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Topic: Rumor: Hartsman leaving SOE (Read 9878 times)
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Mantees
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Or at least this is what eq2flames admins says: Scott, you know I'm one of your biggest fans, so I hope you don't mind me leaking this. If it wasn't me, it would be someone else. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you are doing. Little birdies say you are going with a start up, or doing your own thing. Care to share bud?
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geldonyetich2
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Mayhap he's as torn up about their inability to solve spawn shortages as I am.
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schild
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File this under "unexpected."
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shiznitz
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How often do we get an MMOG exec who will be missed? Good luck to him if it's true.
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I have never played WoW.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Mayhap he's as torn up about their inability to solve spawn shortages as I am.
Newb. Scott: NOOOOOOO!!!
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Signe
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It's okay. He makes me laugh sometimes and I enjoy reading his blog. Maybe he'll poke around in other bits of the board now. I wonder what he's wearing?
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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UD_Delt
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I wonder what he's wearing?
He's leaving a successful game and it does not sound like he's being forced out, so he's most likely wearing a money hat right now...
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Falconeer
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a polyamorous pansexual genderqueer born and living in the wrong country
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Maybe he's going to fix Vanguard
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tazelbain
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NCSoft should hire him to turn CoX around.
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"Me am play gods"
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schild
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Fuck no, I don't want Hartsman wasting his goddamn time on leftovers like CoH.
Why would you want that. It's a waste of talent.
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Kirth
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Any confirmation other then the eq2flames guy whose motives don't seem to be entirely altruistic.
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tazelbain
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Fuck no, I don't want Hartsman wasting his goddamn time on leftovers like CoH.
Why would you want that. It's a waste of talent.
Because CoX is a great game dying on the vine.
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"Me am play gods"
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Tale
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I could see him wanting to do what Spacetime is doing. Just saying.
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Nebu
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The guy has a lot of talent. Regardles of the situation, I hope that he finds a project that helps him continue to express his ability.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Soukyan
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"Life is no cabaret... we're inviting you anyway." ~ Amanda Palmer"Tree, awesome, numa numa, love triangle, internal combustion engine, mountain, walk, whiskey, peace, pascagoula" ~ Lantyssa"Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." ~Marcel Proust
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Miasma
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Yeah so did that say the new guy in charge was one of the people responsible for making EQ2 at launch such a terrible game? EQ2 only got good after they ripped out all the suck that it had like no offline auction house, spirit shards, group death penalty etc, etc.
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tazelbain
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Well, this new dude just needs to hold the game together until WAR comes out.
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"Me am play gods"
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Blackluck
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I'm worried about that too, although I think (hope) the departed Dymus, lead designer, had more to do with "the suck" then the producer.
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Cheddar
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Very, very interesting. Hartsman is probably my favorite dev- he is not a "rockstar", but damned if he does not do some great work.
He will do very well no matter where he ends up. Good luck to you, sir!
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Tale
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« Last Edit: December 16, 2007, 12:22:08 AM by Tale »
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Hartsman
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Trion
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Hahaha -- I hope you enjoyed that. :)
Yes, it was my Erudite.
Re: a couple messages ago
Dymus (lead designer for expansions 2 and 3) was actually a critical partner in crime in the steady stream of improvements in EQ2. If you played through the latest version of Fallengate, that was all his (both concept and implementation), to give an example of his style.
Turning an existing project of that size around is a herculean effort - Big projects turn about as quickly as big ships. It takes a lot of effort from a lot of people to overcome that kind of inertia. It's not even something that happened in a single dev cycle, but over a number of them.
A lot of what people have termed the "early suck" was less about any individual person doing a bad job between 2000 and 2004, and more an overall goals issue. Even in what was there, there were a lot of good individual bits of work done by a lot of very smart people. Important parts of said work just weren't the ideal ways to make the best product possible that carried the EQ name.
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Venkman
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Good luck Hartsman, wherever you land Because CoX was a great game concept dying on the vine. FIFY (my first ever FIFY )
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