[GM]Saidin's Spotlight

So since it seems everyone loves digging up little bits of information on me, I figure I'd just go ahead and preempt everyone by volunteering some of the information.

So first off, I grew up here in Toronto Canada, and I did play in a band in Highschool. I played the bass. We were a cover band, mostly just doing some battle-of-the-bands type thing. Most of us were horrible at our instruments. But we had a lot of fun. We wrote one song a little comedy/parody punk tune.

Years later some of the band got back together and through a contact we had at a professional recording studio we recorded the tune. It was all for the jokes and we had a blast. It was a mini Highschool Reunion for us and it was great.


I've played a lot of games in those days, up until now. I wasn't in the first-gen console scene (ie PS 1 and 2 and Xbox). I played mostly SNES and then got right in to PC gaming with Doom, Duke3d and Quake. After spending tons of time playing FPS games (Quake 2 competitively locally here in Toronto), I moved to the Blizzard Family of Games. Warcraft 1 and 2, Diablo 1 and 2 (2 for what seems like years of my life), Starcraft etc.

It was through the D1/D2 community that I was involved in (often playing with some of the people who ran some of the biggest sites at the time) that I was invited to join the Guild Wars alpha test.

Some of you may have seen some writing of mine in the past on the Official Guild Wars website. I was highly involved in the early days of Guild Wars. I was one of their top alpha testers working on the inside with the dev team for years. I played the game competitively during the early stages of GvG and I got to know their community very well including their Community Manager. Which led to a position for me to write for the official Guild Wars website.

So I did writing on and off for them in their State of the Game articles which ran from approx 2006-2008.


After this I decided I would learn more about the games industry and took a college course on Game Development. For those kids out there looking to break in to the industry I don't recommend this route. There are plenty of other ways. And mine was filled with a lot of expenses and only a very little base to work on. But I did dedicate a lot of my time to learn how to 3D Model for games. If you've seen my stuff in another thread on these boards, it may be technically 'correct', but the art prowess of some of you seems to be well ahead of me!

After doing the school I was fortunate to start here at G4 and I'm now on the team that runs this awesome game. I'm certainly having a blast being here with you guys and helping the community and players as much as I can.

There's always a lot going on here and we're always busy trying to improve the game for you!

I'm sure that some of you don't like me, I'm not surprised, I can't expect everyone who plays CF to be friendly to the people that run it. Especially when you all are so passionate about the game anyways! There will always be haters. But since it seem that hate or not, you guys are stalking me anyways, I might as well just explain my story a bit for you here!


Now having said that, it would be great for the community to respect the privacy of everyone that helps run this game. We are here for you, but we have lives outside of these forums, our game, the company.

It should be noted if anyone's made it this far, that you should review our communication policy and know that we don't add people to msn, we don't send out personal emails, we don't add people to facebook or other social networks etc.

We are humans as well! And have lives and friends.

Now, flame away!