{"id":1801,"date":"2012-02-24T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:38:19","slug":"uk-companies-dont-suck-they-just-need-tax-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/uk-companies-dont-suck-they-just-need-tax-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"UK companies don&#8217;t suck, they just need tax breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/335207\/rocksteady-uk-couldve-been-world-leader-in-games\/\">Sefton Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;You just think about quality developers like Bizarre Creations, Black Rock &#8211; people who are making really good games and going out of business. Those guys were so talented so how can that happen?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, obviously, it wasn&#8217;t anything to do with operational mis-management, poor commercial decisions, gambles that didn&#8217;t pay off, bad strategic decisions about partnerships\/publishers\/<a href=\"http:\/\/disney.com\">companies to sell themselves to<\/a>, <strong>a global recession<\/strong>, failure to keep pace with changing trends in culture and audience, technology falling behind, etc.<\/p>\n<p>No &#8211; it was the lack of tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Sefton Hill: &#8220;You just think about quality developers like Bizarre Creations, Black Rock &#8211; people who are making really good games and going out of business. Those guys were so talented so how can that happen? Well, obviously, it wasn&#8217;t anything to do with operational mis-management, poor commercial decisions, gambles that didn&#8217;t pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}