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John Smedley
bluemagi
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Okay I just have a quick question....why can't John Smedley from Sony E. not get fired ? Or rather, why hasn't he been fired yet? I don't see how this guy still has his job. I just watched a video of him talking about the Sony cash shops going to be in all of their future MMO's and I wanted to seriously strangle him........anyone care to answer my question 
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Because put simply, Sony thinks his ideas will make them money.
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There are more people who play their games than there are Star Wars Galaxies 'veterans'.
Smedly is an innovative guy... look at what he did in the creation of EQ, too bad it seems like hes more interested in money these days then developing a good game.
Hehehe I actually never played Star Wars....I played EQ2 tho and the item cash seemed like I wanted to strangle him then.....so I left the game in hopes the next game won't have this kind of crap......but then I saw that interview grrrr
He always came across as a businessman to me. In those Evercracked videos he really sounded like he was a business innovator that happened to work with video games, not the other way around.
I am just speculating off what i've seen and read. From what i can tell he's always been business first though.
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Sony likes his work...
Now the person or team that killed True Fantasy Live Online should fill out a "Treason Confession/Spontaneous Organ Donor Release Form 1/777B."
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Evidently he is doing what SOE wants him to do. If he wasnt they would fire him. He is far from popular among fans but he must be doing his job.
It's name was enough of a multiple oxymoron to warrant shutting it down.
SOE hasnt been about pleasing fans for a long time and are simply about making money. Look at all their games, they have a bunch that just get barely by, most of their games havnt seen updated content in quite some time beside some small updates here and there so they are spending very little on developmental costs. Long as he keeps earning them the cash he will have a job.
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Who are the people that keep buying SOE products / subs? I mean I hate WoW but if i had to pick between SOE and pretty much anything..inclucing WoW i'd pick warcraft (or even pong).
as long as people are silly enough to go for the cash shops in mmos they will exist. I say just don,t play mmos with cash shops enough stop playing and they will be gone.. <most hilarious is they mosyly are labeled "free to play"...lol
bobm111
Just stay away from games with cash shops. It's really simple.
Because his knowledge in this industry goes beyond that of most forum posters.
I might not agree with decisisions he might have made, but I aint working in this industry of MMO's.
He has a crap load of experiance within this genre, SOE keeps bringing new games to the table, FreeRealms, TheAgency, DCUniverse, again I might not like those games anymore, tho perhaps the last 2 upcoming games I will try, still doesn't say that he isn't doing his job.
People need to get over this whole "I hate Smedly thing" personaly I find it very inmature, but that's just me.
I suggest these posters to get a CEO job and see how well they handle business.
In many cases in this world it's often the "top man" who get's all the blame by it's consumers regardles which industry.
Because he is the slum lord of MMOs, and thats just fine with SOE.
John Smedley is the man. My proof is the video games he has actually worked with. Im talking real games that actually get paid real currency for. Thats something maybe 99.9 percent of these forum readers cant boast about. Also, nerds still make threads about him. John Smedley is as cool, to me, as Bruce Campbell.
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OMG I almost spit tea out all over my monitor...thanks alot! LMAO!
Man, I take a break from work, pop in here and see his name as a post...almost made me want to go immediately back to work. And then I realised that maybe it was a post about some press release about how he was fired or something and checked in and....sorely disappointed that he wasn't.
Sigh...I concur with just about everyone else, i.e. he makes money for SoE and that's why he hasn't been fired. And besides, he likely holds stock in the company which makes firing him a tad difficult. Or he could just have one hell of a severance clause in his contract that makes it near impossible to get rid of him.
That sums up the situation that many fine players find themselves in. Vanguard springs to mind, but no doubt someone will remind us that the tenant block would have been torn down had not landlord Smedley entered from stage left to accompaniment of ‘Boos!’
What is better, that a good game is knocked down, or that good players find themselves trapped in a MMO that never gets better and the roaches only get worse?
Well even in money making he fails misserably these days. As non-US customers who want to buy the new EQ2 expansion can't get it!
Cheers
Smedley has a PHD in squeezing blood from a virtual stone, he has learnt to milk a sheep and fleece a cow and has a masters degree in killing the goose that laid the golden egg. He maintains his icy grip on his job by these methods and it probably looks like he's doing good when viewed on paper with the subscriber numbers buried somewhere.
He wants to bring in cash shops alongside subscription fees. The Asian market wouldn't accept it and the Western one won't, he can get away with one or the other but he want's to have his virtual cake and eat it. In short he's the doctor Frankenstien of the industry, trying to produce some evil being from parts of others.
I see SOE just going cash shop if it's to survive now, the games they have aren't worth paying for anymore. The ones with subscription fees for the most part have some hidden expenses such as RMT or loot card gambling, it just makes my stomach turn thinking of it.
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Not according to this fine poll. MMORPG.COM Polls Do you currently play a SOE published game? Yes 23.1% No 76.9% Based on 12814 votes.
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Not according to this fine poll. MMORPG.COM Polls Do you currently play a SOE published game? Yes 23.1% No 76.9% Based on 12814 votes.
LOL as if MMORPG.com represents the whole MMORPG community.......Seriously I hope you where just making fun.....
My theory is Star Wars Galaxies wasn't all that profitable because of customer service tickets, customer service being the number one expence for an mmo after launch.
Smedly revamped the game, removing all those aspects that generated a large volume of tickets.
Profit.
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Ever see a coach in the NFL that wins a super bowl early in his career and then the team owner's hang on to him for years because they think he's a great coach. The thinking is: If he did it once, he can do it again. (see Brian Billick)
It's kinda like that.