smed tweeting again

[Arkaiden]

Originally Posted by Moneypennie

http://www.strategyinformer.com/news...r-affected-too

SOE is closing studios, the agency may not even launch, and that game was announced and everything.

Why is George Broussard their informant?

This confuses me....

Too damn close to April 1st imo.

[morf]

Originally Posted by Moneypennie

SOE is closing studios, the agency may not even launch, and that game was announced and everything. I don't think it will happen this month, or any month folks. Radio silence means that they probably found out that SOE was closing studios and the project got scrapped. I'm so sorry all. Hopefully someone else will pickup the project.

GTFO my thread troll. Smed said announcement Q1/Q2. It's not even Q2 yet. Last thing he said was "We will be proud to show" I'm thinking e3 announcement.

[Raymac]

Well, the sky isn't falling, but it does seem to be slipping.

[otomotopia]

Originally Posted by morf

GTFO my thread troll. Smed said announcement Q1/Q2. It's not even Q2 yet. Last thing he said was "We will be proud to show" I'm thinking e3 announcement.

Wrong.

"We have a very big launch coming in the month of March," Smedley said. "It's a big first person shooter franchise that we're really happy with."

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...-2011-2421.htm

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by otomotopia

Wrong.

"We have a very big launch coming in the month of March," Smedley said. "It's a big first person shooter franchise that we're really happy with."

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...-2011-2421.htm

I don't know. It's hard to say that a quote like that from early December consitutes a set in stone deadline. Considering the tweets yesterday, hopefully that information will be "soon".

[Pella]

SOE are simply shifting staff around. to different departments.

They do this often, programmers, Designers dont stay with one game for its life time, they run a business and any new project they simply put the experienced guys in there to get it off the ground and running.

So this so called "department" is simply a shuffleup of staff to deal with what SOE got going on.

See smeds tweet below.

@j_smedley Anything new to release about Planetside:Next? thought we'd be in beta by mid-march :/

@Jake_Matter nothing new to report. Lots of work going on. A lot of new team members going onto it helping out. I mean a lot.

Dont belive the closure of departments bullcrap.

Some big changes are going on in SOE and we will know sooner rather than later.

[Oty]

from PC gamer website quote:
SOE’s full official statement:
“As part of a strategic decision to reduce costs and streamline its global workforce, SOE announced today that it will eliminate 205 positions and close its Denver, Seattle and Tucson studios. As part of this restructuring, SOE is discontinuing production of The Agency so it can focus development resources on delivering two new MMOs based on its renowned PlanetSide and EverQuest properties, while also maintaining its current portfolio of online games. All possible steps are being taken to ensure team members affected by the transition are treated with appropriate concern.

This strategic decision will have no impact on SOE’s current portfolio of live games; additionally SOE will transition development efforts for the Denver and Tucson studios’ suite of products to its San Diego headquarters. This strategic alignment of development resources better positions SOE to remain a global leader in online gaming and deliver on its promise of creating entertaining games for players of all ages, and servicing the 20 million players that visited SOE servers in just the past year.”

We send our best wishes to those affected by the layoffs, and hope that they find new positions quickly.
end quote

seems like Planetside nxt is still alive! (knock on wood)

[otomotopia]

Originally Posted by Pella

@j_smedley Anything new to release about Planetside:Next? thought we'd be in beta by mid-march :/

@Jake_Matter nothing new to report. Lots of work going on. A lot of new team members going onto it helping out. I mean a lot.

By a lot it seems he meant about half or more of those left over from the layoffs being put on the project.

Oh my god. It's actually happening!

[Geist]

Originally Posted by Oty

from PC gamer website quote:
SOE’s full official statement:
“As part of a strategic decision to reduce costs and streamline its global workforce, SOE announced today that it will eliminate 205 positions and close its Denver, Seattle and Tucson studios. As part of this restructuring, SOE is discontinuing production of The Agency so it can focus development resources on delivering two new MMOs based on its renowned PlanetSide and EverQuest properties, while also maintaining its current portfolio of online games. All possible steps are being taken to ensure team members affected by the transition are treated with appropriate concern.

This strategic decision will have no impact on SOE’s current portfolio of live games; additionally SOE will transition development efforts for the Denver and Tucson studios’ suite of products to its San Diego headquarters. This strategic alignment of development resources better positions SOE to remain a global leader in online gaming and deliver on its promise of creating entertaining games for players of all ages, and servicing the 20 million players that visited SOE servers in just the past year.”

We send our best wishes to those affected by the layoffs, and hope that they find new positions quickly.
end quote

seems like Planetside nxt is still alive! (knock on wood)

Wow, they even said "Planetside". Usually it's just "A certain FPS" or " "

[Sentrosi]

I'm sure that Smed didn't realize this was going to happen at the beginning of the month. So the news releases dried up because of the uncertainty of what was happening. Hopefully we get another flurry of announcements in the coming week or so. And if I have to buy up some Sony stock to get this game going, I'll do just that.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Sentrosi

I'm sure that Smed didn't realize this was going to happen at the beginning of the month. So the news releases dried up because of the uncertainty of what was happening. Hopefully we get another flurry of announcements in the coming week or so. And if I have to buy up some Sony stock to get this game going, I'll do just that.

I beg to differ. As CEO if anyone knew they were making big layoffs and closing offices, it would be him.

All this is making perfect sense though. They are closing some resources, but diverting others to PS:N. If word got out that a bunch of people currently working on other projects would be shifted over to San Diego and Planetside, then those other people left behind might deduce that their pink slip was on the way.

Keeping things hush hush over the last month totally falls in line with what we are seeing today. As sad as it is to see anyone lose their job, knowing that SOE will be so focused on developing Planetside and not splitting those limited resources across a number of upcoming games most likely means very very good things for us fans.

[DviddLeff]

As sad as it is to see people made redundant, we now have more people and more money available to PS2...

[kamikava]

So by big release he meant "release" of people from jobs?

[Pella]

@j_smedley I'm very happy to hear #PSN is getting all these new staff members, despite layoffs. You said an announcement in march though...

@otomotopia we aren't quite ready yet.

So not yet ready to announce anything.

Few days, weeks yet.

[Lonehunter]

I can't wait to have a bunch of people who where forced to abandon projects in other studios/projects to work on a sequel to SOE's seemingly least important MMO in the past. I hope they monitor sabotage...