Schilling's Green Monster Games

[schild]

"I've had the privilege of building 38 Studios to become an established force of IP creation and entertainment,"

How is that possible if no one has any clue of what they're doing other than dicking around with a WoW newsletter thing and building a bank of email addresses as a byproduct?

Edit: I should add, I'm 100% sure he was a nice dude. Curt seems like the kind of guy that would hire someone that was a pain in the ass. But that statement quoted above really does not jive with me. It seems beyond spinny, do not want. The second part of that sentence that I didn't quote, but will now:

"I leave with confidence in the future success of the company and have no doubt its products will excite gamers worldwide."

would've sufficed.

Edit: Curt, check your mail.

[Falwell]

For the record, if this was due to health or serious personal issues, my apologies in advance. Any chance of a little clarification Curt?

[Engels]

Aw, come on. The man barely can tell us the first thing about his game, he sure as hell isn't gonna divulge insider power shuffles.

[Ghambit]

I bet he left 'cause he was sick of all the secrecy.

[Margalis]

At startups CEOs coming and going is a fact of life. I wouldn't read much into it.

[Stephen Zepp]

At startups CEOs coming and going is a fact of life. I wouldn't read much into it.

Concur...GG isn't even a start up, and we just changed CEO's (Lou Castle of Command and Conquer fame, as well as co-founder of Westwood Studios back in the day)...many times as companies grow from startup mode, Exec Leadership change can be a good thing--I know it is for us!

[SnakeCharmer]

does not jive with me

Note to all game company people:  Please check with grand poobah Schild before releasing any press releases about anything.  Kthx.

[Bzalthek]

Note to all game company people:  Please check with grand poobah Schild before releasing any press releases about anything.  Kthx.

Way to go, champ!

[UnSub]

It's a start up which are always going to be unstable.

Unless Schilling wants to come in and tell us what happened, it doesn't change my opinion about 38 Studio's chance of success at all.

[Trippy]

At startups CEOs coming and going is a fact of life. I wouldn't read much into it.

Still fun to speculate though

Here's the direct link to the PR for those not wanting to traverse 3 levels of indirection:

http://www.38studios.com/news/press_show/23

My guess is Mr. Close wasn't doing a good enough job with the fund raising part of his job.

[Soln]

i still think we should Den this until there's an actual game

[Signe]

Should all the other ones that are not games yet be denned, too, like Guild Wars 2 and EQ Next?  Or just this one?  It has generated a modicum of interest, no?

[Venkman]

GW2 is at least partly defined, and nobody cares enough about EQ Next to circle it like moths to a bug light 

[Signe]

My point is that I don't understand why we shouldn't be allowed to discuss it.  We discuss all sorts of games and companies that don't have any moths.  Or bug lights.  (you know what I mean!)   Putting it in the den just doesn't make any sense to me. 

[Soln]

sorry -- meant Graveyard not Den

[Signe]

I forgive you! 

[Venkman]

Oh, I actually thought he meant Graveyard, ironically 

[stu]

the shake-up was just a bump save to keep this from dropping to pg 2

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

Curt could talk about this:


By GLEN JOHNSON, AP Political Writer Glen Johnson, Ap Political Writer – Thu Sep 3, 12:02 am ET
BOSTON – Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, said Wednesday that he has "some interest" in running for the seat held for nearly 50 years by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Schilling, a registered independent and longtime Republican supporter, wrote on his blog that while his family and video game company, 38 Studios, are high priorities, "I do have some interest in the possibility."

"That being said, to get to there, from where I am today, many, many things would have to align themselves for that to truly happen," he added.

Any other comment "would be speculation on top of speculation," Schilling said, adding, "My hope is that whatever happens, and whomever it happens to, this state makes the decision and chooses the best person — regardless of sex, race, religion or political affiliation — to help get this state back to the place it deserves to be."

