bradmcquaid.com - 6/16/2009
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Brad McQuaid has been involved in games development for over 15 years. He was the original producer and co-designer of EverQuest, managing the development team from the project's inception until its launch. He then assumed the role of executive producer for the first few EverQuest expansions. ...
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bradmcquaid.com - 6/16/2009
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bradmcquaid.com —
I knew for a while that Vanguard was
going to be pushed out too early (note: not...
blaming anyone here -- SOE and Microsoft did the best they could). This plus knowing we’d have to sell Sigil to keep as many people employed as possible broke my heart. ...
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thegrouchygamer.com - 6/16/2009
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thegrouchygamer.com —
Would you put this up on YOUR blog?
I think someone fooled my friend Darren over at...
The Common Sense Gamer . As most of you know, I started off my online “career” doing a fan site for Vanguard. During that time, I got to read a ...
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That’s NOT Brad McQuaid
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That’s NOT Brad McQuaid
The Grouchy Gamer —
... As most of you know, I started off my online “career” doing a fan site for Vanguard. During that time, I got to read a LOT of Brad McQuaid’s essays, posts, and manifestos. After a while, I got to where I could easily recognize his style. So I was surprised today to see that Darren posted about how Brad was popping back up with a couple of posts on his blog at bradmcquaid.com. ...
Brad McQuaid returns to pimp Vanguard
Massively —
... Remember Brad McQuaid? As one of EverQuest's original creators and eventually the man behind Vanguard, Brad is a legend in the gaming industry. Sure, his reputation spiraled downward after his time with Sigil and ...
Part one of Brad McQuaid's Vanguard post-mortem
Massively —
... (headed by former SOE superstar Brad McQuaid) was also sold in this deal. McQuaid's blog welcome-page mentions that he's been on a break from the games industry since the above events in 2007, but "as of late, he's starting to get that itch again...". It was probably this itch that prompted him to start a multi-part post-mortem of his time with Vanguard at his blog. ...
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Brad McQuaid Is Back
blog.weflyspitfires.com 6/16/2009 — Scott Jennings over at Broken Toys pointed out Brad McQuaid’s new blog . Apparently he’s back in town and ready to get to it. I say ‘apparently’ because some people also reckon it’s just an elaborate hoax .
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ardwulfslair.wordpress.com 6/2/2009 — Over at Massively the question is being asked: Will SOE announce EverQuest III at this year’s E3 ?
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Reflections on Dragon*Con
epicslant.com 9/7/2009 — There is always something refreshing about hanging out with a lot of people who like the same things you do. So, to say I had a great time at Dragon*Con would be an understatement! I had the opportunity to meet with both MMO players and industry folks and that is never a bad thing. Despite our ...
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Innovations of the Splitpaw
playervsdeveloper.blogspot.com 4/16/2009 — As promised, I avoided the patch day downtime in WoW last night and, instead, wrapped up the solo portions of EQ2's Splitpaw Saga "adventure pack". There are some interesting things going on in there, both good and bad. Charging for Content Patches ...
EverQuest 2 does Guild Management Right
epicslant.com 9/28/2009 — At Dragon*Con I had the opportunity to spend some time with Ashlanne, Brenlo and several members of the SOE community staff. Not only were they super kind to me, they also reminded me just how much I love SOE games (well, mostly just EverQuests). Upon my return I fired up my PC, purchased the ...
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