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Re:Is releasing early ever a bad idea? by ilamont on Friday September 05, 2008 @12:08PM (#295965)
Whether you're a startup or established company, I would say "no" for games-related products, but that hasn't seemed to stop Microsoft.
Re:Is releasing early ever a bad idea? by hhm on Friday September 05, 2008 @01:51PM (#296099)
Game-related services are a different subject btw. Developing games for advertising, doing consulting for game dev companies, etc, is a much more safer bet than making game-based products. However, the game industry doesn't pay as much as other industries, whatever you do in there (at least that was my experience).
Re:Is releasing early ever a bad idea? by froo on Friday September 05, 2008 @12:57PM (#296036)
Or Sony Online Entertainment.

They have many years and many games under their belts where people pay to beta test their software for them.

Re:Is releasing early ever a bad idea? by jbgh2 on Friday September 05, 2008 @12:09PM (#295969)
It always takes them three goes!