Remember the video game
Left Behind: Eternal Forces
? It's the game where the object is to either convert people to Christianity or kill them. The company that produced it is not doing so well....
When Left Behind Games launched its convert-or-die videogame Left Behind: Eternal Forces on November 7, 2006, its stock traded at a peak price of $7.44 per share. Breathless boosters at RedChip issued a "strong buy" recommendation and predicted that within 18 months, the stock would soar to as much as $18.70 per share. Really?
In fact, Left Behind Games' stock chart looks like a ski slope. Not a gentle bunny hill, but a World Cup grand slalom course, groomed for a world-beating downhill run. Today, you could buy a share of Left Behind Games for a quarter -- with change left over. On March 21, 2007, the stock closed at 18 cents a share.
Left Behind Games has sunk more than $27 million and four years into the development and marketing of a game that has been critically panned by gamer blogs, who sneer at its bugginess and built-in spyware, and was boycotted by members of its target audience.
Paging Dr. Schadenfreude....
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I am super excited for the next couple of days at work. Each should be relatively quiet, with hardly any meetings or deadlines. God willing. I might even be able to do some filing! Yay filing. Or not. I'm just glad to have a chance to catch my breath.
I should have called in zombified this morning. Why did I stay up so late? There was no reason!
Paging Dr. Schadenfreude....
Ahhh, bless you, tommy. I know it's incredibly trivial and petty, but it's still very cheering.
I just looked at the Amtrak site because I don't particularly want to drive back to Michigan for a wedding in a couple of weeks. The travel time they have listed is two and a half hours. Dude! That's
way
faster than driving!
Also, cheap. I might be sold. I just need to make sure someone can pick me up at the train station.
That's incredible to hear from the East coast, shrift. Up and down the northeast corridor, Amtrak is slower than driving and as expensive as flying, for the most part. It's more pleasant, for sure, but still.
To make up for the irritatingness of school of late (well, for me, at least), today, we are watching The Princess Bride in class. We read the book, so we're doing the comparison thing.
The kids are loving it, both those who have and have not seen it before (How have people not seen it before?)
I am currently using some remote desktop software to control a client's computer in Washington, DC. It's the weirdest feeling - knowing he could be watching everything I do, or not at all, or someplace between those two....
Anyway, not much time to slack at the moment....
That's incredible to hear from the East coast, shrift.
It's been a while since I've taken Amtrak anywhere -- last time I think was to Toronto when I was still in college. What they have listed on their website may not match up with reality, but if I take the train, I will report back!
Paging Dr. Schadenfreude....
That calls for Schadenfreude Pie.
