Discussion - Going Rogue and Paragon Team Update!
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Posted on: 2010-01-21 24:04 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Wow a dev actually took Doc Delilah...... they must have major attention span issues and gross over aggro problems.
And Daisy Dukes
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Welcome new guys and Congrtaz to the recent promotions as well! I'm glad to see "END GAME" mentioned quite a few times!
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Congrats to WarWitch on her new duties. In the short time she's been at the helm I have already been impressed with the way she has taken the ball and run with it. Of course, after she felt good about everything is when I gave her the debrief on the current crop of player concerns and things to keep a close eye on in-game, bringing the reality of the position crashing down around her. Heh heh heh.
And a lot of you caught the reference to the End-Game that I am now working on. WarWitch frees me up to be creative again (yay!) and my strike team and I are designing and implementing an all-new system for your max-level characters to participate in. Rest assured that my focus for end-game is FUN. I won't be able to give out any specific details for a while, but I think you are all going to be very excited with all the future plans for City of Heroes, whether it is Going Rogue or beyond.
So yeah, you all can now fill up WarWitch's PM box with all your suggestions/exploits/requests for info/general chit chat. I'll still be around and answer questions when I can, but she's the "go to girl" for all that stuff now.
Here's the torch, WarWitch... don't burn yourself with it. 
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Originally Posted by Positron
Congrats to WarWitch on her new duties. In the short time she's been at the helm I have already been impressed with the way she has taken the ball and run with it. Of course, after she felt good about everything is when I gave her the debrief on the current crop of player concerns and things to keep a close eye on in-game, bringing the reality of the position crashing down around her. Heh heh heh.
And a lot of you caught the reference to the End-Game that I am now working on. WarWitch frees me up to be creative again (yay!) and my strike team and I are designing and implementing an all-new system for your max-level characters to participate in. Rest assured that my focus for end-game is FUN. I won't be able to give out any specific details for a while, but I think you are all going to be very excited with all the future plans for City of Heroes, whether it is Going Rogue or beyond. So yeah, you all can now fill up WarWitch's PM box with all your suggestions/exploits/requests for info/general chit chat. I'll still be around and answer questions when I can, but she's the "go to girl" for all that stuff now. Here's the torch, WarWitch... don't burn yourself with it. |
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Here's the torch, WarWitch... don't burn yourself with it.
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Thanks, Positron. (I think.) Don't think I can't hear you cackling from my cube, by the way...
WW
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Congratulations to War Witch and Ghost Falcon!
GV
Edit: How awesome is that, the first post after War Witch herself.
Congratulations on the promotions and new hires!
Now the big question is: If Melissa “War Witch” Bianco is now the Lead Designer, what does that make Matt “Positron” Miller? Head Honcho? Big Badguy? Or did he maybe take over her job?
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I get the feeling it's exactly what they say it is: Lead Design over everything is just too much for one person considering how big the game has become. And with all the new hires, it makes sense to break things up into teams. Since Posi has so much seniority over War Witch, he gets the special title of "Lead Designer of End Game Content" to justify his pay grade while WW moves up to the title "Lead Designer".|
Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
Not trying to raise the Doom Meter(tm), but the move to work on the end game content for Posi is a *voluntary* move, correct? It could be read as a demotion.
I mean I think Posi will be great at developing a compelling end game since he's the one that largely brought inventions to CoH. I want the announcement to mean that he's just taking one for the team because he's really good at designing as opposed to promoting someone else because management wants a "change of direction" or other nonsense. |
This is very much unlike what happened at Cryptic where Jack left the position of Lead Designer (to Posi) to move to non- and other-development work and stepping out of CoH development. Posi is very much remaining in Development... end game content.... RAIDS*!!!!!!!1!1!
Posi's mantra as Lead Designer was "give the players what they want (within reason)", and WW's mantra is "I love the players!"
Awwwww....
*Maybe Base Raids and Cathedral of Pain will be fixed!
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Oooo...shiny. OUCH!
Thanks, Positron. (I think.) Don't think I can't hear you cackling from my cube, by the way... WW |
These new young pups have to earn it, though.
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Oooo...shiny. OUCH!
