Yeah, I started playing pen-and-paper Shadowrun pretty much as soon as it came out; the consensus out there on the Xbox game seems to be "why did they call this game Shadowrun, when they could have made a game that was Shadowrun instead?"
I actually went over to the Games group the week I found out MS had purchased FASA Online, because I knew they *had* to make a Shadowrun game, and I wanted to be there when they did. Had a nice conversation with the test manager over there who woudl've been in charge, but they didn't have any plans at that time, and soon after that I had my incident with the company. Now I'm glad I didn't end up over there; NWN has shown me what an RPG can be, and I'm pretty sure MS couldn't have produced anything like it at the time.
I signed up for the paid Hotmail account a couple of weeks before they were available to the general public, because I built the billing system and we needed people to test the system before we opened it up to the world. Since then, I've never had to worry about getting deleted, just twenty bucks on my credit card every year. :)
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Date: 2007-06-22 10:34 pm (UTC)I actually went over to the Games group the week I found out MS had purchased FASA Online, because I knew they *had* to make a Shadowrun game, and I wanted to be there when they did. Had a nice conversation with the test manager over there who woudl've been in charge, but they didn't have any plans at that time, and soon after that I had my incident with the company. Now I'm glad I didn't end up over there; NWN has shown me what an RPG can be, and I'm pretty sure MS couldn't have produced anything like it at the time.
I signed up for the paid Hotmail account a couple of weeks before they were available to the general public, because I built the billing system and we needed people to test the system before we opened it up to the world. Since then, I've never had to worry about getting deleted, just twenty bucks on my credit card every year. :)