Recent content by symbelmyne_sl

different spelling. and i've been on this board(s) longer than you guess.

loved Sierra. different types of companies. at the end Sierra, like AOL were farming out for talent and titles.

dude is at the least a survivor. its fun to speculate how he lasted so long. Smed was pushing ideas on F2P back in 1999. thats the kind of mind he has.

not on the level of what was being done at Verant. not even close.

WoW was also greatly influenced by EQ2 which had been in development since Kunark. I think what UT is trying to say is EQ couldnt help but be innovative. and that extends to the business side. innovative does not necessarily = great, efficient. you would think with all that Japanese money...

good stuff, but what gaming studio was out there on the level of SOE for online gaming for them to model? nobody. everything that was done was new. were there mistakes? yes. were improvements made? yes. and you see some of those improvements were carried over to Blizzard. and you saw...

the writing is on the wall over Smed, have much to say about him, both good and bad. but will wait for his day of reckoning. though i expect he'll look for an escape pod with a nice parachute.

funny revisionist BS. Were you alive back when work was being done on EQ? you know the days of BBS chatrooms, AOL, Dialup, and MUDs ...before every computer had a 3D card. Your rant reeks of jealousy. I suppose you also have an axe to grind with Zuckerberg, Anderson, Musk, and those dude...

define work.

some of the guys let go today were there when i worked there...ages ago. the game industry is not for everyone. i started looking for my way out right before Luclin was released. I was worried EQ was a 1 trick pony, games like SWG and PS were in development, the studio was buzzing with...

did not see Sparkles name in the credits, did she resign?

nice music. project seems to have legs still.

i guess i should ask for my money back.

Has something changed with the forum? did they do a mass banning of accounts? after a year of posting I am unable to reply or create topics.

i feel sorry for anybody who put serious money into this game, money misallocation allegations aside . being as diplomatic as possible, but all the screens I've seen are horrible. they are not on par with what would make a successful kickstarter reboot. as long as Sparkling and her family...