Time to fight crime in another city! (A farewell from me)

strumslinger · November 2016

Hey everyone,

I'd like to announce that we have another Community Manager joining our team, the amazing Julia (@nitocris83). I'll let her introduce herself more in another thread, but please welcome her to the team! She'll actually be working directly at Cryptic, which I'll talk more about later.

So what's this slight farewell from me? Well, I'll actually be taking a backseat and more of an advisory role going forward whereas Julia will do all the things you see me do now: blogs, social media, forums, events, live streams, developer communication, etc. When I mean advisory role, it means I'll only step in when I need to or give Julia advice when she asks with the understanding that I'll completely transition off of Neverwinter. This change won't happen immediately as we need to give Julia some time to get used to everything, but we'll be sure to let you know when I hit my advisory role - early-mid December.

As for what I'll be doing, I'm focusing on Gigantic and future projects at PWE, which I'm super excited about! So technically, I'll still be here

.

These past 18 months have been incredible and I couldn't have asked for a better way to grow as not only a Community Manager, but a person. You guys have taught me so much, a lot of which I'll bring on to these future projects. Even when things got a chaotic - and sure did they get chaotic - I still enjoyed going to work every day for a game, which spoke so clearly to who I am. I've made some great bonds here and see a lot of you as my friends. Please continue reaching out to me and stay in touch! You can find me on Twitter @StrumSlinger. I made up that name for Neverwinter, but I'm gonna keep it!

As many of you know, I work at PWE, which is in a different building than Cryptic. With Julia now working at Cryptic, it'll make developer communication much easier as she can just walk on over and bug them

.

I really do hope I made a difference with the game as was my intention when taking this role on last year. I have every bit of faith in Thomas and Julia to bring Neverwinter to a place you guys all want it to be - they're awesome! I haven't decided if I should do one last live stream, but we'll see.

Remember, with great rolling comes great responsibility!

With love

,
Andy/Strumslinger/Spidey/Strum/Strummy/ASM (Asian Superman)/Clark Kent/all the nicknames you guys have given me in the past

P.S. Before portals to the Nine Hells opens, it was a difficult one, but I made the decision to work on future projects as it was something I couldn't let go. I still love Neverwinter! I'll be happy to answer any questions you guys have in this thread.

kreatyve · November 2016

Andy - you were an awesome CM, and it was a real pleasure to work with you so closely. Julia has some very large shoes to fill. We

you!

nightranger7477 · November 2016

GG Strum, thx for putting up with us and Good Luck in your future endeavors.

spacequeen · November 2016

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !

xrawcarnage · November 2016

What are they HAMSTER us on now that you feel you need to move on ....

Anyways you did a good job dealing with all the players with all the ups and downs of Nw. Good luck on everything.

labrus · November 2016

*silently salutes while playing Taps*

darthpotater · November 2016

Good luck in the future projects.
You can be very proud about the job you did here.
A very good CM.

mikal · November 2016

No disrespect but maybe a new community manager will finally ban the exploiters who have ruined the in game economy. No names necessary

kolatmaster · November 2016

Andy...

It was a pleasure to have you as our Community Manager!

For all of your hard work, particularly during some super crazy times, I'd like to say...

You're job wasn't an easy one, but it certainly was an full of interesting times to say the least!

Aside from that, I wish you the best of luck...

PS - Also best of luck to Julia (@nitocris83) as we are a crazy bunch to say the least... lol

kreatyve · November 2016

mikal#9243 said:
No disrespect but maybe a new community manager will finally ban the exploiters who have ruined the in game economy. No names necessary

Community Managers don't have the power to ban anyone from the game. Only from the forums.

mikal · November 2016

At this point it doesnt matter i guess, damage was done. Best of luck on your new ventures

silverkelt · November 2016

Best wishes, its never easy dealing with any community. You did a good job here, considering how volatile things have been the last 1.5 years give or take.

xxgolden1xx · November 2016

Is she going to join #LGPG too?

mikal · November 2016

^ took the words out of my mouth lol

onewingedmenace · November 2016

Cya Strum, thanks for taking the time to answers questions I had from time to time, best of luck to you.

morghulis21 · November 2016

i hope she is beatifull

iandarksword · November 2016

All things change, that's one constant in the universe. Train your padawan well. I'll see you around, I'm fairly sure of that...

kangkeok · November 2016

Thanks for all the help and care for us. I wish u great success!

ironzerg79 · November 2016

kreatyve · November 2016

xxgolden1xx said:
Is she going to join #LGPG too?