State election law would limit Schilling to running solely as an independent candidate because it requires those seeking a major party nomination to have been enrolled in that party for at least 90 days before the Nov. 3 deadline for filing nomination papers with the state Elections Division.

Schilling told New England Cable News that he has been contacted "by people whose opinion I give credence to," but he did not elaborate. He declined to comment when The Associated Press called his office.

The 42-year-old lives in suburban Medfield and campaigned for President George W. Bush in 2004 and Sen. John McCain in 2008.

[Slayerik]

Ok, now I have officially lost all interest in this game. Unless it has permadeath and monster orgies.

[Murgos]

Ok, now I have officially lost all interest in this game. Unless it has permadeath and monster orgies.

What the Senate?  It already has that...

[gehrig38]

Oh! Very nice comeback right there.

[fuser]

Oh! Very nice comeback right there.

How's beta going? 

[gehrig38]

Internal testing is going very very well. There's so much work to just getting a true client/server rendition up and running that 'fun' isn't necessarily a component of an MMO when you FIRST start testing. That being said, it's now fun, which is a huge step for us.
That and I killed Danuser in PvP, which made it far more fun....

[Slayerik]

Yes, please make sure PvP is a part of your design early on. Nothing like a bad tack on of it.

[schild]

That and I killed Danuser in PvP, which made it far more fun....

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[Draegan]

Yes, please make sure PvP is a part of your design early on. Nothing like a bad tack on of it.

You should join in the arm chair developing company in the thread over on FOH.  People are coming up with brilliant ideas all the time.

[sidereal]

I like how anything but an unequivocal 'no' equals 'interested' and fuels media mayhem for 24 hours.  God, I hate the thing we pretend is journalism in this country.

But enough politics!  Uh. . . PvP Crafting.  Do that.  I'd like the ability to mess up someone's sewing in realtime.

[Slayerik]

Yes, please make sure PvP is a part of your design early on. Nothing like a bad tack on of it.

You should join in the arm chair developing company in the thread over on FOH.  People are coming up with brilliant ideas all the time.

Sorry, didn't think mine was an unreasonable general request. Since I brought up PVP it makes me a bad guy/FOH idiot?

[Triforcer]

I want a skill-based MMO with no levels that has pvp that is extremely meaningful but also doesn't make the losers quit, and the world should be dynamic and changing and let me be the hero of my own story but also nothing should change because I don't like to search for vendors in new places. 

[sidereal]

I WOULD PLAY THAT

[Mrbloodworth]

I want a skill-based MMO with no levels that has pvp that is extremely meaningful but also doesn't make the losers quit, and the world should be dynamic and changing and let me be the hero of my own story but also nothing should change because I don't like to search for vendors in new places. 

And perma-death right?

[schild]

I want a skill-based MMO with no levels that has pvp that is extremely meaningful but also doesn't make the losers quit, and the world should be dynamic and changing and let me be the hero of my own story but also nothing should change because I don't like to search for vendors in new places. 

That's too bad, because I want a world where you can't see the other players and every sword is a penis pun. Like the Epee....n.

[Draegan]

Yes, please make sure PvP is a part of your design early on. Nothing like a bad tack on of it.

You should join in the arm chair developing company in the thread over on FOH.  People are coming up with brilliant ideas all the time.

Sorry, didn't think mine was an unreasonable general request. Since I brought up PVP it makes me a bad guy/FOH idiot?

It's just that it was a general request that's just silly.  You have tons of star fuckers over on FOH and they're constantly throwing out one liners like "Make sure you put in..."  "And wouldn't it be cool if..." "Don't release early because if you do..."

It's just  

[Nonentity]

I want a skill-based MMO with no levels that has pvp that is extremely meaningful but also doesn't make the losers quit, and the world should be dynamic and changing and let me be the hero of my own story but also nothing should change because I don't like to search for vendors in new places. 

That's too bad, because I want a world where you can't see the other players and every sword is a penis pun. Like the Epee....n.

I read that as 'every sword is a penis gun' - I would play that

pew pew *flop*