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Originally Posted by Digo  Err, unless he has some other characters other than the ones he posted in his sig, Curt doesn't strike me as a hardcore raider. Maybe he was in EQ. Feel free to correct me if this was the case. |
Yeah, and he posted in this very thread that he only recently was raiding Gruul and Mag's and made it sound like it was his first time doing so. So, yeah, maybe in EQ, not in WoW, and now there is an article where he is quoted as being a self described hard core raider. Maybe hardcore PVE'er but that's not hardcore raiding to me. Not bashing the guy, once again. But unless his EQ career was very different he is not on the level of Tig and thus not what people are saying he should have on board for a consultant.
Even despite his EQ record, some WoW knowledge on board would probably be good since raiding has evolved so much. Maybe some post PoP EQ knowledge too. I really didn't think it was that big of a deal but the other proponents here have sold me on the idea. I think Blizzard has clearly benefited from having raiders around on the design teams.
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Originally Posted by FoghornDeadhorn I still don't feel that you can start down the road of making a next-gen game with raiding if you skipped an entire raiding generation (WoW). |
Not to mention that when you talk about Tigole or Furor you are talking about people who beat their heads against untuned, untested content and dealt with dev reactions to their tactics first hand. You could be a high end raider in WoW and never have really been on the bleeding edge. Plenty of guilds are riding the strat train and don't see too much of what kinds of "exploits" will happen in the course of figuring shit out and taking it down for the first time. If we agree that this is a highly valuable type of person to be on a team, then it should probably be someone with a resume from a consistent server first (or faction server first) guild to have the best sorts of insights.
Couple more relevant quotes:
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Curt Schilling: I am a hopelessly hooked World of Warcraft player now. I resisted the urge, trying to defend my stance as a ‘hard core’ gamer for years. I was an EQ and EQ2 gamer for the first half of my MMO life, and I gradually worked my way into WoW and have realized that entire ‘hard core’ to ‘casual’ gamer battle is irrelevant to me. I want to have fun, and WoW is fun.
Curt Schilling: I am a Voodoo guy. I have a laptop, as well as a couple of rigs at home and the office that are built by Voodoo. The schedule I play actually allows me time to game. On the road I am a hotel rat. I don’t go out much, and that offers me time to play the games I like.
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I'm not trying to misrepresent the guy or anything. I don't know, but he didn't strike me as the top end raider. His four level 60's in EQ2 might have only done normal stuff and been alts he made to kill more time. EQ2 might not be the raid game we want emulated anyway from the way it sounds. Maybe he just now got tired of leveling WoW characters and hunkered down to raid on them.