Profile of SturmtigerCobra

https://www.ageofempires.com/news/welcome_robo_boro/
The Age of Empires team is pleased to introduce our new Tournaments Producer for the entire Age franchise! Known to many as “Robo,” Robert has long been a pillar of the community: dedicating countless hours to the biggest and best events in Age of Empires. If you’ve watched a major tournament in recent years, you’ve likely seen the result of his tireless efforts and dedication to making as amazing as possible!

Robo has written a small introduction for you to get to know him—if you haven’t had the pleasure already—so please join us in extending a warm welcome as he joins the Age of Empires team!

G’day! I’m robo_boro or robo, otherwise known as “Robert” out in the real world. You may have heard my name mentioned before in Twitch streams or on various Age of Empires forums and Discords as being the admin of this tournament, the organizer of that event, and so on. I have been a part of the Age of Empires II community since 2013, when I rekindled my love for the game with the release of the HD edition.

I quickly realized that I wanted to be involved with the amazing community that had formed around the game. Unfortunately, living in Australia meant I had a pretty atrocious internet connection, so streaming wasn’t really an option. However, after a brief entry into the world of YouTube, I started organizing tournaments—first for my clan and close friends, then expanding over time until I was working with some of the biggest personalities and largest events!

I was fortunate enough to work with ZeroEmpires and Escape Gaming, organizing many tournaments and even moving halfway across the world to produce Age of Empires content and manage the Escape Champions League. At the time, I was also introduced to Age of Empires III and met some of the amazing people from that community at their first LAN event in a decade.

Now, I have the incredible privilege of joining the Age of Empires team to help make the esports scene prosper while also giving the community all kinds of awesome tournaments to look forward to in the years to come!

I am honored to have met so many awesome people, become the best of friends, traveled the world to attend events, and meet up with people who you would normally only interact with with lines of texts and many repeated “11’s.” I can honestly say that Age of Empires has changed my life, and I have no idea where I would be or what I would be doing if it wasn’t for this fantastic franchise and the people who support it!

—Robo

Jump back to quoted post16 Dec 2019, 23:06 PMWhiteFlash

If relic wants to sell stuff in future COH games, they should also sell the voice overs from past games. I would certainly pay to have the COH1 tiger voiceover on my COH2 tiger, you could do that with all units, would be fantastic.

Jump back to quoted post19 Aug 2020, 05:01 AMSturmtigerCobra

Alex Delamaire, the CoH2 brand manager left (again) and joined Blackbird Interactive.
https://www.coh2.org/topic/102191/coh-brand-manager-return-to-relic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexdelamaire
https://twitter.com/alexdlmr

Perhaps this explains why Andy got the promotion.

Jump back to quoted post20 Jun 2020, 03:32 AMFelinewolfie

Why did EA/DICE try *SO* *HARD* to sabotage BFV?
I have zero idea.

Cons

Cronyism and nepotism are huge problems. The previous generation of leadership is reaching retirement age and began passing the torch over a year ago. How they selected the current generation is not clear but it isn't working at all. What features make it into the game or get development time isn't dependent on how they'll improve the game but on who has your back. This is especially troublesome because current leadership, or rather the couple of people at the top, is obsessed with executing their vision at the expense of everything else.

*snip*
Unfortunately, they can and actually do influence the management to make unintelligent decisions, which costs Relic a lot of wasted time and lost opportunities.
Companies who really want to succeed and come up with great games work and feel very differently.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/02/28/your-inner-circle-beware-of-suck-ups-and-yes-men/
Do you surround yourself with suck-ups? C’mon, be honest.

It’s perfectly natural to want to be with people who agree, support and praise you all the time. Let’s face it -- it’s comforting to have people who are always in our corner, no matter what the issue or circumstance.

Suck-ups make us feel like we’re curled up with a warm blanket. Everything is okay, even cozy. We feel safe with them. We trust them.

These are the people we often consider to be our most loyal friends because they help us feel like we’re right. Validated. Vindicated. Smart.

Well, we may be all these things at one time or another, but we are not all these things all the time. And if you find that your trusted advisors are indiscriminate in their praise, it may be time for a gut-check.

These people may make us feel good, but they’re not always good for us. In fact, we could be a pawn in their game; an unwitting accomplice in helping them achieve an unhealthy degree of power and influence over our decisions and actions.

Or, maybe they’re a pawn in ours.

Are you the kind of leader who punishes people – overtly or oh-so-subtly – for speaking up and telling you things you don’t want to hear? Do you seek out people who affirm your decisions and actions?

No one wants to admit that they do this, but a quick glance at organizational life indicates that it’s the norm, not the exception. We’ve all seen it: the leader is isolated from reality, surrounded by a small group of people who deliver the good news and hide the bad. His entire worldview is distorted, controlled by those who are feeding his perceptions. He thinks these people are protecting him. Watching his back.

Or, he simply doesn’t want to hear the truth, so he rewards the peddlers of feel-good information and punishes the purveyors of truth.

In either case, it’s a dangerous position for any leader.
*snip*