Green Monster Games (Curt Schilling)

[James]

Originally Posted by Tyen

A CEO that speaks his mind gains +internets anytime. I would trust someone who speaks his mind over someone who bullshits his way through the community anyday.

Hell, I'd buy his game twice if he took a heaping shit all over posts like that. Three times if he can work in a reference to popular 1980 musical Xanadu.

[Kodylan]

Originally Posted by Locithon

Without knowing anything about the game yet you could say the one thing they have going for them is timing. Besides WAR I can't think of one major MMO that is in development....and WAR is a bad example because 38 studios game is going to be launched years after WAR. As for MMO's released around the time of 38's... if Blizzard started production today on a new MMO it would probably at least be one year behind 38's game and knowing blizz it would be 2 years. And unless SOE is secretly working on EQ3 I don't see them in the time window either.

The only other question mark is the unannounced Bioware MMO, so 38 studios potentially has to only worry about 1 major MMO in their launch timeframe.

Yea uh... except BioWare's MMO, whatever the Carbine team is making, Red 5 has an MMO in the works, Blizzard's new MMO, Aion... and probably a few others I can think of. All of them have the potential to be successful games because of either gameplay already there, or the team working on it.

[Zarcath]

Originally Posted by Moorgard Mobhunter

You're going to feel like an idiot for saying this when we ship Easy-Bake Online (EBO), the best massively multiplayer cake-baking game ever created.

38 Studios is going to dominate the female demographic.

[James]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

38 Studios is going to dominate the female demographic.

You sick motherfucker.

[Agraza]

Originally Posted by Tyen

A CEO that speaks his mind gains +internets anytime. I would trust someone who speaks his mind over someone who bullshits his way through the community anyday.

This

[mutantmagnet]

Originally Posted by Moorgard Mobhunter

You're going to feel like an idiot for saying this when we ship Easy-Bake Online (EBO), the best massively multiplayer cake-baking game ever created.

If it lacks pvp it will fail....


...So I've heard around here.

[Tyen]

Originally Posted by Moorgard Mobhunter

You're going to feel like an idiot for saying this when we ship Easy-Bake Online (EBO), the best massively multiplayer cake-baking game ever created.

I should give you -1 internets for you and Shwayd ditching us in Cambridge... Get off your leash.

[Cadrid]

Originally Posted by Moorgard Mobhunter

You're going to feel like an idiot for saying this when we ship Easy-Bake Online (EBO), the best massively multiplayer cake-baking game ever created.

Great, then we have to wait 2 years for you to balance everything with the Creepy Crawlers expansion pack...

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Ngruk

Ya we're grinding away to earn the respect and loyalty of people like you, making it all worth it.

Maybe it's just one of those mornings, but my oh my when I read a post written with internet machismo and we all know would never come out of the mouth of said person in a ftf conversation, I laugh in that non-humorous way we all do at times.

I'm suprised you even bothered to comment on my post but since you did...

Curt you are a big boy. A very big boy. You are CEO of a company that is building an MMO. MMO players are notoriously hot-headed, drunk, irritable, introverted, spastic, occasionally high, and generally some of the meanest people on the net. And we're also mostly guys (well barring players of those cake and horse themed MMOs) which means that throughout our life we have both given and received a lot of shit.

You must have seen the threads with VG and EQ and EQ2 and even WoW. You must have read some of the venom spewed at Smed or Brad or pick-your-dev or GM or Blizzard CS rep or etc.

You have got to have a thicker skin if you're going to read these or any boards with regularity.

So I'm certainly not going to apologize for writing what I felt about that presentation. It was completely non-substantive and frankly a little self-congratulatory. Y'all have ever right to sit around and congratulate yourselves on whatever milestones you've reached but using that as marketing is frankly a turn off. I would have said the same thing if Bioware had made that kind of presentation. It's perfectly understandable that you don't want to release information but it's better to just follow the rules of fight club and not talk about it until you guys are ready to deliver something substantive.

Finally, as too internet machismo: something we _all_ do now and then right? Aka Pot meet Kettle and etc.

[Tyen]

You have got to have a thicker skin if you're going to read these or any boards with regularity.

He called out Barry Bonds, Kobe Bryant, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, and Rafael Palmeiro.

Pretty sure his balls are already lined with some heavy steel to be able to keep up with the FoH crowd. Needs more Schilling posts, the man delivers the truth and isn't afraid to lay down the law on any person that deserves it.

I don't know about you but I love when he is active on FoH, just his responses make me want to buy his game because of his personality. I mean fuck, I bought Vanguard. Doesn't get much worse than that.

[Faelor]

I like Tyen's post. One internets.

