Schilling, top execs, board disappear from 38 Studios’ website
May 17th, 2012 at 8:56 pm by Ted Nesi under Nesi's Notes, On the Main Site
[See update below.]
38 Studios has quietly removed Curt Schilling and its top two executives from its website.
Photos and biographies of Schilling, 38 Studios’ founder and chairman, along with its CEO Jennifer MacLean and its Chief Operating Officer Bill Thomas have all disappeared from the site. The changes were first noted by Joystiq, the gaming news outlet.
Up to now Schilling had been listed on the site’s “Visionaries” page along with three other individuals. “Mr. Schilling has 8 years of video game industry experience, and has participated in MMO development through his long partnership with Sony Online Entertainment,” his biography said, according to a cached version from Friday.
“His preparation skills and ability to focus were extraordinary even amongst professional athletes; these have since carried over into his business activities,” the biography of the former Red Sox ace went on to say.
In addition to Schilling, two individuals were gone from the “Management” page by Thursday night: MacLean, who’s been on maternity leave since mid-March, and Thomas.
Thomas attended Wednesday’s emergency EDC meeting and spoke briefly with a PBN reporter afterwards, but on Thursday the company’s dial-by-name phone directory didn’t find a match for him. 38 Studios has not responded to multiple requests for comment throughout the week.
Update: Schilling and Thomas were added back to the “Visionaries” and “Management” pages shortly after this post was published, but MacLean had not been as of 9:15 p.m.
38 Studios has also deleted its board of directors page. A cached version of the board page from Friday listed nine directors: Schilling, MacLean, Thomas, Martha Crowinshield, Jim Halpin, Doug MacRae, Kevin Roche, Sundar Subramaniam and Tom Zaccagnino. The directors’ pages said “Access denied” rather than “Page not found.”
• Related: 38 Studios misses payroll, takes back bad check for $1.125M (May 17)
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Ted, you are a day and a half ahead of projo on this good work.
Looks similar to the Rhode Islands most wanted page.
Al, Is there a reward for them brought to justice dead or alive?
Uh WRONG. He’s still listed on visionaries. Your looking at management. Wow fail news
Uh RIGHT. The 38Studios website was updated after the JoyStiq report to replace the content that had been lost.
Brewed- Are you drinking the KoolAid? Did it ever cross your mind that after the story was published 38Studies modified their webpage? Well, they did. And the story notes that at the end. Try a little harder not to embarrass yourself in the future.
Let’s not lose sight of the central issue in this debacle.
The EDC could have applied “best practices” in managing the project at the start. But Stokes, a professionally inept manager, was a friend of Paiva-Weed.
The most fundamental problem in this tragedy is that what was missing (and demanded in any private business venture) is a project timeline with clearly written and MEASURABLE objectives. Key term “measurable”.
The fact that this project was launched without a timeline containing measurable objectives that “Mr Preparation Skills” could have addressed, is the central issue.
That was pure incompetence on the part of the EDC considering the size of the initiative.
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