Flagship aftermath

[roguebanshee]

http://www.runicgames.com/

Travis Baldree & Max Schaefer starting a new company, it will be interesting to see what they come up with.

[Phyloxerra]

Good luck to them. I hope they succeed where Flagship has faltered

[Quark]

Anyone else find it intriguing that one Schaefer is listed and not another?

[Thecla]

Anyone else find it intriguing that one Schaefer is listed and not another?

It is intriguing, but it's hard to say what it means. Unilke the other FSS founders, Max Schaefer had been working on Mythos rather than Hellgate. He was often in game in the Mythos beta, at least when I played it right after it opened, and he struck me as a great guy. I can't imagine that the Mythos dev Travis Baldree (who was as good at communicating with the Mythos community as FSS was bad at communicating with the Hellgate community -- think Blizzard plus buggy code) is happy about losing all his work on Mythos because FSS screwed up with Hellgate, but who knows.

Maybe we'll get some real information about what actually went on inside Flagship once former employees start writing tell-alls, like we did for the Bush administration.;)


Edit. Here are a couple of recent informative interviews.

Bill Roper on the demise of Flagship:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3169356

Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer on Runic Games

http://www.gamecyte.com/2008/08/14/captain...is-baldree/2930