Forum:2 QA Testers - the same person?


 * Michael Lattanzia
 * Mike Lattanzia

The first one worked on FNV, the second - on FO3. "Both" worked on TES IV. Michael Lattanzia is said to be Obsidian Entertainment employee. But as far as I understand most of FNV QA actually worked for Bethesda. So I presume they are the same person. What do you think? veryblackraven 07:07, October 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * I would assume so, however both pages were made by Jspoelstra, so he might know more about it. Yes Man default.pngUser Avatar talk.png 07:18, October 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * Mmm, you would say they're one and the same person, wouldn't you. But they have different Mobygames ID's with different credentials, so that makes them different developers until someone can prove otherwise. Jspoel [[file:Speech Jspoel.png|10px|link=User talk:Jspoelstra]] 15:46, October 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't take there being two MobyGames pages as an indicator that they are different people. For example, the credentials for some of the old Interplay devs are spread over 3 pages or more. MobyGames seems to generate those pages automatically based on the exact name specified in the game credits, and consolidating entries only seems to happen if the dev in question is prominent enough (lead designers etc) or if the dev himself requests it.
 * In this case, I think it's pretty safe to say it's the same person - the probability of two people with nearly the same name (and a name that is not all that common; it's not "Smith" after all) working at the same company in the same timeframe is rather slim. If they were both credited for one and the same game, it'd be a different matter, but there's no overlap. -- Porter21 (talk) 16:18, October 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, we have Twitter of a man named Michael Lattanzia Jr which says: I work as a video game tester... The username is SvennEthir. And we have a Facebook page of Mike Lattanzia and the username is... Tada! SvennEthir. And in this interwiev a man named Michael Lattanzia says: I started out working on Oblivion for the Playstation 3, and I also got to work some with Shivering Isles. Bingo! Let's merge! :) PS: Don't take my words as offence. I'm just a little bit excited. :) veryblackraven 16:31, October 18, 2011 (UTC)