Talk:American McGee

message: is american mcgee his real name? BUF4Life 07:59, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. --Chaosfeary 11:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You know he says his mom named him American because someone in college with her named their kid America.  It's probably a coincidence but Abbie Hoffman had actually named his kid america.  It would be interesting if it turned out that the moms knew each other or something.  Of course it is complete speculation especially since there are a lot of names like that from the era. Rifter0x0000 (talk) 03:42, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  name 

message: Whats his age again? EDIT 13 December 1972 Jackpot Den 00:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age?? 

message: Why? The articles contains only factual information. I guess someone who doesn't like his games slapped that tag on the article? Technitai 11:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality disputed? 

message: I find it curious that much of this page reads like a professional biography/resume, and more curious still that the "About" link on American McGee's own blog page redirects to this Wiki article. PacificBoy 15:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No one would write an autobiography here after reading this frightful warning. Erudecorp 10:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autobiography? 

message: I'm in the process of trying to update this Wiki page for American.  He asked that I replace the photo with one of the promotional images he keeps around for just such an occasion, and to update his information to be a little more current.  Thanks so much for your support!
Lilith70 18:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating page 

message: Who or what is Arthur?--Cyberman TM (talk) 11:46, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oz - Arthur? 

message: Does being a tester qualify it as a work of that person?
Having a non-creative role in development should not qualify it as a work, since works are by definition creative.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.57.136.245 (talk) 06:33, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Works" 

message: In the id software page it says he was fired. Here it says he "moved". I'd like to know more... 93.97.48.217 (talk) 00:49, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fired from id? 

message: The article doesn't address how this guy managed to get so famous that his name was included in the titles of the games he designed.
For example, the Sid Meier article makes it pretty clear why Civilization is called Sid Meier's Civilization, yet this article goes straight from the start of American's career (doing grunt type work at id Software) to American McGee's Alice being released by a major publisher. What exactly happened here? The article does not tell the full story.
By way of comparison, it's as if the Gordon Ramsay article went from him working in a part time job at McDonalds to him having his own TV show.
Or, was there such a bitter rivalry between EA and id that "American McGee's Alice" was presented as a massive corporate "fuck you" to id, despite the name American McGee meaning nothing to 99.9999% of gamers (then or now)? 86.184.217.252 (talk) 22:20, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "American McGee's Alice" and not just plain old Alice? 

message: The "Early Life" section says he never knew his father, while further down he's quoted in an interview as describing meeting and being attacked by his father. I'm going to remove the "never knew" part but if someone cares to elaborate please go ahead. --Polm23 (talk) 04:56, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father 

message: I've removed potentially contentious/defamatory material regarding John Romero and American McGee from this article. More specifically:
* "He was later promoted to level designer after John Romero had been skipping work and no other level designers were available at the time."
* "In 1998, he was let go from id by Carmack for having served his purpose and having now gone the route of Romero."
While it's well-established that the work environment at id Software in the 1990s was volatile, unsourced/poorly-sourced contentious material about living persons cannot exist on Wikipedia. If you wish to re-add these lines in some form, please provide citations which substantiate the information given. FlotillaFlotsam (talk) 02:51, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLP violation 

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