Jacobs announced earlier today on MOP that he's taking a break from discussing things with people there because it's not "fun" any more. Then, he decided to go to a Reddit post I made about it and argue with people there. This is the CEO of the company developing Camelot Unchained, personally fighting with anonymous backers and trolls on the internet. If anyone ever needed to take a step back and hire a Community Relations manager, it's him. Completely ignoring whether or not he makes valid points, it's just not appropriate for the head of a company to get personally involved in this way.
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What you propose is quite unfeasible.
You make it too easy.
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Who do developers want as their community? When they can answer that question, then they need to define their actions to fit that player types wants. If Mark cant figure that out, he should hire someone who knows how to handle that. Im not sure he is the man to do this.
AoC spoke person is their dev, a Creative director Steven Shariff.
So no, they do not have hired an extra person to do the PR as proposed by Ungood. It's unfeasible idea as explained elsewhere.
Had that energy been focused on the game we'd be buying the first expansion this xmas season.
He really gets upset when people lie about him, the team or the backers, which is a classic trolling tool which I'm surprised he still falls for.
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Prior to that he made his fortune selling healthy juice drinks in a MLM organization.
But like many of us, he was and is an avid gamer, a major influencer in ArchAge back in the day, (still may be) but had a dream and the means to try and build his own game.
He too had all sorts of incorrect ideas when first starting out which I and several others here pointed out the flaws with his plans and promises, and so far I think we're batting a thousand.
Fortunately he went out and hired some game Producers which got the project back on track after the Apocalypse fiasco.
Its actually coming along quite well now and you can clearly see Steven's marketing background shining through with the way progress has been shared in recent months.
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You can clearly see this.
Also business people finish projects while tech guys will enhance a game forever.
Sometimes the suits people are needed and that is why you need IT business consultants to get both sides together otherwise the game will have no soul or it has a soul but will never be finished
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