Sam Van Tilburgh, the senior community manager for the Lionhead official forums, has been there ever since the release of Fable and is about to experience rabid fans' opinions about Fable II.

You might think his job is easy, but when everyone starts getting their grubby hands on the game and start complaining on the boards, things can get out of hands, partly because of the vocal Fable fans.

“My crunch only gets worse,” he told me at this year’s PAX. “When the game comes out, people start playing it and then everyone’s got an opinion! [Lionhead] said to me when I started, if you survive your first game as a community manager, you’re in it for life. Ninety-five percent of community managers don’t even survive the first game.”

Well, he’s still there. But that doesn’t mean he has an easy gig.

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