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Why did Sanya leave?
gnomexxx
Member Posts: 2,920
Why did the community relations chick at Mythic leave? I'm talking about Sanya who used to answer questions and give information on the Camelot Herald.
It got me to wondering if things are changing too much at Mythic. I'm not trying to read into it too much, that's why I'm asking why she left. I want to know the whole story.
I looked around the Internet and only found an article where she was giving the standard diplomatic responses you would expect from someone not wanting to burn bridges. But there's always a reason why someone leaves a company. If you're happy in your job you stay, right? And it's not like Camelot was scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to a job. I would love to have the job she had.
Does anyone know what is the rest of the story?
It got me to wondering if things are changing too much at Mythic. I'm not trying to read into it too much, that's why I'm asking why she left. I want to know the whole story.
I looked around the Internet and only found an article where she was giving the standard diplomatic responses you would expect from someone not wanting to burn bridges. But there's always a reason why someone leaves a company. If you're happy in your job you stay, right? And it's not like Camelot was scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to a job. I would love to have the job she had.
Does anyone know what is the rest of the story?
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Perhaps we'll see Tweety's site back up soon.
If you don't know who tweety was, check this out. Link (Warning, Harsh language) This is Sanya before she was with Mythic.
Also, here's a good commentary on her leaving. Link
She did not take another job and is not looking to move. She doesn't have any kids and if she wanted kids you can do both. If it were for some "personal" reasons that could have been said even if details were not given. It says "mutally agreed" and while that is code word it need not be. You can imagine something like "i'm sick of doing this, I need 6-12 months off" EA: "we can't let you be gone for that long, how about 2 weeks?" No deal worked out so she quit.
The only thing that bothers me is how this was handeled. In most jobs you put in your 2 weeks notice, right. Couldn't she have said something in her last grab bag or made her own announcement? Instead she left and no one said anything. She didn't say anything for 2 weeks prior to the announcment. She cleaned out her office one week and the next week she did an interview on the terms that they keep quiet. The the announcement was made and the intrerview released. Someone might have thought it would be easier, or maybe it was just her idea, but to me that almost says pushed out the door. But then again I am paranoid
I had a different image in my head of her all along. I feel like I need a shower after reading that.
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It all seems so stupid
It makes me want to give up
But why should I give up
When it all seems so stupid
IMO, this is not a good sign... but it certainly isn't a harbinger of doom either....
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Both of them have lost that magic that they once were. I think that loss of the original vision as well as time made that magic die. When I think of the good times I used to have playing those two games I long sooooo much to get that feeling back.
I can't help but think that this is a sign that everything is amok at the Mythic offices. I don't want to be harsh like that, but my brain just leads me that way.
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There is a similar post in the Warhammer Online forum
Link: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/128355
1. Her husband
2. Have an article saying so.
3. Have a pic you took of her with a date showing the big prego stomach.
I had a different image in my head of her all along. I feel like I need a shower after reading that.
LOL. When DAOC was released, Mythic hired the two most vocal game critics off the market - Lum the Mad and Tweety. Tweety wasn't really a game critic though - she gained her fame for posting that first rant anonymously on an EQ server message board. SOE tracked her down and she lost her volunteer position as a guide and I believe she was banned from EQ as well (the ban may have been later rescinded). If you don't know Lum the Mad (aka Scott Jennings) then you haven't been into MMOs very long. Scott still writes some commentary at brokentoys.org, but he's a lot milder than he used to be since he still works in the industry.
As to why Sanya left? That's anyone's guess. "By mutual agreement" usually means that the powers that be won't give you what you want, so you take your ball and go home. As Mythic was recently purchased by EA, it's possible that Mythic's customer relations department is getting merged with EA's customer relations department. Lots of things may not have worked out to the mutual benefit of all parties. As for why it wasn't announced, when people in that type of position give notice, they are usually not allowed to work it out because their positions are too sensitive. Lots of times your system access will be cut off before you can get out the door.
I'm sure Sanya will surface elsewhere. Sometimes the best career moves are those that aren't planned.
Morthoron the Moriquendi
She left because people change jobs. Some of you need to take your tinfoil hats off and relax.
She was just a PR person, she had no input on the direction of the game, she made no decisions. Her job was to meet wtth players and make them feel good so they would keep paying their subscription fees. She wasn't a developer or designer.
I always thought she came off like an arrogant condecending asshat and wondered why she had that position in the first place. Any of you read her website before she got that job? If you did, you would wonder why too.
http://www.TheGamersAssociation.com
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Hope she does well in her future, whatever that may be.
As for the person who called her an arrogant asshat. I never got that vibe, myself.
No doom and gloom imo. Mythic is currently riding a wave of momentum.
-- xpaladin
[MMOz]
AC1/2, AO, DAoC, EQ1/2, SoR, SWG, UO, WAR, WoW
Having joined right after the release of S.I. (also being my first MMO), I've grown accustomed to the "Grab Bag" amongst her various other postings. However, I'm just more or less glad that I had stopped playing before she left (really forced since Iraq doesn't have a way to play...well without insane lag that is). Having been and seen all the seemingly uncalled for nerfings and over nerfings (though granted I'll admit some were called for, even ones on my own realm(s)), that would have added one more bitter taste to what was one a glorious game struggling to be what had once enticed gamers to pay the roughly $25 a month (I think that was what the price use to be).
However her leaving shows something, and maybe I'm the only one who sees this and I'm just crazy with "conspiracy theories" like that ^.^, but if a high profile and well known critic of gaming that is FOR your game (though I think her personal opinion has been known a few times which just means shes human) ups and leaves under "mutual agreement", and no other company is jumping for joy that they have a new, well known team member named Sanya, then that means my focus for her leaving would primarily rest on EA themselves. Of course there could be other circumstances, but all the ones that I can think up would end with a bad employee being fired/let go (i.e. sexual harassment), unless EA lets stuff like that go on. But I don't know, I don't work there, heck I have a serious distaste for EA.
I digress though, and like the topic originator pretty much said, I'm into the story behind the story.