Talk:Blue Steel (Developer)

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Greetings Citizens of Paragon and the Rogue Isles, I am Blue Steel. My real name is Ray Snyder and I’ve been working on City of Heroes / City of Villains for over three years now and in the industry for over a decade. My current title at NCsoft NorCal is Design Support; I’m the guy that helps the Team track down hard to find Bugs. I also give first impressions on features and provide suggestions on how to make the game better or more fun. My job was once explained to me as “to make sure the game is fun”. I’ve also done some light design work in the past. I implemented the Snakes for CoV’s launch and populated the out door mission maps for the Rikti Warzone among other things. You will be seeing more of me on the forums as we move into Issue 12 Beta (which is still a little ways out).

A bit about Me: I’m a gamer and have been since I was eleven and I first saw D&D. I’ve played tons of Role Playing games and then moved to table Top War games. While I was at Cryptic, I ran company game leagues for Warhammer 40K and Warmachine. Right now my table top passion is AT-43. I started playing MMOs with Ultima Online and have played Everquest, Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Age of Camelot and one to two others I can’t remember at the moment. Oh, I played this one game that I really liked, as I was a huge fan of Comics and I doubt I’d be the gamer I am today with out there influence as a child. It was City of Heroes. I fell in love with the game and played like mad. Image how I felt when Cryptic hired me to help make the game more fun. So I’ve been with the game since Issue 4 and now as we are 7 issues past that and working on Issue 12, I can still say this is my Favorite MMO. I’m going to continue to be here working hard to make “City of” all it can be.

Blue Steel

Thanks for the Warm welcome. I'm really happy to be here, helping make "City of" a better place.