Originally Posted by Skytorn

Withing 36 hours of the story breaking Riot shot the guy an email, not to mention 2 public comments on the story so that everybody knows who's pulling this guy out of the muck. Brilliant PR play Zileas.

Originally Posted by Zileas

It's not a PR play. I don't want this on a news article. We like employment discussions to be private. I don't know who Epak is, but it probably would have been better if they had kept that on the down-low.

- Zileas

Originally Posted by Zileas

It's not a PR play. I don't want this on a news article. We like employment discussions to be private. I don't know who Epak is, but it probably would have been better if they had kept that on the down-low.

- Zileas

Originally Posted by xXenocide

This answer took me a while to come to

Epak, spell it backwards

Kape, what does that sound like

Cape, why is that significant?

It really is quite simple. Epak is the person who designed the item "Sunfire Cape."

Originally Posted by Crawlz

PsynoicHero's replacement

Originally Posted by Zileas

When I see a modder with a lot of drive that has done something cool, I tend to contact them. I shot him an email recently asking if he was interested in exploring an opportunity here. As to what comes of that, who knows -- that depends on the mutual fit and his own goals.

Regarding this trademark/copyright business, I don't know because I'm not a Blizzard employee, but I seriously doubt this is anything other than the fact he named the mod World of Starcraft, which has an air of legitimacy that borderline infringes on Blizzard. Blizzard is very supportive of their modders, but also vigorously depends certain aspects of their IP (as they should and must).

Originally Posted by Zileas

When I see a modder with a lot of drive that has done something cool, I tend to contact them.