| Meh. I'm not really interested in berating people for incompetence. Talent, or the lack thereof, is usually there in whatever quantity it is and that's that. Brad had an opportunity to do something grand, he fucked up. Fine. Life goes on, albeit a touch more in grayscale.
Delegating the mass, impromptu firing of your enitre team at no notice in a parking lot, however, is just an act of cowardice and nothing else. Of all the things to not be there in person for. Some of those people probably signed up for the team in part because of the McQuaid name.
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By the way, I'm curious. Is there any technical or design reason to eschew a scripting language? Presumably when the block was enacted they still had an operating budget and the chance to salvage some measure of the game. Why would you enforce manual coding of features? | 