Asherons Call: Ibn Has Left The Building

Alex "Ibn" Becker posted this on the Vault:

Way back in early 2003, I had a plan. I had some money saved up and I'd always wanted to try living in Los Angeles. I was going to move to SoCal, whether or not I had a job waiting for me there, and see how things played out.

Then, all my plans changed when I saw the AC1 OCR job listing on Turbine's web site. I quickly applied, and decided that I was willing to sacrifice my dream of living in Los Angeles in favor of a different dream -- working for Turbine on Asheron's Call.

So you can imagine how psyched I was when I was offered the chance to continue working my dream job, IN my dream location.

And, hopefully, you can understand why -- now that I've been living here for nine months -- I've chosen to remain in Los Angeles and bid farewell to Turbine and the Asheron's Call team.

As many of you have read in srand's post, I took over as Live Producer upon her recent departure. The plan was that I would manage the day-to-day operation of the team, while our Lead Designer would continue managing the creative vision of the game. My replacement would operate out of the Westwood studio, where he or she would have the benefit of working directly with Calandryll and the rest of our excellent OCR staff. It's been pretty difficult not answering y'all when you asked what job I was moving to, but we wanted to make it part of an official announcement along with srand's depature. We'd just about finalized the messaging when we got word of the team move.

I can say with total honesty that it's been a real pleasure working with this community for the last two years. Even during the challenging times, when I had to make announcements that I knew would upset you, I've always admired the passion that this community has for the game. As I've said to folks, "What's the last thing that you did for six years straight?" And there are members of this community who have been involved with AC for even longer than that!

I've served this community as best I could, and I wish you all the best for the future. I'll still see some of you in-game (for the record, my main characters are on Leafcull), and I look forward to seeing what the Live Team has in store for us!

See you in Dereth!

Best of luck to you Alex!