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 Apr 3 2006, 08:32 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 2-April 06 Member No.: 8,426  |
Has anyone done any fan sourcebooks concerning RL corps in the 2070s?
In my campaign, Google is now a Subsidiary of Horizon, doing Funky AR stuff for free in exchange for targeted Horizon Ads (Google Earth has Live feeds now :P) Anyone else have any idea on what corps of today actually survived to 2070, let alone what they're like now? Muskie |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:49 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Some of them are actual Canon entities. Federated Boeing for example is basicly the good old lazy B. Others are referenced as being parts of the Megas, Corporate Shadowfiles and Corporate Download both contain information. Smaller companies can probably be safely incorporated however you need for your game. Again corporated Download and Corporate Shadowfiles reference what sectors each of the Megas have their strengths in. For examle Aztechnology is the leader in foodstuffs, they own the Stuffer Shack chain and numerous food companies. In all likelihood they probably own a chain of more upscale supermarkets, though that is not Canon (because how many Shadowrunners shop at the local market and have time to make a home cooked meal?) you could insert your favorite chain (Kroeger, Whole Foods, Albertsons, Safeway, etc.) in that role as a subsidiary. Of course there are lots of smaller local, regional, national, and international non extraterritorial companies out there too, and these small guys can make interesting players in your world.
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Apr 4 2006, 12:20 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,507 Joined: 27-January 05 From: ...and I'm all out of bubblegum Member No.: 7,021 |
AZT is supposed to own Carrefour's (a supermarket conglomerate over in the EU and in China). Now that I've finally got an in-person group to run, I'm having them own Wal-Mart. Ares owns Kroger.
The players are, well, having fun with this :) |
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Apr 4 2006, 12:35 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
funny
Most professional criminals DO have time to cook for themselves |
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Apr 4 2006, 01:04 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,283 Joined: 17-May 05 Member No.: 7,398 |
Microsoft renamed itself Microdeck following the first Matrix crash, and became a peripheral company, though I wouldn't be surprised if that was about to change. Afterall, MS invented the tactics the megacorps use today. I think it's time for them to show them that the original is still the best. ;)
Sure, it'll never be a AAA, but it could quite possibly become a AA. |
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Apr 4 2006, 01:09 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
I dispute that. Most runners only work one weak every month. Why not cook good food. Edward |
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Apr 4 2006, 01:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
In an incomming game where the runers travel unto the 'Green Southern Lands', I am thinking about including local corporations as A, maybe some AA. Like that infamous Globo, the brazilian version of Fox.
If I remember well, Embraer, the local big planes makers who clashed with our Bombardier still exist as a part of Aztechnologies and had to move out (A guy on a Toronto Shadows setting website used Bombardier and another also of our local jewels, thought i don't know if it's canon). |
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Apr 4 2006, 04:52 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
You mean GloboTrid. It has already appeared in State of the Art: 2064, in some Amazonian-related stuff. 8) |
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Apr 4 2006, 01:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
Thank you for the info, man. I will look at this.
BTW, are they as controversial in the future as it is now? :D |
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Apr 4 2006, 01:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 327 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 8,209 |
One weak what? |
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Apr 4 2006, 08:20 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 27-June 05 From: FL, USA Member No.: 7,468 |
A bunch of today's corps around in some form or another...look at some of the equipment and vehicle names. I expect most of the ones that still have a 'presence' have been folded into one mega's portfolio or another though. I remember Microdek being mentioned (IIRC Gates III was in charge). Wasn't Apple mentioned in the CalFree sourcebook?
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Apr 4 2006, 08:32 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Yes. It's owned by Ares.
HAHAHA Oooookay... |
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Apr 4 2006, 09:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
Since we speak of it...
Anyone know the fates in Shadowrun of the grand ol' videogames corporations - Nintendo, Sony, Sega, the holder of Atari's things? I have the idea of a run around 'electronical archeology' of Pre-Crash codding and games in the future (maybe linked to the Amazonia one). Any official hints? :) |
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Apr 4 2006, 09:31 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Lots of those are probably swallowed up by Mitsuhama and Reraku, though you could easily have them operated as subsidiaries retaining the familiar names. I think the new SR4 "On the Run" adventure deals a bit with legacyware, so I think that's viable as a plot point. Besides if you look at the number of video games out today that are pretyy much repacks of older games, it's likely that the industry is looking for "lost" games to repack. |
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Apr 4 2006, 09:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
Yeah, albeit I was thinking about some weirdo futuristic tech geek and mad collectionor. ^^ But all good.
