Color me surprised... no, not really.

[Trippy]

Why is the smiley on the right bleeding blue?

He's crying -- I didn't have a bleeding one handy.

[Samwise]

Clearly we need a "crying tears of blood" smiley.

[Trippy]

Clearly we need a "crying tears of blood" smiley.

How's this?:

   

[Samwise]

YAY!   

[Signe]

I think the blue thingies might be bullets and it's not bleeding at all.

[Pococurante]

Genius, this continues Mythic's recent trend of admitting and reversing horrible ideas.

This one had to give Jacobs the fits though - from his past comments Imperator was the game he always dreamed of making.  Everything else up until now was simply paving the way.

"When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things."
1 Corinthians 13:11

[jpark]

I heard a rumor that they were going to work on a Shrek MMORPG.

 

[eldaec]

How do you know smiley blood isn't blue anyway?

[Mi_Tes]

I actually think Mythic is a pretty savvy company, despite the hangover that DAoC induced. I have absolutley 0 insight to the MMORPG business but i do know that Mythic wants

a). to make money
b). to make reasonably good games

I think this decision supports both goals.

ps. and fuck you mark - i'm not resubbing just cause you retracted 'teh suck'.

Had they made this decision over a year ago, I agree it would support both goals and come off reasonably savy.  However, waiting so long to carry this baby hurt Mark, the company, and DAoC.  Now they are scrambling to save DAoC - where they should have continued to focus on this game for the past 2 years.  Being ballsy in making decisions is great, but losing touch with reality and not listening to others gives you what happened with Imperator.  A lame idea for a game, with more money sunk into it that DAoC had, and nothing to show for it - a complete waste of time for the devs working on it.  I feel sorry for them in this whole mess.  Yea, most of them have jobs, but having spent a year or 2 working to achieve absolutely nothing.

[HaemishM]

Yea, most of them have jobs, but having spent a year or 2 working to achieve absolutely nothing.

So essentially, they were playing The Office MMOG?

[HRose]

Had they made this decision over a year ago, I agree it would support both goals and come off reasonably savy.  However, waiting so long to carry this baby hurt Mark, the company, and DAoC.  Now they are scrambling to save DAoC - where they should have continued to focus on this game for the past 2 years.  Being ballsy in making decisions is great, but losing touch with reality and not listening to others gives you what happened with Imperator.  A lame idea for a game, with more money sunk into it that DAoC had, and nothing to show for it - a complete waste of time for the devs working on it.  I feel sorry for them in this whole mess.  Yea, most of them have jobs, but having spent a year or 2 working to achieve absolutely nothing.

I wish you would rant more often.

[Fargull]

So essentially, they were playing The Office MMOG?

I wonder if Lum was camping the Redline Stapler.

[Murgos]

So essentially, they were playing The Office MMOG?

I wonder if Lum was camping the Redline Stapler.

Red Swingline Stapler, Noob!