Daybreak assets been frozen

[d3r14k]

For sure Landmark was a great concept: User created content, and attempting to pay people for their creations? Genius. With games in the last 10 years like Minecraft and seeing the amount of time people are willing to invest in creating something. Funneling that kind of personal originality and directing it towards something like an MMO, where a massive amount of content is needed, is a pretty revolutionary concept. There may have been other games that have followed the user-created content to some degree, but I think Landmark really upped the scale in that regard. But yeah, they were selling those "adventurer packs" for $150 or something egregious. I do feel bad for people who invested thinking they were going to get a good payoff (monetarily or otherwise) somewhere down the road.

Next was going to be super ambitious... emergent AI, destructive atmospheres in an MMO, all set in Norrath? I was super excited for this game and remember watching a 3 hour long video of some presentation and being amazed at the complexity they were going for.

Welp... maybe Pantheon will deliver? At this point I'm pretty content with what P99 offers, it's basically what I want a modern MMO to recreate anyway.

[Vheran]

DAoC had the best mmorpg PvP and red eq will never be as fun change my mind actually ya cant

[paulgiamatti]

I already had this argument with Rogean last year: https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...=263084&page=2

And I still stand by everything I said w/r/t elf sim legality. P99 isn't going anywhere because there was an agreement struck which will survive any leadership change within DBG, at least so long as the terms of that contract are still valid (they are). But yes, in some sense P99 is ultimately beholden to the EQ franchise IP owners. That's why there was an agreement in the first place.

[Mead]

you guys got nothing better to do than tinfoil about this bullshit lol?

cringing hard

[Bisonzabi]

Originally Posted by Swish2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

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.

[Mead]

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

You fucking love it

if I didn't I wouldn't be here

I'm glad people actually care about dumb shit for my amusement

[AzzarTheGod]

Massively is tinfoil


Cringe

[Wonkie]

Columbus Nova, you may recall, is the parent company of Daybreak Games. The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has given Renova and other Russian companies until June 5th to “wind down operations, contracts, or other agreements” involving these figures.

see you at midnight friends

[MagpieRockyl]

June 5 is a big day. I'm getting my teeth cleaned and also going to recite some poetry at a bar.

[Oleris]

I see no recent news on the June 5th. Didn't DBG say the current owner used to be part of the group and is not part of the crackdown?