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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4415379" data-attributes="member: 11697">You think it would be deleted? Maybe dumped into some obscure thread by G0?&nbsp;I was thinking along the same lines. When WotC was hiring people for in-house a while back for their &quot;transition&quot; from Radiant, they probably started over from scratch.[Speculation]At this point, I'm figuring that one of two things happened:1) Radiant Machine was not in any way up to the task of making Gleemax and the DDI. They were very likely the lowest bidder for the job and WotC went with it. I strongly doubt that WotC was willing to shell out the salaries for top notch programmers. A year passed with things still in Alpha, or released in buggy or incomplete state, and WotC may have decided to simply give up, scrap most of Radiant's work and start over in-house with a new group of coders (who may or may not themselves be up to the task or be the people who accepted lowball salary offers).2) Radiant had some decent coders, but WotC grossly bungled management of the project and gave them poor goals and project specs to work with. Gleemax from the start felt like a vague cluster of ideas that marketing came up with, and Radiant's programmers may have been handed little more than that and expected to create a finished product with nonexistant or shifting specifications.3) Might be a nightmarish combination of both.[/speculation]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 4415379, member: 11697"] You think it would be deleted? Maybe dumped into some obscure thread by G0? I was thinking along the same lines. When WotC was hiring people for in-house a while back for their "transition" from Radiant, they probably started over from scratch. [Speculation] At this point, I'm figuring that one of two things happened: 1) Radiant Machine was not in any way up to the task of making Gleemax and the DDI. They were very likely the lowest bidder for the job and WotC went with it. I strongly doubt that WotC was willing to shell out the salaries for top notch programmers. A year passed with things still in Alpha, or released in buggy or incomplete state, and WotC may have decided to simply give up, scrap most of Radiant's work and start over in-house with a new group of coders (who may or may not themselves be up to the task or be the people who accepted lowball salary offers). 2) Radiant had some decent coders, but WotC grossly bungled management of the project and gave them poor goals and project specs to work with. Gleemax from the start felt like a vague cluster of ideas that marketing came up with, and Radiant's programmers may have been handed little more than that and expected to create a finished product with nonexistant or shifting specifications. 3) Might be a nightmarish combination of both. [/speculation] [/QUOTE]

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