Comments on: Long Live EverQuest

By: Krones

Krones — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:51:51 +0000

Ax the two devs in my prior post, the number has bumped up to three total. No pun intended with the ax.

Darby you sound jaded, bitter and upset, what happened?

By: Darby Quidmarc

Darby Quidmarc — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:18:22 +0000

“Lastly, a big thank you to Sojourn/TorilMUD from which Steve and I COPIED NEARLY LINE FOR LINE”

There, fixed that for you, Brad McBling.

And as for marketing genius? Its closer to marketing autistic.

By: Krones

Krones — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:24:58 +0000

Evil lies, how dare you take McQuaid’s name in vain! I was being sarcastic with the vanboi comment, but hard to tell on your end, I should have dressed it up with the funny.

Of course McQuaid sounds like a broken record, it’s habitual, a natural reflex. Yea, McQuaids zomg’ we have the best team who worked on Everquest! Vanguard will roxorz your boxors. I get tired of that bullshit, especially since two keys developers who worked on EverQuest left Sigil in the last year, very few core members of the vision era former EverQuest players were familiar with are actually still with McQuaid at Sigil.

But in his defense, if McQuaid thanked a slew of developers still working on EverQuest that could make him look, not bad or weak, but questionable, meaning it could set off the wrong impression with the Sigil employee’s and vanbois who read it. McQuaid does thank everyone who has worked on the project, an over generalization, but eh, I guess if I were in your shoes, I would feel more strongly about it as well.

By: Grouchy Gnome

Grouchy Gnome — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:54:30 +0000

I didn’t meant to imply that you are trying to publicize Vanguard in any way. It just bugged me that he talked almost entirely about people he remembers who happen to work at Sigil now (not completely, since he still talks about Trost). I guess it’s possible that he doesn’t have any fond memories of working with people who are employees of other companies, but it seemed to me like it was purposeful.

Purposeful in that he likes to reiterate time and again how many former EQ devs now work at Sigil. I wouldn’t have taken it has a publicity stunt if I hadn’t seen it happen so many times before. Brad McQuaid is a marketing genius. Or close to it. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, I’m just calling him on it.

Perhaps saying the speech was not genuine was a bit strong. It seems genuine, but selectively injected with a little self-promotion. That said, I’m not sure if there were any official speeches from anyone else who launched the game. So to summarize… Touché.

By: Krones

Krones — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:39:24 +0000

I disagree, McQuaid still has a close relationship with EverQuest, in his own way, the memories and what not and I ganked his toast from the VG forums, so evil of me for using it as publicity stunt for Vanguard if I were a mega Vanguard vanboi, which I’m not.

I felt it would be appropriate for the occassion to share it with the few readers here who still play or played EverQuest. I’ll gladly post any other thoughts from others, I’d love to read a speech from Trost, hell, even Smedley too. I didn’t come across any other “tributes” at the time of writing. Do you know of any others?

By: Grouchy Gnome

Grouchy Gnome — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:58:06 +0000

Kudos to Brad for being able to celebrate the anniversary, but bad Brad for using it as another publicity stunt. There were a few too many “oh and this dude works at Sigil now too, see” mentions in there for this to be considered truly genuine. Either way, congrats to EverQuest and everyone who has been on the team for keeping it going strong.