I'm entirely too clean-cut to be a chaotic good elven bard, but it's freaky how INTP I am.

I've been in workplaces that do lengthy Myers-Briggs team-building sessions and unless they're handled with great care and skill, they ultimately result in ready tools to devalue someone's opinions. "He's just acting like that because he's an NT." Etcetera.

After taking the MBTI test, you'll often here people say things like "oh that's why I..." or "that explains why he..." But MBTI doesn't answer "why" anything. You answer a series of questions about your preferences, and the MBTI gives you a general behavior type that describes you:

You like libraries more than flying jet planes. Yes. No.

Yes.

You are a library-liker. Library-likers generally like libraries as opposed to jet planes. A library-liker might be over-stressed by frequent exposure to high-decible engines and sudden unexpected physical displacement. Optimal careers for library-likers include: librarian.

Still, there are so many ways the 4 variables can play against each other that you'll be surprised what can be inferred about you from just a few datapoints. The percentages matter a great deal. My T and P are rather low and I find I can move between all the IN's without expending too much energy. But make me live as an ES and you'll wipe me out fast.

I think the best candidate for a Live Producer of an MMO would be an ESTJ. Of eight people at Cyan who know their type, there isn't an S among us. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole gaming industry is INT-heavy. I'm tempted here to say something like "perhaps that's why it seems to be taking so long for the industry to get it's act together professionally." But there's that deceptive "why" again. Basically I'd be saying "if there were more natural administrators involved, the industry would be better administrated." Which is probably true, but not very enlightening.