Bruce Everiss missing?
I've just logged onto Bruce Everiss' blog and not only has he still not posted anything since the Evony case finished a month ago, which is very unusual since he normally updated it every day, but some people have posted concerns in the comments section. And now someone has posted:
"Alexis on 05.09.10 at 4:29 pm
Just received an email from 35 year industry veteran Zach Morris of SEGANEWSWIRE.
http://seganewswire.webs.com/
According to his sources, Bruce has been missing for over a month.
British police are treating the case as an abduction."
http://www.bruceongames.com/2010/04/08/guy-kewney-a-legend/#comments
I don't know if this is true, or if it's just some random poster's attempt at humour (and the facts don't seem to support him, the poster's name is HTML linked to a site called "pussy.com" (which hardly inspires confidence), and http://seganewswire.webs.com/ looks like a recently set up and very basic site indeed which might well have been knocked up just to support this "joke"), so does anyone know if there's any truth in this?
I'm no fan of Mr Everiss', and I often disagree with his postings (though they can be interesting), but I certainly wouldn't want to think that anything bad is going on. And granted one unsubstantiated post is hardly evidence of any sort, but Mr Everiss is not only a very keen blogger, but also rather egotistical, so it seems very unlikely that not only would he abandon his blog without even a "I'm on holiday for a month, so no updates 'till I get back" type post, but you'd expect some follow up posts about how he's single handedly saved the world from Evony, even if he had to type the posts on his laptop whilst sitting on a beach somewhere.
Any thoughts?
"Alexis on 05.09.10 at 4:29 pm
Just received an email from 35 year industry veteran Zach Morris of SEGANEWSWIRE.
http://seganewswire.webs.com/
According to his sources, Bruce has been missing for over a month.
British police are treating the case as an abduction."
http://www.bruceongames.com/2010/04/08/guy-kewney-a-legend/#comments
I don't know if this is true, or if it's just some random poster's attempt at humour (and the facts don't seem to support him, the poster's name is HTML linked to a site called "pussy.com" (which hardly inspires confidence), and http://seganewswire.webs.com/ looks like a recently set up and very basic site indeed which might well have been knocked up just to support this "joke"), so does anyone know if there's any truth in this?
I'm no fan of Mr Everiss', and I often disagree with his postings (though they can be interesting), but I certainly wouldn't want to think that anything bad is going on. And granted one unsubstantiated post is hardly evidence of any sort, but Mr Everiss is not only a very keen blogger, but also rather egotistical, so it seems very unlikely that not only would he abandon his blog without even a "I'm on holiday for a month, so no updates 'till I get back" type post, but you'd expect some follow up posts about how he's single handedly saved the world from Evony, even if he had to type the posts on his laptop whilst sitting on a beach somewhere.
Any thoughts?
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probabaly something simple like his net connection went down.
Bruce posted this on RLLMUK, on April 17th:
"I have been acted against four times in the last year, each time for fair criticism of someone who didn't want to be criticised. So just now I have pretty much given up my blog and am considering my position."
That's the reason why he's not updating.
EDIT: and he's still posting regularly on RLLMUK, as 'Bruciebabie'. He's even posted stuff today. Warning: his posts may contains nuts.
Yeah, and me, but I'm not sure I believe:
I mean, given his ego, and especially the huge boost it must have gotten from the recent legal victory over Evony, I can't see that he'd stop posting on his blog, certainly not for the reasons he gives in the quote. And since his blog seemed to be largely an advert for himself (an attempt to seem like he was clued up and well worth employing by Microsoft or whoever) then it seems all the more unlikely that he'd just stop posting, as that would hurt his image with anyone who was considering employing him on the strength of his blog (in reality this means probably no one, but I get the feeling that he believed, or at least hoped, it would pan out into well paid employment or at least contracts).
If nothing else, surely common decency would dictate that he should post up a "I won't be posting here any more, at least for a while, maybe forever" message? With all his faults, I doubt that he'd be willing to risk offending his readers by neglecting the five minutes it would take to make such a post.
Are you sure that "BrucieBabie" is the same bloke, by the way? I'm not saying he isn't, just wondering.
im sure his lawyer has regretted the down payment on that boat now.
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Any idiot can set up a site and report hes been abducted etc. The fact that there was a link for 'pussy.com' kinda says it all. Wouldnt be surprised if that link you click on had some sort of stuff which installs in the background or something.
If he was abducted one of his friends would post something and not have a dodgy link.
