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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So what you're saying is,
Blame Marketing. Noted. |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So what you're saying is,
Blame Marketing. Noted. |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So what you're saying is,
Blame Marketing. Noted. |
When in doubt blame marketing.
Cos you know they're up in their penthouse meeting room suite sipping mojitos and blaming the techies.
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Well, aside from what I have in my signature, I have one question about this.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So what you're saying is,
Blame Marketing. Noted. |
Isn't the OCR team technically under the Marketing department?
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
The problem with marketing departments is that they promise things someone else has to deliver. Communication with the departments who do have to deliver is optional.
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Nope. |
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Well, aside from what I have in my signature, I have one question about this.
Isn't the OCR team technically under the Marketing department? |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Nope.
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Except in their own heads of course. In there ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE UNDER MARKETING!
Mind you inside everyones head their department is the indispensable one. Even Scruffy the Janitor thinks the only reason the Fortune 500 company he works for is still in business is his devotion to mopping, cleaning and... other activities
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I've grown to like you more as the years have passed. Your character is still a cheater though.
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Originally Posted by Positron
All Leads eventually get blamed for things that were well outside of their sphere of control. I've come to accept and deal with this.
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so whos in charge then?.... posi or ww?
oh and posi. big shoulders tough guy....afterall you dont wanna be blamed you could have just been a community rep and taken less pay ya know 
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Originally Posted by Ascendant
Wait, come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen War Witch and Melissa Bianco in the same room together! Say, you don't suppose... Nah, who am I kidding? That's just crazy talk.
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I always thought they got along so well, too.
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
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Originally Posted by Severe
so whos in charge then?.... posi or ww?
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I'm curious about this too.
Originally Posi was the lead then he stepped over to do all the end-game stuff and War Witch took over.
Now we have Nate "Second Measure" Burk....when did he become the "head honcho" so-to-speak? Or is he below War Witch?
*confused*
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Positron is Lead Designer, same as War Witch (who has lost her red name).|
Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
I'm curious about this too.
Originally Posi was the lead then he stepped over to do all the end-game stuff and War Witch took over. Now we have Nate "Second Measure" Burk....when did he become the "head honcho" so-to-speak? Or is he below War Witch? *confused* |
Second Measure is Lead Producer.
The 'head honcho' is the janitor since he has access to all the whiteboards when no-one is looking.
The *head honcho* in the studio is Brian "Crosscheck" Clayton.
Then there's the *head honchos* in Seattle and Korea.
For the intent of the Development and Design of the game,
- Second Measure is the overall producer.
- War Witch is leading the Strike Teams and ensuring that the creative vision is being adhered too.
- Positron is responsible for the overall design philosophy and oversight of the entire game.
- Ghost Falcon is in charge of multiboxing.
- Black Pebble is in charge of nefarious schemes to steal puppies and kittens.
- Black Scorpion is in charge of...actually...we don't know what he's doing...he walks around muttering things about Seagulls and Kheldians and we kinda leave him alone most of the time.
- Protean is in charge of our Wil Wheaton sound alike club.
- Avatea is in charge of SHHHH-eduling and all things PURR-ple.
There's more, but I would have to defeat you if I told you.
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Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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Black Scorpion is a LEG man.
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Does that mean that Jay is in charge of sounding like Brent Spiner?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
- Avatea is in charge of SHHHH-eduling and all things PURR-ple.
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He gets more boxes than Pohsyb did?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
- Ghost Falcon is in charge of multiboxing.
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In-Game Posi is also a jerk- Letting all those new heroes get their rear ends handed to them because all the NPCs are grey to him. Pfft. Some hero.
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Originally Posted by Vega
I've grown to like you more as the years have passed. Your character is still a cheater though.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
The *head honcho* in the studio is Brian "Crosscheck" Clayton.
