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Planetside post Core Combat was managed by Dave Georgeson. Thank him for the BFR and subsequent garroting of my all time favorite game.
Edit: Also fuck you Brewko wherever you are.
R I P Johari 2003
SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Edit: Also fuck you Brewko wherever you are.
R I P Johari 2003
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Hell even in remodeling we have had people steal tools, break tools and cause a scene. People can get quite upset when they are losing their Johny49 hooker funds.
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A guy can no-call, no-show multiple times, and then when you lay him off, try to steal equipment. Hell, I had a guy get canned and try to swing on the guy who canned him.
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Are you saying he's contradicting himself? It's kind of hard to tell. In case you are, he's not. They're different statements. He said that Smed told everyone that there will be layoffs, generally speaking. The second question is about the actual specific people being laid off knowing before hand, and they didn't. As he went on to say in his AMA, in his case, he actually had to pick his team members that were being laid off alongside him (which is pretty brutal, fwiw). There's no way everyone could've known at the same time, provided his experience was similar to other project managers. They culled the top layers, and had them pick the lower layers too.
Higby was a big reason they switched to BF style gameplay. Probably also because it is obviously popular.
Carey also says in the AMA that PS2 was Smed's baby project. Pretty sure PS Next was Planetside 2 and don't recall there being another iteration of it that got scrapped like with EQ Next. PS1 was not exactly successful, I doubt they were actively looking to make a sequel.
In fact, if I remember correctly back in 2012 during some interviews, someone said Planetside 2 was kind of a "Why not?" type deal, since they already had Forgelight brewing for EQ Next. Seemingly kind of the way H1Z1 came about, as an offshoot and direct result of Planetside 2.
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It's why you tie severance pay to them completing their term of employment. If they do anything stupid during the interim, no extra pay for joo!
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Large acquisitions like this usually have large retention bonuses that are paid out at some point in the future. The usual structure is something like, 25% after 3 months, 25% after 6 months, 50% after 1 year. Sometimes it's spread over the course of two years.
With that said, I expect a very large exodus after the retention bonuses have been paid out. That's just what always happens.
Smed has probably made enough that he can just retire after this. Sorry to disappoint everyone, but being a shitbird pays.
With that said, I expect a very large exodus after the retention bonuses have been paid out. That's just what always happens.
Smed has probably made enough that he can just retire after this. Sorry to disappoint everyone, but being a shitbird pays.
To be fair, Dave HATED the BFRs. I had that discussion with him more than once. PS2 grew out of the skeleton crew of PSNext because Higby sold Smed on making a full new game out of it instead of just an overhaul of the existing game.
Hey guys, what's your beef with Georgeson? A friend's wanting to know who plays EQ since what he knows of the guy makes him feel he's pretty decent running things.
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Shonuff
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I'm sure that would work great in a situation like this, where you have hundreds of people with access to systems, who are also adept at covering their tracks. All it takes is one asshole.
No beef.
I agree with his overall philosophy of trying to grow a community around a developing mmo. Solid public speaker with a positive attitude. I never worked for or with him, so I can't speak to that.
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Whoever negged me for this because of Fays....Fuck you. Fays were an abortion of an idea tacked onto an otherwise good expansion. Seriuosly. FUCK YOU.
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From what I know, he was a good dude but part of the problem there. It doesn't sound like he even knew the games he was in charge of. Basically an idiot. That and meetings with him were a place where ideas went to die.
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georgeson was a lame duck, didnt really represent the franchise for people that actually had been playing it. He literally financially tried to buttfuck people who liked and played eq1/eq2 by making it free to play(pay to win, dont know about eq1 but on eq2 pay to win server when they were experimenting with it there was an item that you could click to destroy mobs)
He Managed to turn a game that released rich large expansions for 40 a piece to a company who sold content releases that offered less than a quarter of the content for the same price, further fucking the fans wallets
he pushed for useless features (SoEmote so you can live out your furry/anthropomorphic fantasy), and things that looked like features that were later crafted into hurdles (Research Assistants)
The fucker was hired by smedley to do only one thing in reality, kick the EQ can down the road. Everything he did was just a direct attempt to fuck peoples wallets and milk the people playing the game as long as they were willing to play. All advertising was still inclusive, and not really branching out to new crowds. Everything this guy did was just to fuck over people he knew were already addicted to the games. Every thing aside from SOEmote preached by cocksmoker was a 2 sided attempt to make the fans cash in more for what they used to get for just 14 a month.
georgeson knew what most people who get addicted to mmos dont...You never forget your first love. It is what you compare all of your future loves to. Whether you played eq1 or eq2 or wow as your first mmo, it was your first love if you got into it and when you are in love you tend to validate flaws and overlook them, and stick with it whether it sucks or not. We all would like to think that these rose colored goggles would break sometime but for some people they dont. Thats the kind of person that SOE targets. The person with OCD who cant let shit go. Its like marketing a future to severely crippled kids.
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