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Unable to take the heat of competition, you sell off your assets and flee to remote tropical island to live the rest of your life in obscurity. Unfortunately, during your years of business, you've made several enemies. You'll never be safe. Oh no. They will find you...They WILL find you!
The last of your disgruntled employees leaves the building, wondering if after years in bankruptcy court, he'll ever get any of the back wages you owe him. The doors close, bringing an end to your corporate vision. You return home for the evening knowing that, somewhere across the seas, megacorps are poised in a deadly endgame where the prize is the world on a platter.
Congratulations! You are a monopoly. Consumers have already begun to use your brand names to describe the products of this market. New companies must set their standards to yours. And the old companies, the ones who competed with you these many years past? Well, you keep them around for sport and to keep the antitrust guys off you...for a while, anyway.
Defeat! You created a viable Civilization and a product to enrich people's lives. But your competitor, with its marketing machine, apparently succeeded in deluding the public that its unoriginal, reverse engineered pile of tripe had more to offer them than you ever could. Now, hopelessly locked out of this market, you begin to wonder where next to direct your corporate resources...widgets, perhaps?
Needed to full up some empty space in the code?
Unable to take the heat of competition, you sell off your assets and flee to remote tropical island to live the rest of your life in obscurity. Unfortunately, during your years of business, you've made several enemies. You'll never be safe. Oh no. They will find you...They WILL find you!
The last of your disgruntled employees leaves the building, wondering if after years in bankruptcy court, he'll ever get any of the back wages you owe him. The doors close, bringing an end to your corporate vision. You return home for the evening knowing that, somewhere across the seas, megacorps are poised in a deadly endgame where the prize is the world on a platter.
Congratulations! You are a monopoly. Consumers have already begun to use your brand names to describe the products of this market. New companies must set their standards to yours. And the old companies, the ones who competed with you these many years past? Well, you keep them around for sport and to keep the antitrust guys off you...for a while, anyway.
Defeat! You created a viable Civilization and a product to enrich people's lives. But your competitor, with its marketing machine, apparently succeeded in deluding the public that its unoriginal, reverse engineered pile of tripe had more to offer them than you ever could. Now, hopelessly locked out of this market, you begin to wonder where next to direct your corporate resources...widgets, perhaps?