Andy was in that guild for 1 hour, did absolutely nothing, and everyone goes nuts. He's been in Team Fencebane since he started, and not a single person complains. Hmmmm....

demonmonger · November 2016

Strum noooooooo!
I don't trust her with my secrets!

/bind "ctrl+s" $summon_npc strums linger $$ devmode7 $$ emote_notext point $$ say "with great rolling comes great responsibility"

You will be missed

Unknown · November 2016

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xxgolden1xx · November 2016

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1 hour really? I just asked a question and you come with your shield up. You should play a Guardian Fighter. (Heads up you don't need a beetle anymore since we don't need that much Defence anymore) Can't save em all Cpt.

kreatyve · November 2016

xxgolden1xx said:
1 hour really? I just asked a question and you come with your shield up. You should play a Guardian Fighter. (Heads up you don't need a beetle anymore since we don't need that much Defence anymore) Can't save em all Cpt.

Yeah, I'm just a little tired of hearing about it, is all.

rjc9000 · November 2016

strumslinger said:
Hey everyone,

I'd like to announce that we have another Community Manager joining our team, the amazing Julia (@nitocris83). I'll let her introduce herself more in another thread, but please welcome her to the team! She'll actually be working directly at Cryptic, which I'll talk more about later.

So what's this slight farewell from me? Well, I'll actually be taking a backseat and more of an advisory role going forward whereas Julia will do all the things you see me do now: blogs, social media, forums, events, live streams, developer communication, etc. When I mean advisory role, it means I'll only step in when I need to or give Julia advice when she asks with the understanding that I'll completely transition off of Neverwinter. This change won't happen immediately as we need to give Julia some time to get used to everything, but we'll be sure to let you know when I hit my advisory role - early-mid December.

As for what I'll be doing, I'm focusing on Gigantic and future projects at PWE, which I'm super excited about! So technically, I'll still be here .

These past 18 months have been incredible and I couldn't have asked for a better way to grow as not only a Community Manager, but a person. You guys have taught me so much, a lot of which I'll bring on to these future projects. Even when things got a chaotic - and sure did they get chaotic - I still enjoyed going to work every day for a game, which spoke so clearly to who I am. I've made some great bonds here and see a lot of you as my friends. Please continue reaching out to me and stay in touch! You can find me on Twitter @StrumSlinger. I made up that name for Neverwinter, but I'm gonna keep it!

As many of you know, I work at PWE, which is in a different building than Cryptic. With Julia now working at Cryptic, it'll make developer communication much easier as she can just walk on over and bug them .

I really do hope I made a difference with the game as was my intention when taking this role on last year. I have every bit of faith in Thomas and Julia to bring Neverwinter to a place you guys all want it to be - they're awesome! I haven't decided if I should do one last live stream, but we'll see.

Remember, with great rolling comes great responsibility!

With love ,
Andy/Strumslinger/Spidey/Strum/Strummy/ASM/all the nicknames you guys have given me in the past

P.S. Before portals to the Nine Hells opens, it was a difficult one, but I made the decision to work on future projects as it was something I couldn't let go. I still love Neverwinter! I'll be happy to answer any questions you guys have in this thread.</p>

Strum, sorry to hear you go. You've been with the community, trying to keep everyone optomistic when hard times fell. It's kind of weird knowing that you're not going to be the community mod anymore...

Best of luck in the future!

(Also, personal question: I recall you once said something about being a fighting game fan. Which fighting game(s) were you a fan of?)

armadeonx · November 2016

Sad to see you moving on Andy, best of luck with the new projects.

lantern22 · November 2016

Sad to see you go, all the best for your future endeavours.

Unknown · November 2016

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treesclimber · November 2016

You were a damn fine CM, good luck on your next dungeon!!

imperiousshini · November 2016

goodbye andy

arcanjo86 · November 2016

GOOD LUCK WITH EVERYTHING ON NEAR FUTURE AND ALL THE BEST TO YOU @strumslinger

Time to fight crime in another city! (A farewell from me)

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