Kinda glad hes going to stop posting. The way he acted like a juvenile idiot against Stuart Campbell was embarassing. The way he rants about kids ruining Imagine back in the 80's was a joke. Cant take what he says seriously. I mean he set up a BLOG just to 'pretend' to be Stuart and to take the mick out of him and his site World of Stuart. Just ridiculous
Course i hope nothing bad has happened to him but i wouldnt believe anything from a poster who adds a comment to a story on his site, specially when his link appears to be very dodgy indeed
Looking at his username 'brucebabie' on that site and looking at his first posts, it does seem that it is Bruce as hes waffling on about Evony back then.
bruce is a suit.. who talks the "talk" .. thats his contribution to things.
Tsk, you're forgetting, Bruce single-handedly started every software company in this country... Actually, that may not be true, I'd better not post it on the Internet in case someone thinks it's a fact...
He does claim credit for making Dizzy so popular (seriously!). I'd imagine that Dizzy fans the world over would claim that it's the graphics, style, budget price and gameplay that made the Dizzy games popular, but Mr Everiss claims that it was his magical abilities (presumably as regards marketing, despite me having difficulty remembering any advertisements for the first few Dizzy games - and surely budget games almost never got advertised?) that made the Dizzy games so popular.
Still, to be fair, anyone who can convince normal people to buy the Dizzy games certainly has a lot of talent. The Dizzy games sold millions, despite them being on the ****y side, though DM and co. would disagree. Incoherently :smile:
I remember a few Dizzy-related stunts being reported in magazine's news pages - definitely smacked of a marketing campaign.
He's a nob! :D
Yes, there were a couple of stunts (the Dizzy toy being "duffed up" by one magazine, for example)... but David & Richard Darling put the success of Dizzy down to "word of mouth" in school playgrounds as much as marketing...
I'm sure the Everiss version of events would be that he orchestrated that "word of mouth" campaign too. :smile:
Well he did everything in the 80's home computer boom, every positive thing was down to him. Imagine was ruined because of us kids taping a few games, nothing to do with the fact of crappy Imagine games. Us kids had the idea of Bandersnatch and we forced Imagine to start work on it and try to release it at a silly high price.
Its all our fault !! Everiss did nothing wrong, hes the teflon don of the software world ;)
Yeah, he hid in bushes and whispered to passing kids.
Funny thing is, I remember copying casettes in my younger days, but I don't remember ever actually taping an Imagine game. Someone offered me Zzoom once and I thought it was too crap even to waste a few yards of cheap C90 on.
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I'd have said Zzoom was one of the better Imagine games too.
There was a lot of crap from the early years of Imagine though, of course we're to blame for the way Imagine went bust (It was funny seeing Bruce delete/amend peoples comments about the imagine collaspe on his blog) and nothing to do with the company itself which got too big for its boots and started releasing a lot of crap
yeah they were the first games i ever played. zzoom was great for shooting the innocents.
"The first is that libel laws are being abused to suppress free speech by those who have things to hide."
Yeah says the guy who censored what people wrote on his blog or even worse still modified peoples comments. If someones going off on a tourettes rampage then censor it, but if theyre telling the truth about the 80's and home taping then its a joke if he deletes/edits it.
Anyway let this be a lesson ! If someone has a blog and then goes away for a few weeks, dont listen to some idiot spamming his dodgy porn site who says the bloggers been kidnapped !
It could have been worse, the owner of the dodgy porn site could have kidnapped Bruce, forced him to participate and then shown us the results...
Doesnt he run a slightly 'naughty' forum ?
Again he does make me laugh though going on about censorship and freedom of speech and hes the one editing comments due to that laughable Imagine story.
My only memory of Zzoom was only managing to get the bastard thing to load once. I loved it, but that was it. One load and it never worked again :( I never played it again until I found it on this site.
Alchemist was fun though. I had that on a tape that must have come from a multi pack. It had a pruple lable and another game on the other side. I can't remember what that game was though. It couldn't have been that good I suppose?
Bruce worked for Imagine back in the heyday, he wrote an article on his blog about how home taping killed off some companies (however companies who released decent games such as Ultimate and many others survived) and how it was nothing to do with Imagine Mk I wasting money on stupid decisions like Bandersnatch or renting out the whole tape copying place over Xmas etc etc.
Nope it was all our fault for taping games !
Thanks for that. I do remember now. :oops:
Zip-Zap?