I'm going to take this a different direction because why not?
This actually has my interest, I almost want to resub to DCUO just to be there whenever he takes that game wherever he is being hired to take it.
In one FB post he states, "Honestly, I didn't really control nerfs on CO. CoH - definitely blame me!"
Same thread he was being criticized for assigning lvl 5 missions in a lvl 11ish area because he wanted it to be "more challenging" His response got my attention, "Yep. That was pretty stupid of me. I can only blame my youth and stupidity. I tried to learn from that on the later games."
Anyone showing growth and learning from mistakes gets my respect. I want to respect him. I want to see him bring good things to the table for DCUO.
I hope I'm not wasting my forgiveness.
Time will tell.
That response greatly increased my respect for him, that and his recognizing where CO went wrong. I wouldn't be surprised actually if he did bring DCUO into a better position actually. Usually see many famous developers also have there one easy AVGN target game, which is way below standard and often after one of there better creations. For Jack Emmert it's CO. Just the same for like, Warren Specter thats DX:IW ect.
Lets see.
With CoH a lack of limits was a problem early on, they couldn't do anything to increase customization with such a lack of power limits.
With CO, a problem that never got fixed(since Jack moved on right away to STO) was a complete lack of any charts or anything as to any kind of standard. At the same time though, I often ask myself why would he move on from development of a game so soon, the answer is in CO's development, it was originally another game. History has shown that games which go through multiple complete overhauls in development and even out-right project changes can turn out to become failures, especially if the change is in say, late alpha.
STO was at first struggling but he ended up giving it a lot of care, this came at the expense of CO but odds are, given what happened with CO already, it may have been a lost cause to him by that point.
He also treated NWO similarly, giving it a lot more attention than CO.
It seems to me he learns from his mistakes and also recognizes where his mistakes were. The fact he can recognize his mistakes to me is a good sign.