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Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired
I do realise that. All I'm saying is...
It's a completely different scenario and an unfair and over-optimistic comparison.
Sierra was long dead even before Vivendi bought them out. It was during the Vivendi reign that Sierra's offices closed up shop and they became merely a brand name publisher. Then shortly afterwards they abolished the label completely. All before the ActiVision merger. You can't really say "Sierra" did anything during the Vivendi years because they didn't exist in any tangible form.
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Yes, I'm well aware that Bellevue closed down in 2004 and that marked the end of Sierra as any tangible company; It did exist as a brand name used on most of VU's products. Vivendi got rid of their "Vivendi Games" name for the most part and "Sierra" de facto became "VU Games." Sierra was said to have 4 studios (which were Vivendi's) up to 2009, when the Sierra name was absorbed into Vivendi. Go look at the press releases from 2004-2009: Sierra is even said to have a President, Martin Tremblay.
Sierra was bought by Vivendi in 1998 and the Bellevue HQ existed until 2004. So yeah--Stuff like the Escape Factory SQ and the first LSL butchery were indeed done by Sierra. Because the guys running it had no clue about what these games were or what Sierra was supposed to be.
So yeah:
Ken Williams (CEO, 1979-1997; President 1979-1981, 1983-1995; Chairman 1988-1996)
Michael Brochu (CFO 1994-1995; President and COO, 1995-1997)
David Grenewetzki (President and CEO, 1998-2001)
Thomas K. Hernquist (President and CEO, 2001)
Mike Ryder (COO and VP of Productment Development, 2001; President and CEO, 2001-2004)* (He was the last true President of Sierra. He was the last one to operate the company from the Bellevue offices and he met with Ken in 2003 to talk about reviving Sierra's adventure game series)
Post Bellevue closure:
Martin Tremblay (President of Worldwide Studios, Sierra, 2005-2009)
Read this from 2007, after Bellevue was closed. It does seem that VU was trying to revive Sierra.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/si...to-risk-new-ip