Riddick
05-16-2007, 11:16 PM
Mo will appreciate this.
From Paul Barnett at Mythic:
MG: Let’s see … the next more serious question I have is, moving the game back out until next year: that seems like an obvious, intelligent thing to do. But, can you give us some insight into what the decision-making process was there?
Paul: Yes, it’s about FARTs.
MG: Farts?
Paul: FARTs. It’s about FARTs. See, there’s Features, Resources, and Time, that’s the F and the R and the T, and that equals the Actions. FARTs. Now, the thing about farts are, if you’re not careful they’re very smelly, no one wants to take the blame for them, they leave a nasty mist, and you all feel really really bad. So, what you’ve got to do is realize you’re going to FART, you’ve got to say “How many Features have we got, how much Resources have we got, how much Time have we got?” And when you add all that together, you then say, “Therefor what action should we take?” Once you’ve done that and you’ve looked at this terrible FART we were going to have, the natural conclusion was: move the release date. Put more resources in, and make the game even better. Basically, without farting.
Full interview: http://www.mmognation.com/2007/05/16/face-the-nation-paul-barnett-pt-1/
From Paul Barnett at Mythic:
MG: Let’s see … the next more serious question I have is, moving the game back out until next year: that seems like an obvious, intelligent thing to do. But, can you give us some insight into what the decision-making process was there?
Paul: Yes, it’s about FARTs.
MG: Farts?
Paul: FARTs. It’s about FARTs. See, there’s Features, Resources, and Time, that’s the F and the R and the T, and that equals the Actions. FARTs. Now, the thing about farts are, if you’re not careful they’re very smelly, no one wants to take the blame for them, they leave a nasty mist, and you all feel really really bad. So, what you’ve got to do is realize you’re going to FART, you’ve got to say “How many Features have we got, how much Resources have we got, how much Time have we got?” And when you add all that together, you then say, “Therefor what action should we take?” Once you’ve done that and you’ve looked at this terrible FART we were going to have, the natural conclusion was: move the release date. Put more resources in, and make the game even better. Basically, without farting.
Full interview: http://www.mmognation.com/2007/05/16/face-the-nation-paul-barnett-pt-1/