Curt Schilling’s $150M Fail Shows What’s Broken in Video Games

I live in RI. State funding of this was (in my and many people’s opinions) an awful decision. RI has a long history of making bad economic decisions that are or at least appear to be corrupt.

I can’t speak to the quality/promise of the game. But who would think that a baseball start would be effective running a tech company?

Useless fun fact: after the auction of their assets, there was a lot of left overs in their office space that was all going to be trashed. I had a connection to the contractor and they let us take whatever we wanted. It saved them labor and disposal costs. We took a bunch of fantastic whiteboards. And the cabinets in my office’s kitchen came from there too.

It's really interesting how much scrutiny this particular game studio failure gets. It's almost the norm that video game companies struggle and court disaster with over-ambition. But because of Curt Schilling's association, and the polarizing reactions he gets, this story won't die the way a hundred other similar stories do. Well, that and the state of Rhode Island foolishly plowing money into the endeavor.

I haven't played it myself, but everybody I've talked to who has says that Kingdoms of Amalur is really a pretty decent game.