[MUD-Dev] Re: DaoC postmortem at Gamasutra

[Buddy Grizzard]

Azeraab wrote:

> I'd say the biggest thing Mythic did for creating a buzz in the
> community and even lending credibility to the game was hiring
> Lum. To have leading MMORPG news/rant site shut down because
> Mythic hired it's principal is something that really made people
> take note.

I didn't follow DAoC's development closely (I had hoped to be in
Shadowbane beta long, long ago), but I remember a few details about
Lum's hiring by Mythic. Lum was usually a pretty harsh critic of
Shadowbane and its fans, but after E3 in either 2000 or 2001 he
wrote an article where said he was unimpressed by DAoC's showing and
won over by Shadowbane's.

This lead to an interesting incident, where a couple DAoC devs made
off-the-cuff remarks on Lum the Mad's forums, including calling
Shadowbane fans a bunch of "fanbois." This invoked a response from
either Ashen Temper (Sean Dahlberg) or Warden (J. Todd Coleman) of
Wolfpack Studios (developers of Shadowbane), which lead the DAoC
guys to appologize.

I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about Lum's article on the Shadowbane
forums titled "Lum the Mad now a Shadowbane fan!" Shortly after that
E3 report, Lum was hired by Mythic. I personally wonder if hiring
Lum helped Mythic as far as credibility so much as it saved them
alot of potential damage if Lum had decided to change his stripes
and start exposing DAoC's flaws. But hey... that's just me, the
conspiracy nut =)

-- Anarion

Object lesson on fan relations can be found here:

  http://www.sbsage.com/players/commentaries/expectations.php

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