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Bill Roper we hardly knew ye…

Bill Roper talks about one of our favorite games!

 The quote below, from Mr. Bill Ropers final state of the game post as executive producer of Champions Online my have let us all know that Mr. Roper is moving on, but fortunately he will still be in the same green Cryptic Studios pasture:

“I am very proud to have Revelation be the addition to Champions Online that bridges my departure with the game’s new direction. The upcoming weeks and months are going to be an exciting time for us all, and I can’t wait to play what’s next.” – Bill Roper

 I has been our privilege to interview Mr. Roper twice – once for this website in an interview available here, and for the No Prisoners, No Mercy anniversary show number 50 available here and on our release to the Virgin Worlds Collective here.

The interviews with Bill Roper brought home a very valuable lesson that Frodo tells Samwise in the Ralph Bakshi animated version of the Lord of the Rings (well at least the first half as Ralph Bakshi stopped at the invasion of Helm’s Deep).   Upon first confronting “Strider” Samwise doesn’t trust him one bit and suspects him of foul play.  Frodo, thinking otherwise. turns to Samwise and says “I think a servant of the enemy would seem fair and feel fouler.”

Mr. Joe Blancato, Cryptic Studios, Marketing

Now we certainly aren’t saying we think Mr. Roper feels foul (and having never met him in person we have no way to know whether or not he smells like a rose).  What we are saying is that Bill Roper has often been judged unfairly ever since his Flagship Studio days.   It was very kind of Mr. Roper to share his valuable time with us and we hope he will do so again in the future.  We wish him well in whatever aspect of Cryptic Studios to which he choses to lend his talents.   And along those same lines, show 57 (following the imminent release of show 56) will feature an hour long interview with Cryptic Studio’s new marketing guru (our assigned title, not his) Joe Blancato (pictured at right).

See you online,

Julie Whitefeather