Roshen Joins Intrepid Studios as Sr. Community Manager

Hey all,

Hail and well met! Today is my first day with the Intrepid Studios team. I’m excited to be here in San Diego, and getting to know the Ashes of Creation community. Starting at Intrepid feels like a reunion to me as I come back together with great people I know from previous roles, working together on a variety of different games.

I’m an old school MMO player with way too many hours spent in game worlds like EverQuest and World of Warcraft. It’s games like these that are the reason I was motivated to work professionally in the gaming industry. I started my professional gaming career on the tabletop side of things, working on games like the World of Warcraft TCG. From there, I moved to Sony Online (which later became Daybreak Games) working on the EverQuest franchise and other titles. I’ve also worked at other studios, on MMOs like New World and Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis.

Digital worlds and the communities we build around them matter. I’m stoked to be a part of the Ashes of Creation Community Team, as we build something special together in Verra, and outside of the game in all of the places online where gamers hang out today and in the years to come.

My first few days here should be pretty chill, so if anyone wants to chat it up, this thread is a great place for us all to get to know each other.

Thanks!
-Ry “Roshen” Schueller
Senior Community Manager

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Zii

Welcome to the Community

Immortality

Welcome @Roshen

So my question for you: What is the biggest MMO sin you've commited? Think ninja-looting, killing a low level player for fun, undercutting someone on the AH by 1 copper. Something of the likes

I'm sure Margaret and Vaknar will give you the rundown! Thanks for joining our community \o/

Diura

Welcome to the community!
It's lovely to hear you've worked with others here before! We've such an amazing community team! Lucky us!

Sorf

Welcome to Ashes of Creation Roshen, hope you enjoy your stay

Daedelus

Welcome to the community, @Roshen!

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daveywavey

Hello and welcome!

SkylarckTheBotanist

Welcome to the fun!

McMackMuck

Welcome to the community! @Roshen , approximately how many seconds passed before we started bombarding you with questions?

I may? be the first to point you to the following commonly referenced resources generated by community members:
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/ @Lex
https://www.ashes101.com/ @Jahlon
https://asheshq.com/ @Simurgh
I don't know what background research you did before your successful appointment (obviously enough!), but the above is some high quality educational material based on what we know so far from Steven. We accept that some things may need to change between now and release, but this is the best information that we have to date.
I hope you manage to get settled in before things get too hectic.
Best Regards, Mack.

Roshen

Immortality wrote: »

Welcome @Roshen

So my question for you: What is the biggest MMO sin you've commited? Think ninja-looting, killing a low level player for fun, undercutting someone on the AH by 1 copper. Something of the likes

Years ago in EQ, we had a guildee fall asleep with levitate on. On the one side of the zone, there was water.

Since there was collision in the game, if a group of us stood right next to him and moved TOWARDS him, he would also move. Just a little.

This took a while, but we spent some time pushing him towards the water. When lev faded, he drowned. Since he didn't bank much XP into his level, he deleveled.

The next raid he had some pretty choice words for how we were bad friends....

Roshen

McMackMuck wrote: »

I may? be the first to point you to the following commonly referenced resources generated by community members:
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/ @Lex
https://www.ashes101.com/ @Jahlon
https://asheshq.com/ @Simurgh
I don't know what background research you did before your successful appointment (obviously enough!), but the above is some high quality educational material based on what we know so far from Steven. We accept that some things may need to change between now and release, but this is the best information that we have to date.
I hope you manage to get settled in before things get too hectic.
Best Regards, Mack.

Appreciate the links, and the welcome message

Nephin

Welcome, @Roshen !

Wulfenthrad

Welcome @Roshii I hope that you have as much fun being here as we do!

JeanPhilippeGunghar

Welcome man! It's nice to meet you!

Bluemax717

Welcome to the team. Congrats and good luck in the future as the game progresses.

Naylor

Welcome Roshen!!
I don't suppose you would know who was responsible for the Barkimedes posting on Twitter for New World? Could you be responsible for that stuff?

McMackMuck

Naylor wrote: »

Welcome Roshen!!
I don't suppose you would know who was responsible for the Barkimedes posting on Twitter for New World? Could you be responsible for that stuff?

It would be wholly inappropriate to share New World staff knowledge now that he has left, and especially bad to share it as an employee of Intrepid.

mfckingjoker

Welcome to the community @Roshen and good luck

maouw

Welcome @Roshen
Q: In your experience, what's the best thing we can do to help build a better community? Anything specific to forums?

Roshen

maouw wrote: »

Welcome @Roshen
Q: In your experience, what's the best thing we can do to help build a better community?

The two big areas are generally "engagement" and "being welcoming."

Engagement - Create things for other players to engage with, and engage with the things others create. Discord, fan websites, and wikis are a few examples of places where passionate members of the community share information and discuss the game. If you participate in creating things for other players (or even just engage with the resources others create), that helps towards building a better community.

Being Welcoming - If we want to build a better community, we need to be able to grow it. It's more challenging to grow, if people behave in a way that pushes others away.

maouw wrote: »

Anything specific to forums?

In addition to what I said above, write good titles for your posts. Check to see if the same topic is being discussed, before starting a new one.

I know this isn't always intuitive, but in my experience players come to the forums with intent to find information, or discuss a topic. If they can find what they're looking for, they're more likely to come back. Good gaming forum communities make it easier for players to find what they're looking for.

Caww

As all others have said and I'll repeat.. Welcome!!

As an EQ launch day participant it is nice to see someone pop a reference to a great game in its day.

I wonder if you have a philosophy on the kind of support or encouragement a CM would provide to the wonderful 3rd party websites that can add so much to a games general experience and knowledge for the player base?

Do you have any out reach plans you can discuss or are these considered two separate worlds?

Thank you

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