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You're right. Five years is a very reasonable amount of time to start a business model.

Are you kidding me, right now? Seriously, people. I like Oddworld games. I will buy any game they put out, and I would also go see any movie they put out, but, for Christ's sake, stop being so naive. Their current business model is to be idea people. In other words, they pitch an idea, and hope that somebody will make it. Not only do they hope that somebody will make it, they want full creative control. That's asinine.

If he had gone ahead and acquired the funds to start a CG movie production studio before shutting down the game studio, that would have been one thing. He didn't do that, though. He had a few conversations with people in the movie industry and just assumed that everything would be peachy. He shut down his company, a company that had a decent amount of clout, to go into another business without setting up that business first. What's the first thing that any sane person does before quiting a job? You secure another job, first. He didn't do that. They failed. No one was surprised.