Vennom

Most of you probably already know all of this, but I figured Id share with those that dont. Just some snipets.


"Steve Danuser has been appointed Director of Community Development/Senior Designer. Danuser will oversee the construction of the company's official website (www.greenmonstergames.net) and develop its fan community while reporting directly to GMG's Founder, Curt Schilling. Danuser, known in the online world as “Moorgard,” was the co-founder of Mobhunter, one of the first websites focused on game design analysis and discussion.

Ryan Shwayder has been named Community Relations Manager/Designer at GMG and will be working to establish the company's presence through the web and other media alongside Danuser. Shwayder, commonly known to the gaming world as “Blackguard,” has been developing online communities for years, most recently as the Community Relations Manager for EverQuest® II where he also worked with Danuser.

Erik Theisz has signed on as a Senior Producer for GMG. Theisz also contributed to the worldwide launch of EverQuest® II. He was Design Supervisor and Associate Producer for the original EverQuest® II game, as well as the expansions Desert of Flames™, Kingdom of Sky™, and Echoes of Faydwer™.

Michael Woods joins GMG as Assistant to Director of Customer Service Development/Designer. Woods has an extensive background in customer service, including three years at Sony Online Entertainment.

Billy Ahlswede joins GMG as a Senior Character Artist. Ahlswede comes from Sony Online Entertainment.

Josh Singh joins GMG as a Senior Character Artist. Singh is an award-winning character artist with 11 shipped titles during his time in the games industry. He comes to GMG from Sony Online Entertainment.

Niraj Desai joins GMG as a Senior Animator. Desai's career in games began with Sony Online Entertainment in 2002.

Damarcus Holbrook joins GMG as a Senior Environment Artist. Over the past 6 years, Holbrook has created zones for many games in the MMO and first-person-shooter worlds. His environments can be seen in Valve Corporation's Half-Life® 2 , EA Games™ From Russia With Love™ , and in Sony Online Entertainment's Untold Legends™ Dark Kingdom ™ for the PlayStation®3."\


So all Sony has left is......outsourced employees, w00t!

lol, maybe this will be the reality check SoE needs....hopefully.

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Sqee

LFG

Looks to me like the relationship between Curt and SoE ended up costing more than a few EQII baseball caps and VIP treatment at Fanfaires.

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Niber

Talk about backfire.

I'm betting they wish they never gave Curt paid in-game PR for his new company.

Kurp

A lot of the people mentioned in this thread compared to the old ones have actually been added afterwards, so instead of just bringing 2-3 SOE people with them they're now up to about 6-8.

Kind of makes you wonder what Curt said to people while in game doesn't it =p

Kurizo

Curt just acted on something the rest of us carry as common knowledge. SOE sucks balls.

Gage

All the artist where from the console division of SOE and worked on PS3 titles for the most part. One had been on EQ2 awhile ago, but not recently.

MG and BG were kind of a big deal, but in the games industry most the time its easier to move up by moving to a new company, than just staying at the same one.

The bulk of the design team, including all the leads are still with SOE (Dymus, Lyndro, etc).

The big losses to EQ2 were from the community team, though MG did mostly development stuff for EoF, his main experience in the industry is with community.

Edit: Oh yeah. Considering the formation of GMG was announced on EQ2's site by BG, I wouldn't say its much of a reach to assume SOE will have some hand in GMG's title, maybe servers/publishing - similiar to their relationship with Sigil for Vanguard.

Something to think about.

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Renko

Personally I have no problem with SoE so to see the company going back to letting others do the developing while they deal with servers/publishing (which they are better at) will be good for both MMO players and SoE.

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Pink Poodle

I'm not that bright with this kind of stuff, so-

Some SOE employees went over to GMG is what this is about?

(Please note: I'm a blonde 17 year old girl.)

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Telpacpaw

Basically. I never thought about it like " SOE is a sinking ship" rather, most of these guys probably realize staying with SOE isn't a way to get a good rep, especially in the positions these guys were in. Plus what Gaige said, moving around companies is extremely common in the gaming industry.

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