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I won"t be there. Day job takes precedence Feb-Oct. Todd, RA and a few others, our President, Chief Marketing Office and maybe a few others. We"ll also be premiering some snippets of our founders video I think.

Anyone here going? Todd, RA and Brett, along with a few others will be at Comicon 2007 representing 38 Studios. Stop by, get a 38 Studios shirt signed by all three of us, and say hello.

Malfurion btw, where the Horde that is 38 Studios resides.

Wow, first guess nails it. My main, initially, is a Tauren Shaman. I have since moved to an Orc Hunter. Will be going back to the Shaman on and off but the Hunter is my main atm.

Couple of things. To set out developing a game with the idea behind it being "To dethrone WoW" would be a mistake of epic proportions. I don"t think you are implying that, but just being clear. I disagree with "serious and critical flaws" as well. Anything I deem to be serious or critical is...

I think what you are debating is this. 1) Would the WoW MMO have as many subs as it has, or had, without the pre-existing WoW and Starcraft franchise? I think it would have. Given the hype created during BETA, and the fact that at no point was the hype overblown with regards to the...

Getting to understand the true numbers and how they work within the industry has shown me that there is a major misconception in many peoples minds as to what successful means. "Low" sub numbers to some people, like 150k subs, is not unsuccessful. Far from it in many cases.

It really is that simple, really. The arguments start to heat up when you try to use a board like this to discern what "a great game" means Sometimes your great game is my drink coaster, and vice versa. That being said, again like the movie industry, a good movie is a good movie, even if you...

Two things, not the end all of be alls, but two things are imo of monumental importance. 1) Barrier to entry-Regardless of the target market, hard core to casual, barrier to entry technically and the acutal game play has to be low. IMO above everything else, it"s what the Blizzard folks crushed...

No one, not even WoW has truly reached a "massive" audience. 9 million? That"s incredible, unreal, unprecedented, but in the global scheme of things how many players are playing fantasy MMO"s? Someone can, someone will, launch to a world wide audience of that many, if not double. It"s going...

Sure we do. Our President, CEO, was pretty much the guy behind the Medal of Honor franchise. Every person on our dev team has been in on the development of shipped titles, inside the MMO space and out, every single one. Every person in this company BUT me has product history and successful...

One of the other parts of MMO design, that I don"t think some people grasp is this. Think about every other genre out there, nothing is even in the same hemisphere when it comes to the use of content. So in addition to volume that"s incomparable, you also have players, millions of them...

We do have some very cool things going on with regards to UI. It was an immensely in depth and detailed discussion over a lengthy period of time. However when you talk about looking for variety, I think anyone taking that path needs to be very careful. Look, for the most part everyone on...

Spoken like a man with NO kids Hot elf chicks, ya let me utter that line on ESPN so I can get the "GEEK" and "Sexist" label to go along with "blowhard" and whatever else is out there already.

The 10 fluffy bunnies I can see. But I think you also should consider you are putting quests in to placate 3-5000 people. If you don"t have a bunch of run here and go there, kill these and kill those, you"ve got 3k people on the same quest at the same time. I thought EQ2 did a great job of...

BOE? And to the second point, I am not sure I get what you are saying. You want to be able to "join in" on a tiered quest at any stage of it if someone in your group has done the other steps, but you haven"t?

But the problem with twitch skills in MMO"s is connectivity is it not? I mean if your connection has a spike and during that spike twitch skills matter, doesn"t that suck? On another note. I am very curious to hear from the masses on many topics. Having said that, and I don"t want to start a...

You know where my beef with EQ2 came? When, as a guild leader I took it upon myself to do an in depth study of classes and their abilities as they related to raiding. I took every class, buff, debuff, and made a huge geek spreadsheet labeling their differing abilities. After doing just ONE...

I think we were pretty dang close on the initial numbers. VG and what"s happened to it, pre launch, and post launch, hasn"t changed anything with regards to our project and our thoughts about making a game. Just reaffirmed things we believed and most people knew. No one that I know...

