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Nancy McIntyre moved to Leapfrog ouch
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"If anyone knows of Nancy McIntyre you will surely find this funny.
During the times of the NGE (link takes you to a post)
She made comments like
"We really just needed to make the game a lot more accessible to a much broader player base," said Nancy MacIntyre, the game's senior director at LucasArts. "There was lots of reading, much too much, in the game. There was a lot of wandering around learning about different abilities. We really needed to give people the experience of being Han Solo or Luke Skywalker rather than being Uncle Owen, the moisture farmer. We wanted more instant gratification: kill, get treasure, repeat. We needed to give people more of an opportunity to be a part of what they have seen in the movies rather than something they had created themselves
Ok what is funny and is scary for the youth of the world is that this person is now going to be
Executive vice president of Product, Innovation and Marketing of Leapfrog - which she will be in charge of "Run Product, Marketing and Innovation"
Could you imagine if she goes to them and say "you can't do that in the product because its lots of reading, much to much" 
Im sorry I couldn't get this to you sooner 
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straight from the sucker boards
it's always funny to read what she wrote about the NGE over and over again, it simply proves that those in charge for swg had no idea what the player base wanted and how we felt about the game...
you can't make decissions on a game that you never played.
now you guys know why Raph Koaster left SOE, because of people like Nancy or Johh Smedley....
SOE and NGE-Star Wars Galalaxies:
Raph Koster: "It's like dumping the girlfriend who has always been patient and loving to chase after the supermodel who probably won't love you back."
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LOL.. She might actually do well there... She should of never been in the position she was..
Her positions sounds like it might require reading though. Reading is bad, very bad. Maybe someone will convert the reading to pictures for her though, with pretty crayons to make it more fun.
Nancy is a complete and utter incompetent when it comes to PR and marketing, as proven by her disastrous and inflammatory statements that made the NGE situation even worse.
WHY does she keep getting hired to do PR and marketing, much less be the HEAD of PR and marketing?
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As I've said in the past, it's VERY VERY important that we track where these (among other) people go. Companies that employ them are making a statement:
Nancy McIntyre
John Smedley
Jeff Freeman
Julio Tora! TORA!! TORRES!!!
The employment of one of those persons should instantly place their products on the "unacceptable" list. They will to me anyway.
And I spend a LOT of money every year on games. Because I can READ and have a job that pays me well for it, Nancy.
I actually pity her.
I think those comments are going to follow her for quite some time.
I don't. What she did, what she took part in, and what she tried to spin was wrong, and she knew it was wrong.
I saw her...
at a community summit once....Man that chick is HARD to look at! I wanted to give her a walmart bag.
SWG ADDICT...clean since the NGE
Welcome to the MMORPG forums, Mr Ward.
What Nancy said and did is indefensible. And rather than actually attempt to do so (you can't) you post noise, porn, flames, and insults.
You, sir, are the NGE target audience.
I find her comment of "We needed to give people more of an opportunity to be a part of what they have seen in the movies rather than something they had created themselves" to be the most insulting and a total slap in the face.
What that PR whore failed to realize is that there was an opportunity to 'take part' in what you had seen in the movies, and for those of us that didn't want to be 'in' the movie, we could do our own thing in the Star Wars universe. That was the total beauty of it.
I work in Education Technology as a content designer...and to think that someone who was a part of ruining my favorite MMO of all time is now helming a major ed-tech firm...
...I need a beer.
*sigh*
The poor woman was only doing her job. She was told that SOE changed the game to appeal to stupid people, so she promoted that fact. Cut her a break. I'm sure if Leapfrog decides to change their toys to explode, she will do her job and promote how wonderful exploding toys are compared to the ones that don't injure or kill children.
Maybe she'll play with a few of Leapfrog's products and learn something.
which one of you felt like "damn I really want to be Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia" while playing star wars galaxies ?
SOE and NGE-Star Wars Galalaxies:
Raph Koster: "It's like dumping the girlfriend who has always been patient and loving to chase after the supermodel who probably won't love you back."
and whenever I got bored I had the opportunity to start all over again, if nessesary 32 times...
shame on you SOE, shame on you...
SOE and NGE-Star Wars Galalaxies:
Raph Koster: "It's like dumping the girlfriend who has always been patient and loving to chase after the supermodel who probably won't love you back."
Seriously man, if you saw the way she talked to people at the summits you wouldn't defend the scum that she is. I wouldn't put her in charge of a McDonalds let alone the position she somehow fell into. To sit and tell the core audience of intelligent and well educated people that used to play SWG that the game had way to much reading and we need more fight loot rinse repeat is a slap in the face and if you played SWG you would know that. She might have realized this fact as well, though I imagine that since the game used to require you have a minimum of a 6th grade reading level she probably couldn't have played after all. Rest in Peace Leapfrog nothing creative will be coming out of that company any time soon.
Not once did it enter my mind that I wanted to be the Heroes with a capital H. I'd settle for being a hero with a small h. I wanted to be a mining and industrial mogul in the Star Wars universe who used his profits to fund the rebellion, to launder their credits, and to financially screw over the Imperials. All of which I did. Was great fun. And to think it all started for me by selling fireworks...I made a killing on fireworks initially.
But that was in a galaxy far, far away.
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Ah, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahahahaha....
If this is a joke that is a good one. If this is serious apparently Leapfrog doesn't do any background checks. I am going to make up a resume and send it to them and put a child molesters name on it. See if he gets hired.
As someone who has never taken one single marketing class, much less risen to an executive position in the one and ONLY STAR WARS COMPANY, even I would have known better than to say the inane and insulting things she did.
She is obviously an affirmative action hire, as she couldn't competently market heaters to Eskimos or food to a dying man.
Not really. SWG was advertised as "live in the star wars universe, live in the star wars movies." They nailed the first part which is what everyone is still so in love with, but they missed the boat on the latter half. There was no galactic civil war brewing, nothing truly epic like the way the movies were portrayed (please don't tell me that the few monthly storylines they started was a good implementation of the GCW). The lack of a GCW feelng put it in a category of dullness with Star Wars Rebellion (if you remember that horribly slow, poorly designed strategy pc game). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying SWG was entirely dull but, Star Wars is clearly about action and epic adventures; people unfamiliar with the expanded universe or who just wanted the epic adventures weren't getting that. SOE recognized this which was good but....the changes they made still didn't get it right. Worse still, they destroyed what was working and so many people loved.
Sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well.
Quoting people doesn't make you clever, in fact, it makes you all the more stupid for not bothering to read the quotes you post in the first place.
I'm afraid that's not quite how it works with big corporate publishers the games industry Obee. Chances are, the spark that started the NGE bonfire was started at the LEC marketing department (or even more precisely, the accounting dept). Creative decisions ALWAYS follow business decisions when it comes to publishing and big licensed IP. I do have some experience in the games industry, and I've worked with many a marketing type in my day. I can honestly say that I've rarely found one person in that field (marketing) who cares about, or even knows about what they're selling. All they want is to be responsible for selling X amount of units. The unfortunate truth is that in most bigger companies, marketing people tend to have a large hand in the creative decisions that are made (ie: the NGE).
Sad but true.