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It is only fair that the buck must stop with Mr. I do not blame the employees as every employee must listen to the boss and dance to his tune.

Throughout this article, I have placed blame at SOE when in reality it was most likely that John Smedley making all of the decisions and had veto power over the direction of the franchise. Eventually, Brad explains the details of that disagreement where he believed there was still room for a hardcore MMORPG while John believed that it was time to grow the genre and start appealing to younger gamers and newer audiences.В Given this new insight, it is now crystal clear to me that it was John Smedley all along who was the impediment to those of us that wanted SOE to finally return to the design values of the original EverQuest and modernize it with state of the art graphics, animations and usability. In the article, Brad reveals that both he and John disagreed about the future of the MMORPG genre. Of course, credit should be given where credit is due. No matter what you think about John Smedley and his stewardship of the EverQuest franchise, without him there would be no EverQuest and without EverQuest, there would be no World of Warcraft. PantheonвЂ™s Chief Creative Officer Brad McQuaid who is one of the creators of EverQuest has penned a worthy tribute to John Smedley where he chronicled SmedleyвЂ™s contributions to EverQuest. John SmedleyвЂ™s Resignation as Daybreak Games CEOДЄs I was getting this article ready for publication, John Smedley resigned as the CEO of Daybreak Games.

#SHADOW OF MEMORIES EVERQUEST HOW TO#

After that, I will offer a deceptively simple solution on how to save the EverQuest franchise. In this article, I will attempt to chronicle the state of EverQuest Next and the host of problems surrounding this alleged upcoming title. The earliest we can expect a new EverQuest is in 2016.It took Blizzard just 4 years to develop World of Warcraft.Incredibly, we are now 6 long years into this task with still no MMORPG in sight.SOE and now Daybreak Games has been developing a successor to the original EverQuest since 2009.For those with short attention spans here they are in a nutshell: overly ambitious and bad design, poor planning, poor execution and failure to respect and continue the EverQuest legacy. If EverQuest Next isnвЂ™t already secretly dead or about to be redesigned, then there are plenty of reasons to demand its immediate demise which I will offer in the paragraphs ahead. The decaying corpse that is EQ Next needs to be buried in an unmarked grave and forgotten. While not officially dead, EverQuest Next in its original conception is for all intents and purposes dead.

So it gives me no pleasure in saying the following: after two torturous years of SOE and now Daybreak Games showing us nothing of substance since the initial announcement back at SOE Live in 2013, itвЂ™s time to burst the methane vaporware balloon known as EverQuest Next. In the past 16 years that have passed since its release, I have never stopped caringВ about the world of Norrath and its future. Being immersed in the world of Norrath was an experience that changed my life. I have always been enthralled by the original EverQuest.

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