Tearofsoul
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John Smedley hired by Amazon to produce MMOs
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WoW introduced a TON of people to the concept of an MMO and a sub-based game. Any game that came out post-WoW was standing on the shoulders of WoW for a much larger group of people exposed to the model.
zzeris
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This reminds me so much of Netflix. Netflix has so much money they can experiment and it doesn't really hurt them. Same here. Smed is terrible but with enough money under him, he can make ok shit. Guy is a horrible manager though. He wasted so much fucking money at Sony. Now he will get to waste so much fucking money for Amazon. They might eventually notice but this is the same slow con Bradley never could successfully accomplish. Get someone to waste money and not notice how much until its too late. Stupid move, Amazon.
Shonuff
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Amazon has considerably more money than Sony. Sony was losing $1B company-wide a year when they sold SOE.
Say what you want, but the Daybreak Games are absolute ass since Smed left. I loaded up EQ2 a few months back, played the new expansion for 30 minutes, and promptly deleted it off my hard drive. MMO's on a show string budget aren't pretty. Smed had no problems getting money at SOE.
Palum
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Incompetent people who would hire Brad continue to be incompetent after he leaves???
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zzeris
King Turd of Shit Hill
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So...you are agreeing that Amazon has a ton of money for Smedley to waste? Ok, I agree with my original point as well. Here's a great article about just some of the money Smed wasted at SOE. EQ2Wire » Opinion on Daybreak Games: It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
The guy is a complete buffoon who couldn't manage a wet paper bag without losing money. Sure, he's a nice guy who tries to look out for his talent. Average talent but talent nonetheless I guess. Sure, he may get a few average games released under Amazon who has enough money they don't give a shit. That doesn't make him good at what he does. That makes him good at leeching off stupid companies. Good for him, average for gamers, bad for stupid. They have tons of money so maybe they can be like Netflix. Have some shit, some great stuff(not from Smed), and maybe even that amazing game.
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Shonuff
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And yet I've managed to play EQ/EQ2/DCUO way more than any other MMO out there. 75% of my total MMO time was spent between these three games.
zzeris
King Turd of Shit Hill
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Well, I'm glad your personal experience is exactly what got Smedley hired. He should send you some money for all your hard work....
Palum
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Or better yet he started negotiations six+ months ago and the team talked and agreed hero's song was their version of a homeless dude sucking dicks for booze money and fuck Rothfuss anyway so they pulled a hard eject while quietly waiting for their sign on bonuses from Amazon.
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To me, Hero's Song was an interesting idea, but very niche. In the end it wasn't that great of a game, but Smed refunded everyone's money, so really it's hard to complain. It really (hopefully) showed him that wasn't a good direction for a game.
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alavaz
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First of all, Cocaine wasn't Brad's problem. He struggled with pain killers, like countless hundreds of thousands of people do in this country every day.
Second, He IS making a game.. Will it be good? I don't know.. I'm hopeful that it is, because we need more good games in the space.
Third, Maybe it's just me.. but the continual trashing of Brad and his past seems kinda petty. If you've never made a mistake in your life, I guess you can feel superior.. I'm over it.. and I got screwed during the whole Vanguard debacle, and you didn't. He isn't the guy some of you paint him out to be on a daily basis. The VG mess was over 10 years ago. Time to move the fuck on..
Second, He IS making a game.. Will it be good? I don't know.. I'm hopeful that it is, because we need more good games in the space.
Third, Maybe it's just me.. but the continual trashing of Brad and his past seems kinda petty. If you've never made a mistake in your life, I guess you can feel superior.. I'm over it.. and I got screwed during the whole Vanguard debacle, and you didn't. He isn't the guy some of you paint him out to be on a daily basis. The VG mess was over 10 years ago. Time to move the fuck on..
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Ambiturner
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Never said it was.. but people keep holding his feet to the fire on it as if they were personally wronged. They weren't.
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