00:11I was just addicted to online games. I knew that I wanted to make one.
00:16The creation of this game literally altered the entire course of your life.
00:21Absolutely.
00:31I approached my boss with the idea of doing an online game and he turned me down.
00:35There was no way this thing was ever going to ship.
00:36Sit down.
00:39These guys are crazy. The internet was very new at the time.
00:42I think we were a little crazy honestly.
00:45We decided let's build this ourselves.
00:47So when money got short he took side jobs to make payroll.
00:50He was a karaoke host.
00:51Brad and I were the first two people on the team.
00:54These guys worked at a nursery.
00:55It's a wholesale nursery.
00:58Not on my list.
01:00Nothing had been done like that before.
01:01You got thousands and thousands of assets to create.
01:05The sheer volume of art was absolutely astounding.
01:09I want you to cut out this PC studio stuff.
01:11I want you to get rid of everyone else.
01:13Team members came and said I can't do this anymore. I'm quitting.
01:15I thought that we would never be able to do it.
01:27EverQuest is one of those pivotal moments in game history.
01:31Where because of what Sony did they influenced everything that came after them.
01:36Our games were selling so it was hey it was cool.
01:41Okay you know he's in the farting.
01:44All three of us met through EverQuest.
01:47It's amazing to me to see people get married.
01:50To pronounce your husband and wife.
02:00My character's name is the apprentice fisherman.
02:02T-Nexus the rift walker of the plains.
02:04Scoundrel of the Oathbreakers.
02:07Do they actually let you put that much text in for your name?
02:12Go Wood Elves by the way.
02:14Hey hey hey we're filming in here.
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