[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by oleg:
AFIK, Alan is still in charge of Moo3. There were some rumors, but he posted himself that he took a short break for personal reasons and is back now.

Alan is gone. He is technically available as 'consultant' but he is no longer a QS employee. They are in 'meet deadline' mode now and just trying to put together a game that works without trying to meet all the lofty and very ambitious goals that Alan had originally set for the game. Some people are calling it 'MOO 2.5' instead of MOO 3. And yes, much of the originality has been abandoned. This is put down to corporate ruthlessness by the grumblers, of course. No one thinks of just how hard it would have been to actually do all the things Alan wanted to do with the game. They would have to set the release date back to 2010 if they wanted to implement all the things he had originally planned.

[ May 14, 2002, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]