After firing all the headline staff on the project, and then making no new announcements and showing nothing for the next year, it was patently obvious that "we are still working on it" was complete BS.
I dont know how many times I have to say it, you people are all saying their name wrong.. its pronounced, "They Break Games". Please get it right from now on. Thank you.
This guy gets it Could not have ended any other way really :P
Not surprised, still shattered. Landmark releasing? Is anyone still even playing that 'game'?
I wonder what is next for Norrath, a MOBA or TCG set in its universe? I would be pretty disgusted with that. Bah Daybreak, what a disappointing and predictable company you are...
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I dont know how many times I have to say it, you people are all saying their name wrong.. its pronounced, "They Break Games". Please get it right from now on. Thank you.
One more reason to support your current game. I've said it before this genre is highly competitive and it isn't easy making a "fun" game. So if you are having fun, support it.
Now Playing: Bless / Summoners War Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
EQ current games are still doing OK. It's a good sign they scrapped after putting it all together and seeing what they had wasn't a fun game, Blizzard does the same.
Now they can stay focused on the building system and revamp of continents for the building system & resource meta game in Planetside 2 as the fleshing out of the game begins to its full potential. It's turning into a 'if you were on ground level of a Command & Conquer game' Planetside 2 action is what you'll see.
Daybreak looks set to own the FPS MMO genre, and looks like its not going to be challenged any time soon. Most have a shocked to the system when they play a game like PS2 coming from standard online fps games. The PS2 construction era is nearly upon us.
Saying it wasn't fun is such a cop out, the truth is SOE was loosing money and was bought out by a company that has no business being in the gaming industry, they fired important staff members and are sinking that ship hard.
The lay-offs were "instant". Who would stay and who would go will have been worked out before CN took over - by the SoE management in place at the time. CN paid the severance pay so they will have built it into whatever price they paid to Sony. And the lay-offs were "SoE's" 5th round in 6 years; some of which were major re-structurings.
If anything CN were sold a lemon by people who had become very good at selling lemons (to Sony).
EQ current games are still doing OK. It's a good sign they scrapped after putting it all together and seeing what they had wasn't a fun game, Blizzard does the same.
Now they can stay focused on the building system and revamp of continents for the building system & resource meta game in Planetside 2 as the fleshing out of the game begins to its full potential. It's turning into a 'if you were on ground level of a Command & Conquer game' Planetside 2 action is what you'll see.
Daybreak looks set to own the FPS MMO genre, and looks like its not going to be challenged any time soon. Most have a shocked to the system when they play a game like PS2 coming from standard online fps games. The PS2 construction era is nearly upon us.
If Planetside was going to dominate the FPS market it would already have done so. If investing more money into developing new C&C systems in Planetside isn't likely to generate more players/revenue, then odds are it will not happen.
By all apperances, Daybreak looks to be limited to maintaining their current games and porting existing games to other consoles.
Additionally I think Daybreak was correct saying they thought that EQN wasn't fun, but I think the fact that the game was in development for 10 years an unable to even deliver an alpha level build played the larger role in the decision to cancel.
If anything CN were sold a lemon by people who had become very good at selling lemons (to Sony).
This would only be true if Columbus Nova thought EQN was a viable game they could finish developing.
The problem with that is everything says that never happened.
The very first thing the new owners did was fire almost every person in charge of EQN and close down the community forums. There is more, but CN didn't go into this blind and there is a reason no real gaming company bought SOE. EQN was already a dead project and the new owners knew that.
Landmark isn't EQN sandbox kinda ? like minecraft version of EQN without the story background...but in a sort EQN would be based on Landmark,right? maybe with lots of content from Landmark,they revive EQN project and make us a nice suprise.. I still kinda hope
In my opinion the most anticipated Western MMORPG and bright spot in the genre in the last years... I wish someone would continue the development. I really liked the ideas presented around the game. Really frustrating for both, fans and developers.
I always laugh when game company people say they want to make a fun game. No duh! I would love to see one person say we're trying to make a boring game LOL
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After firing all the headline staff on the project, and then making no new announcements and showing nothing for the next year, it was patently obvious that "we are still working on it" was complete BS.
"EQ-X, coming soon to a smartphone near you !"
This guy gets it
I wonder what is next for Norrath, a MOBA or TCG set in its universe? I would be pretty disgusted with that. Bah Daybreak, what a disappointing and predictable company you are...
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Don't forget DC Universe
I choked laughing!!!! Hahahaha
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Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
Now they can stay focused on the building system and revamp of continents for the building system & resource meta game in Planetside 2 as the fleshing out of the game begins to its full potential. It's turning into a 'if you were on ground level of a Command & Conquer game' Planetside 2 action is what you'll see.
Daybreak looks set to own the FPS MMO genre, and looks like its not going to be challenged any time soon. Most have a shocked to the system when they play a game like PS2 coming from standard online fps games. The PS2 construction era is nearly upon us.
If anything CN were sold a lemon by people who had become very good at selling lemons (to Sony).
Ea is like a poo fingered midas ~ShakyMo
If Planetside was going to dominate the FPS market it would already have done so. If investing more money into developing new C&C systems in Planetside isn't likely to generate more players/revenue, then odds are it will not happen.
By all apperances, Daybreak looks to be limited to maintaining their current games and porting existing games to other consoles.
Additionally I think Daybreak was correct saying they thought that EQN wasn't fun, but I think the fact that the game was in development for 10 years an unable to even deliver an alpha level build played the larger role in the decision to cancel.
This would only be true if Columbus Nova thought EQN was a viable game they could finish developing.
The problem with that is everything says that never happened.
The very first thing the new owners did was fire almost every person in charge of EQN and close down the community forums. There is more, but CN didn't go into this blind and there is a reason no real gaming company bought SOE. EQN was already a dead project and the new owners knew that.
Landmark isn't EQN sandbox kinda ? like minecraft version of EQN without the story background...but in a sort EQN would be based on Landmark,right? maybe with lots of content from Landmark,they revive EQN project and make us a nice suprise.. I still kinda hope
QFT!
Let's hope the "more" is interesting because CU and Crowfall hold no interest for me.
Carvell Fenton @Lysrin Mar 11
@DaveGeorgeson Now that #EQN is officially dead, had the sale never happened and team stayed intact could you have delivered #EQN to vision?
David Georgeson @DaveGeorgeson Mar 11
@Lysrin Yup. Absolutely.
Yarnila (WFB) @YarnilaGraumond 2h2 hours ago
@DaveGeorgeson @Lysrin powerful response
David Georgeson @DaveGeorgeson 1h1 hour ago
@YarnilaGraumond @Lysrin it's based on a 27-year track record of never failing. All products shipped. All made money. Until now, I suppose.
Playing: Smite, Marvel Heroes
Played: Nexus:Kingdom of the Winds, Everquest, DAoC, Everquest 2, WoW, Matrix Online, Vangaurd, SWG, DDO, EVE, Fallen Earth, LoTRo, CoX, Champions Online, WAR, Darkfall, Mortal Online, Guild Wars, Rift, Tera, Aion, AoC, Gods and Heroes, DCUO, FF14, TSW, SWTOR, GW2, Wildstar, ESO, ArcheAge
Waiting On: Nothing. Mmorpg's are dead.