is suck a hillarious suck fest :lol:

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There's no way I'm going to risk derailing or dragging down this amazing thread by getting into anything with someone the likes of Dyne.

I'll just say that, in a thread filled with guys (like me) having Gamefan fanboy fits, even people like diffusionx have had the common courtesy not to troll.

Dyne can say anything he likes, I will no longer reply to him. Sorry, everyone, please continue.

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

i dont blame him. a lot of people that bitched about their GG $20 (which happens around here almost every couple months) would either a. turn around and keep doing it or b. say they never were mad at him. id rather not see that crap around here myself.

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Yeah, well, I extended the proverbial olive branch to ECM via a couple of methods and didn't hear back - not that I blame him at all. As for the sub fees, it's something that both of us felt terribly about and I can't believe that __ years later people are still bitching about it as if we took the money and went to Hawaii with a couple of whores. Most of you lost $20.00 (-1 issue, -1 issue via PDF (perhaps) in the GameGO! venture. I lost $25,000.00 trying to create "the next GameFan". Yeah, we were hoping for an angel investor at some point to help share the load and none of us made a nickel doing it. Sure, it had some great moments and I still say it was a good idea. In retrospect, we should have had major/minor financing in place, ad support and perhaps an even greater sub base before we started anything but when the wheels are turning and the fire is burning, you just go for it. We were so confident that it would take off that we leapt before we looked and perhaps our own enthusiasm made us more short sighted than we would've liked to believe.

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

Yeah, well, I extended the proverbial olive branch to ECM via a couple of methods and didn't hear back - not that I blame him at all. As for the sub fees, it's something that both of us felt terribly about and I can't believe that __ years later people are still bitching about it as if we took the money and went to Hawaii with a couple of whores. Most of you lost $20.00 (-1 issue, -1 issue via PDF (perhaps) in the GameGO! venture. I lost $25,000.00 trying to create "the next GameFan". Yeah, we were hoping for an angel investor at some point to help share the load and none of us made a nickel doing it. Sure, it had some great moments and I still say it was a good idea. In retrospect, we should have had major/minor financing in place, ad support and perhaps an even greater sub base before we started anything but when the wheels are turning and the fire is burning, you just go for it. We were so confident that it would take off that we leapt before we looked and perhaps our own enthusiasm made us more short sighted than we would've liked to believe.

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Im not mad at cha, how are things now? Did you recover from that tough financial blow?

I recovered. ;)

Honestly the mag failing hurt more than the money ever did. =)

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

I know that Dave had a name already picked out for me - "Eggbert."

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"Eggbert"…LOL. Man, did you ever luck out.

Where did you get shidoshi from, anyway? Does it mean something?