Former Atari VP moves to Trion Worlds

@Dunraven

Indeed

@Dunraven

Our company has a Euro president and he's just there for the French to yell at....I see.nothing in this move. He probably just has good contacts that can open door to new markets.

@Dril

...and you commented about this because?

@Utakata

Because he can?

@(Unverified)

Trion is failing? Sorry, no.

@Puremallace

The current Atari is not even remotely the original one. The modern one is actually a rebranded Infogrames, who bought up the hollow shell of the original Atari )consisting of basically nothing but the name at that point) because the name still managed to be more popular than the one they already had.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

@cic

Yeah really. Trion's first MMO is retaining more of its player base at this point post-launch than any other MMO that's come before it, with the exception of WoW. Their dev team makes good decisions and is taking care of business, and the game had one of the most successful launches in MMO history in regard not only to the way the launch was handled itself but also the state of quality the game launched in. It's not a perfect game, no game is or there would be one game called "The Perfect Game" and we'd all be playing it, capisci?

RIFT is a great game. I am still interested to see if TERA differentiates itself from the rest of the Asian MMO-gone NA port crowd, but if TERA doesn't work out for me I'm not even that concerned anymore, because I've got RIFT which seemingly came out of nowhere, and which my wife, my friends and I thoroughly all thoroughly enjoy. Like them or not, Trion is going to be a major force in the MMO market for a long time to come, unless they make some huge mistakes along the way - something which thus far they have not only avoided doing, but have done the polar opposite of.

@ErikC

Admittedly...it does give him a pimp-everyone's-ass Bobby Kotick presence that's not very flattering in the least.

@SnarlingWolf

And when was the last time Sega produced anything worthwhile for that matter, right?

@JuliusSeizure wtf are you talking about? Sonic is the best series ever!

(upvote this comment for irony)

@Lenn

Someone send John an email so he can come and write a comment.