Wish they would get rid of Smedley as well., but that will never happen. He'll be there till the end. He has no value to the EQ franchise whatsoever, he was just one of the founders and now is just face of the company (marketing), similar to what Palmer Luckey is to Oculus Rift, no value but the face of marketing. The direction EQ1 has taken since Georgeson and company have been around for the past 6-7 years has put EQ1 in the gutter. It hasn't been a classy mmorpg for awhile now. I'm so glad they got rid of some of the visionaries. Hopefully better things will come of it.
Everquest next is not dead. EQN has the biggest dev team at the company and the firing of a few of the team does not stop production. Do you see EQN programmers on this list ? No you can replace devs the programmers make the core of the game.
Originally posted by kanyeiggy Wish they would get rid of Smedley as well., but that will never happen. He'll be there till the end. He has no value to the EQ franchise whatsoever, he was just one of the founders and now is just face of the company (marketing), similar to what Palmer Luckey is to Oculus Rift, no value but the face of marketing. The direction EQ1 has taken since Georgeson and company have been around for the past 6-7 years has put EQ1 in the gutter. It hasn't been a classy mmorpg for awhile now. I'm so glad they got rid of some of the visionaries. Hopefully better things will come of it.
Actually several other offers were made prior to this Daybreak Deal. All were contingent on smedley leaving his position. Notice the one offer that did end up being accepted was the one where he got to keep his job, but several people under him lost theirs.
Smedley has always been a snake in a suit, always will be. If you want to mourn someone... mourn Jeff Buttler..
I dont realy have any hope at all for this game anymore especially with the loos of Jeff Butler along with Dave
not realy gonna be keeping any eye on it anymore i spose ill see what it like if it gets released and not canceled when it coems out. but no longer on my watch list
Until they get rid of Smedley, nothing will change.
The peons aren't the direction a games company takes their games. It's the chump at the top, and his/her subordinates.
MMO's played: Ragnarok Online (For years), WoW (for a few weeks only), Guild Wars, Lineage 2, Eve, Allods, Shattered Galaxy, 9 Dragons, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Star Trek Online (Got someone ELSE to pay for it), Champions Online (Someone else paid), Dofus, Dragonica, LOTRO, DDO and more... A LOT more. I've played good AND bad. The bad didn't last long. :P
He says they deserve no hate,well look back at that release speech and look to the end of it talking about COMMUNITY and here they have several community people let go including the Ahmeed guy who left awhile back.
There are also some VERY key people they let go,that cannot have any positive at all.It looks more to me like a cutting of overhead not a shakeup.
When you see a few Producers let go,that tells you they do NOT plan on much work on those games from here on in.
Here is the biggest factor,IF you are simply going for a shakeup WHY would you not get rid of the guy who ran all of the so called mess>>>Smedley?He is the guy that ran the ship,how can they look past him and start blaming others?
As i said,this is just cutting overhead,they don't care about the quality of these games moving forward,they are making money now.
Oh wait even more,H1Z1 imo a terrible game,however it is making likely more money than any SOE product ever in such a short period,so why would they be doing the so called "shake up" on a successful game?It is still the top 5 almost every night during peak hours even WOW cannot claim that and is WAY down the list.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Originally posted by Dullahan I didn't have much faith in Windbreak to make EQN the greatest mmo since EQ, but if I was caught up in the hype, I'd be pissed to hear they basically shut down EQ Next by dropping the Creative director Jeff Butler. This guy was EQ Next. They can spin it however they want, but in a matter of weeks they destroyed the hope of any realistic fan they still had.
I agree and worse is this owner knows NOTHING about game design,so how were they even qualified to make gaming decisions?My point is these guys have no care or passion for gaming,this will simply be a business that held onto the one guy that ruined the entire SOE image>>>Smedley.However you can bet your last dollar he negotiated a deal to keep himself on for several years.
You know it is possible that Smedley saved his ass by throwing these employees under the bus but didn't want to come off as the bad guy so was all a plan to fire all these guys after the take over.I mean it is almost obvious no,these firings happened immediately,how would a NEW owner assess their employees over night,no way is that possible,so Smedley was involved for certain.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
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Actually several other offers were made prior to this Daybreak Deal. All were contingent on smedley leaving his position. Notice the one offer that did end up being accepted was the one where he got to keep his job, but several people under him lost theirs.
Smedley has always been a snake in a suit, always will be. If you want to mourn someone... mourn Jeff Buttler..
I dont realy have any hope at all for this game anymore especially with the loos of Jeff Butler along with Dave
not realy gonna be keeping any eye on it anymore i spose ill see what it like if it gets released and not canceled when it coems out. but no longer on my watch list
Until they get rid of Smedley, nothing will change.
The peons aren't the direction a games company takes their games. It's the chump at the top, and his/her subordinates.
MMO's played: Ragnarok Online (For years), WoW (for a few weeks only), Guild Wars, Lineage 2, Eve, Allods, Shattered Galaxy, 9 Dragons, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Star Trek Online (Got someone ELSE to pay for it), Champions Online (Someone else paid), Dofus, Dragonica, LOTRO, DDO and more... A LOT more. I've played good AND bad. The bad didn't last long. :P
Smedley has needed to go find another direction in life for a long time. He has to have some potent dirt on a lot folks to still be in the industry...
As Mr.Carey opens his 250k severance package.
He says they deserve no hate,well look back at that release speech and look to the end of it talking about COMMUNITY and here they have several community people let go including the Ahmeed guy who left awhile back.
There are also some VERY key people they let go,that cannot have any positive at all.It looks more to me like a cutting of overhead not a shakeup.
When you see a few Producers let go,that tells you they do NOT plan on much work on those games from here on in.
Here is the biggest factor,IF you are simply going for a shakeup WHY would you not get rid of the guy who ran all of the so called mess>>>Smedley?He is the guy that ran the ship,how can they look past him and start blaming others?
As i said,this is just cutting overhead,they don't care about the quality of these games moving forward,they are making money now.
Oh wait even more,H1Z1 imo a terrible game,however it is making likely more money than any SOE product ever in such a short period,so why would they be doing the so called "shake up" on a successful game?It is still the top 5 almost every night during peak hours even WOW cannot claim that and is WAY down the list.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I agree and worse is this owner knows NOTHING about game design,so how were they even qualified to make gaming decisions?My point is these guys have no care or passion for gaming,this will simply be a business that held onto the one guy that ruined the entire SOE image>>>Smedley.However you can bet your last dollar he negotiated a deal to keep himself on for several years.
You know it is possible that Smedley saved his ass by throwing these employees under the bus but didn't want to come off as the bad guy so was all a plan to fire all these guys after the take over.I mean it is almost obvious no,these firings happened immediately,how would a NEW owner assess their employees over night,no way is that possible,so Smedley was involved for certain.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.