What is the chance that the last bit of programming work necessary to launch the EverQuest Census API -- so that anyone can make their own Magelo-type fansite -- will happen?
So Planetside Arena has been pushed back til Summer. They're even refunding people's pre-orders. :eek:
Daybreak Internal Cheerleading Squad
2014: Good lord H1Z1 and EQNext are going to make us a lot of money.
2015: Hey we found a buyer. Things are looking up! Erm... pay no attention to the...
Every year that designers and programmers work on EQ and EQ2 is a year that they are falling behind in the industry and marketable knowledge.
EQ2 hired a tools programmer in like 2009 who was supposed to do nothing but write a set of tools so they are not building content with stone tablets and...
SOE had over 800 employees in 2008.
July 2009 -41
July 2010 -35
March 2011 -205
August 2013 -70
March 2015 -140
April 2018 -70
December 2018 -70
Current staff: 170
It's an unbroken trend under Sony Online Entertainment and then Daybreak. This has to be a high blood pressure moment for the...
So much of this video is just opinion and general feelings. I don't know that he talked to anyone with knowledge of EQ2, Landmark, or EQNext. Without any facts and figures in this video, it just comes off as a 30 minute rant.