Damn it. Who's left running the show?
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8_Ball,
Posted on: 2006-03-02 16:13 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Alright, I must have missed something. Is there any stated reason why so many visible people involved in the game are jumping ship? Is there some kind of culling happening among the staff? Some kind of general unhappiness with the working conditions at Cryptic/NCsoft?
[/ QUOTE ] To reiterate, the folks leaving are NCSoft people*. More than likely they're being shifted to work on another game NCSoft is coming out with. It's happened before, it'll probably happen again.
*I'm not completely sure about Artic_Sun, but I think so.
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Thanks for the link and quote. It does clear things up a bit.
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I do find it distressing that the game is losing so much staff when it needs it the most. I mean.. this is TWICE the game that it used to be.
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I could be wrong, but isn't Recluse the only Cryptic developer to leave?
Weren't everyone else NC Soft employees?
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I posted that before the clarifications showed up in this thread.
And it was somewhat of a joke..
Lets go destroy Auto Assault and get our devs back!
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I posted that before the clarifications showed up in this thread.
And it was somewhat of a joke..
Lets go destroy Auto Assault and get our devs back!
::Picks up her big honkin' gun and loads it up:;
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Hey, I just found out Miss_Kitty is actually Dick Cheney!
Oh, [censored].
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I posted that before the clarifications showed up in this thread.
And it was somewhat of a joke..
Lets go destroy Auto Assault and get our devs back!
::Picks up her big honkin' gun and loads it up:;
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Hey, I just found out Miss_Kitty is actually Dick Cheney!
Oh, [censored].
*head is shot off*
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Okay, now that was funny Silent.
Also, good job Miss_Kitty. 
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Let's not forget... uh... what's his name... the guy who was the Corruptor Rep in CoV Beta who singlehandedly angered all the most vocal corruptors (besides myself) on that board. The one that handles missions and ambushes, I think?
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Devastatus or something like that. He only posted twice in CoV beta, so I'm not too clear on his name.
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Lets go destroy Auto Assault and get our devs back!
::Picks up her big honkin' gun and loads it up:;
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Lets go destroy Auto Assault and get our devs back!
::Picks up her big honkin' gun and loads it up:;
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Yes glorious leader!! \o
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What happened to Geko, swinger of the nerf bat? I mean, he doesn't answer PMs or actually post, but I think he's still around.
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Geko remains isolated in his arcane cave o' nerf. Jonyu and Castle feed him a Regen or Invul every once in awhile to sate his thirst.
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Well, lordie knows we're still working through leftovers from I4.
What is the expiration date on those, anyways?
Well.. Regens never spoil.. and invs are stale already.
Defenders are, as usual safe...
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I seem to recall somebody saying that Valdermic also left. He was NCSoft, IIRC.
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Geko remains isolated in his arcane cave o' nerf. Jonyu and Castle feed him a Regen or Invul every once in awhile to sate his thirst.
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...but he ain't gettin no damned cookies anytime soon. Regens are still a dime a dozen, no one will miss them. Cookies however...are a rare commodity that musn't be shared with foul little sneaks.
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I seem to recall somebody saying that Valdermic also left. He was NCSoft, IIRC.
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Yeah, he's working on Auto Assault now.
I'm thinking Alexa and Arctic Sun went to Tabula Rasa as that game doesn't have forums up yet, and they'd need their positions to get that up and running.
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We've seen a lot of the people who work for Cryptic and NCSoft that we interact with leave for other projects.
We do wish them the best, and hope their next "Home" is as friendly as we all were.
that said.
Who the hell is still here to mind the store.
I know I've lost track of who's actually here and doing what.
Can we get an updated list of who's doing what.
We all know what Cuppa does, Statesman we know to, Castle seems to be doing anything he can get his hands on(He DOES sleep right? we know Cuppa doesn't).
so can we get a list of people telling us who's doing what?
I'm starting to loose touch on who's actually developeing this game.
