Will Daybreak games shut down in 2 months?

Hmmm.... if they couldn't release polished games before... how will they pull of eq3 now that they have even less people working. Guess we will find out, or it might just be rumors.

They might try their usual "hype->sell->release half finished product->abandon secretly but promise cool updates soon" trick they are known for.

 

I'm honestly thinking that report is bunk. They didn't have the resources do do this before the layoffs, and they sure don't have them now.

 

I blame "dead from the neck up syndrome".

 

They'll probably give us some concept art and remind us every three minutes "You can pre-order now!"

Oh wait....Next/Landmark...

Nevermind, they think we're stupid. They'll do it again.

Edit: the more I think about this idea of a Norrathian, pantheon style battle royale game, I think.....wtf....that's the dumbest idea ever.

 

mission accomplished, people are now talking about eq3 instead of layoffs or russian overlords. the studio is alive and kicking guys.

 

Its what I bitched at EQ2 devs for a long time for countless issues "These problems have been solved already, just look at other games" but apparently they carry that same misguided development attitude from EQ2 where if Eq1 did it they couldn't and tried to apply it to the entire industry instead of just EQ1.

 

In order for your ideas to work, Holly would have to:

1. Ask customers questions about what they want, what they have enjoyed, and what they didn't like.

2. Actually hear what they are saying.

3. Take this information seriously.

Instead, what I envision happening is game release that is essentially the same as recent expacs.

1. Unfinished content.
2. Crap quality.
3. Mechanics to incentive cash shop sales
4. p2w
5. Staff contempt for customer feedback.
6. Deceptive business and sales practices.
7. A developer focus as opposed to a customer focus.

 

Note:

If Holly would take the time and interest to ask players questions and LISTEN, they will tell her what innovations they find interesting, where they see games going, and what they will buy.

Not all ideas will be implementable of course, but, the fact that they keep having reboot the next eq tells me they are not doing this.

For example, It still boggles my mind that Georgeson didnt focus group the horrible character models for Next.

I mean, who burns through $100 MM in development without a formalized and objective market research and feedback structure and process? In any other business, not only would you get fired, but you'd be laughed out if the industry you work within.

But, thats how they do things. It's their culture. Arrogant, wasteful and just dumb.

i.e. Fantasy battle royale. Stupid.

 

There's a reason WoW was so successful. It looked at what EQ did wrong and fixed it, something SOE/DBG has been unable to do as a whole. It also doesn't help that unlike Blizzard they're completely unable to take feedback from users, either they ignore it and tell you not to play if you don't like it, or they overreact to it and make sweeping giant changes because a minority was complaining about something no one else cared about.

As long as that's how Daybreak operates EQ3 won't be successful no matter how good it is, plain and simple.

 

This is either the most retarded (or brilliant) PR spin ever to get people to talk about EQ3 instead of sanctions and possible take over of the company or someone is trolling hard.

I dont think anyone at Daybreaks PR department is this brilliant though so my bullshit meter is off the chart.

The two guildies I have that work on H1Z1 and the other who works on PS2 says everyone in the office is laughing at this and they cant imagine any of it being true. They havent heard about any of it at least. They do confirm that there are talks in the corners about DBG being in deep ****, but the bosses wont say anything only that its buisness as usual.

 

I suspect the battle royale stuff is a clever troll. I mean, it's such a gloriously stupid idea. But on the other hand, this IS DBG.

The rest of it is entirely plausible, if for no other reason than economics. And as Feldon said, eq3 has been a very poorly kept secret.

 

I don't think the letter is authentic. Is just try to make everyone happy (eq1/2 last expa, eq3..), without very info.

So.. fabled raid, and weapon with level?

But, they don't have abort EQn one year ago? Dbg has close the project, for reopen few weeks later, without any news? Is.. not very credible.

 

SOEmotes.

/mic drop

 

Funny that now Apple and Samsung have introduced basically the exact same thing with their latest phones.

 

Agreed, the base idea about the SOEmotes was nice, but bad implemented. Maybe was even to soon.

 

If this Reddit post is a troll, what makes it brilliant is all the claims are completely plausible, and that includes the absolutely dipsh*t battle royale idea.

 

EQ3 has been blatantly obvious for years lol.

People just refused to believe it. Holly isn't just sat on a beach somewhere getting a tan.

 

Well, in theory she could have been on Legends of Norrath 2. And a double producer team has happened before. But yes, with the EQN cancellation timing it was somewhat obvious.

 

This is what confuses me, if they are working on EQ3, then why have they gone out of their way to piss off players of EQ and EQ2? It seems to me that you would want to maintain and please as much of your loyal player base as possible moving forward. Their strategy really defies logic in my opinion.