Alan "Brenlo" Crosby
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Alan "Brenlo" Crosby is the fat former senior producer of SOE's MMORPG, 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. (It is interesting to note that Georgeson is a Gaiafag.)
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? Who cares?
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!" But that is not the point of this article.
It's pretty obvious to mention that this news hit EQ2Flames and HARD.
So what was the problem with him?
This video is quite long, so here's a summary: Brenlo promised things for the launch of EQ2's new expansion Sentinel's Fate. Things like a new city, New Halas (the original melted due to global warming in the game's lore, but Solusek Ro would suggest otherwise!), which was delayed due to retardation, battlegrounds, which was delayed due to retardation, the fact that he looks like Gabe Newell, being a forum mod for years and praising the game-destroying update to Star Wars Galaxies that was the NGE, and being fat.
Brenlo Blow
On April 15, 2010, a thread discussing Brenlo's leaving was posted. Brenlo is fat. Aside from discussions on what exactly Brenlo fucked up, problems with the most recent expansion (Sentinel's Fate), and the fact that Brenlo is fat, Locke returned again to talk about his time at SOE and how he developed the early ingame memes such as the lucky hat and the dead kittens.
The discussion on the game's original content released in 2004 continued... until Gaige had this drop in his PM box after a visit to Del Taco:
—????; on Brenlo, who is fat | ||
One of ZAM's community managers, 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. Snooppy said on page 25, "I brought that one up because it demonstrates how much you're willing to fuck people over/break the rules/stroke your own cock for some attention." He then said "I don't follow MMORPG news, because I've got better things to do." Better things to do, as in, post on EQ2Flames? Okay then.
By page 26 Snooppy got banned. Some claimed he didn't deserve it because it's EQ2Flames and trolling is A-OK. He was unbanned after people whined to Niber.
The morality question popped up once more: rumors [Y/N]? Another user called Xalmat posted, "Why should [Brenlo• deny any of the sexual approach claims]? I'd tell people it's none of their damn business what goes on in my personal life, or what my exact reasons for doing such-and-such were." Gaige retorted with "I'd say it stops being his personal life if he was fired from SOE for his infidelity, not to mention Faarwolf had accused him of sexual harassment when she worked there."
Xalmat also thinkgs that Brenlo will go after EQ2Flames with a lawlsuit. Still more people white knighted for Brenlo, others claimed Snooppy and Gaige were attention whores, how Brenlo carpooled often with Kiara and Amnerys (two SOE community people,) and finally, how Kiara, a SOE employee who posts on Flames sometimes, has not posted lately (lately means one day for these people or something.)
... and then the community rep Kiara showed up with this:
—Kiara, on Rancho Cucamonga; | ||
Mystery solved on those fronts. But was Brenlo fucking someone?
•who is fat
WAIT A DAMN MINUTE
—LFG, on affairs on May 1, 2010; | ||
September 2010: Gaige's Big Reveal
It turns out Brenlo is dating Kiara after all! Gaige claimed that this is breaking holy matrinomy or something but he is an aspie and an aspie's thoughts don't count. Crabbok said that "oh boy, who cares about how people live their lives," others laughed into oblivion, and Pink Poodle, after starving herself, rushed off to ED with this information.
EQ2Flames Thread on Brenlo Screen Pix
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Fired? Quit? It WAS a mystery! -
feldon30 on his problems with Brenlo; i.e. being more of a community relations person than producer -
Gaige on insider infos on devs' problems with Brenlo -
Since Georgeson, the new guy, worked on Gaia, this is going to be EQ2's next expansion
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Gaige's secret infos that he found after eating at Del Taco -
Calthine and Gaige discuss rumors and why it should not be mentioned -
Snooppy attacks Gaige about the rumors and says EQ2Flamers are dense -
Snooppy says source or get out -
Niber renames thread to include rumor in title -
Page 25: Snooppy claims EQ2Flames admins have USI -
Page 26: Snooppy temporarily banned
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Page 27: FREE SNOOPPY -
Page 28: Calthine and Gaige discuss Brenlo's privacy -
Page 29: On Tiger's Wood
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See Also
- SOE
- EverQuest II and EQ2Flames
- Aeralik
- Brad McQuaid
- Derek Smart
- Gabe Newell
- Tiger Woods
- Bill Clinton
- fat
External Links
- His Twitter, where he posts pix of his kidney stones
- Official post about new producer by webcomic artist and SOE employee Brasse
- ZAM post
- 'Flames thread
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