Denny Lindberg bashes his previous employer StarVault and their partners.

Here's the log. Be prepared folks.

Denny: And oh, the reason why I left SV is for A LOT of reasons. I'll list them.
Herc: (begins sweating)
Herc: :p
Herc: i am thinking either you have a long list... or you're a slow typer :p
Denny: 1. Malmö is a shitty town with immigrant problems and no recreational activities at all. If you're not born there you won't like it, period.
2. Shitty pay. I got worse pay from SV than if I would work at McDonalds, I would also have real work days and a life.
3. Management that doesn't know shit and a boss who doesn't understand that he's essentially killing his employees from stress. (inexperience)
4. Even when we were already working 10-14 hour workdays for several years we were still asked to increase the obligatory workhours because we were lazy.
5. I was worn out and won't ruin my life for a game that's too shitty to compare.
Herc: hehe
Herc: you should remember me
Herc: henrik hates me
Herc: lol
Herc: and i think he's an idiot
Herc: i've said that for a long time tho
Denny: Ah yeah, wasn't it you who said all those nice things on MMORPG.com?
Denny: Great stuff. :]
Herc: was i wrong in saying it?
Denny: Nope
Herc: :p
Herc: lol
Denny: I said nice things didn't I?
Herc: honestly i never had a problem with the employees
Herc: i just felt like the game had zero direction
Herc: and henrik had no idea wtf he was doing with his dad's money
Denny: Just to brush your ego a little I wasn't the only one who agreed to most of your messages. : P
Denny: In the studio.
Herc: yea, i figured as much
Herc: early on henrik used to ask me questions in IRC
Herc: im like, how do you not know this stuff?
Herc: after a while you put two and two together
Herc: you figure out what the problems are
Herc: if you dont remember... i'm an enterprise systems engineer
Herc: ie, large scale financial systems engineering
Herc: 17k-30k users
Herc: so i know the challenges
Herc: and the design ideas are about the same
Herc: game or no game
Herc: :p
Herc: either way
Herc: i still feel bad for the employees
Denny: Henrik was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was a computer geek, he managed to get some money because he was good at talking and had contacts. He thought he knew game development because he went to SOFE but actually he understood shit.
Herc: yea he seems the type
Herc: big talker, no knowledge
Denny: It was apparent time after time because we had hours of long conversation with him why some things wasn't possible to make and he couldn't grasp how huge some things was.
Herc: i work on wall street -- i knwo the type :)
Herc: what do you think is going to happen with the game now?
Denny: Fun fact, the game you see today is less than half of the initially planned game project....
Herc: i think that it's going to die slowly
Denny: I don't care to be honest, it's not worth thinking of.
Denny: It's shit, period.
Denny: Considering what the small team accomplished? A fucking miracle.
Herc: yep, that's true
Herc: and given the management, even moreso
Herc: i kinda lumped Mats into the same group with Henrik of "knowitalls"
Herc: not sure how accurate that one was
Herc: but from what i saw and read... he was a copy of henrik in a lot of ways (bad)
Herc: one Q... just for my sanity check
Herc: did henrik really send people to Epic to fix shit?
Herc: and is epic responsible for half the shit henrik says they are?
Herc: "desync -- oh epics fault they are working on it"
Herc: shit like that
Herc: i've always called BS on that
Herc: but who knows, maybe i'm wrong
Herc: :)
Denny: Mats is actually a decent guy but he's the "visionary" behind MO, he had a lot of good ideas but he of course had some ego as well. In real life you can't find many better people than him, I'm sad you got that impression from him. But then I know he tend to defend Henrik from your posts just to keep his good image (I suppose).
Herc: I suppose on that one too
Denny: Sebastian had the same pay as me.
Denny: Yes, several programmers went to the US to fix shit yes.
Herc: ah cool, so wrong on that one :)
Herc: in a way im glad to be wrong
Herc: probably one good step they made after all the stupid ones
Denny: Also regarding the network code, the only thing I can really say due to NDA.... It is made in China, what do you expect?
Herc: lol
Herc: is epic really responsible for the desync tho? or more internal "i cant use it" type of issue?
Denny: We spent more time fighting the code than getting it to work.
Denny: I don't know how often I heard the programmers scream in agony over the horrendous nature of the code.
Denny: The speed of the development went from 100 to 15% after we started working with it.
Denny: Or something like that....