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He did have his own webspace. The reason Freeman's blog is directly linked to SWG is because of a post he wrote called "Shenanigans" in which he pretty much stated that the NGE was his idea (management wanted higher sub numbers, Jeff's team developed and sold the idea to management as the solution). He was quite blunt -- it was developed because they wanted to see if they could do it, found it fun, and hard-sold management on the idea.

What pissed people off --- current gamers -- was that NOWHERE in his description of the NGE development was there even a hint of the question "How will the current players like this? Will they find it fun?"

It reeked of some dude coding his own free server --- no responsibilities to anyone but himself and what he wanted to do that day.

It was bush league. REAL bush league.

That's why SWG fans started watching his blog. WHen he posted on the forums several people -- myself included -- tried to get him to address his NGE blog post.

Funny. On the forums, he didn't want to take credit for it. On his blog, it was quite clear -- management wanted to increase sub counts (He referred to is as management saying "How can we make this game the funnest it can be?" -- but we know what that means) and his lead developer showed him an idea he had just been goofing with, and Jeff LOVED it -- and spent the next several weeks assuring everyone up and down the chain that it was doable, fun, and awesome and the coolest thing since sliced bread and that everyone would love it because it was so awesomely fun.