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Originally Posted by R Flair
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wtf is this^ incoherent dribble?
You have your facts and timeline completely backwards.
McQuaid had nothing but respect before the end of Vanguard. He had over 30 million from M$ before they pulled his funding after a regime change.
He was behind deadline and lost his funding, he did sell out with his rep alone to exec/pal smed @ SOE.
It sounds like you are confusing Vanguard with Pantheon.
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It was both regime change and the games current state that really turned them off. Plus Brad being a drug addict at the time (how many years?) didn't help.
"It could have beaten WoW if..." is the old tired line used by every single person out there for any upcoming MMO. I remember it was AoC, Warhammer, LOTRO, ESO, ect ect. Well established franchises and yet they never held a candle, Vanguard being made by a new studio and had almost no marketing didn't help with that. The bitterness of WoW is crazy, it's been almost 12 years since that game came out and had they thrown a couple more millions at the Vanguards development it wouldn't have made a difference. The entire structure of the development team was a mess and countless developers that were part of Sigil went on long rants of just how awful it was 9-8 years ago.
And regarding SoE, he had no choice. It was either that, or the game wouldn't ever come out and the studio would have closed sooner.