Online RPGs: An interview with Jeremy Saunders

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So awesome, thanks for this!

Super good.

I wish I had been around for Sartan :(

WTF? I hadn't heard anything abuot alchemists.

Pretty interesting. Wish I could have been around in the start.

The man himself :O

I only know the big things going on in the games. New skills, big events, etc. Knowing all of the day to day events in 5 different games would be impossible. Well, not impossible, but it would take nearly all of my time to keep up on all of it.

Which is why we have the producers of course. As I stated in the interview, I would love to spend more time doing that, but someone has to manage the sites, the advertising, the marketing, overall ire promos. Not nearly a much fun, unfortunately.

I never knew Sartan. Those who speak of him do so with great reverence, however... (and fear!)

Thanks for that.

FREE STUFF!

Thanks.

Don't waste time making phone clients! there are some good clients in existence already.

but credit for comment

One thing Jeremy touched on that I think is crucial to IRE's success is the army of volunteers that help run the games. The folks who RP the gods in the game can absolutely make or break it. Clearly, he understands this well - his description of his time as Sartan and how he chose to RP that particular god is golden. (I remember when he was playing Sartan - he was very good at making everyone hate him! :) :)  Also, since he hired full-time RP producers (i.e., is spending money on it), its clear that this is important to the company, which is a wonderful thing

I'm sure the interview is very interesting, but the sound quality makes it just impossible for me to listen to it. 

Good article

Clever use of a youtube video instead of having to write it all out! Nice interview. :)

Always good to hear things admin side

Nice video.

interesting

Wow, impressive story there!

Jeez, what kind of dedication must it have took to -quickly- advance to becoming Sartan?

I regret not being active during the time when Sartan was the Patron of Mhaldor...

Thanks for posting the interview. It's always nice to see stories from other's points of view.

We need more articles/videos like this, maybe of some more gods.  It is super interesting!

I hope the new class in Achaea ends up being great. Can't wait to hear more about it.

Looking forward to it!

Great interview and video

I guess I've always thought that being a God in a game was hard. I was an Admin in a small MUX once, and even that was a lot of work. Has to be terrible in Achaea. But hey, if you like to run games for people, it's probably pretty great. I just can't imagine getting away from my player addiction :)

Oh interesting

Sartan sounds like a fun god. I would've liked to have played when he was around.

I love this.

Wicked echo! And interesting interview =)
Keep it up!

The echo in the video makes Saunders sound larger than life!

Saunders sounds like the typical yuppie nerd: computer games, college educated, martial arts instructor. Go Saunders!

Keep up the great work Jeremy, 13 years and still going strong!

Cool, Alchemist could be interesting and different. I was hoping for an alternate type of Magi or a non-sword weapon user, personally.

Disenchanted with Achaea, but still its interesting to see and hear about these things, and compare them in my mind to what I already have in Lusternia

I really liked how he explained his goal when playing Sartan as making people at angry at his character as possible.  I can see why Achaea (I can't vouch for the others) became such a fun game; probably the only thing really lacking is the ability to, as a player, "go overboard" like he described (such as attacking characters who violate one's own character's moral code) without facing more than IC consequences.

I've been in Achaea since May 2003. I was such a newb back then I honestly don't remember if Jeremy was still Sartan when I joined, but people still talk about him 8 years later! There are so few seriously long-term God/desses anymore due to the workload and politics that we don't really get that level of impression left on us at this point. I hope that changes soon!

From regular run-of-the-mill player, to President of the company. That's just awesome.

Nice article and interview.

7-10 months to godhood. Spectacular.

I am very excited by the new alchemist class. No one had announced that yet. Should greatly facilitate factions being able to attack Nature, drawing them into conflict. Awesome!

Thanks for this.

Kudos for all your efforts!