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moonslash
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"Can anyone translate Playmore's latest update" , posted Fri 11 Apr 06:50

i was just on playmore's site checking if any new SNK vs Capcom Chaos news came up but theres text there and on the 2nd one it says SNK....can anyone translate? thanx.

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Professor

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"Re(1):Can anyone translate Playmore's latest " , posted Fri 11 Apr 07:58

quote:
i was just on playmore's site checking if any new SNK vs Capcom Chaos news came up but theres text there and on the 2nd one it says SNK....can anyone translate? thanx.

There was recently a book called "The dark side of the Aruze Kingdom" published in Japan, which covered the nasty side of the company that bought SNK a while back. To keep the long story short, the acquirement- which was supposed to help out SNK's financial situation actually made SNK's state even worse than before. The book covers what Aruze actually did to the company behind the scenes.

That latest update in the site is a public statement to acquknowledge that all of the facts written in there are true, and that Playmore provided information to the authors i writing the book. There might be a second volume coming out since it seems that the authors are still asking for more references.

I hope to find some time to check out the book myself, btw.

Treepull Aitch
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"Dirty laundry?" , posted Fri 11 Apr 08:50

I don't think this is a wise move on Playmore's part, airing out their dirty laundry in public.

In business, matters like this should be kept within the company itself, or, at worst, in a glossy 300 page book sent to shareholders which will then be put under the coffee table and never read.

Because that's what everyone uses reports like this for. :)

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Ishmael

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"Re(1):Dirty laundry?" , posted Fri 11 Apr 10:10

Sounds like it would be an interesting read. Business deals gone bad don't make for page turning excitment but it would be nice to see an even-handed, researched explanation for what happened with SNK's buy-out instead of trying to piece together facts out of on-line fanboy rantings.

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I don't think this is a wise move on Playmore's part, airing out their dirty laundry in public.

In business, matters like this should be kept within the company itself, or, at worst, in a glossy 300 page book sent to shareholders which will then be put under the coffee table and never read.

Because that's what everyone uses reports like this for. :)

Since the damage has been done there's no reason for Playmore not to discuss their side of what went wrong. Investors, consumers, and others I'm sure are interested in knowing why things went south. Besides, books dealing with bad business deals aren't anything new [see Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost for a recent US example.]

Treepull Aitch
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"Re(2):Dirty laundry?" , posted Fri 11 Apr 10:46

But it's not likely to be an "even-handed, researched explanation". Playmore's has a large hand in producing it, and they'll probaly highlight certain facts to make themselves look good - or, at least not so blameful.

So we've very solved why they're publishing the book! It's propaganda!

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Genjuro

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"Re(2):Can anyone translate Playmore's latest" , posted Fri 11 Apr 12:34

quote:

There was recently a book called "The dark side of the Aruze Kingdom" published in Japan, which covered the nasty side of the company that bought SNK a while back.

Any idea where someone could get that?
(I don't live in Japan)

Gen

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"Re(2):Can anyone translate Playmore's latest" , posted Fri 11 Apr 15:10

Thank you Professor. I will try to find this book.