{"id":1258,"date":"2006-03-24T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-24T02:35:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T09:35:44","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1258\/","title":{"rendered":"Smed on the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>1) Yes Raph is leaving SOE. It&#8217;s not some big dramatic thing &#8211; it&#8217;s simple.. he&#8217;s at the end of his contract with SOE and he wants to try some new things that realistically we can&#8217;t do here at SOE right now. The truth is Raph is an incredibly talented and amazingly creative person and he has 1000 great ideas. He&#8217;s done some great things in this industry and I know he&#8217;ll continue to do great things. Raph&#8217;s been with SOE for 5 years. I&#8217;ve enjoyed working with him a lot and he&#8217;s made some great contributions. At the end of the day we have a finite amount of resources and projects that we can have in development at any one time. He wants to try some new stuff that we can&#8217;t do at this stage.. we have a lot of things we are trying to do as a company right now. I&#8217;m always surprised by the amount of rampant speculation that goes on about stuff like this.<\/p>\n<p>2) No &#8211; in fact LucasArts isn&#8217;t &#8220;pulling the Star Wars&#8221; license or anything of the kind. We have a very long term deal and things are fine between our companies. It&#8217;s complete and utter fabrication. I feel like we need extra-special tin-foil hats in the shape of Darth Vader&#8217;s mask or something. What happens is one website writes something &#8211; then 5 more link to it.. so it must all of a sudden be true. I wish it worked that way.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They still have a secret reserve of smileys. Smed is more ostinate than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Yes Raph is leaving SOE. It&#8217;s not some big dramatic thing &#8211; it&#8217;s simple.. he&#8217;s at the end of his contract with SOE and he wants to try some new things that realistically we can&#8217;t do here at SOE right now. The truth is Raph is an incredibly talented and amazingly creative person and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}