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Originally Posted by Mentathiel
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Verant was just Smedley's RedEye team under a new name, the same RedEye which was created by Sony when they turned SISA into 989 and cut the Everquest team loose so that 989 could focus on sports sims.
Sony apparently thought Everquest would bomb, but Smedley believed in it and they agreed to publish. When it succeeded, Sony bought it back. Early EQ was given a little more creative freedom, since it was never expected to be a huge success, but nothing would have happened without someone in Sony allowing it and the core team was built by Sony anyway and strongly influenced by Sony's development culture, so to act like SOE was ever in any way not Sony would be naive.
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Smedley got turned down by the boss his first attempt .. after that boss got fired he asked the new one and he loved the idea and pretty much let them do whatever they wanted