The lights go out at old-school game company, Sierra, as Vivendi restructures its business.More depressing news for the industry, Vivendi Universal Games has cut 350 staff and shut down Seattle-based Sierra. The venerable games company created some of the most popular action and adventure games in the 80's. The Sierra brand will live on in name only and projects tied to the Sierra pipeline, Half-Life 2, Ground Control II and Tribes: Vengeance are already being developed by other teams within Vivendi. Also affected by the restructuring, the Hoyle brand of card and board games have been canceled."Restructuring the organization and reducing our cost base are necessary to improve our operating effectiveness and profitability," said VU Games CEO Bruce Hack, in as terse a manner as possible. "This constitutes another important step in our turnaround plan aimed to better position the company for growth."Along with VU Games restructuring, the game company is prepping up for profitability with a powerful lineup for the second half of 2004. VU Games is looking for some higher revenues with titles like World of Warcraft, Spyro: A Hero's Tail and the well-received The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

Well, if you look at the games Vivendi has been releasing lately, do you really have to wonder why this has happened?

NNNNOOOOO!! I LOVE SIERRA!!:'(*Stares at his Sierra collection*Half-Life, Tribes, EarthSiege, StarSiege, etc.., etc...

aww man, sierra had some kick but games. I'm thinkin back to the Hoyle card games. Classic stuff. Yar, It brings a tear to this pirates eye.

They created the SWAT serious, which rocked.

i love SWAT 3

i love SWAT 3

that game rocked. 8)

Definately! SWAT 3 is a good game. I love games like those. What do they call those? Tactical Shooters?

Saw this on the FA forums, doesn't affect me really, I don't know these games, but for your sake,"pooey"

lol. Dude you've missed out on a lot!The only way it affects the FA community is that Sierra was the publisherfor Half-Life but I was told it was actually published by VU Games and had a Sierra logo slapped on it.

We need to get a SWAT 3 game going sometime. I have a bunch of old mod additions/maps for it too.

I had a hacked version of swat 3 now i cant find it anywhere. Hmm.... leme try Kazaa

We need to get a SWAT 3 game going sometime. I have a bunch of old mod additions/maps for it too.

true DAT :roll:

Its always the same: Big companies merge together. All say fine and its good for shareholders, no employee must go and after a little while: bye bye, we dont need so much people now. And the big persons on the top get a lot of money.The merger costs a lot of money and they must sell some parts of the new company. Its a shame, that Sierra will be shutdown. Yes, i know its business as usual, but its a shame. I hope the people will get new jobs.