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heh,

I haven't met you yet Todd.
My name is Eric Braun, I'm tentatively scheduled to start March 31st.

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Ah yes, you will be adding to the collection of Volition's Erics. We now have

Eric A
Eric B

Soon the Erics will outnumber the Daves!

Dave A
Dave B
Dave C


Congrats, btw

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OH THE INSANITY!

It's going in alphabetical order too!

I thought you were just lettering them as compared to numbering them.

I certainly noticed that there are a large number of people at Volition with the same first name

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so what u doing for volition anyway coding, graphical stuff, artistik stuff ?
cleaning the toilets ? (j/k)

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programmer

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I retract my previous statement.

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thats cool

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Getting back on Topic....

Todd, or any other Volition employee, is there any talk within your company to improve your customer relations?

I personally think the games you make are excellent and are deserving of far more sales and popularity than they get.

IMHO, your Summoner series beats the PANTS off the Baldur's Gate/Infinity Engine games, as well as Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights.

Sadly, those games have sold far more copies ;(. I recently read that the Infinity Engine games have sold more than 30 million copies (and there hasn't even been an Icewind Dale II expansion yet).

A big difference between Volition and Bioware is that Bioware provides EXCELLENT customer support on its web site. You constantly get information and feedback from employees that really keeps the fans and the company connected.

That is why you better don your Full Asbestos Suit if you ever say ANYTHING bad about their games on any discussion forum. Their fans are, well, fanatical.

If you mention Summoner or Volition in web or usenet RPG discussion groups you are most likely going to be met with "huh?" "who?" rather than "Yeah, their games rock."

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When you say customer support, what do you mean? Volition PROGRAMMED the game; Interplay MARKETED it. If you're saying that the GAME has problems, then call up Volition (I remember I got an email from you once Todd... I feel so... special now ). If its a problem relating in any way to how the game has been marketed, then dont call Volition, because they cant do anything about it.

God its snowing like hell outside.

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Interplay didn't produce Summoner. THQ did. I imagine it's hard to find the light when under a huge publisher's blanket of products, not to mention when producer execs would rather see a "Britney Spears rocks the town again, again!" than something that's cool to us.

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Nobody controls Volitions customer relations other than Volition.

Blizzard is owned by the GARGANTUAN company Vivendi, but that doesn't stop them from having excellent customer support and customer relations.

Bioware's games were published by the huge Interplay, and they still had excellent communication with their customers.

None of those companies in the publishing chain would stop Volition from having a message forum on their site, or from having their employees pick a fan site's forums to frequent.

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hmm... VBB got shut down because the V people didn't have time to visit it, and thus were flooded with spam and flames. no board is better than one with only spam and flames, IMO.

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hmm... VBB got shut down because the V people didn't have time to visit it, and thus were flooded with spam and flames. no board is better than one with only spam and flames, IMO.

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Xanthem, see if you could get me a job at Volition.

i can do anything they want: program, etc.

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Like I have any influence on them, I haven't even gone in to work a single day yet.

You'd be better off soliciting something from Todd or daveb

and I suppose you're a little too late. They took down their advertisement for entry level programmers the day they hired me.

I don't know about you all but I'm stranded because of freezing sleet and rain. its about 2 inches thick and its like a semi solid block of ice. You can walk around without making dents in it, if you can manage to open the door...

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Xanthem, see if you could get me a job at Volition.

i can do anything they want: program, etc.

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Getting us back on topic......

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hmm... VBB got shut down because the V people didn't have time to visit it, and thus were flooded with spam and flames. no board is better than one with only spam and flames, IMO.

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Xanthem, see if you could get me a job at Volition.

i can do anything they want: program, etc.

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I always thought it was the mass wave of idiots rather than the admins lack of attendance that doomed the VBB. If the morons hadn't ruined all the fun in the first place they probably wouldn't have seen a resaon to shut it down.

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I always thought it was the mass wave of idiots rather than the admins lack of attendance that doomed the VBB. If the morons hadn't ruined all the fun in the first place they probably wouldn't have seen a resaon to shut it down.

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OT - Can an admin change the title of this thread, it's sort of bothering me...

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