{"id":2836,"date":"2010-12-21T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2010-12-21T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:28:47","slug":"jon-shafer-leaves-firaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/21\/jon-shafer-leaves-firaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Shafer Leaves Firaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> a lot, but it&#8217;s not a bad resource to update your resume just in case someone needs it. It is also a great place to find out things.<\/p>\n<p>While I was updating today, I noticed that Civilization 5 lead, Jon Shafer had updated his work history:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img143.imageshack.us\/img143\/9650\/jonfiraxis.jpg\" alt=\"JonFiraxis\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have sent emails to Shafer and Firaxis PR for comment. I can confirm that Shafer has indeed left the building, but I have no information on the whys, wherefores or where tos.<\/p>\n<p>I will update this post as the information becomes available. I do know that Shafer spent his last weeks at Firaxis crunching on the patch to get Civ to a better place. Maybe we can get him on the show for more than 15 minutes now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Jon Shafer replied with this comment, which says nothing, but since I said I would run a comment, here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I very much enjoyed my time Firaxis, worked on many projects that I&#8217;ve very proud of and got to know a lot of amazing people. I&#8217;m appreciative of the opportunities provided by Firaxis and 2K, and hope to see (and play) more great games from them in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He would also like it made clear that he left of his own accord and was not dismissed by Firaxis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong>: Another non-comment but good wishes from Firaxis marketing<br \/>\ndirector, Kelley Gilmore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are grateful for Jon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contributions to Firaxis and the Civilization franchise and wish him all the best in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t use LinkedIn a lot, but it&#8217;s not a bad resource to update your resume just in case someone needs it. It is also a great place to find out things. While I was updating today, I noticed that Civilization 5 lead, Jon Shafer had updated his work history: I have sent emails to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-JK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}