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The Landmark Chronicle – A Mission Statement

21 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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anger, building, cancellation, daybreak, delay, eqn, everquest next, hate, landmark, sandbox, sandvox

So that whole EverQuest Next thing.

Yeap, it sucks. Put a huge hit on confidence of the MMO genre and absolutely affirmed that MMO design and MMO business are so divergent from each other that they might as well be on separate planets. Of course, it also gave people a LOT of reasons to start snarling at The Big Companies for Crushing Dreams and Making Things Awful.

More directly, though, it put Landmark squarely in to the crosshairs of a huge load of bile. And I think that’s kind of unfair.

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People always hate on the pretty ones…

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Of Smedley and e-Thuggin’

25 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in Human Things

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daybreak, ddos, e-thug, hackers, MMO, smedley, soe

The entire story around this post, frankly, makes me a bit ill.

John Smedley, former CEO of Daybreak Games, has stepped down from his position in order to take a lesser role after some time off from the company.  Of course, there’s no official line as to the reasoning or rationale, but many who have been following the sordid story of Smedley and the “hacker” group Lizard Squad already added two and two together–the tirade against convicted asspuppet Julius Kivimaki and the subsequent “sentencing” handed down by the Finnish justice system ticked off a lengthy DDoS attack from the group, and for his actions and words, he was made to move down the ladder.

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