News Archive - July

Last Updated (Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:06) Written by Pig Thursday, 31 July 2008 07:50

 Paul Barnett, creative director for Warhammer Online, generally gives great interviews.  He's funny, and he has the acting skills of a professional wrestler, with a lot of pointing and yelling at the camera, and other silly whatnot.  At this week's Develop Online conference, he gave a presentation and proved that he's a master of rhetoric as well.  A few quotables, right from Paul's mouth:

"When we launch these games, we can't schedule for sh**."

"We're nearly there, God help us, the fifth time we schedule it it's going to work."

"I believe WOW is a work of flawed genius," 

"The reason I don't play other online games is that they're corrupting, they are cancerous, they change the way you think." 

"You can't be the Beatles. If you try and be the Beatles, you'll end up as the Monkees,"

"People will lie to you relentlessly and tell you that we're the movie industry, this is a lie perpetuated by people who work in cubes and never see the day star..."

"Games are made by small teams of core people helped by other people. 400 people played instruments on Sergeant Pepper. Build your band,"

 Ah, Paul.  How you wax philosophical.  You inspire us so, with your vision, your drive, your nonsensical blatherings.  It's why you are beloved. 

If you'd like a bit of context for the above quotes (it won't really help), the entirety of his presentation can be found here. 

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