Rift is mainly made up of ex-Mythic employees (mainly ex-WAR devs). James Nichols just went over there and he was to replace Andy Belford as CM.

Rift is essentially WAR 2.0 in a lot of ways. Hell, most of the art looks like blatant chaos spawn rip-offs imo. Although that first rift in the starter zone for Guardians is what chaos wastes SHOULD have looked like.

 

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Hello John, don't be shy.

 

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Executive

* Lars Buttler, CEO. Twitter.
* Scott Hartsman, Chief Creative Officer and Producer.

[edit] Community Managers

* Cindy "Abigale" Bowens, Senior Community Manager
* Ron Meiners, Senior Community Manager
* Julien 'Midoh' Crevits, French Community Manager

[edit] Producers

* Adam Gershowitz, Producer.
* Hal Hanlin, Design Producer. [13]

[edit] Lore

* Morgan Lockhart, Defiant Lore Lead[14], "doomcookie" Twitter.
* Nick McDowell, Guardian Lord Lead[15]

[edit] Art

* Darren Pattenden, art director, goes by Bloodylovingit. Twitter
* Brian Clark, Lead Environment Artist, Linkedin profile
* Kevin Bjorke, senior technical artist, goes by Bjorke. Twitter.

Russell Cahalan, lead animator. [16]
[edit] Technical Designers

* Andrew "Avarem" Krausnick, Rifts systems designer[14], Twitter.
* Nicholas McDowell, designer, goes by Captaincursor. Twitter.
* Gina Reams, systems designer, goes by Epochlulz. Twitter.
* Will Cook, designer and rift events lead, goes by WillardV. Twitter.
* Daniel Steamer, content designer, goes by ExcelsiorH. Twitter.
* Adam Hetenyi, Instances/dungeon team[14]

[edit] Engineers

* Drew Tennenbaum, senior software engineer. Twitter.
* Peter Ju, lead engineer. [17]

copied from trion worlds own wiki for rift....

umm... i dont recognize any of those names as being from mythic .... sooo again.... WTF are you guys smoking?

 

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It's six degrees of Mackey. They all know a guy that knows a guy that knows a guy that worked at Mythic.

 

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okay, i found 1 connection..

http://www.hartsman.com/about/

Scott Hartsman, worked for Mythic *BEFORE* they made DAoC... then he jumped ship to work on EQ 1 and EQ2 ....

 

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gershowitz - producer and three others they don't mention (community managers, assistant community managers not on the list)

Like angry said. Also, there are a lot of peon coders that aren't mentioned. So...what are you smoking? Guess you should do some research before posting.


Some of the people on there also were low-level devs during Mythic and got promoted when they went over to trion. I had a few names, I'll go look for that email.


Long story short, do research before you say "WTF are you smoking" like a 12 year old on battle.net.

 

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the main people in charge, and those making design desicions... are the only ones that matter... theres a reason most the names arent recognizable...

it doesnt matter if low level devs are involved... they are code monkeys not being designing the game

adam gershowitz was the art director for daoc/war .... yeah he would of had alot of design decisions within mythic for sure..... NOT

my point is... the people in charge of RIFT, those in charge of the mechanics, the balance and stuff... are not anyone that would of had any design decisions in camelot/war .. there insignificant...

being that one of the main guys in charge at Rift had a huge involvement in EQ/EQ2 for many years... its more accurate to say that SOE employees run TRion worlds... and guess what.. thats how they market themselves... saying they have industry leading developers from SOE and WOW ..... wich they do.... no mention of Mythic why.. because any employees they got that worked for Mythic previously.. arent significant...

 

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Adam is a Rift producer. Don't you think he could impact this game? Let's hope he learned his lessons from War about what NOT to do.

This was posted in Feb...ever since then they have been quiet!!!

 

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