07-06-2007, 11:40 AM
Gamasutra has an interview up with Bill Roper of Flagship Studios. He discusses why they left Blizzard, and what's up with Hellgate: London and Mythos.
This matches some of the rumors I'd heard. Anyway, see the full interview here.
-Bolty
Quote:Our original intention back in 2003 was not to leave Blizzard. We wanted some level of participation and direct communication with Vivendiâs home office in order to offer our insight, knowledge and desires as to their plans at the time in terms of a possible sale or IPO of the games unit. The level of uncertainty back then made it extremely difficult to plan for our futures, as well as the futures of our team members.
And with no long-term compensation or employment contracts in place, we wanted to be able to interact directly with the people making the key decisions that could drastically affect our lives and workplace. In the end, Vivendi chose not to make that opportunity available and accepted our resignations over the matter.
This matches some of the rumors I'd heard. Anyway, see the full interview here.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.