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Originally Posted by Frighteous [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was a situation of hungry developers (Verant) with an innovative idea that Everquest emerged from, once SoE got their hands on Everquest it turned to shit. The same thing with all these other MMOs you see getting released, and if you'll notice the larger the company, the worse the MMO - excluding Blizzard, and that's just because of it's success rate, I can't stand wow. Vanguard was horrible, it was hyped while it was in development. Just like with all these other games like Warhammer, AOC, Aion and etc. They're hyped while they're in development, then launch comes and people play it and realize that the game seems to be designed by a team led by a guy with a degree in Business Management, paid salary with minimal reason to want to 'push his team to make a better product' - The guys at Verant at the time just made Everquest their own little personal monster and it seemed they all were passionate about the game even more than the players, this is why it was such a unique experience. But like I said, they were also hungry, just like any other professional if you look at it from a general standpoint. Performers, entertainers etc all are at their best, well most of them, when they're hungry.

That's completely incorrect, Verant was SoE. The game was developed from the ground up in the same office space where 989 studios was developing games. However Sony didn't originally want their name on the product because of the uncertainty of success for such a new idea.

EQ was and always has been a product of Sony game development.