Bill Roper Interviewed by Krawall.de
Krawall.de has posted up a new interview with Bill Roper, which covers such hot topics as the criticism of Hellgate: London and Flagship Studios by the gaming media in general and also by fans of the game. Here’s a snippet:
Bill Roper: Blizzard managed to build up such a good reputation over the years that’s a big difference. There never had been that hostile behavior i experience now in the community. We have many people in our hellgate community that like the game, they give enormous helpfull constructive feedback. That’s the majority. But the critics look to me way more aggressive. Are we spoiled because of that? I don’t know. There had been real critics too back in the blizzard-times, who cleary critizised us. Every game without exception has people that don’t like it. But only with hellgate i see those people that accuse us of messing up the game with full intend.
Krawall.de: that’s pretty farstretched..
Bill Roper: Yes, indeed! No developer would ever to that. How insane would that be and i think it’s insulting when people sit there and say “They just do it for the money” - or because of something else. I allways want to yell than “Sorry what? You don’t know us! You don’t have a clue at all why we are doing what we are doing!”. It’s absurd to think we don’t want to deliver the best work we can.
But that’s the nice thing in the internet: Nobody has to take responsibility for what he’s saying. Anyway: If that’s what people really think than i’m sorry. I’m really sorry we couldn’t deliver the product they wish for. I’m also sorry that at release we couldn’t deliver the product in the quality we wished it to be for - and i’m realy honest here.
But we strive to get this all done as constructive as possible. We are looking forwads, we want to apply the needed changes and make the game better and better. But some people just don’t want to see progress, they just want to be bitter.
More of the lengthy interview can be read in this thread as translated by MadNerd. The original interview can be read in German.
