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You miss the point. Mobs in Vex Thal would AoE blind, and then run, and because of fucked up pathing and agro in that zone, they'd train back everything they passed by when the flee mechanic wore off. It was beyond stupid.

That sounds about right. VT when it first opened was way harder than after retuned for sure. The mobs that would AoE blind, and then run were always a party favorite.

VT was a joke. Roughly 30% of the zone was populated the day before launch because the designer responsible for the zone had quit, and QA somehow missed that an entire area of the zone was empty. There was no 'tuning' per se of VT.. it was a giant clusterfuck. There was one boss that was pure...

Before I worked at SOE, I was in the top guild on my server, but even back then some events were a bit tough to beat without the right player makeup.. The Coirnav fight in Plane of Water was one of EQ's first timed raid events if I remember correctly. If you loaded up the zone with a lot of...

Yep. You just camped right next to a wall. For whatever reason, when you camped out, your actual position moved ever so slightly in the direction you were facing, and that would put you inside the wall. So next time you logged in, you were deemed in an invalid location, and moved to the safe...

Actually, for as long as I was on the team, it was WELL understood that the bleeding edge guilds would absolutely murder any content we put out in a matter of weeks. The ONE time we tried really hard to give those guilds a challenge was Underfoot, and man that pissed off a HUGE segment of the...

Also.. completely unrelated.. Covid-19 fucking sucks. Fever of 102.4, body aches that won't let you sleep, a headache that feels like Brittney is sitting on your head, and a cough that feels like my lungs are trying to rip themselves out of my chest. I am vaccinated (Pfizer), but got the virus...

Also fascinating and ironic that his rant was basically wrong. He was ranting about mechanics he didn't understand. That isn't how the PoT entrance phase worked at all. As a senior designer at SOE I was making $80k per year, with royalties and ship bonuses bumping that to about $110k per year...

I play both. I like both. What I'm referring to are the people making such a big deal about switching to show their solidarity, when in reality they're really mostly just concerned about losing viewers for supporting (streaming) THAT game..

^^^ Fucking this! The number of streamers clutching their pearls and 'protest quitting' WoW and switching to FFXIV to make them appear morally superior is fucking laughable. Don't like WoW? OK.. fine, switch, but the fake outrage and desperate attempt to continue making money from this...

That Asmongold guy is annoying. I don't know why, but the few times I watched his streams, all I kept thinking was how this channel needs a counter in the corner for every time his eyebrows twitch out of control. For a while I thought about quitting WoW, but I decided to keep playing for a...

Lore isn't the reason YOU play games. There are A LOT of people who actually enjoy the lore. I'm not a huge lore guy either, but study after study, market research shows people actually do care about it.

Nobody is hanging them based upon twitter. They're hung because of plenty of examples of shit behavior. It's very easy to get caught up in the moment and do stupid shit. In a social setting, it's awkward at best, and can get you in big trouble at worst if shit goes bad. In a corporate setting...

Blizzard probably figures they can out lawyer Alex, even if he's in the right on this part. If NDA's were signed, Alex is doing the right thing by staying quiet. There's ZERO point to him trying to defend any of this shit. Nobody will care, and it'll just give people more fuel for their rage.

The 14 days thing was hilarious actually. It pissed off a lot of people at SOE, because frankly he was right.

News flash: most players are morons, or just oblivious. This shit was wrong, and you know it. If that woman's story is true, Alex committed sexual assault. Period. Full stop. That's illegal everywhere. Blizzard fucked up because they knew about it and didn't put a stop to it.

Well.. because up until he shut off his FB account, I was friends with him and saw his girlfriend that's carrying his child.. She's hot. Not sure what else to tell you.

Yep.. I had an ex who slashed up her arms and legs with a knife, then called police and claimed I did it to her. The ONLY way anyone believed me was I finally resorted to hidden cameras in the house to prove she was doing it to herself.

Except crazy is usually the most fun to stick.. um.. nevermind.

Never had source or tools. I wasn't a programmer, and the tools required a connection to the database anyway.

He left voluntarily. If being cancelled means living my life on the beaches of Kailua with a hot wife, then fucking cancel me..

I think that's a pretty big stretch. Also, you should look up what makes up sexual harassment. Often it isn't physical at all. I DO agree that allegations alone aren't enough.

This shit happened 9 years ago. 2012. LONG before the MeToo movement happened. The State of CA didn't come up with this investigation overnight. This shit has been happening for a long time.

100%. I've been victim to it. I've seen women play some truly psychotic games as a relationship fails. My opinion on Blizzard is pretty simple. Management was willing to look the other way as long as the MASSIVE paychecks rolled in, and SOME probably thought any serious allegations of...

Only to people who victim blame.. Women don't report rape sometimes because of shame. That doesn't ruin their credibility. The same way many women don't report domestic violence. Because they (correctly) believe people won't believe them, which ultimately puts them right back into the same...

I still to this day don't understand the pining for Vanguard to be reborn, and I worked on it for a few years. The end result was a shit game IMO. Yeah, we shipped it, but it wasn't really much fun, and had a METRIC FUCK TON of issues that no hardware in its day could fix.

You're free to your own opinion of course, but having personally seen the vindictive behavior from management when people don't play ball, I disagree.

The more I think about this, the more I see it's a pretty weird self-own if true. It's also ENTIRELY possible that once he was done with her, it was easy to shit all over her to make himself look better.

This. A lot of people don't report things for fear of reprisals. It's not supposed to happen, but then neither is sexual assault. It doesn't take the entire company being on-board. It takes the average worker seeing leadership (IE, the people controlling YOUR paycheck) on-board, and people...

Nah.. I'm not that cool. I've just moved on from the high school locker room bullshit that's pervasive in game dev and don't give a fuck if I step on toes.

Maggie's situation was a weird one. She's had the same boyfriend for 20 years or close to it. My guess is she refused advances by someone in power, and she paid the price for it. I've never gotten into the details with her but it fits the pattern. On the other hand, she was very skilled in the...

Living in Laguna Nigel isn't cheap.. I doubt it's relevant to the issue at hand though, so I'm not going to speculate. FWIW, I've also talked to female former co-workers who worked with Alex who said he was nothing but supportive and great to work with. I suspect there is a fair amount of the...

He was there since before launch. I'd guess his royalties over the years were pretty good considering at one point it was making over 1.3B per year in revenue.

He lives in Hawaii now. He's already left SoCal.

I wasn't at Blizzard, so I have no idea how that was handled. Since Police said they found a butt plug and lube in the supervisor's room, it's pretty clear Police were called for THAT incident.

No. And that's part of the problem. Inaction basically was tacit approval by management to let this shit continue.

Everything alleged happens. SOE had it going on too. Before I worked there, there were at least two female employees with restraining orders against other male employees for shit that they did both at work, and off-site, yet those male employees weren't fired. It happened to some of our female...

Shawn is awesome. I'm going to play this for sure. Hell, I'd love to work on it too.. I've had a blast doing the interviews with him.

My guess is the former. Steven Shariff is known for being difficult to work with.. Pure conjecture on my part though with no actual factual info on why Jeff left. I liked Jeff a lot though both times I spoke with him.

No idea.. Most of the people I knew there left some time ago.. When I interviewed there, the CEO apparently had "hesitation" about hiring me even though he'd never met me.. Once I heard that nonsense, I stopped even trying.