John Smedley dropped by Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything,” and the community certainly did ask him anything. Naturally, the Q&A started with Smedley being asked, once again, to apologize for Star Wars Galaxies, which he did. For the sake of time, I’ve compiled a few of his more interesting answers.
In regards to Planetside 2’s premium subscription:
“subscription will NOT remotely be something you need to have. just something nice to have.”
When asked about an Everquest Classic (non-progression) server:
“if that’s what EQ fans wanted we would”
On Everquest Next:
“we plan to make EQ Next great by going places MMOS have never gone. I know that’s vague but it’s coming”
On advertising DUST 514:
“I’m sure helping get the word out. It is a great game. CCP is awesome.”
On balance in Planetside 2:
“At it’s heart, PS2 is similar to PS1. play it and let me know what you think.”
On hand-holding in MMOs:
“I despise the hand holding shit. hate it in a big way.”
On Vanguard:
“It’s going F2P next week with many members of the original team on it! It’s getting a lot of love.”
On streaming Planetside 2:
“We might even be working on a secret twitch.tv and youtube streaming thing I can’t talk about that might or might not be going in as I’m writing this.”
If you want to look through the comments yourself, check em out here:
(Source: Reddit)
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