Then there's the *head honchos* in Seattle and Korea. For the intent of the Development and Design of the game, - Second Measure is the overall producer. - War Witch is leading the Strike Teams and ensuring that the creative vision is being adhered too. - Positron is responsible for the overall design philosophy and oversight of the entire game. - Ghost Falcon is in charge of multiboxing. - Black Pebble is in charge of nefarious schemes to steal puppies and kittens. - Black Scorpion is in charge of...actually...we don't know what he's doing...he walks around muttering things about Seagulls and Kheldians and we kinda leave him alone most of the time. - Protean is in charge of our Wil Wheaton sound alike club. - Avatea is in charge of SHHHH-eduling and all things PURR-ple. There's more, but I would have to defeat you if I told you. |
haha, nice summary Zwillinger and thanks.
Although to me, Nate's (Second Measure's) and Matt's (Positron's) positions seem similar.
So from what I can assume/guess, Nate is "above" Matt, yes?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Nope.
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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You are! I kid, I kid. But in all seriousness nobody with any intelligence could accuse me of being a dev suck up. And I agree with you completely. Taking the blame and dealing with our ******** is part of the job and Posi realizes that and I think he does a pretty good job being our punching bag when we want to complain.|
Originally Posted by TonyV
Which is what makes you a great Lead. I'm not being facetious. One of the qualifications for the position is a very thick skin--realizing that at any given moment, half of the user base (if you're lucky it's only that many) is going to be calling for your head on a platter, yet still you get up every morning because you know that what you're doing is cool.
There's a huge difference between listening to the user base and being paralyzed trying to make everyone happy. I've always thought you guys do a good job at keeping things cool and moving. But then, what do I know? I'm a dev suck-up. |
And for that I respect him, even when he is hatching evil plans to destroy my fun.
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Positron is a designer. Second Measure is a producer. Their relationship is comparable to that of a producer and a director for a movie. In a company as relatively small as Paragon Studios, the lines of *contribution* are blurry (remember when BaB, an animator, helped design the I9 Hamidon?) but operationally speaking Nate's job is to make sure the company itself is running smoothly: his job is to make sure timelines are being met, resources are being properly allocated to different projects, etc. Matt's job is to oversee the actual design and implementation details of the game.|
Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
haha, nice summary Zwillinger and thanks.
Although to me, Nate's (Second Measure's) and Matt's (Positron's) positions seem similar. So from what I can assume/guess, Nate is "above" Matt, yes? |
Let's say I want +health added to Practiced Brawler. So I ask Black Scorpion to add +health to Practiced Brawler. Its Black Scorpion's responsibility, as the lead for anything you can type in Excel, to decide if that's an appropriate powers change. If he does, as the powers (among other things) lead his responsibility is to send an email to Arbiter Hawk saying "take care of this please, I'm going to lunch."
Then War Witch is supposed to step in and say "wait a minute Black Scorpion, you're in charge of the Live and End Game strike force, not the Bend Over Backwards for Arcana strike force. I'm going to have to reassign that task.
Then Positron's job is to jump in and say "hmm, adding +health to any super reflexes power contradicts the design principles of this game, which are to annoy Arcana as much as possible. I'm afraid I'm going to have to veto that change. Instead, lets add +Fly to Practiced Brawler. And make it unslottable for maximum irritation."
Now its Second Measure's turn to weigh in. "Synapse generally handles all buffs related to flight, and all of his time is allocated to making Afterburner do something useful in I22. So I'm afraid annoying Arcana will have to be an I22.5 feature."
I'm pretty sure at this point Brian Clayton pops his head in and says "who's Arcana?" before making an executive decision that on Friday everyone must show up to work dressed as their favorite character from Firefly.
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Great. Now I'm stuck with the mental image of Positron dressed as Inara Serra. Thanks Arcana.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I'm pretty sure at this point Brian Clayton pops his head in and says "who's Arcana?" before making an executive decision that on Friday everyone must show up to work dressed as their favorite character from Firefly.
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Blame Marketing.
Noted.
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