Age of Conan

I recall when things would go bad for Smedley in both SWG and Vanguard he would always do interviews later blaming players for his projects failures(I recall some interview where he got down on us nerds for being too demanding or some such drivel.) I'm wondering now how long before Gaute (who seems to have an outsized ego like Smedleys) comes out and blames the community and what excuse he'll make.

All I know is that Im enjoying every minute of it. Every time I see that stock price go down, all I can think of is that Johnny Cash song.

(Im going down down down) In a Ring of Fire.

Originally posted by jaxsundane

I recall when things would go bad for Smedley in both SWG and Vanguard he would always do interviews later blaming players for his projects failures(I recall some interview where he got down on us nerds for being too demanding or some such drivel.) I'm wondering now how long before Gaute (who seems to have an outsized ego like Smedleys) comes out and blames the community and what excuse he'll make.

Oh dear. Are you aware of that Gaute was replaced by Craig Morrison as GD. Perhaps you would not have made us all the favour to post you usefull post if you were a bit more up to date..

Gaute  joined Brad McQuaid on a cruise down some river in Egypt  called  Denial.

Lets hope Gaute has some money in Wachovia. Funcom does have an office near them in the Carolinas.

You know, the dude from Warhammer said something about this.  Not that I think Warhammer is good, but he said basically the first thing a developer needs to do is lose his ego.

When Tigole went to WOW, people were rightly worried that the game would be raid2play.. and they were right.   Vanilla WOW turned out to be exaclty that..  But the devs put their ego's in check and realized that the vast majority of players weren't enjoying endgame.. so in Burning Crusuade, they spent a lot more dev time creating non-raid things for players to do (heroics, dailies etc). They also lowered the raid number from 40 down to 25 which was supposed to make raiding a little more accessible.

They have further learned their lesson in Wraith.   Even with raids being 25man in TBC, there was still a lot of content that will never been seen my the majoirty of players.  So in WotLK, the devs have created a 10/25 man model, which means ALL content will be seen by 10 man raid guilds.

I wonder how hard it was on Tigole's ego when WOW had 4M susbscribers to say " but a lot of players aren't happy with raid2play, I'm going to have to do what the players want, not what I want".

Originally posted by jaxsundane

I recall when things would go bad for Smedley in both SWG and Vanguard he would always do interviews later blaming players for his projects failures(I recall some interview where he got down on us nerds for being too demanding or some such drivel.) I'm wondering now how long before Gaute (who seems to have an outsized ego like Smedleys) comes out and blames the community and what excuse he'll make.

Gaute? He is history already. Last I heard he quited the branch.

Somehow I think the OP means when Gaute Godager gives an interview in the future, blaming players for why AoC tanked and why he consequently had to leave Funcom (I seriously believe the other brass told him to leave).

Originally posted by Hamrtime2

All I know is that Im enjoying every minute of it. Every time I see that stock price go down, all I can think of is that Johnny Cash song.

(Im going down down down) In a Ring of Fire.

LOL no wonder, coming for WAR fan

Eventually, he'll have to come out of obscurity and give an interview. He'll be asked about why AoC failed, and give some BS about how beta testers, players, forums, or WoW plants are why the game was unfinished, broken, and he got asked to leave.