I dont think that Jack Lusted participated in the hyping, and he is actually all the time around all community forums - probably part of his job is to liaise with the community as he comes from the ranks and he will naturally be more appealing. However he did it in a very dedicated manner - if you drop him a pm about something he'll respond pretty fast in my experience.

The hype happened imo by the marketing people (that's their job) and by senior/veteran Designers mostly ever since Empire was announced. Some of them are fond of the sport and have a longtimeforum experience.

In any case it makes sense for CA not being around when the game was experiencing problems at release and they knew they were serious, there wasn't much that they could do here anyway other than fan the frustration.

In many respects, Mike Simpson's blog was the best they could do at this stage.

PS What happened to your original post antisocialmunky? It makes mine look from outer space

Reply