So what's Mass Market Again? Conan hits 1M (shipped).

[Falconeer]

In june he said in the first post-launch producer letter the PvP patch (very basic stuff, like pvp xp, that was supposed to be super-in at launch) was coming out in about 2 weeks. It was released today, 3 months later.

He was the game director. Or he was lying, or he was clueless.

[sam, an eggplant]

The new guy was a forum mod and news CTRL-X/CTRL-V'er at the AO vault until 2004, when funcom hired him as a forum mod/community manager. He was named producer of Anarchy Online just one year ago in 2007. Now he's the overall director and producer of AoC.

Now that's not necessarily a bad thing. Jeffrey Kaplan was an uberguild leader before being pulled in as lead on WoW. It just seems like experience doesn't matter all that much.

[tkinnun0]

Was he the guy responsible for the focus on PvP?   <----- that's me looking for a scapegoat.

[Simond]

Was the fired guy the one who compared WoW to hamburger and AoC to steak? 

[Mrbloodworth]

Was the fired guy the one who compared WoW to hamburger and AoC to steak? 

yes.

[Ghambit]

Was the fired guy the one who compared WoW to hamburger and AoC to steak? 

And he's right... only AoC was cooked Rare, nay RAW and many people gagged on the product.