John Smedley interview on the future of MMO's and SOE - Page 4

Elvbryn · 05-19-2008, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Deson

As reliable as Nintendo Power when reviewing their own system releases.

to bad it was an interview with sid.....try again

Deson · 05-20-2008, 12:23 AM

Ok, then the original point restated-- It's great when you have a dev commenting on how great his own product will be. Just look how that's worked with SOE.

I like Sid's games but I never trust a dev to judge their own work. All that ever matters to me is how much I enjoy it. If I weren't lazy I could probably pull up quotes for how great Civ 3 was going to be and then match it against the comments in the CiV 4 manually that tactfully said Civ 3 sucked. Or, since this is an SOE thread, I can just quote Smed for just about everything the company has put out.

Devs are not credible for judging their own work.Neither are hype mags. You are using both...

Uyaem · 05-20-2008, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Elvbryn

to bad it was an interview with sid.....try again

LOL, do you even read what you type?

Even if it'd be quoted in the Bible, it still would be a quote. By the creator of the game.

Elvbryn · 05-20-2008, 03:08 PM

correct it is a biased remark by the creator however i have always enjoyed all the civ games am willing to bet that the game will be good the devs have always done a good job improving on what they messed up or players felt was wrong with past games and trust him to give a semi good report what the game is going to look like

Edwin Ahe · 05-20-2008, 03:12 PM

Ppl will praise it even when its complete shit. Marketing works wonders today.

Kiljoi · 05-20-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by vochore

this is how i first got on the internet...any 1 remeber the sega dreamcast...had a keyboard game pad was the mouse and dialup for internet...used that for about a year before i got my first computer.

Hell yeah, I loved playing Dreamcast online. It was laggy as hell at times but really new to the console gamers. I remember spending my fair share of time playing football and phantasy star online.

Hmm.. laggy as hell at times... damn. Good to see we dont have that problem now.... ewps. PROGRESS!! WEWT!

dawy · 05-21-2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Gori

I didn't realize they were planning on making The Agency a PS3 game.

Yup i can see move is the reason why SCEI has taken a more active role in SOE,the PS3 is sonys cash cow and they wont want bug ridded shit to come out on it to often

Ruckus · 05-21-2008, 11:19 AM

Found this on msnbc.com:

Sony seeks to reinvent online gaming - On the Level - MSNBC.com

tl;dr

Slippery · 05-21-2008, 12:25 PM

I bet smedley's kids play wow

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The biggest thing that I think that we’ve learned is that they’ve shown that polish is probably the king of everything. In the early days of this industry, it was new, so putting something out there that was untested … (the audience) was a little bit more forgiving. In this day and age, you’ve got to spend money to get the production value and polish the game. And that’s something that we’re really focused on.

No, no I don't think you've learned that at all.

Elvbryn · 05-21-2008, 06:27 PM

i think with all the interviews recently done with him we are going to see a huge change in the way soe handles things in the future they are now a division of Sony and not there own entity and as such i dont see Sony putting up with the way soe handles customer service i think it may take some time for this to change in there games like everquest 2 but in there upcoming releases i think it will be much better and slowly leech into the way things are handled in there current games

and no im no soe fanboi i fucking hate the way they handle things currently and the state of eq2 but i have to have hope that things will change because eq2 is still one of the better games i have played and enjoyed more then any other i have played