1Up is running a lengthy parley with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known principally for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last month, and is now simply winding down and taking care of a few final issues. Roper gives quite a bit of detail apropos the pocket machinations of a game pioneer and the current status of the games' code. Co-founders Max Schaefer and Travis Baldree gave a related conference lately as well. "The cable system money we did get, we all poured right away into keeping the game online, keeping it up and running. But the growth demands far outstripped the revenues. There just wasn't a good contemplation early on of how that would work. It wasn't like: This is the budget that comes in every month; we'll do whatever we can do with that. We just said [that] evolvement will get done out of the revenues, and whoever pays for development, they get paid back out of the revenues. And there wasn't really enough revenues coming in to cover the anticipated and prerequisite development."

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