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Hell Froze Over: An Interview with Funcom’s Erling Ellingsen
Hell Froze Over: An Interview with Funcom’s Erling Ellingsen
Hi, I’m Daedren. You might remember me from other interviews like “Mark Jacobs: He Didn’t Call Me Back” and “Richard Garriott: Corp Por or In Vas Mani?” I write this not with a gun to my head, or a sharp weapon to my balls, but because I’m an advocate ...
Hyborian Adventures
community.ageofconan.com — Funcom appoints new Producer and Game Director for Age of Conan Posted: - 17.09.2008 Craig Morrison has been appointed as the new Producer and Game Director for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Craig Morrison has served as the Producer and Game ... (more) Hyborian Adventures
Hyping the Hype: From Conan to Warhammer
Hyping the Hype: From Conan to Warhammer
mmocrunch.com — The great Sun Tzu, father of modern journalism, once said in his treasured writings: start with a Mime and you can’t go wrong. Of course I just made that up, and I assure you that the WoW-killing Mime is not yet with us. We’ll leave mimes ... (more) Hyping the Hype: From Conan to Warhammer
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Age of Conan: Dead Man Walking?
Wandering Goblin — There's a really good interview with AoC's Erling Ellingsen up over at MMOCrunch, and it just the kind of thing to get the juices flowing, if you know what I'm trying to say. Daedren asks some very good questions and gets some very "interesting" answers. If you read carefully, you can actually see Erling actually dodge some bullets Neo-style.  Consider this: "I disagree with you that the game launched without a PvP system. You could PvP players from day one, both in mini-games, in the open world and in sieges. One of the things we ...

We’re Not Press, but WAR *is* Everywhere!
Journeys with Jaye — ... The recent interview of Erling Ellingsen by Daedren of MMOCrunch is one example of that blurring line between journalism and ownzj00 forum flaming.  What should have been a newsworthy and timely interview of AoC’s Product Manager instead turned into a piece largely about Daedren.  His original review of Age of Conan was important, because whether one agrees with it or not, it presented a thorough recap all things wrong with the game.  But he did himself a disservice when he forgot that it was the review, and not him, that readers found newsworthy.  As soon as he inserted ...

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A few weeks ago, we pointed the Massively readers to an article entitled Age of Conan: A post mortem analysis, written by the Daedren over at r1ftgaming. In that lengthy article, Daedren gave his top reasons for AoC's demise, and even offered it as a lesson learned for future developers. ...