Dallas Snell was one of Portalarium's co-founders in 2009, Chairman, the COO (usually the second in command in a firm), provided operational management and was the second major stockholder after Richard Garriott.
He was also the co-founder of Origin, Austin in 1986, together with Garriott.
He is not listed on the team page which finally has been updated after 2 years
Found on the SotA Reddit sub. https://www.reddit.com/r/shroudoftheavatar/comments/9e38os/did_dallas_snell_leave_portalarium/
It looks like he's gone, but nothing is known as to why.
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I disagree with this Danwest58. They have a long term direction for all chapters. However because this is a player backed game the players often request changes which they sometime alter some of the current systems to meet player demands. Since R53 Release they have been working a lot with the remaining player base as well listening to those that had / have concerns and fixing the issues that have been mentioned since the beginning.
Ep1 was to build the core systems they have said that since day 1. now that core systems are in place along with the tools they now are expanding the systems to meet what players asked for as well to bring in other options.
Three people founded Portalarium, and now two of them are gone? The first founder to leave was the first CEO. I think Snell has been the COO for Portalarium since the company was founded in 2009 and you think his leaving quietly either right before or right after the game launched commercially is "right sizing"? That's pure insanity.
If you are referring to skills that lead into new abilities unlocked is the only things that currently supports that, however you can mix a locked deck with a single unlocked spot and have your combo skills flick through or lock in the combo skill to the locked using up one of the spaces and you can still do the same as a combo..
100 new pots for EP2 are sold out, 89 Pot transfers for ep2 almost sold out, and 80 POT nested to map almost sold out. sure a lot of selling for something that a few think its going down.
Monthly stretch goals are still bringing in the average same as always even with less of a team. So with half the contract developers gone and the COO etc with the same monthly cash flow coming in seems to show this boat is still moving on water just fine.
Sale on port store are up over all. New players every day showing up in game. https://shroudoftheavatar.net/topLocations shows transactions are going up.
I think there are a few chickens running around with heads off stating the sky is falling
Steamcharts has been posting massive losses since the game launched, and right now shows 133 people playing.
I still don't care about steam charts, I go based on my in game friend lists which is how I know there are new players. Last dance party on Friday 23 people I added to my friends list that were not on it from the crowed there. Every event I find new people and on the map. Now one could say they were alts but my online friend list still grows daily so I know it can't be all alts unless they are multiboxing
He still working with them. There was an update last week he is working on completing some of the EP1 side stores as well working on the main story for Ep2 which is about the masters of the Cabalists.