Dana Massey.

Former Hero Team Leader for DAoC during the beta and co-author of its strategy guide, then involved with IGN Vault. Finally group lead during the early test of Wish and then World Designer for the game, largely responsible for the insane, unbelievable idea of GM-driven content.

Wish was cancelled this January. Then I made up a rumor. A rumor revealed as false just a week ago. He is now Lead Content Manager of a minor mmorpg news site.

Or not.

It’s not surprising to see him whoring for Mythic in full regalia.

This is the level of the industry.

LATE EDIT- I archive a discussion on QT3 where I make clear my point of view on this, for reference:

Walt:
So, unlike you, Dana Massey has contributed to two projects. Once, long ago, as a volunteer team lead for Mythic. And then again, as a World Designer for Wish.

And now he is a well paid game reviewer for MMORPG.com. I fail to see where any of these make him a corporate whore.

Div Devlin:
Ok… I know I’m really going to regret this but…
HRose explain. I met him last year when he worked for Wish and this year actually was able to talk to him in depth. He did’nt actually get Dave Rickey fired you know. The hiring and firing may of been more than mere coincidecne, but he does seem like a pretty stand up guy.

MMORPG is paying him, as he was out of work. He wants to stay in the game industry, while still learning about games. The best way to do that is to work a news site until he gets hired by the next company.

Now, not that I’m defending him or anything, but I’m just wondering why the hatred as I don’t understand your tag for him.

HRose:
I have this belief that Lepidus tried to join Mythic after “Wish” demise and for some reason this didn’t work out.

I use “Corporate whore” to define a lack of criticism and a biased attitude. Lepidus CLEARLY represents that and I could say more or less the same about Div Devlin.

If anything I could say that everyone is biased and has sympathies in a way or another but what I criticize is the complete lack of criticism. The propensity to purge all the problems to just see what’s good and build positive hype in order to nourish and please the “friends” working in an industry that they’d like to join.

Mine isn’t a denounce. I’m just saying that Lepidus has always been highly biased and partial. When it comes to Mythic he does a great work to build the hype and hide as much as possible the bad side. And obviously Mythic likes that a lot because it’s useful for them.

The simple fact is that he writes something in order to please someone. He wants to join the industry and this brings DIRECLY to a conflict of interest since he needs to keep the “big guys” all fuzzy and happy.

This is how the “intellectual honesty” goes to hell and how you “sellout”. It’s exactly when your ideas are there ready to be bought by someone else with enough money or power to use you as a puppet. More or less directly.

And yes, Div Devlin isn’t that far away.

P.S.
This has NOTHING to do with Lepidus being responsible of Dave being fired. I never considered them related. The problem of Wish was in the *management*.

The huge mistake was the decision to replace Dave with Lepidus but isn’t Lepidus himself responsible of that. It was just clueless management and Lepidus was just a symptom of what was going wrong.