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Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="gyrate" reply="120" id="2863209"]Jon Shafer - The way it works at Firaxis is that there is a designer, and he is also the gameplay programmer who programs all the gameplay rules, and he also programs all the AI. Jon Shafer - Our teams are getting bigger now, so on Civilization V I didn’t program all the AI. Only about half. Jon Shafer - We had a combat programmer doing combat AI, and a programmer doing the AI for the workers and explorers, but I program

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that could do great things for elemental??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Domicron, your challenge is ridiculous. Allow me. Global Happiness There is nothing, I repeat, NOTHING about Global Happiness that is inherently broken. Is there a poor implementation? Balance flaws? Certainly. But is the mechanic itself broken? Absolutely not. This is common to virtually all of Sullla's complaints; A failure of Implementation, not Design. The two are VERY different concepts. "Too Many Penalties" Wait. Wa

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="202" id="2861354"] No I am not mistaken. Last I heard, developers make games right? As in they are developing the game. I've heard from the industry that you can't blame the developers because it's the publishers call. Then I hear you can't blame the publisher because they didn't make the game. At what point is someone actually going to step forward and take responsibility for a poorly created product? I mean sure people can jump on me and blame me for wh

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="183" id="2861192"]I am just curious, if you can't blame the people who worked on a game, and you can't blame the publisher who publishes a game, who exactly can should you blame for a bad game? I don't think one person is responsible for Civ V's current status amongst many strategy fans anymore than I think only one person is responsible for Elemental's disastrous release. I am beginning to wonder though where exactly blame can be assigned. Hey when

Reply to Stardock hires Civ 5 lead designer Jon Shafer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="rebelito" reply="97" id="2860820"] [removed] [/quote] ....I officially love this forum. Must purchase the game and be more active here.... [e digicons]O:)[/e] And Rebelito... Why assume that [i]he didn't do just that[/i]?

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote] of the project then the "failure" is partly his. It doesn't matter how large or small the percentage of said failure attributed to the designer it still exists. If the designer knows he cannot fulfill his responsibilty toward a project then the designer should leave before the product launches. That is unless the designer doesn't really have a problem with the higher-ups or the rest of the team..........in which case he-most-certainly-is-to-blame. Of course people

Reply to And you decide to hire the guy that ruined the 20-year old Civilization franchise??? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2859941"]Don't be insane. Do you have any idea how much of the design process as well as scheduling is altered when you're dealing with a publicly traded company? Seriously. If you don't like Civ V, think carefully about what it is you don't like about it. Seriously. Moreover, as some have already observed, Kael is the one taking over design on Elemental from me. We desperately need someone who has

Reply to Derek “Kael” Paxton Joins Stardock to Lead Games Development in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="75" id="2802818"] Quoting Derek Paxton, reply 74 Thanks for all the good wishes, I am very excited to work on Elemental. I made over 16,000 posts at CivFanatics while working on Fall from Heaven so it's safe to say you will all be hearing a lot from me (and that I hope to hear a lot from all of you). The sad truth is I spent way to much time looking for a non-dorky picture of me and that's the best I co

Reply to Derek “Kael” Paxton Joins Stardock to Lead Games Development in Elemental News Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="25" id="2801808"]There's no crusade, I'm only expressing my opinion and not trying to convince anyone. The facts speak for themselves, there is no disservice in the truth. Last I saw the list on the forum's site, there were 13 "credits" for artwork/music, 3 or 4 of which were labeled as having been used with permission, and at least one of the ones that were not used with permission requested that the artist be contacted to work out licensing if anyone