It is not immediately clear who at Trion will be filling Vladd’s shoes on RIFT, which is currently in the midst of controversial plans for a progression server. In response to player questions about the state of the game’s staff, Linda “Brasse” Carlson said Trion wasn’t going to grant a “full-on employee list and flow chart” and had no wish to spread “undue panic.”
“In this case, as Vladd was such a high-profile fellow, we needed to explain that he was not just swallowed up by the earth. The earth is not match for our golden viking demigod,” Brasse writes. “In a Dev studio, game needs and assignments change over time. If you check the Trion careers page, you’ll see that we have several jobs posted… movement is good.”
“Keep watching the RIFT streams and you’ll see all the Dev you can handle over time. Mind, a lot of them still simply prefer to work hard on the game and don’t like being out in any public arena, but I am working on a lineup of the usual socially malleable suspects for coming streams: DeadSimon, CaptainCursor, Amary, Archonix, Dakkon, Icarus, BlazingOctopus, any art guy I can capture with my net, the occasional accidental appearance of RoughRaptors and anyone else I can talk into coming on stream.”
