You are 100% right about that, Was talking to someone who worked with Smed on a project and Heroes Song was closed down and refunded on amazon's insistence.
John Smedley hired by Amazon to produce MMOs
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You are 100% right about that, Was talking to someone who worked with Smed on a project and Heroes Song was closed down and refunded on amazon's insistence.
Skanda
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Are we allowed to still hate on him for stealing 50k of the croudfunded money from Pantheon V1.0? Because that was him personally wronging the people who donated to the project.
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xzi
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40%? That's like 95% of this entire forum lmao
It's an mmo though, I'm gonna give it a try regardless of who is making it but I'm definitely not giving kickstarter money ya know?
Ambiturner
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Yeah, that's the new hotness. Vanguard druggy stuff is just the low hanging fruit that's easier to poke fun at.
Also, it's not like Brad's released 3 successful games since then. It's literally his last released game
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Abefroman
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Which is exactly why the drug problem still gets brought up. The fucking nerve of us making fun of someone who stole crowdfunding money.
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iannis
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He was telling people on government assistance to max out their fucking credit cards so that he could cure his wife's cancer or some shit.
And he found Jesus and dirtbikes when he was looking for a way off the vicodin. Didn't sell that dirtbike. I guess his wife only rates sucker money.
The man is fucking garbage. Which, as a practical matter, can be overlooked sometimes if they are exceptional at their work. But he's well below average at that, too.
McQuaid is faith healer tier.
And he found Jesus and dirtbikes when he was looking for a way off the vicodin. Didn't sell that dirtbike. I guess his wife only rates sucker money.
The man is fucking garbage. Which, as a practical matter, can be overlooked sometimes if they are exceptional at their work. But he's well below average at that, too.
McQuaid is faith healer tier.
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kegkilla
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kegkilla
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I mean, he's been taking peoples money "for Pantheon" for about 5 years now so I'm guessing he jumped into that as soon as his EQ/Vanguard money dried up.
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oh my god the title.
what the fuck.
I got a small but profound heart attack.
what the fuck.
I got a small but profound heart attack.
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Punko
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Brad "get the ludes" Mcquaid.
Hilarious to see someone working in the industry defend a guy that stole kickstarter money.
Smedley is great also. I mean he worked on EQ nearly 20 years ago and hasn't done anything of note since, who would want to argue with such proven talent?
These guys and the Daikatana dude could be like the holy triumvirate of past expiry date devs.
Hilarious to see someone working in the industry defend a guy that stole kickstarter money.
Smedley is great also. I mean he worked on EQ nearly 20 years ago and hasn't done anything of note since, who would want to argue with such proven talent?
These guys and the Daikatana dude could be like the holy triumvirate of past expiry date devs.
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If anything, I see this as just a way for Amazon to bring in a dried up veteran with mild success to train a new team and mentor his successor. You dont have to pay him as much as some of the rock star devs would ask, and can shit can him easily. Like him, hate him, praise his success or praise his failures, hes just there to train people.
Is this true? Why would anyone hire Smed who had a one hit wonder and then ran it into the ground even with Sony bailouts. Every single thing he did since EQ was a disaster. He destroyed SWG, they made a piece of shit sequel to EQ, they started lots of games and wasted money on them and most of them made it to release, some where completely terrible, they bought Vanguard and ran that into the ground too. He is the worst.