11/01/99 - Latest News

A Few Words From Steven
Berendir @ 2:30 pm EST

Leya from the Middle Earth Dev Boards sent an email to Steve Nicholas, the former head of the Dev team for MEO, and received a response. The email was an angry one suggesting that he may of gotten fired for doing bad work on the realm, or for lack of being professional. Leya posted Steve's response on the Dev Board today. Heres what Steve had to say:

I always enjoy a refreshing perspective from someone such as yourself. All too often people like to give me kind words of support instead of attacks. I'm glad that you found me so memorable as to send me private e-mail specifying your displeasure. It makes me happy to hear from someone who has remembered me for so long now.

Now, as for the reason behind why I was "fired" from Sierra. It has nothing to do with my exceptional handling of The Realm. Neither does it have anything to do with any outbursts I had when handling the PR side of Realm maintenance. Actually, if Sierra ever properly supported The Realm, I would not have been the main customer contact for so long. Indeed, it has everything to do with the gross incompetence at Sierra. Sierra fired 107 employees to tighten it's belt. As a company, it has been doing very poorly as of late and Havas is finally whipping it into shape. Middle-earth was included in that cut because it was too expensive by managements measure, the employees were bitter and Sierra has a proven track record of destroying most any product that is not a direct copy of another product.

Anyway, thanks for writing... even though it was an angry letter. At least I made enough of an impression to be contacted in such a manner.