SOE no longer apart of Sony (renamed Daybreak game company

[whitey]

Dear Players, Partners and Friends,
Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!
As part of this transition, SOE will now become Daybreak Game Company. This name embodies who we are as an organization, and is a nod to the passion and dedication of our employees and players. It is also representative of our vision to approach each new day as an opportunity to move gaming forward.
So what exactly does this mean for you? It will be business as usual and all SOE games will continue on their current path of development and operation. In fact, we expect to have even more resources available to us as a result of this acquisition. It also means new exciting developments for our existing IP and games as we can now fully embrace the multi-platform world we are living in.
Our games and players are the heart and soul of our organization, and we are committed to maintaining our portfolio of online games and pushing the limits of where we can take online gaming together.
Thank you for your continued support. See you in game!
The Team at Daybreak

http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comment...daybreak_game/

So...

[Professor Cena]

RIP

[Rinさとり]

This is good news for Entropia Universe! Because Sony sucks but MindArk is awesome.

Erm say what? SOE has nothing to do with Entropia Universe.
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SOE was mostly run independently from SCEE and SCEU and SCEJ before the sale.

SOE is still SOE despite the name/owner change.. They still where the guys who sold the EU community to germans.

Never forget :P

[rinarunine]

So. About Free Realms.

And Landmark.

[Professor Cena]

Landmark MAY be okay, but EQN may be screwed.
As they laid off Dave Georgeson.

i never liked that guy tbh lol

[Acreon]

i never liked that guy tbh lol

I can understand I suppose. I did simply because he had a real passion for EQ and wanted it to be good. Obviously still a businessman but at least a better than the rest one.
Which is why I'm guessing they let him go, they're probably going to be moving into a more micro transaction heavy business model with everything.
See: all advertising pretty much moved to H1Z1
could be wrong
but I'm guessing I'm right.

[DizzyPW]

Seems the layoffs have already begun. http://www.onrpg.com/articles/news/d...ofile-layoffs/

EQNext definitely is in trouble considering they let go the Lead Content designer, Danuser, as well.

[Professor Cena]

Seems the layoffs have already begun. http://www.onrpg.com/articles/news/d...ofile-layoffs/

EQNext definitely is in trouble considering they let go the Lead Content designer, Danuser, as well.

oh wow, game is RIP as ****

[LastDemon]

Glad I didn't have any hopes for anything SOE makes. Everquest Next never really looked like something I'd enjoy although I never really looked into it. Sounds like it's gonna get cancelled though or at least heavily delayed.