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No snappy headline today.
As of this afternoon, I’m no longer an employee of Mythic Entertainment.
The parting was on good terms on both our sides… and driven more than anything else by my family and I’s simply wanting to return to the Southwest.
The fact that I’m moving on to a really fantastic opportunity (which I’m not sure I can talk about yet) also doesn’t hurt. 
At any rate, as you can well imagine, things are REALLY HECTIC for me right now. More later.
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about 4 years ago
Be any more secretive and they’ll do an end-run around FISA to wiretap you.
about 4 years ago
No snappy comments from me today. I’m sorry for Mythic, but happy for you Lum! I’m sure you’ll keep us all up to date on your new life and going ons. Best of luck to you!
about 4 years ago
Grats!
about 4 years ago
Quite the news Lum. All the best!
about 4 years ago
Let us know what you’re doing as soon as you can. For now, how about some juicy hints. Can we safely assume it’s in the gaming industry, possibly of the MMO flavor? Will you no longer prevaricate about how you’re not really a game designer, just a jumped up database programmer?
Anyhow, best of luck, and being ultimately selfish I hope you’re going to work on a new MMO so you can contribute directly to my life. You do have something to offer.
about 4 years ago
Congrats!
Please tell us that you’re working for Blizzard on the Starcraft MMO.
I want to be a Protoss Templar.
Entaro Adun, executor!
/giggle
about 4 years ago
Very cool. Southwest where?
about 4 years ago
Yes, it is in the MMO industry, and no, I can no longer use the “I’m not really a designer” copout.
Further I cannot say until I am debriefed by Echo Base.
about 4 years ago
Fucking fucker.
(Inside joke, people, nothing to see here, move along.)
about 4 years ago
Wow, congratulations
about 4 years ago
I know, you’re going to be working for Cornered Rat, aren’t you?
Heh, I kid, but seriously whatever has Lum the Mad involved as an actual dev will certainly be on my “got to try it out” list.
about 4 years ago
Congrats, Lum! Mythic won’t be the same without ya, I’m sure – I hope I don’t regret reactivation of my DAoC accounts….
about 4 years ago
That’s great news!
I hope no one shoots me for hoping the original post meant the LtM site would achieve resurrection, hehe. I’d far rather have a brand new MMOG though.
V
about 4 years ago
*sniffles* NOOOOOOOOOOO
*hugs Lum* I will miss you fixing stuff–and wish you all the best
about 4 years ago
“REALLY HECTIC” must be an understatement. Good luck with the move, and congratulations on not being able to deny being a designer anymore.
about 4 years ago
Hey, good luck! Southwest? Northeast? South America? Afghanistan? It’s all better than living in the District burbs.
about 4 years ago
Must fight urge..
Must not give in…
oh who am i kidding….
WE FEAR CHANGE
*hudles in a corner*
Someone had to say it
about 4 years ago
Good luck, man. Now you’ll see what it’s like to really be under the hammer.
Have fun,
about 4 years ago
Southwest? Echobase? Designer?
http://66.129.87.69/candidate/default.cfm?szTemplate=3&szOrderID=1549&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=
http://66.129.87.69/candidate/default.cfm?szTemplate=3&szOrderID=1531&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=
about 4 years ago
I think Scott would rather scoop his eyeballs out with a rusty spork pulled out of a toilet Mr. Just_a_guess.
about 4 years ago
Positive things for you. Don’t forget to spread the word if they need more.
about 4 years ago
Best of luck Scott. Good to see you won’t be able to use the “not a designer” cop out anymore. Still sad to see you leave Mythic.
about 4 years ago
Big grats, Scott. Best of luck in the Southwest and wherever you’re running off to.
I take it they offered you *2* bagels, hm?
about 4 years ago
The heat and low humidity is good for old bones
about 4 years ago
Once again, Lum is taxiing to victory.
–TR
about 4 years ago
Good luck and congratulations.
about 4 years ago
A rant site will someday bitch about Lum’s game.
And then the circle will be complete. The world will unravel, the next age will begin, and the dragon will be reborn.
Good luck!
about 4 years ago
Wow. I wouldn’t have expected that.
Good luck in whatever your new job is. Maybe you’ll actually get to design something! And it might be fun!
about 4 years ago
*A rant site will someday bitch about Lum\’e2\’80\’99s game.*
I’ll do it first!
about 4 years ago
*ADDENDUM*
A *good* rant site will someday bitch about Lum’s game.
about 4 years ago
“and the dragon will be reborn.”
And then large volumes of text will be written which don’t actually say anything. No wait….we already have someone doing that….. (we
about 4 years ago
WOW!
Well I was going to reup this week for camelot, but now… DOOOOOOOOMED!
Now what will happen to camelot? I picture an apocolyptic meltdown, culminating in Sanya burning down mythic hq, and the lamb laying down with the lion, and silence covering the sky.
And later you’ll look back and feel guilty that you alone brought on the downfall of mythic by leaving.
heh.
about 4 years ago
I’ll look forward to the gloating official press-releases.
