EQ Next: #1 Next gen MMO

I agree, Feldon wrote an interesting piece regarding this debacle.

I have found his site (Eq2wire) very helpful and informative over the years, and would highly recommend.

Tauro said:

Nice article and a various mentions of rerolled/foh-forum posts:

EQ2Wire » Closing the Book on EverQuest Next and Landmark

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"Sony Online Entertainment took a $62 million writeoff in 2013 for development costs associated with EverQuest Next and H1Z1."

I couldn't care less that SOE lost money but that's an insane amount of money to have pissed away on two games.

Regardless to what some people believe or willing to admit (most may not even know today) that Everquest was something really special to the genre. Granted it was much, much smaller in the late 90's so the cultural, industrial impact is a completely animal. However, what EQ did for the industry and the computer gaming world of players at that time was an incredible feat. It's something that will be really special to a lot of people. Again, the numbers are not the impressive today at we were talking out of thousands back in those day instead of millions today.

I say all of this just to preface that SoE, Smed, and especially Georgeson should feel pretty shameful and stupid for what they did to this franchise. It took a lot of ego and ignorance to screw this up but they somehow did it.

Read that article really makes me sad and to think 10's of millions of dollars could have been invested to recreating EQ to some extent or furthering the franchise.

EQ came out when spending hours in chatrooms was a thing. EQ was a chatroom plus a game.

The Minecraft aspect of this was good thinking and story bricks could have been the future. This game could have lead the way.

But poor management soured it to failure - doodads were improperly prioritized and resources were drastically sunk.

I was reading through the comments of the EQ2wire article. There is a guy named Raji that claims to have ran the EQNext junkies website. Is that Draegan or Teljair?

The only encouragement he could give me is to give me my money back.

Nah, but you can totally buy his next project, in VIRTUAL REALITY.

It probably even has SOEmote compatibility!

Conefed said:

EQ came out when spending hours in chatrooms was a thing. EQ was a chatroom plus a game.

The Minecraft aspect of this was good thinking and story bricks could have been the future.

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Except of course, that Story Bricks simply didn't work. It was a great idea that they could never actually make functional. They presented a great concept, and were trying desperately to get SOE to buy the company based upon a concept. Until they could demonstrate it actually working though, nobody was buying anything, and eventually they left.

All I remember was people sucking the story bricks guy off when he dropped by to say they tried to buy SOE.

Yeah, it's amazing how much love people on other sites seem to have for ponytail. It's the same general theme, they love his vision and passion as if those traits could somehow make him competent enough to deliver. One of the editors at MassivelyOP basically said people are scapegoating him in one of her posts.....

Reht said:

Yeah, it's amazing how much love people on other sites seem to have for ponytail. It's the same general theme, they love his vision and passion as if those traits could somehow make him competent enough to deliver. One of the editors at MassivelyOP basically said people are scapegoating him in one of her posts.....

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Those are probably the same retards that Soemote was built for.

Elidroth said:

Except of course, that Story Bricks simply didn't work. It was a great idea that they could never actually make functional. They presented a great concept, and were trying desperately to get SOE to buy the company based upon a concept. Until they could demonstrate it actually working though, nobody was buying anything, and eventually they left.

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I incorrectly refer to storybricks not as a company, but as a modular method for dispensing AI.
A dream of mine is to have a gave made up of keyword abilities that cleanly fit within a nice box. Every character would have an arrangement of these gems, which would explain their power levels, their functions, and their behaviors.
The feeling I get when I hear the word "storybricks" triggers this dream, and thus I like it. I would gladly distance it from the company that tanked it and use a different phrase, but I do not have one.
"Modules" isn't sexy.

Im Raji. Draegan tapped me to run content creation for eqnext junkies.

Perhaps if the fields are left fallow for a number of years the overall landscape will have recovered enough that a true new EverQuest can germinate. I certainly have more than a few ideas about how such a thing could go down.

Qhue said:

Perhaps if the fields are left fallow for a number of years the overall landscape will have recovered enough that a true new EverQuest can germinate. I certainly have more than a few ideas about how such a thing could go down.

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If the fields are left fallow for too long, I'll be in a home, grabbing nurse pussy, pissing the bed, and putting my teeth in a glass every night. Of course I'd always be available for raiding, (but I might take unexpected naps alot).