MCA leaves Obsidian

[Janslin]

Suddenly canceling your phone plan is superweird, like one step away from becoming a total recluse.

Uh.. no.

For those of out there who don't know life without cell phones perhaps cancelling their phone is unfathomable, but for those of us who lived a long happy life prior to cell phones, cancelling our phone plan can be downright liberating. After quitting a job is often a perfect time to do it.

 

[Bubbles]

• Left his life long career randomly last week
  
• Nobody seems to have seen it coming including close friends and family
• Out of contact with friends and family and getting called by them constantly
  
• Cancels his phone number
• Keeps bringing up "Until I'm in the coffin"

Now I am starting to worry about the guy..

Canceling your domestic phone plan is sensible if you move abroad long-term, otherwise the international fees will eat you and your contacts alive. It's narrowed down to Larian and CDPR in my mind now.

 

[Roguey]

For those of out there who don't know life without cell phones perhaps cancelling their phone is unfathomable, but for those of us who lived a long happy life prior to cell phones, cancelling our phone plan can be downright liberating. After quitting a job is often a perfect time to do it.

He probably doesn't have a landline (these days, pretty much only old people do and even that's dropping) and life without a phone means the internet is the only way to contact/be contacted. If that messes up, well. Additionally, he'll be in quite the bind should he ever need to call 911 or any other emergency number.

 

[Sceptic]

Can you confirm this..? Is that normal in America?
You don't normally cancel your number, You can switch your plan while keeping the number.. Or you usually have 2 plans on 1 or 2 phones.

When I was given a company phone I wasn't forced to switch off my personal plan.

Did the company allow you to keep their number for use as your own personal number after you quit them though? I highly doubt it.

It's normal for any company in the world to want their corporate number back after you leave. And I cannot imagine why you'd want to keep the corporate number as your own. Sure you can switch plans and keep the number... which is exactly what you wouldn't want to do in this case.

 

[agris]

Remember it's an independent game studio, not quite Chevron. They wear t-shirts and shorts to work. Not wanting to keep your 'corporate' number is totally understandable, but the line between friends/acquaintances and business associates is probably blurrier for them.

Also, while I'm a bit younger than MCA, most of my friends and myself included would hate having multiple numbers. It's something that we see the older generation do with work/personal phones but I say fuuuuuck that.

 

[Cnaiur]

I'm using my corporate phone for private communication for years now. Don't even have a personal plan, and when I leave the organisation I'll return my phone and number, and only communicate my new number to the people I want. Great way to downsize your address book and incoming calls every couple of years.

 

[Immortal]

Can you confirm this..? Is that normal in America?
You don't normally cancel your number, You can switch your plan while keeping the number.. Or you usually have 2 plans on 1 or 2 phones.

When I was given a company phone I wasn't forced to switch off my personal plan.

Did the company allow you to keep their number for use as your own personal number after you quit them though? I highly doubt it.

It's normal for any company in the world to want their corporate number back after you leave. And I cannot imagine why you'd want to keep the corporate number as your own. Sure you can switch plans and keep the number... which is exactly what you wouldn't want to do in this case.

I thought he had changed his personal number.
As I already said.. It now seems more likely that he was giving out his work number to friends and fans on facebook which is why he is diverting their communications to facebook.

AKA he doesn't give his personal number out.

I'm using my corporate phone for private communication for years now. Don't even have a personal plan, and when I leave the organisation I'll return my phone and number, and only communicate my new number to the people I want. Great way to downsize your address book and incoming calls every couple of years.

I agree that this is the most likely case.. As I said - I probably misunderstood the audience he was talking to when he said his phone was disconnected. I thought it was close friends and families.. not his bloated fanbase.

 

[Drax]

You guys know nothing.
He saw the light of ALLAH and after E3, he'll be travelling to the ME to become a Jihadi Bride.

 

[Havoc]

You guys know nothing.
He saw the light of ALLAH and after E3, he'll be travelling to the ME to become a Jihadi Bride.

