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Brad Wardell's Mea Culpa on Elemental: War of Magic

By james_fudge

It's one of those moments you rarely see from game developers: someone taking responsibility for a major mistake. Stardock CEO Brad Wardell did just that in a thread on the official forums for Elemental: War of Magic. In the post Wardell admitted that he was too close to the game's development, which blinded him to the fact that the game was just not ready for release.

He also acknowledged that the mishandled release of Elemental has damaged Stardock's reputation and may have long term repercussions for the company's game development division in the future.

Wardell said that he thought that version 1.0 of the game as well as the 1.05 update were ready for public consumption, which proved to not be true. Here's the most powerful part of the post: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).