Re: [DL] Savage Worlds

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 02:01  PM, Bo Whitten wrote:

> At 04:13 AM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> Cybergames.com bought out Pinnacle a few months before Waste Warriors 
>> was
>> scheduled for release. They damn near ran PEG into ruin by horribly
>> mismanaging the company, gradually laying off ALL the staff, 
>> eventually
>> including Shane himself. In January he managed to buy the company 
>> back in
>> what has become known as "the January Surprise". CG put PEG in quite 
>> the
>> hole and Shane's getting it out, slowly but surely, and according to 
>> him now
>> almost completely.
>
> This is information that completely explains PEG's patterns. With that 
> kind of problem being corrected in is only reasonable to "mount a new 
> horse for the ride." The new line HAS to be pushed to get the company 
> out of hock. Shane might have put that info on the web page, but in 
> his place I doubt I would have... too much BS to be reminded of every 
> time you update the thing, and too much BS e-mail every time someone 
> reads it for the first time.
> Wish I had known this before I unloaded both tonsils! haha!

Yup... There's also the general policy that all business big or small 
have of not focusing on the 'bad stuff' no matter how minor it is.

> By the way, I correct myself... I said that DL went to Knuckleduster 
> Pub, when it is Mind Eye... 4am silliness... duh!

And, for slightly more confusion, there's Great White Games, which is 
the apparent distribution label for Savage Worlds, and a wholly owned 
subsidiary of PEG.