Dovetail Games Bought By Focus Entertainment

No-one here is claiming to be an 'expert', but when Focus Entertainment have 8 delevopment studios and countless more clients who they publish for, it is hardly realistic to expect that they will take a leading development role in every project under their financial ownership.

They may make small operational directives, but they won't sit down at running meetings and explicitly say TSW needs this/ that/ the other.

I've seen this thread on Farm Sim forums and Mud/Snowrunner before. Nothing changed when they were taken over either.

 

Well there are plenty who seem to know the simulation business better than DTG!

Ever since Rail Simulator circa 2008 I have seen posts predicting RSDL then DTGs demise on various forums, due to the way they "do things", I would love to chat to some of the posters from back then and see if they think their comments have aged well!

 

I got to meet him and shake his hand a few years ago when he played at the theatre I worked at. On a separate occasion, when Focus played there I had to manhandle Thijs van Leer out through the door when he lit a cigarette inside just before going on stage. Later in the gig he spilt a can of Red Bull into his Hammond organ. The Jan Akkerman gig was less eventful.

 

That's correct; they will look at the bottom line and if it doesn't say what they like to see, a new arrangement will be made. Could be bad or good, depending what the original reason for the buyout was.

 

What kind of "cigarette" ?
Great, Jan still shreds like a god, and never ever performs a song the same way twice. I watched a performance of Pietons and Crackers on a german TV show in the early eighties where he built that HocusPocus riff into, its stuck in my head ever since.