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February 14, 2005
Retirement Reboot
So it's been a while.
I took off everything I wrote before, at least in this news section, under the theory that I'm in the middle of a kind of life reboot and so I might as well reboot this site and, you know, actually use it on a regular basis rather than ignore it month after month.
The big news is of course that I've retired, at least for a while. I sold out all my interests in City of Heroes and am now done with the property forever more. My role in COH turned out to be one of the more heartwrenching and nasty phases of my life and it cost me at least one friendship and strained several others.
For the record, here's my final take on the City of Heroes story. I got screwed. Yes I made some mistakes and I definitely could've been easier to work with than I was. But I certainly made no more mistakes than my co-founders, some of whom made much, much worse errors and yet remain in place to this day. And even after I was screwed, the screwing continued while I worked on the game as a freelance contractor. In many ways, big and small, I was slighted and/or lied to and mistreated. So, when all is said and done, all I can say is fuck you guys.
Having said all that, it actually seems to have worked out well for me. I made my little chunk of change and am free to pursue other interests without having to deal with any of those people ever again. And rest assured, I'll have nothing to do with them again. Not that any of them are clamoring for my return or lying awake at night thinking about me. Nor should they. It's been two years now and I'm sure they moved on, oh, about 23 and a half months ago. It just took me a little longer as all.
And so, onward and upward. Lessons learned, profits earned, let's get on with the show.
Posted by rdakan at February 14, 2005 10:22 AM