Poll: Was Brad Mcquaid Overrated?
 

Was Brad Mcquaid Overrated?

You can quibble whether he invented it, but MMOs became a thing from his labors.

dude ascended into the heavens on a firiona vie rainbowbody

MMO's were already a thing before EQ. They were called MUDs. Also, a few MMos came out before EQ anyway Meridian 59 for example. Brad Mcquaid wasn't the only one working on the original EQ. It was a whole team of Programers, Software developers, graphics artists etc. Brad just lead it. He mostly just told people what to make and they made it for Him.

There’s a cool documentary where they interviewed him and several of the super early devs. Was really well done and they actually talked about why EQ had such in depth lore. Apparently they hired some guys who had spent 10 years writing a MUD. Kang remember they said they were scared that they might get sued by the people who invented Dungeons and Dragons when the game launched.

I’ll try to find / link the vid tomorrow. I hate doing anything on my phone.

:rolleyes:

Shameful

https://i.imgur.com/VjiuTkN.jpeg

brad mcquaid knocked down the towers (dual lines of tar on the desk)

this is gonna rock

head almost exploded just now