RPG Codex Interview: Chris Avellone on Pillars Cut Content, Game Development Hierarchies and More

[Imoens pet]

Steam fags read the entire fucking interview, or the bits Chris wrote before posting your dumbass posts.

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

This is the only thing they can do and its a smart move. In one week no one will remember and the media is happy to talk about deadfire

It's a smart movie if you are coward that is used to self-delusion and don't respect Avellone's work. You should ask fargo if was a good idea blacklisting the Codex. The Codex always remembers.

 

[Phanax]

How I imagine Chris left Obsidian:

 

[TT1]

This is the only thing they can do and its a smart move. In one week no one will remember and the media is happy to talk about deadfire

It's a smart movie if you are coward that is used to self-delusion and don't respect Avellone's work. You should ask fargo if was a good idea blacklisting the Codex. The Codex always remembers.

Oh sure, of course Obsidian will start a fight one week before release a new game. You understand everything, I surrender.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

>mfw arriving late and reading through this thread



>mfw seeing all these animated reactions

Spoiler

 

[Latro]

Actually, "de-ownership" is probably only something that can happen when the company you helped form was originally done so on the back of a napkin in some diner.

it happened at a very high-class cheesecake factory, thank you very much

 

[AwesomeButton]

The fact that they were doing this while pimping his name out for the fans and publishers is really the cherry on top lol

The cherry on top are posters taking Obsidian side and still doing their best to pretend that nothing happened, even here on the Codex.

If Chris was indeed strong-armed out of Obsidian, and on top of that - at a point where he missed profits from his share, I can't fathom he wouldn't have some grounds to seek compensation from Obsidian.

He hasn't spoken of the initial conditions under which he became a founder and co-owner of Obsidian. But I guess discussing his further actions is really the point where he should stop talking publicly. All he has said so far was already known by the other party anyway.

 

[Latro]

No – after raising some questions about company finances and other issues, Feargus de-ownered me (which I didn’t have a choice in) and then told, “but don’t worry, we’ll still allow you to work on Tyranny for us,” and my response was, “that’s okay, you can work on it by yourself.”

Before this seems unusual, de-ownering was actually a common threat tossed around, so it wasn’t specific to me – if any owner raised objections to events going on, the response was often, “you don’t sound like you want to be an owner anymore” and never addressed the actual issues being brought up.

Not surprisingly, this shift in being de-ownered coincided with taking place shortly before the first royalty payments from Eternity came in, which meant that the surviving owners got a much larger share with me de-ownered (I don’t mind that, as I didn’t want royalty payments from Eternity, but I don’t think the other owners deserved royalties, either, except maybe a set amount for Darren for the Backer portal work he put in – the team deserved all of it). It was a good business decision, but not good ethics.

The fact that they were doing this while pimping his name out for the fans and publishers is really the cherry on top lol

 

[fantadomat]

Kiva Maginn. Who?

Disappointing lack of decline knowledge. Know your enemy. Kiva Maginn, lead designer at Harebrained Schemes. That's right. According to Roguey, Kiva was Kevin until he transtioned during the mid-development of Battletech.

The image was quoted by Roguey in another thread. There is also the controversy involving pronouns.

And i get no credit for finding the image .

 

[Roguey]

Avellone gets de-ownered for bringing up financial issues, but Parker doesn't get de-ownered for having a serial harassing wife, that just figures.

 

[Latro]

Avellone gets de-ownered for bringing up financial issues, but Parker doesn't get de-ownered for having a serial harassing wife, that just figures.

parker is the best character in this entire thing, he's straight out of a cleve-sirotek story

 

[toro]

What about Project Indiana?

 

[Harold]

Mood setter



Feargus bursts into the thread, all sweaty and foaming at the mouth.

Feargus: All right, Avellone - what is it you want?

MCA: Just lookin' to serve up some good old-fashioned humble pie.

Feargus: Avellone, don't be a fool. How dare you hit my reputation? And on the Codex of all places?

MCA: That post's for Katrina, and that post's for wrecking my life. I can keep this drunkposting up all day. Now... tell me what else I can't do. You think you can give me orders? Think you have control of this situation?

Feargus: Avellone... hold on. I... I'll give myself up, testify, if that's what you want... I can say what happened here... with your mission to incline rpgs...

MCA: And all I have to do is let you go, right? See, that's where you lose my interest.

*apologies for my poor drunken mspaint skills

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

And i get no credit for finding the image.

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

Avellone gets de-ownered for bringing up financial issues, but Parker doesn't get de-ownered for having a serial harassing wife, that just figures.

I remember you talked about this in Avellone's thread. Did you post more details there? Interesting.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

What is the point of being an owner if you can be that easily deowned?

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Let's nominate songs for the Official Epic Thread soundtrack. I nominate this:

 

[Latro]

What is the point of being an owner if you can be that easily deowned?

keep the guy who wrote torment around to hype up your games, duh

 

[fantadomat]

And i get no credit for finding the image.

No need mate,i was just messing with you. Still you can share the proceeds with me.

 

[Bocian]

Kiva Maginn. Who?

The image was quoted by Roguey in another thread. There is also the controversy involving pronouns.

Asking seriously, why do people do such things to themselves?

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

Spoiler

Kiva Maginn. Who?

The image was quoted by Roguey in another thread. There is also the controversy involving pronouns.

Asking seriously, why do people do such things to themselves?

Some are retarded, some are attention whores, some are both, and society encourages them.

 

[Fenix]

Chris Avellone I have a question from Russia. )
It's not about things of the past, after all we are all looking into the future.

Is there some particular RPG that you awaiting impatiently, and want to play more than other, maybe even more as a player than game developer?
Next question - is it Disco Elysium?

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

LOL

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/930266212109393921

I used to have the naïve conception HR was there to help. Some in HR do. But the ones that don't can make you lose faith in human nature vs. corporate evil, greed, nepotism, and denial.

is certainly something to keep in mind about anything coming from a current Obsidian employee.

It's all clear now. He didn't fuck Parker and because of that she convinced her husband cuck to ruin Chris. You should've fucked her Chris, clearly.

 

[Viata]

Newbies and others who don't know about the Codex's past issues with inXile - just read this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...orment-gamescom-appointment-cancelled.110327/

You mean:

Read this thread where InXile just gave us the finger, but I, Infinitron, kept sucking their cocks and giving a retadred/butthurt/edgy to any post that shits on InXile games

 

[Infinitron]

People take my ratings way too personally.