The Aquarium is a money-making operation, not a charity.
Jim is prevented from selling the Aquarium at Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, and Target until SereneScreen has TWO products. So the Freshwater Aquarium is being produced so that this requirement can be fulfilled. Then he will return to work on the saltwater version.
After 21 months of sales, 80,000 copies of the Aquarium have been sold. Since Microsoft wasted 2 months of Jim's time with the Plus pack, which failed to generate any significant sales numbers, now Jim has to look at alternatives to make up for it. This includes taking steps to make the Aquarium available at Best Buy, Circuit City, and other retailers.
I think if you check around, you'll find that there has never been a promised release date for the 3D background.
You know, because of these types of entitled attitudes, I wish Jim had made the 3D background a separate add-on.
I'd be curious to hear your reaction about the fact that Jim spent several weeks designing the SereneScreen logo and artwork for the carton and jewel case for the CD-ROM version of the Aquarium?
How do you feel about the fact that Jim is considering working on animation and special effects shots for feature films?
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Last edited by feldon34; 06-23-2002 at 01:17 AM.
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