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MMORPG.com Videos - Fan Faire Interview with John Smedley

Check out this little interview with John Smedley from the recent SOE Fan Faire.

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Neopsych writes: Hold on. he does not have the horns of the devil and is surrounded by the fires of hell. These forums have misled me. He does have that "rabbit in the headlights" look about him though. Would it hurt to smile John? Thu Aug 21 2008 3:10PM Report
crowt244 writes: Lol..no joke :) As if he's waiting for some disgruntled consumer to hit'em in the back of the head with a bat :) Thu Aug 21 2008 3:15PM Report
Souvec writes: I dunno, seems like he hasn't been sleeping well for sometime now. I think the looks he had was that someone was willing to interview him, as if they cared to hear what he had to say. Thu Aug 21 2008 3:37PM Report
ebonfire writes: How he has remained CEO after driving away the fan base in almost every SOE game that's been published under them is beyond me. Hahah "listen to feedback players give us".. yeah too bad your just too dumb to do anything with it John, and now its been confirmed in my mind that you do look like a creepy used car salesman. Thu Aug 21 2008 4:26PM Report
cosimusta writes: I bet he sux at the pvps Thu Aug 21 2008 5:17PM Report
Bob_Blawblaw writes: Never trust a man who doesn't blink. Thu Aug 21 2008 6:10PM Report
Teran1987 writes: Sony Online Entertainment Where games go to die. Thu Aug 21 2008 6:11PM Report
eccoton writes: First time I have seen the infamous Smedley. What is the deal with his eyes? That no blinking and raised eyebrow thing is what my students do when they are explaining why they missed class. Thu Aug 21 2008 6:45PM Report
Abrahmm writes: Robots don't blink. Coincidence? Thu Aug 21 2008 8:19PM Report
JestorRodo writes: What a ton of horsesh*t ! Thu Aug 21 2008 8:33PM Report
st.patrick writes: you notice he said nothing about SWG? hahaha Thu Aug 21 2008 8:49PM Report
Eussic writes: The reason he doesn't blink is that he is a demon from hell set on destroying the mmo world as we know it!!!! Thu Aug 21 2008 8:50PM Report
Cnuck writes: awwww No screamin fan running up to punch him the nuts, disappointing. Thu Aug 21 2008 9:24PM Report
taintedsoul writes: kill more games jerk.............. Fri Aug 22 2008 2:35AM Report
silandril writes: * Robots don't blink. Coincidence? That observation alone has left me rolling and made my morning. Thx. Fri Aug 22 2008 5:17AM Report
Souvec writes: Seriously, try to match him blink for blink. I have to tap out. Fri Aug 22 2008 10:15AM Report
infrared1 writes: Serious question.... Is he on crack or something?? Fri Aug 22 2008 6:09PM Report
Sinent writes: wow hate much? you guys have just about kicked that dead horse to death,look at what they have done for vanguard, and games dont go to soe to die most were doa and came here for help better or worse Fri Aug 22 2008 8:41PM Report
temuchin writes: Say what you will about the man, if Smedley didn't exist there would be no Warhammer Online, no WOW, no CoH, no Guildwars, no nothing except Korean MMOs inspired by UO. EQ proved to the industry that MMOs can make big money and Blizzard and Mythic would certainly never have developed their MMOs if EQ hadn't been a runaway success. Cryptic and Arenanet wouldn't even exist. LMAO. You all are on site called MMORPG.COM. The genre of MMORPG wouldn't even exist as we know it if Smed hadn't sold the Sony brass on the idea of MMORPGs in 1996 and launched Verant to publish EQ. Sure SOE's had its share of stinkers over the years but 10 years later every american MMO is still basically following the formula established by Smed with only slight upgrades and adjustments(raiding endgame, epic gear, tank/healer/dps, expansions with new continents/levels/classes/races as a means to "update" games year after year). I haven't played a SOE game in years but if you know anything of history, Smed's the 2nd most influential person in the commercialization of MMOs after Garriott with UO Fri Aug 22 2008 8:53PM Report
Shot5000 writes: Sorry Temuchin. Smed didn't invent, make, or even develop or design EQ. Verant Interactive did. Then SoE bought them out when EQ was at it's peak. (Somewhere between Luclin and PoP) Do your history before giving a lecture about how good a man is that had nothing to do with MMO's other then buying them out to turn them into money grabs. Sat Aug 23 2008 2:52AM Report
benbook writes: @temuchin Brad McQuaid is the biggest influence to mmorpg's today. Its terrible what happened to his reputation :( Sat Aug 23 2008 8:40AM Report
Mitara writes: I must admit, in some ways I do admire Smedley. He has somehow been able to keep SOE alive, despite failure after failure and bad decision after bad decision. Wonder how he does it? Sat Aug 23 2008 9:39AM Report
Orphes writes: I think Shot5000 should learn the history before telling people they are wrong. Sat Aug 23 2008 2:52PM Report
redavni writes: Obviously I've heard of Smedley before, but this is the first time I've seen him. Something is not right with this guy. Sun Aug 24 2008 3:21AM Report
BlackWatch writes: I'd nearly forgotten what Satan looked like. Thanks for the refresher. Mon Aug 25 2008 12:41AM Report
konrad16660 writes: Smedly didn't do jack. Sony is washed up and makes second rate games. The only thing Sony has done in the past few years and break games. Verant made EQ not Sony. Can we request no info from Sony ever be posted on mmorpg.com and leave it to the real games? Mon Aug 25 2008 6:11AM Report
Shot5000 writes: Yeah, I don't hate the man at all. It's just SoE seems to be doing some really bad things as of late. EQ and EQ2 have like released under 10 armor models for pc character since 2001 combined? EQ2 still uses the CPU to run Video with no dual core support? And the entire SWG thing? I'm surprised SoE is still around. Mon Aug 25 2008 11:02AM Report
Kazzer writes: smedly on speed Mon Aug 25 2008 3:33PM Report
Malolas writes: actually Shot5000, Smedley originally hired McQuaid in 1996 to work on EverQuest for Sony Interactive Studios America..you should do your history :) Tue Aug 26 2008 4:44AM Report
Shot5000 writes: I did some research and it look like I was wrong about Smed being involved from EQ from the beginning. =C Sorry about that. With that said, I still hate the turn SoE mmo's have taken. Either way, I was wrong and I will admit it... I just wish Eq, and Eq2 could make some new player armor instead of recoloring 10 models over and over. (Link that proved me wrong.) http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/everquesttheruinsofkunark/news_2580857.html Tue Aug 26 2008 11:58AM Report
jardail writes: Smedley is a joke, the man has remained at the helm in spite of failure after failure because Sony has the money to throw at SOE. But for anyone here who thinks he has done anything OTHER than drive people away from anything related to SOE, look at the number of anti-smedley posts. They outnumber the fanbois almost 10 to 1. Those ain't good odds. Tue Jan 27 2009 1:05PM Report

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