Folks,

I really like how I’m all ballistic against Mythic these days. I seriously don’t know why, actually I’m quite enjoying writing this and I do it with no anger :)

I was reading some comments on the Vault about Mythic and DAoC’s unannounced expansion and started to think about “half-truths”.

So they really have *no shame* to announce that they are hiring and that it’s the reason of the delay on the announces about the expansion, and everyone swallows that and sees it as a so positive thing. Of course Sanya pays attention to not reveal how many devs left in the meantime to justify the income of new devs. So: half-truths. Or better: half-lies to make appear everything positive.

Growth or inadequate compensation? You can imagine what I’m thinking ;)

What about facing the truth and demonstrating that all my suspects and bad mouthing are wrong?

Mythic, do this: gather an headcount, staggered from the beta of DAoC till today, every six months. Leaving out everyone who doesn’t work directly in the game, so including only designers, artists, programmers, coordinators. Everyone who touched directly the game, leaving out CS, QA, marketing and everything that isn’t directly related to build the game for what it is. Then put those numbers on a graph and publish it.

If I’m wrong and the graph still shows a positive curve, Mythic will have a quite effective marketing tool to demonstrate that the support to DAoC has always remained strong and that they still believe in the game as they claim.

If I’m right we’ll never see that graph.