Because You’ll Hear It Soon Enough

Hi. My name’s Dan “Walrus” Myers, and I’m the Producer and Community Relations Manager for The Matrix Online.

For anyone listening to the upcoming Split-Infinity Radio interview, that’s part of what you’ll hear. My dual role may or may not come as a surprise to most of you. While I’ve been keeping it on the down-low, there have been plenty of hints as to what I’ve been up to around here.

There are a couple reasons I haven’t made any official announcements about my position. For most of the time since becoming part of the SOE family, I’d been acting as an associate producer to Andy Kaplan, helping take care of a lot of the day-to-day details. When Andy decided to take a new job back in February, it was decided that I was in the best position to continue developing the game.

As we were heading into the final stages of Combat Revision 2.0 implementation, we decided it wasn’t the best time to announce a changing of the guard. After finishing that up and getting CR2.0 into the game, things have simply been so busy that I hadn’t gotten around to an official announcement. Some folks found out at Fan Faire or E3, but overall I hadn’t given much thought to letting the community know.

Since I state it in the upcoming interview and am in the midst of a producer letter, anyway, I figured now was the time to confirm what many people have figured out. So, if I haven’t been as active on the forums as previously, maybe you can understand why. ;)

Now, let’s get down to business...