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Congrats to the promotions and the new team members!
As for making a post titled Going Rogue Update and then informing us that GR updates will be coming in the following weeks, well, that seems a little poorly played. Waiting for info is better than the misconception that I'm about to get info.
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Originally Posted by Positron
And a lot of you caught the reference to the End-Game that I am now working on. WarWitch frees me up to be creative again (yay!) and my strike team and I are designing and implementing an all-new system for your max-level characters to participate in. Rest assured that my focus for end-game is FUN. I won't be able to give out any specific details for a while, but I think you are all going to be very excited with all the future plans for City of Heroes, whether it is Going Rogue or beyond.
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Originally Posted by Positron
Congrats to WarWitch on her new duties. In the short time she's been at the helm I have already been impressed with the way she has taken the ball and run with it. Of course, after she felt good about everything is when I gave her the debrief on the current crop of player concerns and things to keep a close eye on in-game, bringing the reality of the position crashing down around her. Heh heh heh.
And a lot of you caught the reference to the End-Game that I am now working on. WarWitch frees me up to be creative again (yay!) and my strike team and I are designing and implementing an all-new system for your max-level characters to participate in. Rest assured that my focus for end-game is FUN. I won't be able to give out any specific details for a while, but I think you are all going to be very excited with all the future plans for City of Heroes, whether it is Going Rogue or beyond. So yeah, you all can now fill up WarWitch's PM box with all your suggestions/exploits/requests for info/general chit chat. I'll still be around and answer questions when I can, but she's the "go to girl" for all that stuff now. Here's the torch, WarWitch... don't burn yourself with it. |
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Oooo...shiny. OUCH!
Thanks, Positron. (I think.) Don't think I can't hear you cackling from my cube, by the way... WW |
Give those designs...uh...a good designing, Matt!
And congrats, Mellisa. I know I bugged you a lot when you showed up in PD Euro side :P Glad to know you guys still like us
sort of. Heh.And, no offence to Matt, but I'm glad to see someone mentioning that "Not every issue has to have a new shiny." The core game, namely the Old content Heroside (And capital Old is fully justified) really needs a re-haul. It's starting to show it's age more than Nemesis!
Congrats to all the other promotees, and welcome to the new Devs. We don't bite...honest!
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Welcome new guys and Congrtaz to the recent promotions as well! I'm glad to see "END GAME" mentioned quite a few times!
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@Golden Girl
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Growth of the Dev team, and a structural rearrangement... hmm. (not a BAD hmm.)
New MMO on the horizon?
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I'd congragulate the promoted... but i've been promoted myself once or twice... and it's differnetly a dubble edged sword... So, my congragulations... AND my condolences... did you at least get a raise? Mine came with shinny new perks like company cell phone...(so they could bug me endlessly at home...) and the potentual for better rasise in the future...( which kind of look to be the same size I was already getting... ) 
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Congrats to WW and GF. And there's some fresh mea- I mean, new hires too! BTW, "The Television" is the best name for a redname EVER!
The words "End game content" made me giggle like a schoolgirl. Can't wait for future news!
So the game has gone to the Canadians!
Congratulations on the promotions and to the new hires.
I liked this bit of War Witch's interview:
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Should be some fun stuff ready for the DCUO launch | "we are obviously working very hard on "Going Rogue" and I think the expansion will make our players happy, give them plenty to do, and keep them coming back for more. And as for the rest of 2010, our players can expect content, content, and more content. We're already working on content for our issue post "Going Rogue" and it's some of the most exciting and challenging things we've ever done." |
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Hmm this just days after BaB's turned off his PM's.. is BaB on Posi's strike team??
and will WW finally get to leave pocket D
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Oooo...shiny. OUCH!
Thanks, Positron. (I think.) Don't think I can't hear you cackling from my cube, by the way... WW |
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Originally Posted by KingSnake
Growth of the Dev team, and a structural rearrangement... hmm. (not a BAD hmm.)
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She needs her own TF now for sure |
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and will WW finally get to leave pocket D
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EDIT: Maybe a co-op one based in Pocket D?
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See paragpn team was that so hard? Now I have a tiny update and placated for now.
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