Amazon gives Smedley a studio to produce a new MMO/Online game

[Oleris]

http://massivelyop.com/2017/02/15/amazon-game-studios-gave-smed-a-new-team-to-run-building-new-online-game/

Excited to hear more about this.

[Swish]

http://i.imgur.com/s2zZjG5.jpg

I'm still backing Pantheon to be good, not sure what Smedley is capable of - imagine if they worked together?

[R Flair]

Smedley has never done anything right in his entire career outside of hiring a couple of nerds to create a 3d MUD. He is the sole reason EQ live has sucked for over a decade, and why SOE no longer exists. Last I heard, he still believes MMOs should be designed for accessibility (they shouldn't) and that micro-transactions and free to play is a boon to the genre (it has never been, nor will be).

Amazon is throwing money away dealing with this guy, but Jeff Bezos is an ass goblin, so I'm totally cool with that.

[Pokesan]

like zero chance ill play that shit fuck smed hes trash

[AenorVZ]

http://i.imgur.com/s2zZjG5.jpg

I'm still backing Pantheon to be good, not sure what Smedley is capable of - imagine if they worked together?

Brad made my two favorite games. Vanguard flopped, but it was a seriously amazing game. It just sucks that Brad was such a shit leader at that point in his life and he couldn't see it through to the success it deserved. All Smedley has ever done is destroy things better men have created. Please ban this poster for blasphemy.

[AzzarTheGod]

Brad made my two favorite games. Vanguard flopped, but it was a seriously amazing game. It just sucks that Brad was such a shit leader at that point in his life and he couldn't see it through to the success it deserved. All Smedley has ever done is destroy things better men have created. Please ban this poster for blasphemy.

Vanguard is the WoWified EQ that we all wanted. It was the updated EQ with modern designs that EQ1 would have had if the design existed at the time.

People act like EQ wouldn't have included Vanguard design if it existed. WoW came out with the blueprint for the future and Vanguard adopted it to EQ perfectly.

I loved how crafted gear could be the best gear possible in Vanguard (until raids came out).

Anyway hope some angel thief steals the DB from Daybreak and gives it to the VG Emu project. Steal the netcode while you're at it. We need an employee to put his life on the line to resurrect VG. Its not like Daybreak is doing anything with it or has any intention, because fact is, they didnt even keep 1 server open. NOT EVEN 1 SERVER.

If I worked for Daybreak and knew where the backup was stored I'd leak it out of a sense of duty, assuming there was no way to get busted.

[Xaanka]

smedley always stuck me as a pedo name

just say it aloud

smedley

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[AzzarTheGod]

doesnt help the guy looks like a bonafide Catholic Church child molester

[Xaanka]

i hope someone calls a bomb threat on him again lol

[JurisDictum]

"John Smedley is an American businessman and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $20 million."

[AzzarTheGod]

"John Smedley is an American businessman and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $20 million."

lol closing and shuttering abortion MMO's for 2 decades pays pretty well.

[bigjerry]

pervert dying MMO until only the sickest addicts can play it, add incredibly judaic cash shop

he's a real (((sony))) entrepreneur. good fit for (((bezos)))

now that I think of it, mcquaalude may have done the white race a service by giving sony one of the few games so broken (((they))) couldn't turn a profit from raping

[AzzarTheGod]

pervert dying MMO until only the sickest addicts can play it, add incredibly judaic cash shop

he's a real (((sony))) entrepreneur. good fit for (((bezos)))

now that I think of it, mcquaalude may have done the white race a service by giving sony one of the few games so broken (((they))) couldn't turn a profit from raping

lmao woke af

[Xaanka]

pervert dying MMO until only the sickest addicts can play it, add incredibly judaic cash shop

he's a real (((sony))) entrepreneur. good fit for (((bezos)))

now that I think of it, mcquaalude may have done the white race a service by giving sony one of the few games so broken (((they))) couldn't turn a profit from raping

project 1999 pat

[maskedmelon]

tbh, it is truly amazing how long SoE was able to ride on the success of EQ. We're talking a devloper that produced nothing but failure following their first game. I seem to recall watching a new documentary that said it only cost a few million to make eq. At one point EQ had over 500,000 subs paying $15 a month. pure profit. EQ allowed SoE to turn out terrible products for one and a half decades before Sony finally started to realize what was going on with the NA subsidiary.

[dafier]

Smedley has never done anything right...

Amazon is throwing money away dealing with this guy, but Jeff Bezos is an ass goblin, so I'm totally cool with that.


WOOOO! Thanks bro. /concur


Also, he shit is bound to fail. Maybe his 'net worth' will go up by 50% though.....who knows.

[dafier]

tbh, it is truly amazing how long SoE was able to ride on the success of EQ. We're talking a devloper that produced nothing but failure following their first game. I seem to recall watching a new documentary that said it only cost a few million to make eq. At one point EQ had over 500,000 subs paying $15 a month. pure profit. EQ allowed SoE to turn out terrible products for one and a half decades before Sony finally started to realize what was going on with the NA subsidiary.

I wouldn't call the roll out of PlanetSide a failure. However it didn't take long for it to go in to the shitter.

[Old Prexus]

Why Smed and Brad would allow me to fall in love with my guild master on Odus, yet not be able to mate with her was a inhuman breach of my trust as a gamer. I'm finding it really hard to open the door to new ideas from that master bait'n'switcher.

[maskedmelon]

Why Smed and Brad would allow me to fall in love with my guild master on Odus, yet not be able to mate with her was a inhuman breach of my trust as a gamer. I'm finding it really hard to open the door to new ideas from that master bait'n'switcher.

omgosh, you can too, OP! allow me to introduce you to:


/em




have fun! (*^^*)