Bill Roper Departs

Dinendae

Originally posted by jaxsundane

 My thoughts too more importantly for me though is when will Emmert get the boot?  I'm firmly convinced he is the problem there.  I played COH at launch and recall the amount of venom spewed at him and for the longest time I've never really understood.  While seing him in interviews he did always remind me of a "nerd" who's lunch money I may have wanted to snatch in school I didn't see or hear anything worthy of so much dislike.

After playing COH for somewhere close to a year I had pretty much figured out it would never have the depth I had grown used to in other mmo's but it was still fun yet I had to move on.  Then comes Cryptic and Champions just plain horrible and made even more so with Jacks battle lines drawn in the sand with his constant bashing of COH yet here was Champions which literally looked and played like a game five years older than COH and low and behold after playing it I got the same feeling that I got from COH only less warm and fuzzy, it was incredibly shallow and lacking in features and was nowhere near as fun (even has the lesser character creator if you ask me) as it's predecessor.

Then we get the Star Trek announcement, I'm embarassed to admit I'm one of the people who found excitment in the idea of Cryptic developing this game instead of Perpetual.  I know Cryptic already and while I knew the faults with their products I didn't view them as unacceptable as Funcom and SOE usually rank.  I defended the game on these very forums and debated those who branded the game a failure before even beta was out.

Played STO and low and behold again another lackluster game on the market, now there are companies I just don't deal with simply because it isn't my cup of tea and Crpytic could have easily went into this category if not for one thing.  The C-Store.  Emmert now is trying to position his company like Turbine it isn't even funny what almost is though is if any company should have the audacity to charge a sub fee while also offering a cash shop it should be Turbine and not this bare bones company.

After reading lot's of posts and links to articles I now finally understand what makes Emmert such a lame.  He is a prime example of the saying "they just don't get it".  He get's an idea in his head and refuses to move away from it no matter what anyone else says and that's all well and good if your ideas coincide with most of your player base but his never do.  I'm hard pressed right now to think of anything ever said by Emmert that I agreed with.

The biggest hope I have for this game is that like Funcom did when getting rid of Gaute or even like when NCSoft got COH away from him Cryptic can become something close to what the masses can accept. 

    Since Atari owns Cryptic now, you may just get your wish if this NNO game flops as badly as CO and STO did. However, from the initial look of things, I'm thinking they are going to be focusing more on seeing a return on their investment primarily through box sales. If so, they sell a lot of boxes, and they can keep development costs down on NNO, then they'll buy themselves breathing room and expect to see Jack there for quite a while longer. Even if it does flop, they'll can the head of the NNO staff first.