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Life After Hellgate
11th Jun 2008 02:53 PM GMT | Leord | 3 comments
As we reported on the Flagship Studios developer (Stromberg) who expressed sadness in his blog post about people leaving the company, it might have sounded a lot harsher than it is, or even was intended. Remember that when writing in a blog, you can often forget who reads it, and how they can interpret it. Anyone's sad when some of their close colleagues leave the job you're working at, and that will in most cases not mean that the company as a whole is doing bad.
Said Sulic, "We've actually had very few people leave. Flagship is still fully staffed and working on both Hellgate and Mythos... I think we have about 100 employees now".
Some people have moved on from Flagship, said Sulic, due to simply moving up on their career paths or being tired of windy San Francisco, but said those departures don't constitute cause for alarm. "People finish a game, want to work on something else, and then leave to do just that. It's pretty typical in this industry. I don't know the exact number, but we couldn't have had more than five or six departures. Still, if those five or six dudes are people you work with everyday, it can't feel great".
And Somberg himself joined the conversation. "Ivan said it quite well", he said. "Things here at Flagship are running business as usual. We've just put a build of Chronicle 2 onto our test centre, which has represented a lot of hard work from everybody at the company, myself included".
Somberg said he'd written that blog post on a day when he felt "frustrated and overwhelmed", but that after some hot chocolate, a few hours' game time and some sleep, he felt better.
Said Somberg, "I was surprised and disappointed at the community's response to my words, which were more directed at my family and friends to describe my state of mind at the time, than to give any sort of insight into the company. Personally, I think that the 'Towers of Hanoi' series of posts on my blog is far more interesting and worthy of commentary and analysis".
"I'm sorry to have caused such a ruckus over such a small thing".
Some people have moved on from Flagship, said Sulic, due to simply moving up on their career paths or being tired of windy San Francisco, but said those departures don't constitute cause for alarm. "People finish a game, want to work on something else, and then leave to do just that. It's pretty typical in this industry. I don't know the exact number, but we couldn't have had more than five or six departures. Still, if those five or six dudes are people you work with everyday, it can't feel great".
And Somberg himself joined the conversation. "Ivan said it quite well", he said. "Things here at Flagship are running business as usual. We've just put a build of Chronicle 2 onto our test centre, which has represented a lot of hard work from everybody at the company, myself included".
Somberg said he'd written that blog post on a day when he felt "frustrated and overwhelmed", but that after some hot chocolate, a few hours' game time and some sleep, he felt better.
Said Somberg, "I was surprised and disappointed at the community's response to my words, which were more directed at my family and friends to describe my state of mind at the time, than to give any sort of insight into the company. Personally, I think that the 'Towers of Hanoi' series of posts on my blog is far more interesting and worthy of commentary and analysis".
"I'm sorry to have caused such a ruckus over such a small thing".
Read the whole interview here.
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