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Good. He was an twit who let personal feelings fuck up his design decisions (to whit: killing off the trinity for EQN because of God knows what relationship tragedy).
SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
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Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Keep in mind that the most vocal people who are widely perceived in the community as the visionaries are rarely the ones doing the actual work, or even contributing the ideas that actually stick. See: McQuaid, Brad.
Moorgard just said that Jeff is gone. so, yeah. if anyone wanted further confirmation.
Looks like Darrin McPherson is still there.
Looks like Darrin McPherson is still there.
zzeris
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I agree with Flc. EQN was at the very, very early stages and the experimentation used with EQL could only help speed up later development. Using free designers was a good idea and EQL was truly the visionary aspect of this company. Too bad SOE just couldn't pull it off. There was a ton of potential and good ideas being pushed.
It is disappointing to see this genre fall off a cliff at this point. Blizzard gave up and SOE is getting gutted for the quick sell.
It is disappointing to see this genre fall off a cliff at this point. Blizzard gave up and SOE is getting gutted for the quick sell.
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Hence why when I posted a tweet by a Senior Programmer for EQNext that production was still on, it got shot down as being 'unreliable' because he was a 'nobody' and didn't have clout with the community like our boy Ponytail.
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You should see the MMORPG.com Youtube videos and comments about the layoffs today. I cannot believe how many delusional people there are in the world.
Only senior level people removed from EQN/LM are Dave, Jeff Butler, and Steve Danuser. All other designers/leads still in tact.
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I've heard from two people now at Daybreak that Jeff didn't do shit. With anything.
LOL at the person who negged me saying that they aren't firing infrastructure people when I have a friend fired today....
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They've been talking about EQN for years man. Eql being a prerequisite to EQN has not sped up the release of EQN. Maybe long term it might help add to the game but they could have just as easily switched order and built us a game first instead of going the route they did. You need people actually playing your game to help make actual content for your other game. Shits been in alpha forever. It very much has had the dev time as a regular mmo. Why is their flagship game waiting on a shelf for something that might not work? Just doesn't seem right. Seems scatterbrained to me but maybe I'm just being selfish. We've always been told we can't get EQN till Eql is ready, so in my eyes Eql is in the way and Its less in demand than EQN atm.