I checked in on your website for curiosity, and then this line in your faq catched my eye: "No. I'm no longer involved with the Anarchy Online storyline, and the current writers are taking the story and the world in a different direction."

I may be very wrong on this, but you seem disappointed with how AO has developed since you resigned, if you did so on your own, from being the writer for it?

Please notice that I am not out to stain either your name, Funcom's or Anarchy Online. But I want to know what you feel about the game that had a very promising story until the introduction of Shadowlands and now the upcoming Alien Invasion.

I'm absolutely and positively not disappointed with how the Anarchy Online storyline has developed since my departure; far from it, I believe the current team is doing a bang-up job of breathing new life into the AO universe. Alien Invasion looks to be the best expansion pack yet - the premise is excellent - and while Marius & the gang are taking the story in a slightly different direction than I had anticipated when I was working on the game (a long, long time ago), that's only natural. After all, AO has evolved, the players have evolved, and everyone has learned more about what works and what doesn't. Today, AO is a better game than it has ever been - better than any other MMO out there - and it's only going to improve.

As for leaving AO, that came about because of my commitment to two new projects, both of which are now in development; one of them the sequel to The Longest Journey, a game I really had to get involved with at an early stage; the other a next-generation online game which isn't due for a few years yet.  ¶ 19:44