Anyone here from Seattle? If so 38 Studios will be making it"s first "public" appearance at the OGDC on the 10th and 11th. President, CEO Brett Close will be making our first foray into the gaming scene.

I think I"m more than ok with a fantasy based story created by someone that"s overseen the creation of fantasy worlds for three decades. I"ll admit I am a biased fan but R.A. is as creative as anyone I"ve ever read. What"s being created is something pretty incredible. Not to mention why bring...

Anyone that knows me even a little knows that being "hands off" is not my way. I believe being a leader means running this company with people that make it so I CAN be away and things will run silky smooth. Brett is the President, CEO, he runs the development studio day to day and also works...

Enter 38 Studios first official contest for a chance to become part of 38 Studios history--and earn some cool stuff to boot! 38 Studios? beloved little green mascot, Munch, was born to personify the company?s values and attitudes. He"s upbeat, tenacious, focused, competitive, mischievous...

They did a fantastic job getting that up and running. Used a great web company called Mediaboom out of NY or Penn, can"t remember. Glad to see you like it, the people that put it together will be glad to hear it.

Let us actually get "A" fan before we start thinking along those lines.

1) Yes 2) Yes 2B) Seperate 3) You don"t need gore, sex, nudity and adult violence to make an awesome game. 4) Yes 4B)No comment as of now 5)That depends on what you are making really, and whether it fits. Putting it in just to have it sucks, if it fits it"s awesome. 6) No 7) 2 weeks 7B)...

Cad, questions noted for the next Q&A. Thanks. When I can"t go into detail, which will be often right now, I won"t. Otherwise I will give it my best shot.

I will give these a shot on the next Q &A go around.

I know this is going to sound like something it"s not intended to be. Danuser might shoot me as well, but anyone that is perusing the blog that wants to ask an intelligent industry question please feel free. You guys know I can"t get into the detail you might want right now but opening up...

Still working on getting comfortable with the format. Doesn"t seem to want me to double space atm. I promise I"ll get to some 38 Studios stuff! Btw anyone check out the shirts/hats? Thoughts?

Got a blog going that started tonight. Hoping to be able to discuss things across the board and interact with people there at some point. Danuser came up with the highly innovative and creative38 Pitches, he"s creative like that

No. We talked long and hard about making this change. The last thing we"d want to do is to appear uncertain about something that isn"t that complicated. In the end we decided that the new name truly did encompass more of what we hope to be and do. Most companies end up with shortened names and...

Holy crap, what a time for this thread to goto Bioware. John Ricatello and Greg Richardson, both from the VC that owns controlling interest in Bioware, are taking the lead positions at EA and Bioware. Wow, huge news.

How can you not like Bioware? Awesome company run by what I hear are great people. They"ve got an awesome track record of great games. Been a fan and a customer for a long time. As far as "taking a look" I am not sure what you mean. We follow what they are doing, like everyone else, and pay...

That"s why you aren"t seeing now, nor will you likely see in the future, detailed IP and game specific posts. It does no one any good. The only thing that can happen if you hype something in a forum like this is bad. You either meet your hype, which rarely if ever happens, or you don"t even put...

While our focus is on developing this IP and building the company today, and over the next few years, the ultimate goal is to become a force in the world of publishing. We have every intention of becoming an "entertainment" company. Our focus, and our strength, will be games, but there are alot...

No and No to the two questions.

No pressure. Pressure is self invoked. If I wanted to skate by, make a game and a few bucks while building a company that people in it believed was going to be revolutionary, that would be pressure. I had a great opportunity to sit and talk with Brad McQuaid a few months back, right before...

Oh it"s weird, for other people. The GMG name was, and I know this is going to be impossible to believe, not named after the left field wall at fenway. The name was made up by someone who knew next to nothing about baseball and isn"t even from this country. This company will do just fine with...