It is with great pleasure to announce that Dan Stahl will be resuming his role as Executive Producer of Star Trek Online, and Stephen D'Angelo will be continuing as CTO of Cryptic Studios. Click
here to read statements from both of them.
Link to the news article.
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I am pleased by this. Here's hoping we resume the Ask Cryptics and the Engineering Reports.
Oh, and Dan? Care to comment on the whole number-of-FEs-per-year controversy?
I'm trying...I just don't...you know when you're really really wanting something to happen but something else does and you're kinda not sure if it's good or bad?
"Rejoice, workers! Starting next month, the gold member stipend has been increased to 300 CP per month."
Welcome back, Dan! What'd happened at Zynga that made you want to come back?
Maybe the old new Captain of the Enterprise copies your blog style dev diary format, I liked it very much.
Virtually any management job makes you do that from time to time, unless you're the owner.
I'm just hoping we get back to a bit more transparency. Plus, I genuinely believe Dan wants the right things for STO. Whether he has the resources/ability/freedom to deliver everything is another story, but there's no doubt in my mind that his heart is in the right place.
Word on the street is that they work those people to death, then put their rotting corpses to work too.
Excellent!
Maybe we'll never have another season 4, since now you understand both teams, how they work, and how both teams might, oh, I don't know... someday work with shared goals and shared commitments to all Cryptic games.
There's always room for hope, right?
Welcome back.
I will troll you with hope for a better future.
ps. maybe you could get QA to take a look at 50 or so unresolved foundry bugs, if you so desire.
So....back to being promised everything and the kitchen sink will be added to the game so that everyone can rage?
I've been a fan of the less news if more approach. The less we are promised, the more it seems like we're getting and the more surprising the new game things are.
/emote barrelroll
/emote fireworks
Oh this is too funny.
We're being trolled, right?
ROFL!
EDIT:
I should probably clarify, for the sake of dignity... I welcome this news. It puts an end to a great deal of uncertainty, and Stahl is an affable bloke whom I have a lot of respect for. But this is nonetheless a comedy of headaching-inducing HR shenanigans that I can't even begin to comprehend.
Just... Wow.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
*Beams to starship and applies full impulse around Luna while launching fireworks*
I don't know how or why it happened. I'm just happy for this.
a) be overly excited and happy
b) grab my gear and bail
c) ITS A TRAP
Stahl will carry on saying stuff!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
I only have one question. Where have you been hiding my Cryptic Ponies???