An answer to an inappropriate link on the Camelot Vault message boards.

I hate when what I write is linked inappropriately on a message board. I write mostly for my own use and I really don’t fit well the role of the flag-carrier against someone or something. In fact it’s exactly because I know build no consensus that I can be as direct and harsh as I want. Otherwise I would have to be much more careful if what I say could have a negative influence.

I’m not even sure why we’d start a thread about some unknown guy’s blog.

Well, I know. There are two reasons.

The first is that there isn’t any other place that discusses Mythic and DAoC from a critic perspective. No commentary out of the direct control of Mythic that forces them into a real dialogue. If there was one, then I would probably read it. So get a good writer and I’m sure you won’t feel anymore the need to link what I write. It wasn’t linked because I’m that good writer, it was linked because there just isn’t anyone else good around (read as: the “Lum the Mad” chair is still vacant, and even more in demand now than how it was at that time).

The second is exactly because it’s “some unknown guy’s blog”. Because if there was on the header a name such as Mark Jacobs or at least someone who doesn’t directly claim to have zero influence right away, then what I write would suddenly become so much more interesting and entertaining.

In regard of this place: I don’t write to entertain because I know I’m not good doing that. Nor I write to move the masses because I know I don’t fit that role and don’t have those skills. I write about design, and not that kind of design that writes text in the game. It isn’t written anywhere that game design analysis or ideas have to be fun to read to be valid.

To each, his own ;)