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R.A. is bigger in Europe than he is here, Todd"s audience is pop-culture"ish, and huge in Asia. Regardless, we are targeting a world wide audience, have been since day 1. You can"t expect to be the best in the world at something if you only operate on one part of the globe!

check out38 Studios | World Domination Through Gamingand click on the 3rd tab at the bottom, press link. Snagged a superstar this week!

This thread got so derailed as to venture deep into Matrix talk? Ugh!

Couple things. The latter part of the interview was a semi transcribing of the interview with almost no context. It read horribly in my opinion and some things didn"t come across well. The famous comment was made in talking about the company, and how I viewed "stars" in this industry and dealt...

What does this mean? What capabilities do either of these engines NOT have that would allow us to create this monster? In the end this was by far the best solution(s) for many of our questions going forward. Unreal allows for rapid prototyping, which has to happen to drive out risk as fast as...

You bring in the best people in the world to run the business. Those people shield the developers from every possible distraction, create a truly incredible environment, allow them to make the game. Allow them to do what you pay them to do, while creating passion and energy in the team for...

I would argue that I have already met 2 people I would bet this companies existence on from a QA lead stand point. People with proven track records who are absolutely all about being the best in the world at what they do. That and they bring a resume of accomplishments a mile long with them...

Bottom line is you skimp nowhere when you hire, nowhere. From Execs to HR staff if you don"t build your entire core team of people with the same philosophy you lose at some point, somewhere. 50-60k bad hires now, hell 200k bad hires now, are potential multi-million to billion dollar mistakes...

Very interesting. Never thought of it that way. I would argue the "feeling" we have about the clubhouse is more social than physical. Media members treat our clubhouses like "rec rooms" many times. We view it as a very special location, our home away from home that we spent our entire lives...

You put in a resume when companies put out calls for testers, which happens a lot. I am sure Danuser and Ryan know where to keep an eye on for this sort of thing.

Because the good to great ones (and the one I am hoping accepts here who is off the charts) find the "non-leads" and testers based on this immeasurably huge contact list they keep. Great testers are as hard to find as any other person in this industry from what I have learned. People that run...

I"d go with 1 Designer 2 coders 3 artists 94 QA .........

Hey folks. Busy busy busy. Excited to say we"ve gotten verbal agreements with 3 more senior engineers, coming from some pretty big places to join this little frat party in Maynard! Great engineers, always a good thing.

Decisions have been made and announcements of our decisions will be out sometime in the next month or two.

Ouch, that"s gonna hurt on this board. Unless you can site someone with direct access to Blizzard and subscriber information I don"t think you can come anywhere close to validating that one. I don"t know how many servers in WoW are PvP, I hear half, if you conclude (which I don"t think you...

Someone touched on it last page, btw great reads on some of these posts, but duo"ing or boxing. Do you do it? Like it? Hate it? Game play style or cheating? I will turn away red-faced to admit I was 4 boxing in EQ2, leveled up 4 toons after my main maxed out, to max level. Thing was, and I...

I think those three are no brainers. I think there are more to add to that list though. That solo thing is pretty much hard to miss though, and even though I don"t like it all that much, it"s true. If I had to point to any one thing in addition to the actual gameplay, one thing that made...

I am unsure if I agree or disagree. I guess I would ask this, if WoW didn"t have that much solo content pre-70, would it have had as many players? The answer is no, but how much of a no? If WoW content was spun around to be group content rather than solo content in the same quantity, how...

Yes, yes, and yes.

I am curious to know thoughts on instancing. I don"t know that I care one way or the other and it"s not something that ever intrudes on my enjoyment of a game because lag and all the stuff that made instancing/zoning an issue in EQ are non existent for me anymore. Does it take away from...

If I am not mistaken, EVE is as much about when you signed up as it is about anything else, even skill. I could start playing now, and never be as good as a player that might have less skill than I do, for the simple fact that person was a player sooner than I was and built his skills and stuff...

Power is a relative term. Power to a crafter is the ability to steer entire markets with their goods, to PvPers it"s being at the top of the food chain, to PVE"ers it"s something else. But you are entirely correct. If you have to make players play through your entire game to feel heroic and...

Questions we"ve talked at incredible length on and feel extremely excited about our answers, solutions and ideas. Certainly going to be fun watching it unfold.

Skill or classed based is a huge decision. It"s one of the core design tennants and a major direction design heads once it"s decided upon. The open ended-ness of skill based systems, imo, are incredibly tough to balance and require major development time above and beyond class based systems if...

I can"t, we can"t, not yet. We believe in the process in that the design group, the PR Marketing people, Todd, and many others with input have created a flow to this entire thing that will put out there what needs to be put out there when it needs to be put out there. Doesn"t answer your...

Why the language? Is it impossible to get 5 posts through any topic without someone F bombing or getting profane? Can"t tell you to stop or shut you up, but it does zero for the conversation. Let"s keep to the topics if you all want to exchange cool ideas. And ya, fantasy MMO.... Who"d a thunk...

We aren"t talking about federal court in Clemens case, it"s the court of public opinion. If you don"t care what people say then it"s no problem. As a fan of his, and I do believe he"s the greatest pitcher that ever lived, I want him to clear his name. The "trainer talking" aspect of this is why...

Stop it ladies. Get back on topic. We are talking about some cool stuff here, questing and what"s cool and what isn"t. I think we can all agree on the "don"t send me to the same guy 12 times to go to the same spot to kill the same mobs" sucks. I"d ask this though. If Tolkien had written...

I absolutely hate having to go out and back again to the same person to do a multi-step quest. Even more so when that person is a zone or more away....

But if you were a person that started in the MMO space with EQ, like me, you recognized that the fed-ex and kill x quests were more "Trip Ticks" or "Map Quest" features than real die hard quests. You spend millions of dollars creating content, you want players to see and live in that content...

And I would, and did.

Are you kidding me? At the age I was when this was on it was Ginger in a land slide, not even close. As I got older I realized that what Mary Ann might bring to the table was the great unknown, and therefore sexier, as opposed to Ginger who had herself on display...

Dude, you are talking to someone as passionate about gaming as anyone on this board. You don"t need to tell me about the importance of my pixel rendered alter ego.

Honestly? I"ve done an incredible amount of press so far, on everything from the startup to why the hell I am doing this. The amazing part for me is that many members of the media don"t understand that at the end of the interview when they look across the table and basically state "Wow, you...

I can"t help but laugh at the amount of coverage that 10 seconds of animation got. It"s amazing the interest people have in "just seeing something". The animation you saw was more for animations sake than style. BTW that animator is one of the more talented ones around, with a very...

Please don"t put the blame for the steroid era on the commissioner. While I would probably agree there was much more that could have been done by the powers that be, ignoring the true culprit does no one any good. The players that chose to cheat and break the law are the ones to blame, and I...

I just started getting into Martin last year. As far as delivering plausible characters, I"d argue that while Martin may do it, the fact of the matter for me is that by page 22 he"s introduced 11,423 of them to me and I can"t remember who"s who.

Down loading a trial now. And ya, if someone is caught, or admits to using, the time period in use should be completely wiped out in my opinion, stats, awards, all the personal stuff. Even if you have to go back and "re-gift" awards I am all for it.

You have little respect for him? Or you just aren"t a fan? Respect denotes personal knowledge of someone doesn"t it? Maybe that"s just how I take the word, it"s a pretty significant to me, my respect for someone else. Not liking an artist has zero to do with respect to me. He"s basically...

RJ will go down as arguably one of the 3-4 most dominating strike out pitchers that ever lived, if not the most dominating. Josh still has his legacy to craft but I wouldn"t bet against him.