The Things We Do For Publicity

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 29 Comments

See, this is what happens when you don’t have a community manager.

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  • http:///dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    An interview that reveals much about the insides of hiring in the industry as it does reveal new and interesting questions. For example: if it wasn’t technically the Interviewer’s penis, I wonder whose penis it was?

    That said, LtM on an Evony Ad = genius.

  • Jessica Mulligan

    Play Lum, My Lord!

  • http://joshdrescher.com Josh Drescher

    Hey now, the bowling shirts were better than the Long-sleeved Death Shirts we’d had in previous years. Anything was preferable to trundling around LA in 100 degree heat while wearing a thick, black, long-sleeve shirt for E3.

  • Gx1080

    “BOOB RENDERING CAPABILITIES OF TOMORROW”. That line made my day.

    Also, you confirmed several suspicions that *I* had about the game’s industry. Thank you. And LOL, tahts was funny.

    PS: Does nerf samurai swords are given in the job or you have to buy them?

  • http://idempot.net/blog/ Matthew Weigel

    Someone else buys the sword, and then a designer steals it.

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    It’s the ciiiiircle of life.

  • http://www.georgianelsonphotography.com/ Georgia

    O.o

  • http://oracle.the-kgb.com Owain

    Hmm, the link is blocked by the firewall at work. Can anyone provide me with a Reader’s Digest version of the story?

  • Dirk

    same, blocked :(

  • Ray

    You guys wore bowling shirts the year that ROME IN SPAAAAAACE was demoed, right?
    Those were funny shirts.

  • http://mrtact.com/blog Tim Keating

    “A poorly kept secret is that game developers are also jerks. ”

    Hey, fuck you, pal, I –

    Oh.

    Never mind.

  • Dirtyboy

    Trying to figure out who is more insane, Lum or the interviewer.

  • http://www,damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    I’m confused. Who doesn’t have a community manager? The team that can’t even declare who their owner is, let alone what their project is? That team doesn’t need a community manager to send the message LUM HAS A JOB AND HE IS WORKING ON SOME… THING.

  • http://www.greypawn.com GreyPawn

    *standing in an office doorway pretending to be Lum’s CM*
    So, Scott. I understand you did an interview recently where you referred to the dev team and yourself as winners in a global competition of “Who’s the Biggest Jerk?”. I believe at one point you indicate that you were required by the company to be on drugs, and that you are in fact an alcoholic forbidden from touching any functional code. And that your career is primarily beholden to the wishes and desires of a… cat.

  • Scott Jennings

    Yes, yes, that about sums it up!

  • http://www.antipwn.com/blog IainC

    “Well Scott, our problem with all of that is that we don’t have any board level positions opening up for a while…”

  • Boanerges

    They didn’t interview Scott, they interviewed Jay Leno’s evil twin!

    I am truly disappointed they avoided talking about Darkfall but somehow Scott now does Evony plugs. See? Conspiracy!

  • Vetarnias

    I know it’s a minor point, but I couldn’t escape noticing how routine drug tests seem to be in the US. Can’t imagine that happening in Canada, especially for jobs of a nature that doesn’t justify them.

  • http://stabbedup.blogspot.com/ Stabs

    Great stuff!

  • http://www.battlevortex.com William Purvis

    I liked you better when you were on our side… ;P

  • Freakazoid

    I bet that guy is so happy to finally see people commenting on his blog. He will remember this day as “the good ol’ days” in a couple weeks when still no one is reading his blog despite updating it every day.

  • mystery

    Yea, Freak, I’ve never had a website before. *coughassholecough*

  • Freakazoid

    Well forgive me, I forgot all about your previous hamster breeding for sport geocities page. I’m sure the five people who visisted it took your discussions very seriously until they were arrested.

  • mystery
  • http://www.bitemyreview.com Staci

    It’s not an f’in blog.

    Thanks for doing the interview Scott. It was very funny.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    Freakazoid has “the PEN IS mightier” ENVY.

  • Steve

    What’s going on with the link? When I click on the left side of the text, it links back to this page. When I click on the right, it links to the interview. The transition is at the 1st “m” in “community”.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    There’s no left or right side of the link for me. Perhaps your browser is sporting gnarly adware or something.

    Next time Lum does an Evony ad, perhaps it should be pointed at his (presumably) hairy chest and a photoshopped sword blade pointing at it. That would be perfect for the “Save your Queen, m’lord” Evony ad. (And, no, I really don’t have a pressing desire to see Lum’s chest.)

  • Steve

    It appears the text/link area for “The Thing We Do For Publicity” is overlapping the link to the article on my browser. Firefox 2.0.0.20, if you’re interested.