Kotaku’s Harry Potter-fanfic-character-name-havin’ Florian Eckhardt has not the time for reading interviews, not when he has to battle the ten-headed quotabeast while all hopped up on postyjuice potion. He’ll just have to skim and decide what the interview says.

But I sort of skimmed the interview myself, so I’m not too sure if there really is a part where, as Fancy Florian points out, Randy says he was fired for pushing too hard to keep Thief 3 more like the first two. I’ll have to assume that it’s after the part where he says that’s absolutely not the reason he was fired, and having no idea where that rumor came from.

Not to say it didn’t happen. You can change your mind mid-interview. He just would have had to go back on that part, and the part before it where he said the idea to make the gameplay “support sophisticated interaction, planning, thinking, and slow pace, in addition to supporting more traditional action-y stuff” was a goal “that I agreed with and helped drive.”

I’m also looking for the part where Hufflepuff’s Flying Broom Wrangler Florian says Randy “bluntly points out that Deus Ex: Invisible War sucked.” Maybe I just can’t read between the lines here: “I actually have a lot of respect for the product they made. I played an early version and really enjoyed it - more than DX1, I’d say.”

I don’t think he can be sued for libel, mostly because our non-wizard laws don’t apply to him, but also it’s hard to libel someone when you link to the interview so people can read for themselves that it says pretty much the exact opposite of what you say it does. But I am not a lawyer.

Read - Why Thief 3 Sucked: Interview With Randy Smith [Kotaku via #1 Tipster Andrew]

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