Brad McQuaid talks about Sigil and Microsoft’s relationship

Speaking to F13.net, Brad McQuaid, Sigil CEO and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes executive producer talked about Microsoft and Sigil’s relationship when it came to developing Vanguard in the early days. Regarding that he said:

They didn’t have their MMO people anymore really, and they had a major priority of getting the Xbox 360 out which cost billions and billions of dollars. Our ability to petition this to higher-ups and get any attention just really wasn’t there.

I don’t want to appear to negative here… but this happens with large corporations. There are changes and changes in mandate and focus, and clearly the Xbox 360 is doing very, very well. It has great titles and Microsoft is sitting fine. It’s not like they made a catastrophic corporate error. I very much respect Microsoft as a whole and there are a lot of great people there and I’m definitely not one of those “I love Linux and hate all things Windows guys.” I understand that all these things happen. Unfortunately it happened to us.

However, in light of the studio’s recent acquisition by Sony Online Entertainment and the fact that a number of employee’s lost their positions during the transition, Brad McQuaid had this to say:

I’m really sorry it went down that way, I can promise you that I and everybody in upper management did everything they possibly could to avoid this happening. Sigil was everything to us. It was our dream.

As CEO, I take full responsibility and the buck stops here. I did everything I could and so did everybody else to make it work. But it didn’t.

At least he’s upfront about his apology. To read the complete interview, feel free to head to it via our “read” link below.

Speaking to F13.net, Brad McQuaid, Sigil CEO and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes executive producer talked about Microsoft and Sigil’s relationship when it came to developing Vanguard in the early days. Regarding that he said:

They didn’t have their MMO people anymore really, and they had a major priority of getting the Xbox 360 out which cost billions and billions of dollars. Our ability to petition this to higher-ups and get any attention just really wasn’t there.

I don’t want to appear to negative here… but this happens with large corporations. There are changes and changes in mandate and focus, and clearly the Xbox 360 is doing very, very well. It has great titles and Microsoft is sitting fine. It’s not like they made a catastrophic corporate error. I very much respect Microsoft as a whole and there are a lot of great people there and I’m definitely not one of those “I love Linux and hate all things Windows guys.” I understand that all these things happen. Unfortunately it happened to us.

However, in light of the studio’s recent acquisition by Sony Online Entertainment and the fact that a number of employee’s lost their positions during the transition, Brad McQuaid had this to say:

I’m really sorry it went down that way, I can promise you that I and everybody in upper management did everything they possibly could to avoid this happening. Sigil was everything to us. It was our dream.

As CEO, I take full responsibility and the buck stops here. I did everything I could and so did everybody else to make it work. But it didn’t.

At least he’s upfront about his apology. To read the complete interview, feel free to head to it via our “read” link below.