That actually sounds better than Bethesda. At least there he can be creative all he wants!

 

[Love]

From MCA's facebook. Didn't know he is partially deaf. How can a god be deaf?

Avellone half deaf, Cain half blind... Obsidian half dead.

 

[Ismaul]

That meme about all things being fine as long as he doesn't encounter wolves...

Not possible. We're the fucking wolves here, and if he fucks up in his life choices / next project, then we'll be the ones to eat him alive.

We're hungry for KFC MCA.

 

[Aoyagi]

It's not like he's been doing a lot for Obsidian lately, is it.

 

[Turisas]

It's hard to work at some irrelevant Obsidian nonsense when you're this hype for the next industry slamdunk AAAA+ hit:

 

[J_C]

It's hard to work at some irrelevant Obsidian nonsense when you're this hype for the next industry slamdunk AAAA+ hit:

I'm actually happy that MCA is still a cool guy who is enthusiast about videogames, even if they are AAA games. Compare it with the Bioware and Bethesda droids who behave as a corporate drone.

 

[Roguey]

Mike Laidlaw has donated to far more Kickstarter RPGs than Avellone.

 

[dbx]

It's hard to work at some irrelevant Obsidian nonsense when you're this hype for the next industry slamdunk AAAA+ hit:

So... MCA working on future F4 dlc then...

Spoiler

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

For those of out there who don't know life without cell phones perhaps cancelling their phone is unfathomable, but for those of us who lived a long happy life prior to cell phones, cancelling our phone plan can be downright liberating. After quitting a job is often a perfect time to do it.

He probably doesn't have a landline (these days, pretty much only old people do and even that's dropping) and life without a phone means the internet is the only way to contact/be contacted. If that messes up, well. Additionally, he'll be in quite the bind should he ever need to call 911 or any other emergency number.

As an FYI, e-911 is a thing for VoIP numbers, at least in North America. For ~$1/month you can tie your number to a physical location so if you have fallen and you can't get up (or speak) emergency services can locate you even if you are on a VoIP line.

 

[ArchAngel]

It's hard to work at some irrelevant Obsidian nonsense when you're this hype for the next industry slamdunk AAAA+ hit:

So... MCA working on future F4 dlc then...

Spoiler

Or on Enhanced Edition that will add actually story and characters to the game. Base game only ships with sandboxy elements.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Mike Laidlaw has donated to far more Kickstarter RPGs than Avellone.

Yeah, Laidlaw seems like a cool enough guy. Then again, I'm sure Gaider is alright too, not to mention Ian Frazier. Too bad all of them are working at Bioware.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Is there any evidence whatsoever that Sawyer caused MCA to leave or are the PoE haters just writing fanfiction as usual...?

 

[Infinitron]

Is there any evidence whatsoever that Sawyer caused MCA to leave or are the PoE haters just writing fanfiction as usual...?

If MCA left because of something that happened with Obsidian's secret project, as many Codexers suspect, it would seem to be a virtual certainty that Sawyer had nothing to do with it. He's 100% on PoE as far as we know.

 

[Love]

Keep in mind, that Infinitron has been busy deleting every post hinting at Avellone's sexual escapades so it's pretty safe to assume, that it's some kind of Californian sex scandal. Not sure if role-playing was involved though.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh snap, you caught me

 

[Latro]

Sawyer's the perfect villain to any story. Intelligent but full of malice. Demure yet irrascible. A strong love of social justice for all races and sexes, despite his particular German heritage. Betrayed the grognards for the masses, to keep his company afloat through keeping journos and casuals happy. He is the lawful evil villain who is right in the end. The world shall be balanced, or it shall perish.

 

[Weirdstuffinspace]

he's just a know it all who got free reign. Feargus is to blame, he willfully lied about there being a passion to FINALY be able to freely develop the games of yesteryear. They falsely claimed a love for the games and mechanics of old to squeeze money from game-starved oldfags. They can all go to hell.

Poor MCA, he never stood a chance.