To be fair, Brad McQuaid kept to himself after making a few mistakes. He just kept making MMOs the way he wanted to without anyone else stopping him. I can admire that.
Whereas SOE/Daybreak payed for Storybricks, which is arguably akin to signing Sam Bradford to your Football team and having him injure himself and have nothing to show for the season... snake oil salesmen come to mind. Storybricks was sold up to be more than what it actually was. Realistically, I have my doubts that anyone can make advanced AI like Storybricks was describing in a gameplay scenario.
Brad just focused on what he loves to do: make games. No angel investors, and that may have pissed a few people off that he was working with, but they're just not used to what he had to do to get EverQuest off the ground.
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