***No, it wasn’t. Three people running a company when they had no idea how to run a company was the demise of Imagine.

Imagine was in debt in the millions of pounds back in the mid 80′s. It’s all well documented. You can call a duck a giraffe all you want, it doesn’t make it so because -you- say it is.***

“I have read a lot of articles just recently from back then. And time after time after time the publishers are complaining about piracy and how it was hurting the business.”-Bruce

***You know what i haven’t read? Anybody at Imagine complaining about piracy. In fact, you didn’t even mention it until 2001, and it was 4th on your list.***

“Piracy is not victimless. It is theft and the people who do it are thieves. Twice I have been employed by game companies that were hammered by piracy so I have seen the damage that it causes.”-Bruce

No, you weren’t. You were employed at Imagine in which Butler,Lawson and yourself ran the company into the ground. You worked for Codemasters who manage to do extremely well for themselves despite the fact that piracy is easier to do now than it was back in the 80′s. Codemasters is affected by piracy, they’re also the largest UK based development house, they were making games for the Speccy just like Imagine was. They survived, Imagine didn’t. Reason? Codemasters have people who actually know how to run a company***

“People who try and blame the demise of Imagine on anything other than piracy do not know what they are talking about. Sure, there were other problems at Imagine. There are in any company. But they did not bring Imagine down. Piracy did.”-Bruce

***Yes, we do. We have vast amounts of information at our disposal that say the same thing: Imagine was a shady company run by shady people that had no experience in running a development house. Imagine made idiotic moves and unnecessary expenses that they could not afford. The BBC documentary shows Imagine being shut down along with an interview in which a young scared shitless Everiss talks about the millions of pounds Imagine needed to stay afloat***

“Just as it destroyed the PSX market and currently is destroying the PSP and boxed PC game markets. These facts are irrefutable. There are countless articles and comments from industry leaders to support this. Also just look at the download stats on the Bit Torrent sites that have them. The thieves know that there is zero chance of being caught and punished for their crime.”-Bruce

***Not irrefutable yet you bring no evidence. The PSX market was not destroyed, if it was Sony would not have taken such a risk with the PS3 in which they are only now starting to see a real profit on. The PSP is not destroyed, it’s the second most popular handled on the market and has remained that way since 2004. The PC market is not destroyed, i would think that World Of Warcraft would be enough evidence of this***

“But they are stupid. If there is no money to develop games then games won’t be developed. So the release of new boxed PC games and quality PSP titles has dried up enormously. The pirates destroy the industry.”-Bruce

***Wrong. Piracy has existed the very moment somebody decided to sell software. Companies that know what they are doing survive despite piracy, the development houses that crashed and burned did so because of themselves. Imagine,Infocom,Titus,Interplay are just a few high profile companies that went bust because of their own mistakes.***

***You’re a liar, Bruce. We all know it, spin it any way you wish….you can’t change history no matter how hard you try.***

***It’s spelled “authorize”. You do not have an open comment policy, you keep up comments that are critical but not damning. Comments that nail your smug ass to the wall are deleted.

Then Stuart and his sycophants arrived in ultra agressive attack mode and, quite frankly I didn’t know what had hit me. I was in two minds. I wanted to keep my open policy but I didn’t want reasonable debate on the blog destroyed by a handful of zealots.

***It’s spelled “aggressive”. You failed to address their comments, and for good reason. If you addressed those comments it would make you look like a hypocritical liar. They nailed you to the wall, you know they nailed you to the wall, so you removed those comments like they didn’t exist.

It blew up in your face and showed the entire internet that you’re exactly what some of us already knew; A hypocritical,egotistical,ignorant,arrogant lying coward.

Then it escalated as they plastered it all over the internet. So I was left with no option but to delete the rubbish. Implement a comments policy. And vet every comment.

***Or: I got caught so i had to cover my tracks as quickly as possible, but like everything else i worked on, it failed and i was exposed for the liar that i am***

My blog has returned to normal now. I am authorising all but silly posts.

***It’s spelled “authorizing”. Your blog has been dead since 5/20/10 and you’re still deleting comments that you don’t agree with. Bruce on Shaving is not only laughable, it’s also dead.***

Meanwhile I still have no explanation for the two weeks of personal insults on Stuart’s forum. That is far more worthy of criticism than anything that I have done.

**I can explain it: Nobody likes a liar, especially a liar that’s as arrogant as you are. You’re not seriously playing the victim now,are you? You have no right. You brought this upon yourself***

And nobody seems to have grasped the nettle that he is selling other people’s work on his website. He is profiting from piracy. All I hear are the usual excuses.

***And you steal other people’s IP. Your site is riddles with pictures that are not yours along with articles lifted from other places. Yet you talk about how much you hate copyright infringement, your hypocrisy rears it’s ugly head again***

And I repeat, all the stories on all the forums, including this one, were started by other people, not me. And I only joined in two of them. And then just for entertainment value as anyone with a brain can easily see.

***Bullshit. Once again you’re trying to repair the damage you’ve done to yourself over the years. You’ve become the laughing stock and you’re desperately trying to save what little respect you have left.***

The biggest enemy you have in your life is yourself. You could have avoided all of this hate against you if you just fessed up and told the truth. Instead, you continue to point the finger all say that people are picking on you.

You’re a joke, a coward, hypocritical, egotistic, arrogant, lying, devious, ignorant asshole and every time you open your mouth, we’ll be there to shut it.

He can delete the posts on that article, I already have it saved.

Bruce underestimates the knowledge of veteran gamers. FishyHat basically took over the blog and put Bruce in his place. I can only assume that FishyHat was blocked from making any further comments on his blog. So much for Free Speech.

Bruce is a arrogant, egotistical coward.

Biggest piece of shit since Windows ME, maybe worse.

Fuck off and die, MicroFuck.