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Originally Posted by Lady Daegarmo  I'm sure people only want to hear about the bad details, not the good ones, but some of us on the "cut list" hold no ill will to anyone at Sigil. |
Oh people want the bad details of course, its in the nature of the beast after all. Its prime-time drama, and people want to picture Brad as the evil Emperor sitting on his throne, overlooking the construction of the new super-MMORPG that will bring the WoW-rebels into submission, with Jeff beside him in a dark cape playing the role of the dark apprentice.
Unfortunatly reality is not really cut in black and white, there are lots of shades of grey. Im sure Sigil was a fun place to work at, lots of people sharing a passion for gaming, lots of toys (sorry could not resist!) and a management that had experience of development (though not management it seems) and maybe a hands-on approach. As much as people usualy hate managers, they really DO have their place in the production chain. Someone have to have the skill to organize things and check that the plan is on track. Since I have no insight in how Sigil was administrated, all this is speculation from my side of course, but I think it might have been a bit too much "buddy-buddy" and "heeey! lets try to get this to work, it would be sooooo cool to have in the game" and a bit too little "Nice suggestion, file it for the expansion next year. In the meanwhile, how close are you to finishing XXX...?"
