Quote: Mekadave wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me what rumors people will start. Nope, it's not. The only person left at Cryptic associated with CoH is Jack Emmert. Everyone
else went to the new NCSoft North America subsidiary. The only thing the two games will have in common are Emmert and the superhero genre.
The entire City of Heroes/Villains team as of late 2007 moved to
NCSoft. That is everyone at Cryptic who was assigned to CoH at the time.
But there are guys at Cryptic who worked on CoH originally, but
subsequently shifted to other projects - and thus are still with Cryptic after the NCSoft buyout. Please note that the CoH Live Team was downsized around 2006.
Those guys who didn't leave Cryptic entirely...are presumably working on Champions Online.
For example, Al Rivera (aka Geko) is still with Cryptic. I just googled it to make sure. Mind,
there's no confirmation he's involved in Champions Online - but his position is described as 'Senior Staff Designer' and 'Manager of the
Combat System team' at the company level. He hasn't posted on the
Champions Online forums, but one of the other devs (Jeff Tulli) made a joke about him, so I'd imagine he's involved with Champions in some
capacity.
And Geko's blamed for a lot of the overall balance problems and nerfs CoH's gotten over the years
- up till somewhere in 2006 when Castle became the frontman for CoH powers and combat systems. Just as much as Jack Emmert in some circles. Until someone can
tell me Geko and other former CoH devs aren't working on Champions, I'll assume they are - for good or ill.
-- Acyl
-- Acyl