Talk:Flagship Studios

Ken Williams?

I know Ken Williams is a pretty common name, but is the Ken Williams mentioned in the article this Ken Williams, the founder of Sierra Entertainment? I kinda doubt it, but I want to make sure. — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:27, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

He's not the same guy. From the company's website, in their company FAQ:

Q: Is the Ken Williams at Flagship Studios the same guy who started Sierra?

A: While we do know that Ken Williams, we have our very own Ken Williams who is, in fact, not that Ken Williams.

Cool, thanks for clearing that up. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 13:41, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I guess I'll better add that to the disambiguation page. Thanks. -- Jugalator 07:35, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Another Game?

Flagship Studios, founded in 2003 by the creators of the worldwide-hit computer game, Diablo, is looking for an outstanding professional to join its IT department -- supporting the development, testing, marketing, and operation of the soon-to-be online PC games, Hellgate: London and Mythos. The successful candidate thrives in a creative, dynamic, multi-tasking environment. --68.209.227.3 23:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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No evidence that the company is going under

Although there is plenty of rumors and some sources that majority of staff has been laid off. But still no official word. --VertigoOne (talk) 00:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I think that its safe to say that they are going under. IGNis reporting that they have officially lost their rights to their two games (Hellgate and Mythos), which now belong to the Asian company HanbitSoft. TheSpeedster (talk) 00:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

That IGN statement has already been proven false. :http://forums.hellgatelondon.com/showpost.php?p=1126324&postcount=1392 Kalesija 11:21, 13 July 2008 (EST)

That may be so, but people are still out of work. If you check all the links on that page to the various staffers, they all list their employment status with Flagship/Ping-0 as done with. TheSpeedster (talk) 06:42, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

OK for those who are editing the article, they are still living.... barely. http://news.curse.com/details/11856/ TheSpeedster (talk) 16:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'm done with some edits now to update for those news and while I'm at it reference a lot of various things to remove that ugly tag, and tried to not take away much, although e.g. the (unreferenced) financing model about FSS and Ping0 for Mythos had to go for natural reasons, as that's probably undecided more than ever now. It's not even certain how much they'll be involved in the development of Mythos now, despite having some staff left. From the gist of developer comments from those remaining, it sounds to me they're leaving doors open for anything, but can't say much for sure. — Northgrove 23:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I went over the major staff list to ensure those listed actually still work on the company. I couldn't verify two on the list, and I know Peter Hu left. But otherwise, they're actually all still on the company. — Northgrove 00:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice! I don't think that they'll be around for too much longer though, but we'll see. TheSpeedster (talk) 03:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

This article should be updated

The company has long-since gone under. 66.176.37.51 (talk) 03:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I made some extra touches to the infobox and removed the staff section. At the time I did this, I knew the company was dissolved, but not the "last man standing"'s whereabouts, but just hours later I coincidentally read that Bill Roper left to join Cryptic Studios to work on Champions Online as design director. — Northgrove 19:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I just added the Defunct video game companies category.--Kross^Talk 18:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Resident Evil

Gametrailers.com claims that Flagship Studios were involved in the development of a Resident Evil game for the Dreamcast: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/45682.html

If this is true, it might be worth mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.221.36.129 (talk) 17:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Webpage

The listed webpage doesn't seem to load - most likely down --60.242.80.133 (talk) 13:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

COO Max Shaefer links to a Nazi

Though Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the correct Max Shaefer, it probably shouldn't be linking to a dead Nazi. Potentially relevant information on the creation of such an article: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,11645/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.68.72.167 (talk) 18:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)