One thing that would be cool is if we could get permission to monetize CoH 2 YouTube videos, like other companies have done. My CoH 2 videos get flagged as non-monetizable much more than any other game on my YouTube channel. Lynx told me to PM him about it so I did then he got fired.
a) Lynx wasn't fired. That makes it sound like he did something wrong. He was great.
How it worked was THQ laid off Thunder because they were months away from going out of business. They hired Lynx because he could work out of their head office and work on other games too. So rather than pay Thunder to work only on CoH, they paid Lynx to work on CoH and Darksiders 2 (and other stuff?).
When SEGA bought Relic the plan was to move community management back to Vancouver where the studio is. Thanks to your support Lynx was hired back on to help launch the game because we were right in the middle of launching a game.
Lynx was awesome. Everyone at Relic who worked with him loved him. I loved him. You guys loved him. SEGA loved him. But he lives in California and we're in Vancouver and going forward it wasn't working to have one person not here.
His contract expired and he's moved on to really cool stuff. I'd love if he came back to SEGA and love it if he could work with Relic again.
He was not fired. Fired makes it seem like he stole things or screwed up.
He was not fired.
b) You aren't able to monetize your videos? I know it sucks to start this process again but email me at
jsimpson@relic.com. We're cool with people monetizing our videos. Let me know what YouTube wants and I'll do my best to get it for you.