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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 4529787" data-attributes="member: 463">It's hard to know whether a tougher-minded publisher could have done better with EGG and prevented his going off on whatever tangents caught his fancy.&nbsp; Maybe he would have produced nothing; maybe we'd have had a Castle Zagyg complete boxed set in 2005.&nbsp; TLG are even more amateurish than most of the smaller games companies and have been very unreliable at getting product to market, but it did seem that with Talanian the project was moving forward well - and the released Zagyg products have certainly been high quality.&nbsp; A publisher like Mongoose would be more likely to take a &quot;quick and dirty&quot; approach - but IMO that's better than the entire project failing from over-ambition, as has now happened with TLG.Overall, I'm certainly disappointed. TLG seemed to be maybe-sorta getting there.&nbsp;&nbsp; However from a business perspectie it's far from clear that Gail made a stupid decision.&nbsp; Look at how Upper Works isn't even in distribution, months after completion.&nbsp; Mongoose would never let that happen: product that falls apart on the shelf or has appalling editing errors, yes - product unavailable, no.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 4529787, member: 463"] It's hard to know whether a tougher-minded publisher could have done better with EGG and prevented his going off on whatever tangents caught his fancy. Maybe he would have produced nothing; maybe we'd have had a Castle Zagyg complete boxed set in 2005. TLG are even more amateurish than most of the smaller games companies and have been very unreliable at getting product to market, but it did seem that with Talanian the project was moving forward well - and the released Zagyg products have certainly been high quality. A publisher like Mongoose would be more likely to take a "quick and dirty" approach - but IMO that's better than the entire project failing from over-ambition, as has now happened with TLG. Overall, I'm certainly disappointed. TLG seemed to be maybe-sorta getting there. However from a business perspectie it's far from clear that Gail made a stupid decision. Look at how Upper Works isn't even in distribution, months after completion. Mongoose would never let that happen: product that falls apart on the shelf or has appalling editing errors, yes - product unavailable, no. [/QUOTE]

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