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Apr 5 2006, 05:27 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 27-August 05 From: In the ruins of Clermont-Ferrand Member No.: 7,629 |
That's Infogrames. As as far as I know, despite being holder of the Atari brand it's no way as big as Nintendo or Sega. |
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Apr 5 2006, 07:07 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
Infogrames is sort of mid-sized in the scheme of game publishing companies and is itself in big financial trouble lately. The big players in gaming right now are Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Electronic Arts. Sega lost a lot of ground but still makes games and is now owned by Sega Sammy Holdings, a company that brought together Sega's assets with a Japanese pachinko parlor company.
By 2070, I imagine most of the original gaming assets have been bought and absorbed into newer companies (much like Atari was bought by Infogrames). We do know that Microsoft still sorta exists as MicroDeck, but they are a much paler version of the old MS and likely don't do a whole lot in the gaming business anymore. Sony still exists too and likely still controls its gaming assets. In my games, I had Sega taken over by MCT and now used primarily as a front for electronic gambling (especially Yakuza-run operations in Japan). I had Nintendo bought out by a young Inazo Aneki in his early acquisition days and it still remains part of Renraku and part of the gaming biz. I haven't given much thought to EA's fate before now, but they make a great candidate for absorption into Horizon. |
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Apr 5 2006, 07:31 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
I think Blizzard must be mentioned... i don't know what their profit is, but with literally millions of gamers paying a monthly fee, the turnover must be really big, especially compared to other computer gaming companies.
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Apr 5 2006, 07:43 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
Blizzard is a studio and doesn't do its own publishing. Vivendi Universal Games publishes Blizzard's games, and they are a mid-sized publisher based in Los Angeles, which itself is a 99%-owned subsidiary in the big France-based Vivendi Universal S.A. conglomerate. The success of World of Warcraft made Vivendi pretty much the only gaming publisher to post a profit this year, but it's still small compared to the other companies I posted.
What becomes of Vivendi in SR is anyone's guess. Possibly Lofwyr snatched them up, maybe they formed a foundation of what is now Hermes Eurocom, or maybe they just fell apart in the Crash. As for Blizzard, it's equally fuzzy. Developer/Publisher relationships can change; there's no saying Vivendi will still be publishing Blizzard's games five years from now, no less decades in the future. |
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Apr 5 2006, 07:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
I stand corrected.
I doubt they will go down before the first Matrix crash ;). |
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Apr 5 2006, 07:52 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
And actually, I have to correct myself here. :P Blizzard isn't just having its games published by Vivendi, it's actually a subsidiary of Vivendi. So the developer/publisher relationship won't change unless Vivendi sells them.
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Apr 5 2006, 08:34 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
French Company Vivendi, perhaps in the holdings of a certain France based brother and rival of Lofwyr.........
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Apr 6 2006, 04:35 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 12-January 05 From: Brazil, RN, Natal (Also known as Amazonia) Member No.: 6,968 |
Globo, a version of Fox? I donīt know Fox enough to say that, but Globo is powerful enough to elect and drop presidents at the tip of a hat. They are THE original open TV definition here in Amaz... I mean, Brazil. Of course, they have a great staff, produce excellent news and entertainment shows, span over the WHOLE country, and virtually every big city (including capitals) has one of their franchised office. Is Fox like that? I REALLY donīt know. Some of my SR games are set in Braz... Amazonia, so I use them all the time for news references, but didnīt new that Globo Trid bit (mostly because until recently - when I bought 4th ed., I only played 2nd edition). |
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Apr 6 2006, 07:27 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
Fox is very big and influencal also, and known (infamous) for it's decidedly rightist, neocon bias. I remember hearing similar vibes from Globo, who blasted Lula. But you know more than me on that...
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Apr 6 2006, 07:36 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Ares Global Entertainment, the third most important AAA holdings in the media sector (after Horizon and MCT), is headquartered in Paris, France. The place probably weights a little bit more in the videogame industry than in the TV/Trid, music (and simsense I guess). I can perfectly imagine Ares marketing "the only Knight Errant-sanctionned FPS".
Also, the three major channels in SR are CBC, NBS and ABS (got the pattern ?), respectively owned by MCT, Ares and S-K. IRL, NBC entered a partnership with Vivendi to refund the TV/movie branch, taking a 20% stake. |
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