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<blockquote data-quote="Cowpie Zombie" data-source="post: 1412100" data-attributes="member: 17102">Now *that's* reliable information: second hand rumours from &quot;some people&quot; who claim to be &quot;friends&quot; of the Alternity &quot;design team.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Seriously though, this is rather silly.&nbsp; To suggest that a game company would pour thousands of dollars into the design, production, and marketing of a system solely to test its mechanics is utter nonsense.&nbsp; Game companies extensively test mechanics behind the scene before ever releasing a product; the games are tested by veteran gamers and industry insiders who play hundreds of hours of said game before rendering a judgement.&nbsp; Only then is the game system released.&nbsp; TSR poured a lot of money into Alternity for production and marketing.&nbsp; If the game had been a wild success, do you really think they still would have pulled the plug because it was their &quot;plan&quot;? These conspiracy theories are getting old--when you've been on the Internet as long as I have you hear one too many of them.Honestly though, the &quot;TSR released Alternity *knowing* they would pull the plug! Bwa ha ha!&quot; theory *would* make a good premise for a Dark*Matter adventure... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cowpie Zombie, post: 1412100, member: 17102"] Now *that's* reliable information: second hand rumours from "some people" who claim to be "friends" of the Alternity "design team." ;) Seriously though, this is rather silly. To suggest that a game company would pour thousands of dollars into the design, production, and marketing of a system solely to test its mechanics is utter nonsense. Game companies extensively test mechanics behind the scene before ever releasing a product; the games are tested by veteran gamers and industry insiders who play hundreds of hours of said game before rendering a judgement. Only then is the game system released. TSR poured a lot of money into Alternity for production and marketing. If the game had been a wild success, do you really think they still would have pulled the plug because it was their "plan"? These conspiracy theories are getting old--when you've been on the Internet as long as I have you hear one too many of them. Honestly though, the "TSR released Alternity *knowing* they would pull the plug! Bwa ha ha!" theory *would* make a good premise for a Dark*Matter adventure... :p [/QUOTE]

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