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Butterfield: Non-violent social MMO games are commercially horrible ideas
“It's a horrible idea commercially. Like, it's just, there's not enough people who are interested in it.”
Flickr was initially built to be sold for $1M to fund gaming
“And that thing ended up being Flickr, and I think when we started it, the intention was, we'll build this, and someone will buy it for, like, a million dollars, and then we can use that million dollars to finish the game.”
Cal Henderson hacked Game Neverending's internal mailing list before being hired
“It turned out had hacked into our internal
Mailing list when we were working on the game and had been reading all of our messages, which is why he was able to develop all this stuff.”
Butterfield initially lost a team vote to pivot to Flickr
“So we had this vote. I lost you know, or Flickr lost in game one, so that I had to call Eric on the side and, like, you know, do some, what I imagine happens in the Senate, some kind of, like, horse trading to convince him to change his vote. And that worked, …”