OnyxRaven from Gamewatchers.net and Anyuzer has written an opinion piece entitled The Death of UXO:
Jon 'Calandryll' Hanna and Rick 'Stellerex' Hall, plus Amy 'Morgaine' Sage, following the announcement of Origin's Offices closing and moving to EA's Redwood, California headquarters, have announced their resignations from OSI.
Who are they? Well, they were more or less the head guys at OSI. They were heading up the UX:O Development team. These guys made names for themselves through the life of Ultima Online, and were the driving force, as far as I could tell, behind UXO. Rick pretty much ran the show at the EAX event (Community announcement of the game, a few of us from EQII got invited, which prompted us to build UXOO), and Jon was about as involved. It was obvious they were the idea guys, the real visionaries behind the interesting ideas. Morgaine was also awesome, she talked with us even before the official show at the EAX event, and not only was she the Community Manager, but a designer of the game. Interesting stuff. |