Have an easy move.
about 4 years ago
See, now we can all say: “I knew him when…”
about 4 years ago
[...]Now what will happen to camelot? I picture an apocolyptic meltdown, culminating in Sanya burning down mythic hq, and the lamb laying down with the lion, and silence covering the sky.[...]
So, you actually expect things to improve around here with Scott leaving?
Best of luck, Scott.
-Walt
about 4 years ago
Have to say, MMO and Southwest pretty much spells Austin. Could be wrong though, and, of course, best of luck to you, Lum. Like I told you at AGC, without The Rantings of Lum the Mad, I never would have gotten the nerve up to try doing net-journalism work myself.
Good luck with your new job, and may you work on a game that Does Not Suck.
about 4 years ago
BAh! Tell us the part you can’t talk about right now! The suspense is killing me!
about 4 years ago
Old man shuffles out front door, film at 11.. Be sure to give the jar a kick on the way out and release that fairy!
Austin is more South than West (twang!).. I’d say Orange County or Insane Diego would be more fun.. Everyone knows AoE *really* stands for Axis of Evil, so don’t go there, please!
Of course, wherever you go, there you’ll be, and be useful I’m sure..
Congrads Lum!
about 4 years ago
Does this mean you will be working on the long awaited sequel to WW2 Online?
about 4 years ago
W00T!
that is all ..
about 4 years ago
Hmm…. Echo base sounds Stargate.
They are making that in the Phoenix area and that qualifies as south west =)
about 4 years ago
! I live in Phoenix
about 4 years ago
Hmmmm… NCSoft has an office in Texas, too!
about 4 years ago
Oddly enough, when I opened my mailbox today, the subject of one of the emails was:
A New Heavy Weapons System Blasts Its Way Into Star Wars Galaxies!
I thought it might have something to do with this announcement, alas, it did not….
about 4 years ago
Congrats Lum here’s hoping it’s something in Austin.
about 4 years ago
**Old man shuffles out front door, film at 11..**
Reminds me “The Straight Story” from David Lynch
about 4 years ago
Let us know as soon as you can, so we can anticipate playing it!
And your contract damn well better have a clause explicitly permitting the rantings of Lum the Mad, or the company in question is going to have an awful lot of us to deal with.
about 4 years ago
[...]And your contract damn well better have a clause explicitly permitting the rantings of Lum the Mad, or the company in question is going to have an awful lot of us to deal with.[...]
AGREED!
about 4 years ago
Let’s not be hasty. The denial of rantage was wholly endorsed by Lum from the start. It’s considered unprofessional to pick on games that are your competitors and I think he’s sane enough to accept that again.
Let’s just cherish the next couple weeks, since I hear his job doesn’t start until march, and until then he is without a leash (except maybe the wife).
about 4 years ago
Come on people… it is so obvious.
SW = Arizona… aka middle of nowhere. Lum can relax which makes the family happy. Lum relaxes and can focus on MMORPG For Dummies : The Sequel.
Duh!
…. morons.
about 4 years ago
You don’t think he’ll do “MMORPG Moons for Dummies” as an expansion pack?
about 4 years ago
I don’t know…. “MMORPG PvP for Dummies” or maybe “MMORPG Ranting for Dummies” could do equally well for him!
about 4 years ago
Lum! Holy heck in a hand cart! I go away for a week and everything goes topsy turvy.
I wish you luck in your future endeavors.
Southwest… that’s so many places, Austin being the leading favorite, but Tucson, Phoenix, and LA/San Diego as other opportunities. If you land in Arizona, let me know. I still owe ya a beer from Vegas =)
about 4 years ago
Epic Games is also SW of his location I believe -_o
about 4 years ago
I suspect the weather will be nicer than DC, although whether you actually ever go outside is another question. (But if you want to, you _can_. Anytime. And that’s the important thing!)
Good luck with the change! I hope this does not mean that you’re going to be muzzling yourself.
about 4 years ago
*Pssst* Can you sell me some real-estate in your new game for cheap? We will split profits.
about 4 years ago
Good luck Lum.
about 4 years ago
Good luck in all you do, take care of the fam! Thanks for the book signing again… remember the ebay queen! Value++ !
about 4 years ago
If I had a guess which I don’t, and insider info which I don’t I’d have to say Stargate gets a new Dev????
about 4 years ago
Grats Lum, I think… Remember, some of us believe Raph has MMOG design all wrong. Worlds, not rules, no theories, just dynamics and chaos. Just saying.
Good luck, that’s for sure. All the best to you and yours and one tip from the experience barn.
Moving is Hell. Anything you care about move it yourself. Anything you can sell, throw away or give away before the move, please for your, sake do.
about 4 years ago
How many times has somebody at the office asked if they can ,”Have your stuff?”
about 4 years ago
Great, Lum designes game, “taxi to victory” becomes feature.
