Maybe. Depending on perspectives. But your credibility isn’t that high at present.
I’ll make a tighter quote-play than Krones:
SOE is in discussions with Sigil regarding the future of Vanguard and Sigil Games
Vanguard is doing decently but not as well as we hoped
SOE is going to be getting more involved with Sigil and Vanguard – our relationship is going to become even tighter – much tighter
When people start getting burned out of the Warcraft expansion (pardon the pun), we need to make sure that the game is more polished and will play on lower end machines
they think to themselves, “ah well, were I younger and had my life not changed, I’d give it a shot, but I just don’t have the time for another EQ with better graphics right now.”
there are arguably a lot of people who by mid to end of this year in the MMOG gamespace for whom Vanguard could potentially be very attractive
Yeah, arguably. Pretty much the same number of players who can find SWG attractive post-Raph.
SOE is now, objectively, a dock where MMO ships go wreck. Vanguard, SWG, Matrix Online, Planetside, EQ and, to a lesser extent, EQ2. With the years instead of growing resources, SOE has worn them out.
I still see a 500k+ game, I was just off by a year for a variety of reasons
I don’t know, if this was politics the best thing you could do is to admit you were wrong and failed, and resign from a management/lead position to do something that fits you better.
I wouldn’t like seeing Brad fired or out this industry. But I’d like to see him stepping down from his position.
You had your chances. And a whole lot of them. Drop ego and pride, step back, and let others have their own as well now.