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Originally Posted by Swish2
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They dropped the ball on EQ Next, the gap between the opening trailer and what was being developed was huge. When I saw the first example of EQ Next pvp it looked really bad, made EQ1 pvp mechanics look modern.
Should have invested into it rather than trying to do a big game like that on a budget.
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I've seen countless dev/publisher conferences and stage debuts ranging from E3, PAX ect to small individual ones. SoE Live's EQNext debut we saw in 2013 was so embarrassingly bad and such an incoherent fucked up mess, probably one of the worst I ever saw in terms of how one is managed and performed and I seen a LOT. For the first 20 mins they had someone fuck around with glitter or some shit and then pulled it off the screen early because people were scratching their heads not knowing what the fuck was going on and getting restless. And then the rest of the conference was Smedley being this awkward idiot bumbling back and forth on the stage.
It's amazing how much development crew they pulled off from the likes of EQ1 and EQ2 just to try and create this mess. Incompetence and a constant need to micromanage and coat tail other studios has always been a huge issue at SoE.