[MUD-Dev] Re: DaoC postmortem at Gamasutra

[Dave Rickey]

From: "Buddy Grizzard" <the_allfather at hotmail.com>

> 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.

As the loudmouth in question, my only defense is that I was an
opinionated fan long before I was employed in the industry.  But
there was a little more to the story than that.

> 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 =)

Conspiracies are so much more fun than reality.  It's all long in
the past, but I think your memory of those E3 reports may be a
little off.

Anyway, nobody seems to ever consider the obvious possibility: That
we actually needed someone with Scott's skills, at the same time
that Scott was laid off and needed a job.  We *knew* about Scott
because of the site, but it was actually a barrier rather than an
incentive to his employment (Lum the Mad had enemies as well as
fans).

Anyway, I know he (as well as most of the other ex-lummites) reads
this list, so I'll leave any further explanation to them, if they
think it's needed.

--Dave

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