As I posted yesterday, the last 12+ months have been a very mixed bag for me. For those people who know/knew me well, they know how much the departure from Mythic meant to me. During this time, quite a number of people have not only reached out to me, sometimes to thank me for the opportunity to work at Mythic and sometimes just because they knew me from EA and/or the industry and they wanted to express their support over the situation that I was in at the end of my 15 year run at Mythic. For those people who were kind enough to do so, I thank you for that.
I have been described, quite accurately, by many as a driven, emotional and passionate (and a whole lot of less kind words) human being but above all else I am also blessed with a very fine and therefore inconvenient (at times) memory. An old saying was that an elephant never forgets, well, neither does a guy raised in the Bronx. As such, I will never forget your outreach/support to me and I hope to, as I have in some cases already, be able to repay it in kind.
Mark
Online Games Are a Niche Market 
Aug 18, 2010 @ 22:38:27
Reading the posts from yesterday and today, I realized I never did thank you. So let me rectify that right now. Thank you very much for the opportunity to work at Mythic, for promoting a corporate culture that encouraged and rewarded hard work. For putting the players first, and encouraging all the worker bees to put forth ideas for making their experience better, even if it meant more work for us, and consequently not making us feel like worker bees.
Working at Mythic was a fantastic experience that I will always treasure. The only bad thing might be the incredibly high bar you set for other companies. I learned a lot there, and if I never work in the game industry again I’ll carry those lessons on with me.