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Originally posted by U-Turn

Old news.  Schilling is a big time Gamer.  He posts all the time over on that board with those freaks.  FOH where that McQuaid story came from.

Oh wow

Why am I not surprised. It sounds like a really professional company. I mean a baseball player and an action figure maker. /sarcasm

^_^

If they can get Knuth, Stallman, Torvolds, and other competent programmers on board, I'm game. Otherwise, no.

Originally posted by candygirl6

"What else did Curt Schilling reveal about his upcoming game? Not a whole lot. He's banking heavily on his own understanding of games, which is considerable, and his two creative partners -- best-selling fantasy book author R.A. Salvatore and iconoclast comic book and action figure creator Todd MacFarlane -- to create a blockbuster"

 

A baseball player, a comic book writer and an action figure creator making an MMO. Really, that's all we need, and people wonder why MMO's suck lately.

Well I can't think of any of the current MMOs that are sucking that were developed by a baseball player, an AUTHOR of many BOOKS, and a COMIC book creator, so it's appparently not their fault. 

What makes MMOs suck are big business and the bottomline.  I think it is a very courageous undertaking on his part and he should be welcomed with open arms  by the MMO community.  More competition leads to more innovation.   He is investing alot of his money in something he is passionate about.  Don't you know that some of the best games ever were created by companies like this?

Lets just hope he's not bought out by SOE.

Originally posted by candygirl6

 

Originally posted by U-Turn

Old news.  Schilling is a big time Gamer.  He posts all the time over on that board with those freaks.  FOH where that McQuaid story came from.

 

Oh wow

Why am I not surprised. It sounds like a really professional company. I mean a baseball player and an action figure maker. /sarcasm

^_^

 

Who would ever think 2 doctors would make the largest RPG powerhouse in the world..You have heard of Bioware right?

Originally posted by candygirl6

A baseball player, a comic book writer and an action figure creator making an MMO. Really, that's all we need, and people wonder why MMO's suck lately.

Schilling, Salvatore and MacFarlane are not MMO programmers and that is probably why they will make one of the best MMOs ever.

Originally posted by Xiaoki 

Schilling, Salvatore and MacFarlane are not MMO programmers and that is probably why they will make one of the best MMOs ever.

There went a lot of logic into that  thought didn't there. The lack of reasoning you portray defines the internet lately.

LOL yah I have to agree that is going a bit far the other way.

How about we all wait and see and give them some time to get their stuff together. Its been maybe 12 months since they opened their doors, and it takes time to hire a team and move them out.

I am anxious as many are to see what they have been working on. I will wait until that time to pass judgement, because at this time there is no basis one way or another to judge what they can accomplish.

Just remember even the very best developers start someplace. Jaffe and God of War, WIll Wright and SimAnt. You just never know where it starts and where the journey ends until you get there.

You don't need to be a programmer to oversee development of a game. The most important thing imo is being a game lover and knowing what you want. Sure an understanding of the technical aspects helps, but i'm sure the actual devs can explain whatever to a reasonably intelligent person. Knowing what makes a game good is what you need most in the high up positions, and having a pure game player at the top instead of a suit and tie man sounds great to me.

I just hope Curt likes the same things i do, hehe. I would love to see him take his sports fortune and turn it into something useful to me like a new game development company, and i hope they pump out tons of great games for me to play. Not only that but more game companies means more gaming jobs! So good luck with that guys, and if you need any unskilled people who do nothing but play videogames all the time, i'm your man, lol. Maybe a QA tester or something? hehe. Jobs in the game industry are too rare and hard to get, and all the other jobs suck. The more companies there are the better. More jobs and more games.

This guy is putting his money where his mouth is. He has passion and he appears to have a game plan. He's got some good vision guys on board. He's probably got some pretty good coders on board, too.

I'm interested to see what they come up with. There is no sense in disparaging them NOW. Wait till they have something to show us and evaluate their product. If it sucks, *then* disparage them and you'll probably find you've got a lot of company doing that. But until then, I think it is good that an independant group is trying this. Maybe they'll come up with something new and unique that we'll really like. I hope so.