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Alan "Brenlo" Crosby

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A former EverQuest II developer whose firing caused massive drama.

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Summary

Alan "Brenlo" Crosby was the senior producer of Sony Online Entertainments's online game, EverQuest II. In mid-April 2010, seemingly out of nowhere, he resigned from his position and David Georgeson was made to be the next producer.

Brenlo's former coworkers had "no comment" to say about his leaving, and many MMO gamers were shocked by the sudden leave. Where would he go next? What exactly happened?

Some, such as some commenters from the above link to Massively, wished him well: "Here's wishing him the best! He will be hard to replace!" However, EQ2Flames thought differently.

Brenlo's Leave

On April 15, 2010, a thread on EQ2Flames discussing Brenlo's leaving was posted. People discussed why he could have left, and what he has done with the EverQuest II game. Soon, Gaige, a player who gets some insider-info for Sony, got this in his inbox:

 
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from what I hear he definitely couldnt pull off being a tiger woods very well with another employee to put it mildly. but you didnt hear that from me
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—????, on Brenlo;

One of the community managers of ZAM (a gaming site), Calthine, told him that posting such rumors just trying to start drama or something with such gossip. They argued about Tiger Woods and his OWN affairs and how Woods also has a wife and kids, like Brenlo. This went back and forth until Snooppy, another poster, attacked Niber for releasing the PMs of Aeralik and him sputtering off about "one immature posted" two years ago, and how this is no different.

Kiara

Brenlo's co-worker at the time, Kiara, said that he left for his own reasons. But then, the administrator of EQ2Flames, LFG, posted:

 
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It is known to many people that Kiara came here and lied about not having an affair with Brenlo.

And that harmed this site because, while the prohibition against SOE people posting here would have gone away when Brenlo left, the additional drama and publicity caused by Kiara's lie-post here resulted in a new rule that SOE people can no longer post here without approval from their manager.

So we are again back to square one with SOE, once again based on actions by SOE personnel rather than this site or our own administrators or mods.
 

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—LFG, on affairs on May 1, 2010;

Kiara left SOE shortly after.

Origins

"Brenlo" is the online handle of Alan Crosby, who used to direct changes to Sony's online game EverQuest II.

Rise to fame

While he was known as a senior producer for EverQuest II (meaning he'd direct changes the online game would have,) the drama occurred when the EQ2Flames thread was made, and it ended up with 97 pages of arguments. Other MMORPG players and sites looked on.

Current status

Brenlo works at Disneyland.


Facts

  • He was fired.
  • He was replaced with Dave Georgeson, a former Gaia MMO producer.

Images

EQ2Flames screencap, page 28.

EQ2Flames screencap, page 29.

Another post by Snooppy.

A post by Snooppy.

A post by Gaige.

Another post by Gaige.

Yet another post by Gaige.

Once again, a post by Gaige.

Facebook screencap from gaming site ZAM.

Facebook screencap from gaming site ZAM.

A motivational poster.

EQ2Flames screencap, by feldon30.

EQ2Flames screencap, page 25.

EQ2Flames screencap, page 26.

EQ2Flames screencap, page 27.








Videos

A video of him at the SOE FanFaire convention.

Related Pages

EverQuest II
EQ2Flames
Aeralik
Derek Smart
Gabe Newell
Tiger Woods

External Links


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