[Ngruk]

Originally Posted by tad10

I'm suprised you even bothered to comment on my post but since you did...

Curt you are a big boy. A very big boy. You are CEO of a company that is building an MMO. MMO players are notoriously hot-headed, drunk, irritable, introverted, spastic, occasionally high, and generally some of the meanest

You have got to have a thicker skin if you're going to read these or any boards with regularity. people on the net.

Finally, as too internet machismo: something we _all_ do now and then right? Aka Pot meet Kettle and etc.

First things first. Steve, do not come into my office to talk to me tomorrow about this post, because I will have already had this discussion internally. I know exactly what you are going to say, and why, and you're right.

Next. The main problem I have with people like this, is that the prefacing of their comments with "You know us, we're all rude, loud mouthed idiot acting self absorbed blah blahs. What we do is stupid, we don't think , we yell when we shouldn't", whatever. You acknowledge, openly, that what you are doing or saying is flawed, then you do it or say it anyway, as if that prefacing comment makes it all ok. Well to me it doesn't and it has ZERO to do with skin thickness. In a locker room of 25 guys for 20+ years you either develop Devilsaur hide, or you go home and cry each night because 'guys are picking on you'.

Oh and to the machismo thing, speak for yourself. In my line of work your 'machismo' talking and 'bravado' are on public display, nightly. If you are going to talk the talk, and you don't walk the walk, a few million ESPN viewers will sit there and say "what an ass".

Oh I've talked, but I've never disrespected what I do for a living. I've made mistakes, but I don't get the keyboard muscle thing. The thing that makes people throw around f bombs like others do "the". It must be a mentality because I can literally go all winter without cussing once, and on the flight down to spring training I'll start spewing F bombs with each breath. But I don't do it in public, except when I am on the mound but that's not really public though, and I view this forum, and all of these forums, as public. Short of the cussing I may have done somewhere, I don't post things here I wouldn't say in public, check out my blog. I get a kick of the people that DO post things here we all 100% know for matter of fact they won't say in public because it's disingenuous and real real fake.

Originally Posted by tad10

And we're also mostly guys (well barring players of those cake and horse themed MMOs) which means that throughout our life we have both given and received a lot of shit.

Even though I am sure the comment was tongue in cheek, the comment about female gamers shows a lack of humor, or horribly ignorant knowledge of the current MMO population world wide.

And to add, seriously, what does the second part mean? When have you ever 'taken shit'? I mean what defines that for you? Another MMO player taking offense with a post of yours? That? If that defines it for you then it's you that has thin skin, not me.

Originally Posted by tad10

You must have seen the threads with VG and EQ and EQ2 and even WoW. You must have read some of the venom spewed at Smed or Brad or pick-your-dev or GM or Blizzard CS rep or etc.

So I'm certainly not going to apologize for writing what I felt about that presentation. It was completely non-substantive and frankly a little self-congratulatory. Y'all have ever right to sit around and congratulate yourselves on whatever milestones you've reached but using that as marketing is frankly a turn off. I would have said the same thing if Bioware had made that kind of presentation. It's perfectly understandable that you don't want to release information but it's better to just follow the rules of fight club and not talk about it until you guys are ready to deliver something substantive.

No need to apologize, none at all, this is an open internet forum and thread that was around long before I got here. I was interested in an open discussion with the harder core segment of the player base of a game we are developing. I have been in forums since the GENIE days so give and take is expected and asked for when someone in my position steps into this.

However, while I am proud as hell of this team and their accomplishments, I haven't come here to make you buy our product, or buy into our IP by telling you how great they all are, I am a gamer first and foremost, always have been, and I get that 'hype machine' game many developers play. I've also been burned by it. I would like to think that if you read back through this thread there are many examples of some great conversation around topics of relevance to what we are doing. There are also some total asshat comments that add nothing more than space to this thread, I'd love to eliminate the latter, and get more of the former when possible.

[Twobit Whore]

There just isn't enough internets in the world to give Curt his due.

I don't care if your game actually is Easy Bake Oven Online, I'll buy 4 copies.

[spronk]

i'd like to learn more about the easy bake MMO, will it be an option to roll an evil faction who themselves are unable to bake, and therefore must steal cakes from other bakers in order to level up? of course there will be a random chance the evil M.O.M. will come and 1-shot you when stealth ninja'ing a cake.

p.s. brownies are OP

[Tyen]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

There just isn't enough internets in the world to give Curt his due.

I don't care if your game actually is Easy Bake Oven Online, I'll buy 4 copies.

Twobit liking a gaming CEO is like Utnayan loving Brad McQuaid.

I foreshadow Schilling's internets exploding.