Texas Justice

I don't know which game he's working on, but he's working at Cryptic Studios according to his Facebook page. Since he was hired AFTER NCSoft bought out Cryptic's portion of the game I know that can't be just an old entry he hasn't updated.

No idea where the Carbine Studios thing came from.

Also, didn't realize it was Phil that was married to Carolina Tello (aka Carotello).

I don't think I'm the one you have to worry about. But someone that is not you has the current high bid on that shirt.

*Looks for the 3 Wolf Moon shirt to drive up the bidding*

Yes, his GGRRR comics have been fun.

With the test shots piece looking so good I feel like I got two fantastic pieces of art as the prize.

I didn't find any threads with any of the art prizes so I created this one.

It would likely need to be in an ALL ACCESS section of the forums so that all of the winners can post.

That was in the earlier stages of the Beta and the earlier parts of SSA 2.X

The contacts for 2.4 and 2.5 were already in the Beta world and were timed to be activated on specific dates.

You don't need anyone to unlock them for you on Beta.

Since the contact for 2.4 was already in the Live world, that chapter went Live as it was supposed to on the date that was already scheduled. Since the 2.5 contact was NOT already in the Live world that chapter is inaccessible on Live.

Nope. I did find an error. Ogi was incorrect.

The game wasn't shut down the day of the announcement.

The servers are still running. The store is still running. SSA 2.4 became Live after the announcement. SSA 2.5 would have gone Live if they'd had the contact already in the game. It became active on Beta when it was scheduled to because the contact was already there.

I've been able to log in my characters and level them up as I normally would, take screenshots, get in game help with problems, create some demorecords, use an external tool to extract the character data, chat with friends and more.

If they had shut down the game the day of the announcement no one would have been able to log in to the game for any reason. The servers would have been shut down. We'd have never had an AP33 for Jessie to restart after maintenance. We'd have never had the coXso costume contests or anything else in-game.

Was the staff let go? Sure. There is no disputing that. That accounts for development and production.

Were account services changed so that no one could spend money on a game that was in the process of being closed? Certainly. They'd have been stupid not to. Especially since they were likely already planning their refund policies for subscriptions. You don't let people spend money on something you are about to give refunds for.

Were account services changed so that no one could buy points to purchase items. Certainly. They'd have been stupid not to. Especially since they were likely already planning their refund policies for points purchases. Again, you don't let people spend money on something you are about to give refunds for.

They gave about the same amount of lead time on the announcement as they did on the Tabula Rasa shutdown. They announced it in mid to late November and shut it down at the end of February, just a bit over 3 months. The servers were still up until the end. They didn't close the studio on the day of the announcement, but they shut down account services at that time from what I'm told by a few people that played it. They refunded subscription money as Gangrel_EU has regularly pointed out in addition to offering inducements to try some other games.

They gave more lead time on the announcement than they did on Auto Assault. They announced the closing in early July and closed it at the end of August. Just over a month's notice. The servers were still up until the end. They closed the account services at the time and I have no idea if there was even still a studio involved at the time. Again, they "reconciled" subcriber accounts (the wording I'm told was used at the time for refunding paid time) and offered inducements to try some other games including CoH.

The only real difference here is that they closed the studio that day (I'd have rather they let them plan a closing event as they did with TR) and haven't offered us inducements to play Guild Wars 2 or Blade & Soul, at least that have come through my inbox.

All that being said, they still didn't shut down the game the day they made the announcement.

Saying they shut the game down when they made the announcement is just plain false.

Really? They didn't say "we're going to shut your game down" but they said instead "we shut your game down"? Are you sure that's how it happened?

If that is so, how is it that I'm logged into that game currently. I wouldn't be able to do that if they had already shut it down.

How is it that the announcements and statements I've read were talking about the shutting the game down in the future and not as something that had already happened?

Congratulations to the new Product Marketing Manager at Epic Games.

They are lucky to have you Hosun.

On the download page there is a version for the Beta server. Grab that and you should be able to extract the data from the characters on the Beta server.

Thanks.

It's a bit hard to tell when you look at their website and in particular their About Us page.

I still wish Phil well. I wasn't planning on playing WildStar anyway and I certainly won't be playing it now. When November 30 comes I'm hanging up my gaming hat.

This dog's too old to learn new tricks.

Or at least too old to be willing to learn new tricks.

Is Carbine Studios actually owned by NCSoft or are they independently owned?

Yes, she started as Office Manager but moved into the Development team. World Design was where she started if I remember correctly.

She's listed as part of Development on the credits from the initial launch of the game along with Jack Emmert, Al Rivera, Sean Fish, Matt Miller, Craig Zinkievich, Michael Lewis, Brian Gilmore, EJ Nelson, David Wood and Jane Kalmes. Of those, Jack, Craig and Michael were also on the Management team along with Bruce Rogers (Programming) and Matt Harvey (Art).

If you are talking about the initial post, the line art is by Pirate Cashoo. The render is by Night Hornet. The digital painting is by Darth Delicious and the avatar is by Icon Forever.