Sony sold off the SOE to another company no longer owns EQ

[kagrobb]

this is prolly so far down on the radar they do not care. Moving forward with developed games is what they will be doing not chasing after 1200 players for trying to get some type of subscription money. Now if they sold EQ to a patent troll law office in Texas I would become worried.

[Tiggles]

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

this is prolly so far down on the radar they do not care. Moving forward with developed games is what they will be doing not chasing after 1200 players for trying to get some type of subscription money. Now if they sold EQ to a patent troll law office in Texas I would become worried.

On another forum they are looking into the company who bought it, THey have zero other gaming companies and are strictly venture capitalists.

Here is the companys portfolio

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[Sage Truthbearer]

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

On another forum they are looking into the company who bought it, THey have zero other gaming companies and are strictly venture capitalists.

Interesting, but in my opinion SOE has already had a very poor company culture when it comes to gaming development and being satisfied with mediocre products.

[Erydan Ouragan]

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Interesting, but in my opinion SOE has already had a very poor company culture when it comes to gaming development and being satisfied with mediocre products.

That's because most companies don't truly care about their products, they care about making money.

The product is not the end-game, money is. The only thing that counts is the bottom line.

Sure, every game cannot be perfect at release, but some of the stuff they did was just mind-blowing. Buggy, clunky, half-assed pieces of crap? Hey is it playable? Yes? Then let's make money!

[Sage Truthbearer]

I take that back. The fact that some venture capitalist company with no connection to the gaming development community has acquired SOE means that quality of games will now be even worse than they already were. Didn't think that was even possible!