Question: If you owned a company and decided to have your employees all take a one month vacation, would you want to pay them for doing nothing? The term used "layed off" is correct for the context, and different from the term "fired." Layed off means, "to take leave without salary" and fired means "job termination." Mr Lanning even told me that everyone's taking one month off before coming back. Chew on that.

WOOHOO!! we still have some warrior defenders of the ODD. the elite: steel shark, pilot, and myself. oddworld is a great company, and where do you think half of their income goes? into future oddworld games for you guys! they get a fraction of what the games make. and the advertising, where do you think the money for that goes? future games! future games are for you guys! every decision OI makes is for YOU! i back OI 110%. if you dont think before you speak, you dont think at all! i hope alf sees this and clarifies everything for you non-believers.

I hope you weren't refering to me as a non- beliver in your last post Joe :( , I have always considered myself a huge Oddworld fan and have always tried to defend it...

of course i wasnt oddsville! im talking about all those people that are constantly complaining of OI selling out when they didnt sell out! i know youre a huge oddworld fan! as am i!

I always wonder sometimes when I read these kinds of posts. I tend to agree somewhat with what Steel Shark says... that we are all here for Oddworld. If everyone looks back to the reason why they came here in the first place, it is because we are Oddworld fans. Some may stay for different reasons (people, RPG, etc)... but in the end we are all an Oddworld fan of some kind.

Unfortunately not all of us are like I am. I'm someone that tends to support OWI no matter what. I don't criticize their decisions too much and regardless of where their game is ... I follow to that console. It could be released on an Atari for all I care and I'd buy one. I'm one of those dedicated fan type people.

I know we are all different, but it really disheartens me when I read some negative stuff like this. Like I read in someone's post that they were calling Lorne a negative name... I won't name the person (they are a regular), nor will I say what was said, as I have great respect for Lorne. I mean if it weren't for Lorne, none of us would even know Oddworld at all. I really get annoyed when I read this kind of stuff.

As for all these rumors and stuff... I don't know a thing about what's happening... but I do know from past games, that after each game many people take an extended break from OWI not only because they have more than put in the hours and need a break, but perhaps also because their stage in the development is just not quite ready again for the next game.

Abe Babe...

Yes, some peoople are quick to judge. It also aggrivated me when I saw that Mr. Lanning was having names thrown at him. I said this in a previous post in another topic: He is doing this for YOU and ONLY YOU. He's not out there to make a buck, but to hopefully teach you all that there's more to everything and everyone than meets the eye. And also to educate you about yourselves as a society; a society that victimizes itself and others purely for monetary gain. This is THE ONLY REASON that he's doing what he's doing. I am curious how some can come to condemn him for that?

here here!! i happen to be exactly like ab babe. i respect any decision OI makes completely. hell, if it werent for lorne, iw ouldnt have made this many friends on the forums!

to be more precise, joe, you wouldn't have made any friends on the forums, since they wouldn't exist...

exactly my point dan!