Project 1999 - Holly "Windstalker" Longdale leaves Darkpaw Games

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Originally Posted by Gatorsmash (Post 3095736)

My duo partner and I make dumb bets where the loser has to help camp some god forsaken item that's usually incredibly time consuming but not even usable. Occasionally involving posting dumb troll threads with specific page numbers or staff posts required. I bet him I could make a RnF post that went 10 pages in 24 hrs.

so, you have combat experience and this is how you play EQ. I smell a masochist :cool:

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Originally Posted by Gatorsmash (Post 3095736)

She did more than preside, that [expletive] was the driving force for EQ2, along with most of the design ideas in EQ2 till it bombed like 6 months- year later then she came back to EQ1 and helped drive that into the dirt because she is a corporate shill hiding as a game designer

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My duo partner and I make dumb bets where the loser has to help camp some god forsaken item that's usually incredibly time consuming but not even usable. Occasionally involving posting dumb troll threads with specific page numbers or staff posts required. I bet him I could make a RnF post that went 10 pages in 24 hrs.

You sound upset.

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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy (Post 3094935)

yeah I don't know what an executive producer is in the game business i know in the movie business it's an interfering asshole that rounds up other interfering assholes

Not that it matters since he's banned, but if anyone else was curious;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUkcz2taCiw

Basically, the easiest/hardest job to get (no actual talent required/lots of competition), but also very easy to screw up. Most bad games are because of a producer with zero understanding of what makes a game entertaining - a lot of them probably don't even play games, so kind of like marketing hires, and marketing has a firm control over the business these days since that's where the money will come from. A game that can reach and sell to the widest audience is better than a game that appeals to that niche crowd (at least to them, and that's what will get the most pats on the back at the end of it all). This is why crowdfunding is becoming so successful for the more hardcore gaming crowd, because it's usually not about the money.

Holly Longdale wasn't responsible for killing EQ2, ask anyone who worked there and they'll tell you it was Ponytail (Dave Georgeson) - he pushed all of the bad decisions. Holly and the remainders of the old dev team (Prathun, Ngreth etc.) truly care about the game and have been part of it for years.

There's a lot of technical debt involving the EQ games from what I have heard.

They can't just use EQEmu like most can; they have to use the software they've designed for the game. It wasn't until Jennifer Chan, Klanderso, niente etc, came on board that they started to make awesome QOL changes to the game that were desperately needed.

And now JChan is captain of the ship. So that's rad!

TIL It's Darkpaw Games now, not Daybreak any longer?

Why is everyone so savage to each other on this forum lmao

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Originally Posted by RipVanFish (Post 3095866)

Why is everyone so savage to each other on this forum lmao

me :) but it's not in my power to stop now lol

Holly Windstalker is a babe.

I hope her IRL character does well in the future to come.

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Originally Posted by RipVanFish (Post 3095866)

Why is everyone so savage to each other on this forum lmao

Daybreak to Darkpaws

https://i.imgur.com/iGjIfer.png

Now I am even more confused. When you go to the Daybreak Games website, EverQuest is listed as one of their games. When you go to the Darkpaw Games website, Everquest is also listed as one of their games.