F13 has another article up on the SOE/Sigil deal that broke earlier this week. Today they talk to CEO Brad McQuaid, who has taken a share of the blame for Vanguard's less than stellar performance. The interview asks some tough and important questions that illuminate the view from the top in the last days of Sigil.

As some background on one section, this interview also discussed a personal relationship between Senior Marketing and PR Manager April Jones and Sigil President Jeff Butler, whose estranged wife also worked at Sigil. As F13 added after our original link here, he asked this as a matter of corporate policy and their relationship was not a secret.

f13.net: Right after the split and before the tragedy the other day, that's when people claim you started to be in the office... not quite as much. Can you explain why?

Brad McQuaid:: We need to back up a little bit. After we split from Microsoft - because obviously we couldn't ship the game in an unready state - we had to go out and do something. Find money to make the game that we could and all dreamed about. We cut a deal pretty quickly so that we could get into SOE's E3 kiosk. We ended up having to meet payroll and to pay the bills. We needed to raise money. We went out and found some people who specialized in venture capital and I worked with those people immediately following the deal coming together. I started working with them on putting a deal together to fund the game to completion and fund the company post-completion and to possibly start a second title. It was basically "get money that we needed." So I started working with these people, it was a learning experience - I'd never really been in the private investor/VC world - and we started that process. I was in and out of the office quite a bit. Demoing the game, showing it to potential investors and putting together the documentation. All sorts of stuff you have to do for that kind of money.

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