Sorry we made you uncomfortable Sanya, and my appologies if I’ve said anything wrong.

My feeling though, is that with this new person, a new leaf is starting to be turned… Not sure what will happen on that new page, but a new page was definitely needed. Whether it is the final page or not, remains to be seen.

See ya later Sanya, I look forward to the next article

A lack of discression causes problems, not just for the previous employer, but it also shows prospective future employers that the spokesperson can not be trusted with information and can thusly prevent said person from obtaining a job in the future.

lol I noticed that little ZZZZING! too.

@Sanya
I’m looking forward to someday seeing a “Sanya Unleashed” blog so I can find out what you really think about all this stuff. Perhaps when we’re all retired and gray. The community manager thing is nice, in a general way, but sometimes it’s a little too obvious that what you write isn’t really what you think. Or at least it’s not ALL of what you think.

The point is, you can say any MMO isn’t “finished” when it’s released, but some companies put more into “polish”, look-and-feel, and nuances that make a game worthwhile. When these things are ignored, failure is pretty much a guarantee, no matter how big your company is.

The sad point of all this is that the people who made the decision to ignore these points still have their jobs. Blizzard has always looked to making their products of a certain production quality. Sure, there will be bugs, there will be tweaks, and there will be enhancements. But they are never pushed to the side just to get the boxes out the door. Remember Burning Crusade? Blizzard put of release for what, 6 months, to get it to what they wanted. They missed out on Christmas sales completely, and still rocked sales numbers.

The moral of the story. Put the quality of the finished product FIRST above all else, and you just might have a winner. Put it at the bottom of the list, and you are doomed.

ohmai

Sorry for making you uncomfortable. That was the last thing I intended, as the one time I did meet you in RL you were very gracious to me. I’ll head off to that link as well.

I was really enjoying the discussion and it is a shame that some people cannot remain logical and continue to discuss without ranting.

I shall toodle off, maybe check out that link. Thanks.

I’m really sorry.

If you all resume the conversation somewhere else, please bear in mind that you shouldn’t be tossing around “Mythic” so casually. That might have worked back in Camelot’s heyday, since there were so few of us making up the entity of Mythic. Even then the actual decisions were made by a tiny handful of people – and incidentally, while I often disagreed with those people, I also wouldn’t try to run a company any other way.

Mythic is now a huge studio, and while the ultimate decisions for WAR are made by the Executive Producer (the same person was also the final decision maker for TOA and New Frontiers, incidentally), there are dozens of factions. There are… committees. By reducing the responsible factor to a faceless monolith with a single name, you’re overly simplifying the problems and the solutions.

Anyway, if you guys could take this fascinating chat someplace else, I’d be grateful.