His First Project Was Somewhat Successful
December 4th, 2006
J. Henderson has a story up on Gamasutra about the continuing adventures of Jake Song, who designed that Lineage series you may have heard of.
Was there an opportunity to reach both [Asian and American] markets before now? Maybe, Song wrote. \’e2\’80\’9cI think I had a chance to do it at NCsoft but I missed it. Maybe due to my laziness. I don’t want to blame anyone else except me.\’e2\’80\’9d
He makes two games in a row that have eleventy billion active users, and he feels bad for not also grabbing half of DAoC’s 40 odd players? I’d hate to hear him do a self critique when he makes a bomb.
I wouldn’t say he feels “bad” about it, though the disappointment was apparent in the laughter that followed the “miserable failure” comment.
Striking out feels worse after you’ve hit a couple of home runs.