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What DayZ needs right now is a Project & Community Manager not a visionary.
What DayZ needs right now is a Project & Community Manager not a visionary.
For the people who are oh-so-outraged and personally offended by Dean deciding to leave the DayZ team in ten months, I found a post that not only sums up why he is leaving and why he's not ripping you off, but also how it makes him feel when all these tough internet cretins are abusing him from the safety of their keyboard:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/commen...ve_bohemia_and_step_down_as/cfnjzwj?context=1
How do you treat those people who have given you the ability to make that vision a reality as well as made you a very wealthy individual?
Depending on your definition of the word, I am not a very wealthy individual. While I get royalties, these do not represent a significant amount of the sales. The vast majority of the sales go back to the owner of the IP: Bohemia Interactive.
You turn your back on them and make plans to leave
I have made the following things clear:
- I intend to return to New Zealand, to stay longer in the Czech Republic will essentially mean seeking citizenship and making my life here away from my family
- I have made myself available to Bohemia as long as I am providing value to the project, however I have highlighted the importance of my role being appropriate to the project's state.
- At some point the skillset for the leader to deliver on the current state of the project may differ from the skillset I have. I have mooted that I believe this point will occur at the end of the year, Bohemia seem to larely agree with this. However, there is flexibility on both sides to see what needs to happen will.
You call people who have legitimate concerns over wasting their money on a broken game
No, I did no such thing. As hurtful as your comments are to me: they completely undermine the efforts and commitments made by the large team who have been working very long hours on DayZ for some time. Saying that my departure from a lead position will not deliver on the promise is directly saying these people do not have the capability to deliver.
Say what you want about me, but the team does not deserve such hateful comments. My ego is not so big that I think the project could not carry on without me. While I believe I am useful and I contribute value as both a designer and a leader, it is unfair to think that others will not be able to meet that role. I need to balance the value to the project of me remaining with the need to be with my family and return home.
The greatest gift I can give the project, and the team, is a longterm vision and culture that would survive long after I am gone. If I have done my job right, I will have forever changed those involved in the project. That is leadership, to grow a team to the point they no longer need you. I'm proud of the people I have worked with. I am proud of what they are accomplishing. And I am proud to say that I can see a day when I am not needed. That is very hard for me to accept, but I know that the day must come. That day is good for the project. That day will not be a pleasant one for me.
You disgust me
I make no apology for saying that, eventually, I need to return home to be with my family. I made commitments to my family for many years, long before DayZ, to return to be with them. I've clearly stated I am prepared to do whatever is needed for DayZ, even if that meant staying on even longer. But I have also clearly stated that I want to return home, to be with my family. I think this is fair, and I fail to see what else I could do in this situation.
Perhaps rather than expressing your revulsion, you could explain how you would prefer the situation be managed?
What an utter disappointment, you deserve nothing of what you have gained over these last 2 years.
One thing that I have gained, that I feel I have earned, is just how hateful people can be towards you when you open yourself up to them. I had always thought that being open encouraged people to engage in dialogue no matter how angry they are.
DG, Spils and TheGoon - give it a rest, petty insults, willy wavign etc has to stop.
No more warnings, it'll be a ban next time, minimum.
[TFU] Thegoon84;25906870 said:They've not be insults... its just harmless banter!
yeah id pick fraps and dxtory over everything else but files are large.
shadowplay maybe next.