Broken Toys

paul barnet should run for some office.

or start a new circus.

but I think he should get out of the “hyping MMOs” business.

I couldn’t be arsed to sit through the first piece of dreck and I’m certainly not interested in watching Paul get all shirty about it.

So…Colin is a hobbit?

Im not going to watch it. The guy is annoying.

Maybe Mythic should stop and think about how the old public voice of the company was Sanya and now its Paul.

If they can destroy their once sterling puplic relations so flippantly is it any wonder they have lost their way on game design?

*G* Funny stuff. It is just sad that they have to make a humorous video explaining that their last humorous video was actually mean to be…ahm…humorous.

And you guys should stop taking yourself so serious. You look like grumpy old men.

Yikes, tough crowd over here.

You people need to relax a little! It seems to me both videos were clearly scripted. While admittedly the first wasn’t amazingly funny (we all have our comic off-days), getting up in arms about the first and then still managing to take offense to the second – which was obviously meant to clarify the situation and lighten the mood – smacks of a bunch of people just looking for someone to pillory. Sheesh – we’re talking about a game. There are a lot worse issues in the world right now to get riled up about. Get a grip, people!

I thought this one was a lot funnier.

Get a grip and stop judging other people. Everyone’s entitled to have an opinion.

All aboard the irony train!

People here just don’t understand this form of humour and appearently they don’t understand Paul either. Paul is a great guy, taking his job and himself serious in a non-serious-way.

Kill me, now. *gurgley noise*

/Quake 2 soldier voice from the weird level where soldiers are tortured

I worked with Paul Barrett. I know Paul Barrett. Paul Barrett is a friend of … What? Barnett? Oh.

Senator, YOU are no Paul Barnett!

Whatever – he’s a dude that makes games. Why waste your time despising him?

Methinks the hatas doth protest too much. I sense some e-peen “look how insider I am” talking going on.

Don’t bother now telling me what a douche I am, my mother has already made it abundantly clear.

Perhaps from now on Mythic should make an intro for their videos, like:

“This video contains humour, irony, sarcasm as well as bits and parts of Paul Barnett. If you feel offended by any of those parts mentioned above please stop the transmission now.

For those viewers that would like to understand the bigger meaning behind this meaningless nonsense we are just going to show you we also provide subtitles for the humour impaired:

Whenever you see a yellow dot in the lower right corner you will know that you just saw something that was intended to be funny so you get the chance to laugh at the right moment.”

Thank you

The Mythic Team

Maybe they should’ve hired gilbert godfried?

Or better, maybe they shouldn’t have made fun of the dev in the first place.

“We’re talking about what is felt as belittleing and public humiliation in a work environment.”

belittling and publicly humiliating to who?

they both seem hunky doory with the situation, so whats the problem?

i think what it is is everyone just wants to be a bunch of prude assclowns and keeping h8ing mystic.

even if it isnt funny to you, the least you could do is look at it with the thought of “hey, at least they are coming out and admitting what the problem is and that it actually is a problem, and telling you that there is a fix en route for it. they were even courteous enough to give the back story and meaningless explainings of the problem.

but no, what happens here? nerd rage takes off and you all end up looking like a bunch of pissed off 2 year olds who got caught sneaking into the cookie jar.

There seem to be an awful lot of sandy vagina code monkeys here who can neither take a joke nor handle professional criticism in any capacity. Personally I thought the 2nd bit was pretty funny, and I wasn’t offended by the first bit at all.

It’s not going to make me go back to playing their PvE-based RvR game, though.

thought experiment: imagine you know nothing of WAR or its drama and you saw this vid. That’s what I was getting at.

EA has dropped 12% today on lowering guidance for 2009

I are amused.

I think Todd has it right that it’s Colin’s deadpan expression throughout that makes it.

As I said in the other one, more use of Colin in the video and it becomes more amusing – the first one was too one-sided, which is why it came across the way it did to some people, I think. This was a much better use of having two people there, and as stated before, Colin’s deadpan way of handling the situation worked, in my opinion.

Funny. Funny as hell.

Dekyriel :
Get a grip and stop judging other people. Everyone’s entitled to have an opinion.

Bitter much?

It may be a surprise to you that many others outside of the game industry have software development jobs, and that yes, while the first video was a bit strained, the second was a good apology for the first.

Let’s not all take life so incredibly seriously and assume the worst in all situations. Give the guy a break, he made his apology and assuming his dev staff is satisfied with it, I don’t see why you should be taking further offense. Like you said – we’re all entitled to our opinions, are we not?