Jeremy Gaffney, the president of the developer team Carbine, announced his resignation yesterday. In the WildStar forums, he was known as “CRB_Gaffer” and especially for his “No Bullshit” philosophy, which he passed on to the entire team – transparency and honesty towards players have long been one of Carbine’s great strengths.
Contrary to what one might suspect, Gaffney is not resigning because of the rather mediocre success of WildStar, but due to several family and health reasons.
His family lost six members last year, mostly to cancer, and he was also diagnosed with the disease – due to the stress of producing WildStar, but very late, as he did not take the signs seriously enough. However, his surgery went well and the cancer was defeated, but for Gaffney, this was a wake-up call: he needs a lot of distance and will only work in an advisory capacity on WildStar from now on.
He himself stated that he spent much of his energy on the game’s development in recent years and remains a fan of his work beyond this role, as he concludes: “My role is changing, but my voice is still there.”
The complete farewell posting is now also available in a German version and can be viewed here.