I see
Statesman
Cuppa
Castle
Posi
Nomad
Gil(no longer here, but HI GIL)
Awry
Alexa(Leaving)
Arctic(Leaving)
Squeeze(who only had 19 Posts. HI)
Manticore
Visgoth
Raven
WarWitch
The_Zig
pohsyb
Valdermic
that's 18 people who have posted recently enough to be on the dev post thread. 2 of which are leaving, 1 has already left.
Several we see vary rarely, I mean they have less then 100 posts. I mean Hell, I have more posts then all of them but Cuppa.
So can someone fill in who does what? Are there new people comeing in to fill spots, or people internally promoted.
It'd be nice to have a sticky with the listing of who does what so we can send messages to the right person, instead of everyone sending them to Cuppa and hopeing she passes them on.
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No offense to most of the people who left...
But keep in mind, most of the people left aren't exactly critical members of the game. And there's Cryptic people who aren't active on the forums (at least as red names).
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It does seem like the red names come and go fairly quickly. Anyone know when Awry and Arctic actually started working on CoX?
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I do find it distressing that the game is losing so much staff when it needs it the most. I mean.. this is TWICE the game that it used to be.
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I could be wrong, but isn't Recluse the only Cryptic developer to leave?
Weren't everyone else NC Soft employees?
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That's because nobody leaves Cryptic Studios. Nobody. You should see what Statesman can do with that nerfbat to a real person.
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We've seen a lot of the people who work for Cryptic and NCSoft that we interact with leave for other projects.
We do wish them the best, and hope their next "Home" is as friendly as we all were.
that said.
Who the hell is still here to mind the store.
I know I've lost track of who's actually here and doing what.
Can we get an updated list of who's doing what.
We all know what Cuppa does, Statesman we know to, Castle seems to be doing anything he can get his hands on(He DOES sleep right? we know Cuppa doesn't).
so can we get a list of people telling us who's doing what?
I'm starting to loose touch on who's actually developeing this game.
I see
Statesman
Cuppa
Castle
Posi
Nomad
Gil(no longer here, but HI GIL)
Awry
Alexa(Leaving)
Arctic(Leaving)
Squeeze(who only had 19 Posts. HI)
Manticore
Visgoth
Raven
WarWitch
The_Zig
pohsyb
Valdermic
that's 18 people who have posted recently enough to be on the dev post thread. 2 of which are leaving, 1 has already left.
Several we see vary rarely, I mean they have less then 100 posts. I mean Hell, I have more posts then all of them but Cuppa.
So can someone fill in who does what? Are there new people comeing in to fill spots, or people internally promoted.
It'd be nice to have a sticky with the listing of who does what so we can send messages to the right person, instead of everyone sending them to Cuppa and hopeing she passes them on.
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No offense to most of the people who left...
But keep in mind, most of the people left aren't exactly critical members of the game. And there's Cryptic people who aren't active on the forums (at least as red names).
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no offense, Satanic Hamster, but you're an ignoramous, and I mean that in a good way.*
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FYI, we've got a LOT more folks here at Cryptic working on things. the vast majority of people here don't post, though. I was here for almost a year before I got 'Red Named.'
As for why I use _Castle_ instead of Castle, someone else has Castle has a board posting name.
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FYI, we've got a LOT more folks here at Cryptic working on things. the vast majority of people here don't post, though. I was here for almost a year before I got 'Red Named.'
As for why I use _Castle_ instead of Castle, someone else has Castle has a board posting name.
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Any chance we could get a list?
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FYI, we've got a LOT more folks here at Cryptic working on things. the vast majority of people here don't post, though. I was here for almost a year before I got 'Red Named.'
As for why I use _Castle_ instead of Castle, someone else has Castle has a board posting name.
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Guess that explains why, despite many the relatively low numbers of actual redname posters, there are supposed to be a lot of other Cryptic Studios people looking over our notes.
Why the delay to get a name?
Well, Alexa said she and Arctic_Sun work for NCSoft, not Cryptic. Perhaps they're being shifted to NCSoft's new game Auto Assault?
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