Good luck down there. You continue to give hope to us database code monkeys.
about 4 years ago
Best of luck, Scott.
about 4 years ago
/gratz
Good luck on the new endeavor.
about 4 years ago
From the looks of it, I’d say Lum sold out for a bag of bagels. Moving up in the world!
-Rip
about 4 years ago
I KNEW I should’ve had him autograph my copy of the Dummies book a couple weeks back.
*sigh*
Good luck out there, Scott. You’ll be missed at Mythic.
about 4 years ago
Good show!
I hope it’s Texas or ‘zona, if it is SoCal whatever raise they gave you won’t be enough!
about 4 years ago
Congratulations on your newfound opportunity, Lum. Glad to see you getting the opportunity to do new and exciting things.
Condolances to all the other great folks at Mythic for your loss.
about 4 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Base
Sounds SW:G-ish to me. Is Lum going to the dark side? Or perhaps he will bring balance to the force?
I think a nerf bat would have been a good going-away present. =]
about 4 years ago
A Austin-based MMORPG developer?
OMG Lum works on Shadowbane 2!
Sachant, tell us about it! =D
about 4 years ago
No, no… he’s working on UO 2.
about 4 years ago
Good luck wherever! Enjoy design; it’s better than… well, just about any other job I can imagine.
about 4 years ago
I have a guess totally off the charts but wholly plausable as well.
SOE Austin (the fine folks who brought you NGE SWG) are supposed to be working on a DC comics version of CoH. If correct it would mean Scott and Raph would be working for the same boss…
Congrats on wherever your journey takes you.
about 4 years ago
Maybe he’s an employee of EA :/
about 4 years ago
Apache you do not speak that name in the hallowed halls of Lum.
about 4 years ago
Good luck to you sir, you will be missed at the office.
about 4 years ago
Yes, please finish UO2.
http://merkwurdigliebe.homestead.com/files/UO2.JPG
about 4 years ago
I can neither confirm nor deny blah blah blah (that’s for you alex.
)
Phoenix/Arizona is hardly in the middle of nowhere. It’s LA part II. Everytime I go back there to visit my familly they’ve got some other new super shopping center built and 2x the cars on the roads. If only they’d learn how to MERGE.
about 4 years ago
Would be great, though, Sachant…
The SB2 thing, not learning how to merge
about 4 years ago
We’ll miss you!! Good luck out there and try to avoid that big ball o’ light called the sun.. Evil sun!!!!
about 4 years ago
Can’t blame you. The DC area doesn’t have much going for it, IMO.
about 4 years ago
Great. Now my thane will never get fixed……
Seriously though, congrats.
about 4 years ago
Wow, they really are serious about radar bannings….
I jest. Good luck here in Austin, and SW oughta be a hoot with your input.
about 4 years ago
WHEN DOES THE OPEN BETA START? I wont be in there for the phat lewt, nope just want the game to be well tested.
Gratz and good luck.
about 4 years ago
Awww, well, I’ll be sure to randomly bump into you someplace, no matter where you go, since I think of all the times I randomly bumped into you, only one of them was anywhere within a hundred miles of Virginia.
Best of luck at your new job! Cheers!
about 4 years ago
Admit it, Tess. You’re stalking him.
about 4 years ago
Lum – I bet dollars to donuts that if you visited two cities in the next week, and reported from both locations on which cardinal direction your new job could be found in, people would have the building triangulated to the nearest Starbucks.
Spooky
Now, go make a difference.
about 4 years ago
maybe this: http://www.cheyenneme.com
about 4 years ago
Tabula Rasa?
The alignment of Richard Garriot and Lum the Mad is one sign of the apocalypse.
In my “End of reality” chapter of my MMO based holy book that is.
about 4 years ago
We’ll miss you, Scott! Good luck in your new endeavor, and enjoy your new surroundings!
about 4 years ago
You better tell us what game you’re working on, so we can preorder it. :p
about 4 years ago
You people know nothing. He’s not working on UO2, he’s coming back to UO to do Raph one better! Prepare for UO ol skool Rennaissance of the Newest Age! FOA Leader will be brought to justice once and for all.
about 4 years ago
i heard Lum’s working on WW2 Online now
about 4 years ago
=j said:
“Admit it, Tess. You\’e2\’80\’99re stalking him.”
I’m sure he’ll be in Australia ANY DAY NOW. And when he is, I’LL BE READY.
about 4 years ago
Wait hes going to CRS (cornered rat software?) hrmm ill have to bug toto on aim to get some details…
about 4 years ago
QQ
You forgot to say goodbye on the pendy boards
Good luck friend. If you end up in Phoenix, be prepared for some wicked heat.
“Toastyyy” ~Ala Mortal Kombat
about 4 years ago
Lum’s leaving? Waitaminute, I just recovered from the firestorm that ensued when he was hired!
Good Times.
about 4 years ago
Oh shizzle and damn…. you might be working with me soon then. I have always loved your writing style and your strange, weird, unusual slant on things. But you have no idea how much all the techies yell at me
Good luck and I “think” I hope it is on the same project that I am on.