More on 38
Gamasutra has an excellent, sourced report up on the final days at 38 Studios.
Scott Jennings
The Week The Music Died
It's hard to overstate how difficult this week was for what remains of the MMO industry.
First off, Bioware took an axe to the Old Republic team. No official numbers on how many were let go, but most people I've talked to put the total bloodletting
So, Yeah.
I think it's time to fire the blog back up.
A Programming Note
As you probably noted I haven't had a lot of time or inclination to post updates here.
I frequently post on Facebook. Feel free to subscribe to my updates, they are 99.99% public and 85.32% irrelevant. (I did post a thing about Mass Effect today though.
Old Republic Has More Subscribers Than You Do (Unless Your Name Is Bobby Kotick)
It's official: per CFO Eric Brown, during an earnings conference call, SWTOR is making a lot of money, with 1.7m subscribers (which Brown went to an unusual effort to quantify correctly as a mix of paying customers and customers with billing information entered but still on free
Finally, You Will Get Your Chance To Kill Fippy Darkpaw
Everquest 1 going free-to-play.
With the announcement, the frozen-in-amber separate EQMac server is also going away, which disappointed the people who preferred EQ frozen in amber.
Rumor: WH40K MMO Cancelled, THQ Prepares For Liquidation Sale
Nothing more than rumor at this point.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheKevinDent/status/158454172239409152 Kotaku detailing above leak: http://kotaku.com/5876253/thq-wipes-out-games-planned-for-2014-to-ready-itself-for-sale-says-insider
The Vigil-developed THQ-published MMO has had a very long and by all accounts troubled development history but was closing in on eventual release. However it's