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I do fear for EQ Next (Lion King Online)...
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MMmm, I dunno.... If I were a venture capitalist and saw the success of P99, I would probably go and hire the guys who did the emulation work and running of the servers as they probably know how to get shit done. Given that this was all done in spare time, imagine if I gave them a paycheck to do it full-time.....
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The amount of money they stand to make here has nothing...absolutely nothing...to do with p99. It barely has anything to do with EQN, much less original EQ. The only real possible risk to p99 is that with the change of ownership will come a shakeup of leadership at the company formerly known as SOE. There has always been a risk that SOE policy would turn its gaze to p99 and emulators, it just never did (for good reasons)...but with new leadership its a new roll of the dice in a way. most likely, it means nothing. But, who knows what Smedley or whatever sycophantic lackey that wants his job really thinks about emulators? Most likely, they---and whatever their replacements are---could not care less. | |||
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02-02-2015, 10:27 PM
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All current and upcoming SOE games will continue to operate and be developed as normal, Daybreak said in that same forum post. "In fact, we expect to have even more resources available to us as a result of this acquisition," the company added, leading to "new exciting developments for our existing IP and games."
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02-02-2015, 10:48 PM
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They're going to put more money into a company that lost a lot of cash last year? Interesting. Something tells me that they haven't done business that way up until now.
I think the golden rule of a takeover is to initially calm everyone down, then get in there and see how it's all operating and then make the necessary changes. Maybe you make "more resources available" by cutting out needless staff positions. As mentioned in the RNF version of this thread, there's people with titles like "Senior Brand Manager" for EQ Next - what does that schmuck do all day? Maybe they'll be cruel and start layoffs eventually, then merge roles and readvertise less jobs with more involved at lower pay? Gotta make it profitable somehow or there's no point...venture capitalists :/
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02-02-2015, 11:50 PM
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I think EQNext is done. No parent company sells off a major division of the company when said division is in the middle of developing a flagship product - not unless something is very wrong. If there was even a chance that EQNext and Landmark would be profitable relative to their current investment (and future investment requirements), Sony would have kept SOE under it's umbrella.
So yeah . . . Sony no doubt saw the staggering low players numbers for Landmark and realized that neither game was going to generate a sufficient ROI to justify keeping the studio. I'd say that this sale is really a monument to Smedley's stupidity - the culmination of all his horrible decisions and direction over the years. If only they had used the template of classic Everquest; a subscription-only model, with updated graphics and better quests and mechanics . . . man, it would have worked wonders.
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