A Fable
Once upon a time there was a little company. It was very small and only had a very small amount of money. Despite this it had a good game that people liked to play. The company was happy that people liked the game and tried hard to help the players. Sometimes the players were unhappy and wanted more from the company and when this happened the company would try to see if it was possible. Sometimes it wasn’t possible and the players had to be told that it wouldn’t happen, sometimes it wasn’t possible to explain the reasons for this either and so the players would grow angry with the company. Still the game was good and people liked to play it. The people who ran the company sometimes made mistakes but they always tried to do the best thing.
Then the company got a new game, the new game was going to be even better than the old game and a lot of people got really excited. The new game was going to make everyone very rich and so the company was given a lot of money to make sure that the new game would be a big success. The company bought a shiny new office and lots of shiny new computers with shiny new employees to sit in front of them and work hard for the players. This shiny new office was across the sea from the old company office and the people in charge of the company stayed in the old office while everyone else travelled across the sea.
For a while everything was good. The new game looked very exciting and the company spent a lot of money telling people about it. Lots of people were hired to look after the new game and a lot of these people were very clever and knew a lot about how to make games a success. The people at the old office however became unhappy because they were not so important to the game’s success anymore. So they made sure that they made all the decisions themselves instead of leaving it to the clever people at the new office. They tried to make important plans which the clever people pointed out wouldn’t work but the people in charge didn’t listen. Then the plans failed just like the clever people said they would and the people in charge got angry.
‘Our plans are good!’ they said. ‘The only reason that they don’t work is because you don’t obey us. We are the clever ones not you and you should listen to what we say.’
And the clever people at the new and shiny office mostly stopped caring at that point and started looking for new jobs.
The End.
