What I'd do if I were in Brad McQuaid's shoes - Page 2

Neric · 06-14-2005, 01:51 PM

If I was Brad McQuaid I would realize that my main strength is the promotion of a product rather than making decisions about the product. So I would do what Steve Jobs did and let Steve Wozniak take care of the technical part.

It seems to me that Vanguard is speeding on the road to nowhere. Time to hit the breaks and do a U-turn.

Mkopec1 · 06-14-2005, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by redav
His profile has been deleted from the sigil company website and his vanguard messageboard account no longer has an employee flag.

Who was he? Artist? Dev? Programmer?

Jooka · 06-14-2005, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by Solmancer
And your source for that inf0z about Kendrick is who? (I don't read every thread @ Sigil, and I highly doubt it's there )

Id like to know as well, because that would suck if he is gone.

redav · 06-14-2005, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by Mkopec1
Who was he? Artist? Dev? Programmer?

Senior Game Designer

Lhon · 06-14-2005, 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by FuckYou
console gamers are just as hardcore if not more hardcore than PC gamers, and there are a shit ton more of "them" than there are "us".

Console gamers are passionate, but not necessarily hardcore in terms of playing huge amounts of hours. Some do of course, but there are a huge amount of console gamers that just like to be able to throw in a game for 30-45 minutes of diversion.

Mkopec1 · 06-14-2005, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by Lhon
Console gamers are passionate, but not necessarily hardcore in terms of playing huge amounts of hours. Some do of course, but there are a huge amount of console gamers that just like to be able to throw in a game for 30-45 minutes of diversion.

I agree, consloles are like attention deficit kids.

Neric · 06-14-2005, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by redav
Senior Game Designer

Maybe he was not happy with the direction in which the game was heading...

Kaxmax · 06-14-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by redav
His profile has been deleted from the sigil company website and his vanguard messageboard account no longer has an employee flag.

That would suck if true, I thought he did some good stuff in EQ.

Kyena13 · 06-14-2005, 02:03 PM

If I remember right Kendrick is responsible for alot of the best content in the Velious EQ expansion (Sleepers Tomb & more), which most people consider to be the height of EQ and its best expansion. I'm sure he did more than that for Kunark and other expansions, but that's all I know for sure from memory.

Hell of a nice guy too, I still remember him with his uber level 35 rogue in very early EQ beta helping me retrieve my corpse when I fell down the befallen well, lol.

Mkopec1 · 06-14-2005, 02:03 PM

Maybe he went over to NC soft like all the WoW devs?

To make the ultimate super duper mmorpg?

Urraca · 06-14-2005, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by Kaxmax
That would suck if true, I thought he did some good stuff in EQ.

It's true. There is a thread on it at the Sigil Forums whcih has been avoided all day. SGO is listing 2 Senior Game Designers. With Kendrick being one of their only senior game designers and gone, does that worry anyone?

Check it out for yourself.

Lhon · 06-14-2005, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by Mr Element
That's like saying Ferrari should sell lower quality, cheaper cars because the cars they aim at making are just too expensive and they don't sell enough.

But Brad's stated goal is to expand the genre and bring in more players. You don't try to sell Ferraris to people who have never owned a car, it doesn't work. You try to sell Scions.

Itzena · 06-14-2005, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by Neric
Maybe he was not happy with the direction in which the game was heading...

Evil.
Funny, but evil.

Cybsled · 06-14-2005, 02:12 PM

Well it is a big deal when a senior dev shoves off.

Something has to have happened ;o

Khalikryst · 06-14-2005, 02:27 PM

Here's the thread about it over on the Sigil forums.

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Neric <insert funny comment here> Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,936 -2 Internets	If I was Brad McQuaid I would realize that my main strength is the promotion of a product rather than making decisions about the product. So I would do what Steve Jobs did and let Steve Wozniak take care of the technical part. It seems to me that Vanguard is speeding on the road to nowhere. Time to hit the breaks and do a U-turn. __________________ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident - Arthur Schopenhauer Last edited by Neric : 06-14-2005 at 01:57 PM.

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06-14-2005, 02:03 PM	#24 (permalink)
Kyena13 Banned Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 111 +0 Internets	If I remember right Kendrick is responsible for alot of the best content in the Velious EQ expansion (Sleepers Tomb & more), which most people consider to be the height of EQ and its best expansion. I'm sure he did more than that for Kunark and other expansions, but that's all I know for sure from memory. Hell of a nice guy too, I still remember him with his uber level 35 rogue in very early EQ beta helping me retrieve my corpse when I fell down the befallen well, lol.

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Khalikryst OotS MMO plz Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,165 +0 Internets	Here's the thread about it over on the Sigil forums.