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Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« on: April 29, 2007, 06:39:53 PM »
http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=634

Quote from: Brad McQuaid
SOE is in discussions with Sigil regarding the future of Vanguard and Sigil Games in Carlsbad...right now Vanguard is doing decently but not as well as we hoped...So the bottom line is that SOE is going to be getting more involved with Sigil and Vanguard – our relationship is going to become even tighter – much tighter. At this point I can’t say much more than that.

...There’s the very real issue of Vanguard’s system specs, even for the core and hard core gamer in North America and Europe. For a variety of reasons and mistakes on our part that I won’t get into right now, Vanguard was released with system spec requirements that were too high for January 2007. Continued optimization will help to a degree, but the game’s big hope here is simply Moore’s Law and that by the second half of 2007, and certainly by the end of the year, the system spec issue will have been greatly diminished. The big problem that remains is that you still pretty much need a new system as opposed to, say, simply a new graphics card. But eventually, gamers do replace their systems...

...In summary, 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. What the game needs is a re-launch of sorts, including targeted marketing campaigns, an all-around successful move by gamers to the next generation of hardware, continued good word of mouth ‘viral’ marketing by those who are already playing, enjoying, and re-subscribing.

You hear that? Vanguard would have been a huge success if it weren't for you dirty poors who refuse to replace your old and busted dual-core system with one of the new quad-core jobbies. Brad McQuaid hates you!!
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2007, 07:22:11 PM »
http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=634
You hear that? Vanguard would have been a huge success if it weren't for you dirty poors who refuse to replace your old and busted dual-core system with one of the new quad-core jobbies. Brad McQuaid hates you!!

First, McQuaid is a dumbass and it's squarely his fault that his game is in trouble and SOE is moving in. The thing is that if you are looking to poach WoW customers, you had best make sure that your engine is going to work well with DX8 stuff like the 9800s and the 6600GTs. If not, people will think your game is buggy and choppy and won't even stick around to check out your scenery.

If you can't get your game to run decent on that hardware, then you are creating a game has requirements that don't meet the current specs of the largest base of your target market. Your sales will be somewhat distinguished mentally-challenged by that fact, and with an MMO you really want a strong launch to get that critical mass of players early on that will drag in their friends and start snowballing your subscriber base.

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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2007, 10:12:22 PM »
I heard about some of vanguards bugs, he has no room to bitch.
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2007, 01:07:37 AM »
Way to fucking hardcore, you gotta be a uber nerd just to get into the fucking game. Its like going from popup books to fucking shakespear. 

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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2007, 02:15:22 PM »
Maybe the fact that this is the first time I've ever even heard of this game might have something do with it.
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2007, 03:12:08 PM »
If you like MMO's you've heard of this game before now, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there. 

Nonetheless, fuck this game and its distinguished mentally-challenged requirements.  Way to reinforce the main argument against PC gaming.
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2007, 03:56:24 PM »
The games so buggy requirements arent even the issue.
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2007, 09:56:33 PM »
This just in:

In a statement made to his former Sigil Games employees earlier yesterday, McQuaid was noted as saying, "AND DONT COME BACK UNTIL YOU'VE GOT A QUAD CORE PC YOU DIRTY POORS"
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Re: Brad McQuaid: "Vanguard failed because of the dirty poors."
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2007, 02:21:29 AM »
Dirty Poors: "Sorry Brad, we were too busy raiding in WoW to notice you made a pretty little game and all. Best of luck with that."
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