Man hører sjældent en udvikler gå ud og rose en anden udviklers hårde arbejde - i hvert fald ikke offentligt og slet ikke hvis denne udvikler er en direkte konkurrent på markedet. Men det ser ikke ud til at bekymre Sony Online Entertainment der står bag EverQuest II. Her indrømmer den daglige chef John Smedley gerne at World of Warcraft er et fantastisk spil.
I et åbent brev til spilsamfundet skriver han:
"Now what's been interesting from our perspective is what really serious competition is doing to the online gaming space. World of Warcraft has come on the scene and is doing awesome. Kudos to Blizzard on what I think is a spectacular game. I've played the heck out of it, and I love it (as have many people here at SOE). To a game developer, having another game developer play your game is the ultimate compliment... so to the folks at Blizzard we say "Nicely done".
But don't think for a second that we don't see WoW as both a great game AND Blizzard as serious competition.
Personally... I'm glad they are out there. They keep us honest. They keep us focused and they force us to play with our 'A' game. They've certainly opened some eyes in our company to styles of gameplay that are different than we would have come up with inside SOE. I hope they're also opening up the eyes of other MMO developers that the 'old school' probably won't cut it any more. I'm glad that we went in the direction we did with EQ II because had we stuck with making an even "harder core" game, I think bad things would have happened. We need to be about larger scale mass-entertainment... because that's what online gaming is slowly becoming. Our games just need to be fun... and easy to get into."
Husk at læse vores anmeldelse af spillet samt at kigge nærmere på GRTV, der har dækket lanceringen af spillet her i Danmark.