So what now Xaices/Avair?

[DrK]

Originally Posted by Xaices

Avair is still here and very much a Class Dev.

I am still here and very much the DK class lead.

New changes?
Social Life?

The new changes are not changing class leads, what class dev they work with or realy any relation inbetween lead and dev. Only thing changing realy is a back log of tasks to complete during this transition period.

There is no change to my social life. I took 10 days to take care of some family afairs, My Fathers Death. That is not realy a change in my social life. Reguardless if it was a death, I wanted to go to Disney World or wanted to travel Europe I took 10 days to do, well things I wanted to do. I am never going to be here 24/7 365, but I will garantee you I will be here damn near 11 months out of the year. If that changes I will step down, but for now I work a 6am to 5pm Desk Job which affords me garanteed weekends off and 4 days off every national holiday. This meens I can spend several hours a week, reading forums, e-mails, pms and playing the game, while still having a normal real life where I can go and do the things that I want with out it having a grave impact on the Dread Knight class.

No worries, I am still here and your stuck with me like it or not,

My condolences about your father Xaices. My dad died in '02.


I'm glad to hear that the class lead system will remain intact and that you and Avair are still here. It's reassuring.

[Jooma]

Originally Posted by velzevul

Avair seems like a genuine a$$hat to me and his vision for DRK just Fing sux. In addition he is a stubborn old fart, and it is just painful to see the whole 12 inches DRK class moved in last 3 month, while other classes are piling up a mile ahead. I mean cmon! Fire Avair already... wish SoE did.

Avair is a name we have for our class development, but do we know how many changes and how much control he has over our class?

For all I know, Avair has many changes he wants to make but constantly gets shots down by higher ups.

But then still, why doesn't he come here and post atleast once a week to give us a heads up and ask specific questions for testing and stuff? Would that really be too much of a time sync to invest in us? It's been my experience that if you ignore your community long enough, they will leave.

I believe there's a potential customer loss for SoE by not having each class addressed atleast once a week.

[velzevul]

Originally Posted by Jooma

Avair is a name we have for our class development, but do we know how many changes and how much control he has over our class?

For all I know, Avair has many changes he wants to make but constantly gets shots down by higher ups.

But then still, why doesn't he come here and post atleast once a week to give us a heads up and ask specific questions for testing and stuff? Would that really be too much of a time sync to invest in us? It's been my experience that if you ignore your community long enough, they will leave.

I believe there's a potential customer loss for SoE by not having each class addressed atleast once a week.

might be I have to take my nasty words back about Avair, because

Avair - Michael Mann - Associate Game Designer
Silius - Salim Grant - Senior Game Designer
Tagad - Bill Fisher - Senior Game Designer
Talisker - Darrin McPherson - Senior Game Designer
Teclisen - Vince Napoli - Game Designer

You can see there are 3 Senior Game Designer and like 20 Associate level designers, of which Avair is one of. From the nasty interview with a fired employee, I would think that Bill Fisher or Darrin McPherson were the ones who were shooting down ideas. But still, Avair as a key person in chain of command from Us - Xaices - Avair - Senior Designers, for all we know, could not have been bringing things up to them at all.

This is the problem with a 1 street only system. You don't know whether your message is reaching the next block, because you have no alternate way of going. I would be very interested in speaking to a senior class designer, and ask him what exactly he heard about DRK in the last half a year.

[labrat]

Originally Posted by Xaices

Avair is still here and very much a Class Dev.

I am still here and very much the DK class lead.

New changes?
Social Life?

The new changes are not changing class leads, what class dev they work with or realy any relation inbetween lead and dev. Only thing changing realy is a back log of tasks to complete during this transition period.

There is no change to my social life. I took 10 days to take care of some family afairs, My Fathers Death. That is not realy a change in my social life. Reguardless if it was a death, I wanted to go to Disney World or wanted to travel Europe I took 10 days to do, well things I wanted to do. I am never going to be here 24/7 365, but I will garantee you I will be here damn near 11 months out of the year. If that changes I will step down, but for now I work a 6am to 5pm Desk Job which affords me garanteed weekends off and 4 days off every national holiday. This meens I can spend several hours a week, reading forums, e-mails, pms and playing the game, while still having a normal real life where I can go and do the things that I want with out it having a grave impact on the Dread Knight class.

No worries, I am still here and your stuck with me like it or not,

well keep up the fight but from all the I have read on the forums and around the net, it seems to be that all of sigil was canned. that means avair the fool that he is. honestly they need to remove him from any aspect of this game, get someone in that has a clue and start fresh.

[Venge]

Starting fresh is really the last thing you would want to do

[labrat]

Originally Posted by Venge

Starting fresh is really the last thing you would want to do

actually starting fresh is exactly what i would like to see. a clear mind with support to do the job. while avair worked on the game thigns we half baked, ireally dont care how much people will say those above were the ones that push this or that.

actually outside of the top management i totally see why SOE cleaned house. they will bring in who them see and have seen do the job right.

[Mordikay]

Originally Posted by Xaices

Avair is still here and very much a Class Dev.

I am still here and very much the DK class lead.

New changes?
Social Life?

The new changes are not changing class leads, what class dev they work with or realy any relation inbetween lead and dev. Only thing changing realy is a back log of tasks to complete during this transition period.

There is no change to my social life. I took 10 days to take care of some family afairs, My Fathers Death. That is not realy a change in my social life. Reguardless if it was a death, I wanted to go to Disney World snip...

Disney World?!

I knew it...true evil.