Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Fairfax]

 

[Wunderbar]

Who are they

 

[toro]

Who are they

josh's bitch

 

[Yosharian]

Do Blizzard even make games anymore?

 

[Wunderbar]

Do Blizzard even make games anymore?

kinda, but all of these games are watered down and focus-grouped to the point of being sterile.
Not to mention the awful cartoony visuals, emphasis on """cybersport""", and abundance of pink haired lesbians.

 

[Roguey]

Who are they

Blizzard is where Obsidian employees go to retire unless you're a Leonard Boyarsky who grows bored of merely serving in Heaven. He'd rather rule in Hell.

 

[glass blackbird]

Do Blizzard even make games anymore?

They're probably gonna work on World of Warcraft

 

[Flou]

Blizzard is where Obsidian employees go to retire unless you're a Leonard Boyarsky who grows bored of merely serving in Heaven. He'd rather rule in Hell.

For some reasons many devs at Obsidian want to work on Diablo and/or World of Warcraft. With so many Ex-Obsidian staffers at Blizzard, it just gets easier for people to jump ship. You already know like 20 people from the company, if you join now
Seriously though, Blizzard is one of the few developers that are really in their own category. Even with Microsoft backing Obsidian, they are still far away from that level of production value and prestige.

If you look at Katrina's new job as a Cinematics team producer. Obsidian has like 1 guy who is the cinematics team. And if Dini is working on WoW/Overwatch, that should be quite a test for a level designer. Then again, at Blizzard you will most likely only work on WoW, Overwatch or Diablo which will cause people like Boyarsky to leave after a while.

 

[Jenkem]

Diablo and WoW are dead though.

 

[Infinitron]

Anthony Davis is a programmer on World of Warcraft now FYI.

 

[santino27]

Blizzard is where Obsidian employees go to retire unless you're a Leonard Boyarsky who grows bored of merely serving in Heaven. He'd rather rule in Hell.

For some reasons many devs at Obsidian want to work on Diablo and/or World of Warcraft. With so many Ex-Obsidian staffers at Blizzard, it just gets easier for people to jump ship. You already know like 20 people from the company, if you join now
Seriously though, Blizzard is one of the few developers that are really in their own category. Even with Microsoft backing Obsidian, they are still far away from that level of production value and prestige.

Blizzard is also local to Obsidian, which helps significantly in terms of making it attractive to people already living there.

 

[FreeKaner]

Blizzard training studio.

 

[Roguey]

For some reasons many devs at Obsidian want to work on Diablo and/or World of Warcraft.

They like the better working conditions and relatively-safer job security.

Last year I left GDC inspired and drafted a bunch of single-player 40K scenarios which I never really finished as FNV Crunch crushed my desire to live and work for OBS.

Working at Acti-Bliz the last 2+ months you can really see the differences in successful publishers vs. not, although I do slightly have that cog in the machine feel.

(and as Avellone told us, Chris Parker's response to this guy was to yell at him while speaking as if he were Sawyer )

 

[Xeon]

Wonder how many ex Obsidians got laid off from Blizzard during the 700-800 lay offs.

 

[Roguey]

Wonder how many ex Obsidians got laid off from Blizzard during the 700-800 lay offs.

Doubt it was much if any. That was largely influencers/community management/marketing people. It was a "Why are we paying all these people who don't directly contribute to making games?" chaff-clearing layoff.

 

[Flou]

They like the better working conditions and relatively-safer job security.

Both of those should improve with Microsoft as the Overlords. Hopefully less stress means Feargus and Parker are better bosses as well.

 

[StrongBelwas]

Wonder what happened to Missisippi-Illinois-Alabama-Maine

 

[Infinitron]

Oooh.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

seeing a guy tweeting about amazon not paying taxes/not paying a living wage then discussing buying a $2000 part for his bike is priceless

 

[Sannom]

You think Bezos is as passionate about any hobby, aside maybe his mexican cheese perversion ?

 

[DalekFlay]

Diablo and WoW are dead though.

Yeah man, I bet other companies would hate being saddled with an MMO with only 3 million-ish people paying $15 a month. Why Blizzard even keeps it running is a mystery.

 

[glass blackbird]

seeing a guy tweeting about amazon not paying taxes/not paying a living wage then discussing buying a $2000 part for his bike is priceless

the same person?

 

[Modron]

seeing a guy tweeting about amazon not paying taxes/not paying a living wage then discussing buying a $2000 part for his bike is priceless

the same person?

Sawyer is known for his balancing skills.

 

[Flou]

Wonder what happened to Missisippi-Illinois-Alabama-Maine

Mississippi might have been the half a project Feargus mentioned a looong time ago and it didn't really end up going anywhere.
Brennecke's and Perez's projects were started before Josh's new project, so they are 2 out of the 3 are are in production. That leaves one of the Illinnois-Alabama-Maine either cancelled, on hold or in very early pre-production.

Hopefully this means Josh is finally making his Darklands like game.

 

[Flou]

List of Obsidian projects:

1. Delaware - Knights of the Old Republic II
2. Pennsylvania - Neverwinter Nights 2
3. New Jersey - Dwarfs
4. Georgia - Alpha Protocol
5. Connecticut - Aliens: Crucible
6. Massachusetts - Mask of the Betrayer
7. Maryland - Dungeon Siege III
8. South Carolina - Storm of Zehir
9. New Hampshire - Fallout: New Vegas
10. Virginia - Cancelled Xbox Live Arcade Action-RPG
11. New York - South Park: The Stick of Truth
12. North Carolina - Stormlands
13. Rhode Island - Cancelled
14. Vermont - Tyranny
15. Kentucky - Prey 2
16. Tennessee - Pathfinder Adventures
17. Ohio - Armored Warfare
18. Louisiana - Pillars of Eternity 2
19. Indiana - The Outer Worlds
20. Mississippi - ???
21. Illinois - ???
22. Alabama - ???
23. Maine - ???
24. Missouri - Josh's Project

3. Trenton - Pillars of Eternity