Is John Smedley Returning to Daybreak to Oversee the EverQuest Franchise?
This week the news broke that John Smedley was “leaving” Amazon Games in San Diego. It was rumored that he was working on an unannounced sci-fi MMORPG. Smedley was there …
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Possible Reasons why Chris Metzen “Citizen of Earth” has Returned to Blizzard Entertainment
There was big news last week as the entertainment world’s current leader of diversity and inclusion Blizzard Entertainment celebrated a straight white cisgender male, and sci-fi writer returning to the …
One Tamriel Made Me Quit Elder Scrolls Online
Many years ago, I played the Elder Scrolls Online on the PC and I must say I enjoyed my time there. I leveled a character to 45. I played ESO …
Woke Cowards at Amazon’s New World MMORPG Ignore Christmas and Replaces it with Winter Convergence Festival
In predictable fashion, the wokesters responsible for Amazon’s New World MMORPG have decided to replace the celebration of Christmas with a generic fake holiday called the Winter Convergence Festival. This …
Enad Global 7’s Lord of the Rings Online is Utterly Unprepared to Capitalize on Amazon’s Rings of Power Series
Back in December 2020, the news that international video game conglomerate Enad Global 7 had purchased Daybreak Games sent shockwaves throughout the MMORPG community. Daybreak Games owned the EverQuest franchise …
Veteran Daybreak Developer Alan VanCouvering Berates Loyal EverQuest Player
In recent years, a disturbing trend has manifested where video game developers are verbally attacking gamers on social media. Part of the reason for this is players are becoming more …
The Fundamental Problem Plaguing MMOs
Imagine what would happen if your favorite restaurant changed out their staff every few years? It would be hard to believe that the quality of the food would still remain …
The Persecution, Cancellation, and Replacement of Straight White Male Blizzard Developers
Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea who Geoff Frazier was or who he worked for. I’ve been covering Blizzard’s World of Warcraft for years and I have …
Amazon’s Depraved New World MMORPG: a Trojan Horse of Corporate Wokeness and Gender Theory Propaganda
I wanted to like New World, I really did. But, only a few minutes after loading the program, I was subjected to gratuitous identity politics hectoring that quickly eroded the …
The Explosive Revelation that Challenged the Myth of EverQuest Creator and Gamer God Brad McQuaid
The unfortunate reality that the EverQuest franchise — the most profitable enterprise in Sony history according to veteran MMORPG dev Jeff Butler — never fully developed and actualized its massive …
Blizzard is Using Disturbing Violent Imagery to Recruit New Developers
For over 20 years, video game studios have making false promises about their studio culture to woo naive developers to join them. The careers section of every studio has the …
Don’t Tell Koster and Bartle but More Freedom Exists in Virtual Worlds than the Real World
As our world rapidly descends into totalitarianism via the ruse of preposterous COVID lockdowns, pervasive Big Tech censorship, and so-called “hate speech” laws, I have come to the sobering conclusion …