SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

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zzeris_sl said:
I'd love the game Wizardry was trying to sell but EQ definitely wasn't that game either. EQ could be hard solo and when you first started out. After that, grouping was really easy. Raids were hard but half of that was because of shitty game design. WoW still has harderdesignedlate game content.

The difference today is people want to play the game and not have a nerd-fest chatroom. Hell, half the time we sat around bullshitting late was because we had to wait on some jackass to show up. Or the bathroom breaks that lasted 10-20 minutes. Or the 10-20 minute waits to recover from someone fucking up. It wasn't the challenge that drove people crazy. It was dealing with shitty game mechanics and hoping that the game was completed where you were adventuring. Hoping that anyone at SOE had put time in fixing problems and making the game work properly. Such a poorly designed game.

In 2015, people look for a ton more out a game than EQ delivered at any point.
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Dood seriously, how many years go by of mediocre or shitshow titles does it take to realize that the beauty of MMOs was socialization and it is gone for a sub par single player experience.

That is what is missing. And that was what EQ had amoung a few others back in the old Days.

Buy ya, ppl are looking for something better and we are still waiting after 15 fucking years.
 
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Big Flex_sl said:
I think hes referring to the tranny LARPing dwarf thing, which to the unaffiliated is kind of odd until you figure out wtf is going on. I.E. When my wife walked in on me watching SOELive the year of the EQN reveal and had some strong questions for me "Are you cackling while typing on your retarded forum again? What the fuck is that, Is that a woman, what are you watching?"
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I think she made the beard out of the hair of her shaggy dog. From what I could tell in one of the videos. It's to push the landmark workshops focusing on Dwarves since they're not getting a whole lot of love.

My GF does the same shit, every time she looks over my way after I get done with a laugh I just tell her "GOD!! I'm so clever!!" and she leaves me alone.
 
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Big Flex_sl said:
I think hes referring to the tranny LARPing dwarf thing, which to the unaffiliated is kind of odd until you figure out wtf is going on. I.E. When my wife walked in on me watching SOELive the year of the EQN reveal and had some strong questions for me "Are you cackling while typing on your retarded forum again? What the fuck is that, Is that a woman, what are you watching?"
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I'm very sad they let Brasse go she has been there for a while.

I really think Brasse represented the same nostalgic feeling we have for original EQ. Back when EQ and online game in general was for the uber nerd and before it was streamlined and made sexy I'm talking about Fan faires being in dingy fucking hotel rooms and rented ballrooms. You can tell she really enjoyed her time in EQ by the fact that she dressed up as a dwarf anytime she did an public appearance for the last 15 years.

I remember randomly seeing her comment on a "Dwarf Parkour" video a few years back on youtube by a guildie of mine. It was filmed on the P99 server and it just showed him doing the dwarf barrel roll off of random high structures in the game. This was in late 2013 I think so well past EQs prime and I know it wasn't really linked around too much. The fact that she found it and posted a comment liking it shows she really cares about the game in my opinion.
 
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If Georgeson is gone as well, nobody is safe.

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Lol what? It's people sitting in town/zone spamming a chat channel, then you meet up to exchange the item. That's exactly what EC/Gfay was.

People really can't see beyond their rose colored glasses.
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One huge difference, EQ encouraged trading in a zone/town early on. Trading that way in WoW is entirely optional, and I've never done it. I recently went back to WoW, and I never felt the need to talk to anyone while leveling, doing dungeons, or even raiding (LFR). I'm at 650+ ilvl, and not once did I feel as though I needed to communicate with anyone about anything. The only reason I need to talk to anyone at this point is to do normal/heroic/mythic content.

Socializing was a big part of why I enjoyed MMOs, personally. I don't think it's rose colored glasses at all.
 
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Iadien_sl said:
One huge difference, EQ encouraged trading in a zone/town early on. Trading that way in WoW is entirely optional, and I've never done it. I recently went back to WoW, and I never felt the need to talk to anyone while leveling, doing dungeons, or even raiding (LFR). I'm at 650+ ilvl, and not once did I feel as though I needed to communicate with anyone about anything. The only reason I need to talk to anyone at this point is to do normal/heroic/mythic content.

Socializing was a big part of why I enjoyed MMOs, personally. I don't think it's rose colored glasses at all.
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This was my experience during the panda expansion when I played last. I went 1-90 in a month or so time doing mostly dungeons and I think I got like one chat message in all that time. But its the games fault as well. when youre mashing 10 buttons from stop to finish it leaves very little time to chat. Im sure guilds have vent ot some other bullshit going on, but meh.
 
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I've made about a quarter million gold in face to face trades in WoW. Bypasses the AH fee.

Source: Guild Special *you know if you know*
 
Muligan

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If Georgeson has been laid off, there may be some hope left yet...

Clean up that resume Brad.... here's that chance to get back in. (Sorry Pantheon devs)

This is going to be fun to sit back and watch... Any clue if the people at Nova even know anything about EQ?
 
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Ponytail being gone is looking more likely :Big Layoffs At EverQuest Studio Today

Specifically

"Daybreak, the game studio behind EverQuest and H1Z1, is laying off a number of staff including David Georgeson, the man who has served as the face of EverQuest for many years, Kotaku has learned."
 
Muligan

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Alright guys... Rerolled Game Consulting company is putting is a bid to run Daybreak games. Let's get it together.
 
mkopec

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Pretty much saw this coming. Man has produced jack and shit for the past 10 yrs or whatever there. Good riddance. All the top management should be gone IMO. Bring in some fresh minds that actually want to make good games, not sit there just existing.
 
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I checked Dave Georgeson's twitter and he changed his bio to "Just this guy, y'know?" Before it had something to do with director of development.
 
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