Cryptic Co-Founder Jack Emmert Named CEO of Daybreak Austin

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Cryptic Co-Founder Jack Emmert Named CEO of Daybreak Austin

Out of left field, it seems that Cryptic Studios' Co-Founder Jack Emmert has been named as CEO of Daybreak Austin, the studio responsible for DC Universe Online.

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jesteralways

From one broken studio to another, he must feel great.

PurplePoloPlayer

*yawn*

Amathe

I like Jack from back in my CoH days. But Daybreak is dead to me after cancelling Everquest Next. 

Arglebargle

CoH got better after Jack and crew headed off to found Cryptic.   Well , maybe he has learned something along the way.

Mendel

Hmmm.  I wonder if this means something 'hero-based' might be in the works at Daybreak?  DCUO isn't the best MMORPG; it could use significant improvement, maybe via expansions.  Of course, since Emmert is coming directly from Cryptic, maybe Daybreak wants some insight into lockbox loot technology.

Jack, forget about that portion of your life, please.

jesteralways

NightHaveN said:

Amathe said:

I like Jack from back in my CoH days. But Daybreak is dead to me after cancelling Everquest Next. 

I haven't played previous EQ titles much, but IMO the cancel was the right call. By looks alone the title was moving from previous EQ titles to a WoW & Wildstar kind of art.

The art style was still better than the fugly ass art style EQ and EQ2 have, it would have been a huge improvement.

ceratop001

Not totally surprised the guy has been a mega comic book fan ever since he was a kid.

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Samhael

I believe this announcement is proof that Daybreak hasn't hit rock bottom. (but I'm not sure how much lower they can dig)

museandali

Nerfsman joining DCUO? I guess Melee DPS are going to be nerfed 80% in effectiveness soon.

SaltyDog79

Well Daybreak already seems like it has cancer... adding a little more can't hurt, right?

SEANMCAD

To be honest, out of all the top Early Access games H1Z1 has got to be the worst of them by a long shot. Why do people insist on talking about games like H1Z1 and No Man Sky when there are so many other options that are a LOT better is something I will never fully understand

rant over

junzo316

CoH/V got much better after he left, I think.  Good luck to him and DayBreak.

Wizardry

My hunch/guess is that DBG is finding out,they do not have the people in place to assure success of the company and are struggling badly.
I have no idea what they see in him or what they think he can offer them,perhaps just the only guy they could find  at a reasonable price.

I feel within a year there will be some much bigger news coming out of DBG.Smedley baited them in,they likely regret their decision to take over SOE gaming.

Wizardry

Normally i would like to feel some compassion for a business trying to do well,trying to improve what was a dire bad situation,however knowing what i do about the owner,he is as close to being mafia as it  comes.So i couldn't care less if DBG loses it's shirt through this bad decision.

xpowderx

Cool, perhaps some work on EQ2 coming?  Daybreak picking up some big name is a good thing!

Combspe

I don't care about this, so next?

SEANMCAD

Wizardry said:

Normally i would like to feel some compassion for a business trying to do well,trying to improve what was a dire bad situation,however knowing what i do about the owner,he is as close to being mafia as it  comes.So i couldn't care less if DBG loses it's shirt through this bad decision.

Thing is, what about RUST? What about 7 Days to Die? what about all the others?
Do we really need to lamet and cry crocodile tears that a company backed with AAA dolllars cant hack it in the indie market? nope

GladDog

IMO this was a mistake.  Jak Emmert held back progress for the CoH/V game until he was told to change or quit.  After he oversaw the change, he quit.  CoH was great fun, but it needed a lot of simple fixes that never got done until after Emmert left.

I was involved in Champions Online since shortly after it went to alpha.  He took a terrific, fun game with a ton of potential, and turned it into moreofthesameMMORPG.  I was so disenchanted I didn't even buy it.

Plus he was in charge of some of the worst P2W cash shop games that have ever existed; Perfect World, Forsaken World and Swordsman Online.  I won't put the entire blame on him, these were Chinese imports.  But he and his cronies didn't do much to fix the P2W 'features'.

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If he wants to get on my good side, he needs to do something very positive with the EQ franchise.  Remastering EQ2 with a modern game engine, and tying it into Landmark would be a great first step that could reap benefits within a year.  And of course some version of EQ3 needs to be on the horizon...

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Torval said:

SEANMCAD said:

Wizardry said:

Normally i would like to feel some compassion for a business trying to do well,trying to improve what was a dire bad situation,however knowing what i do about the owner,he is as close to being mafia as it  comes.So i couldn't care less if DBG loses it's shirt through this bad decision.

Thing is, what about RUST? What about 7 Days to Die? what about all the others?
Do we really need to lamet and cry crocodile tears that a company backed with AAA dolllars cant hack it in the indie market? nope

Rust is a cheating hackfest and do PC gamers care about made for console titles like 7 days to die?

This isn't really about lamenting or indie market at all. It's about a new CEO and what he's going to be in charge of. What does that mean for the entire stable and not just the "yet another survival title". The survival games are a dime a dozen now.

made for console games like 7 Days to Die?

and you want to be taken seriously?

yeah...not so much

not ignored by the way but never taken seriously for sure. I will assume hench forth you are just trolling until you un-fuck that

excuse me while I look up some stories about hacking in H1Z1

kjempff

NightHaveN said:

I haven't played previous EQ titles much, but IMO the cancel was the right call. By looks alone the title was moving from previous EQ titles to a WoW & Wildstar kind of art.

Nah you are mistaken. EqNext was trying to move away away from wow/eq2 style themepark, but it was also moving away from eq1. EqNext were going to be a real dynamic sandbox inspired game, not like any games in the marked - I can't see how a sandbox-mmorpg would not have landed well in the current market where everyone makes sandbox games. Maybe EqNext was too ambitious, maybe they had made too many mistakes and bad choices in development, but most likely it is because they got taken over and the new owner killed it off.

gervaise1

As far as other titles the news says just DCUO. Is there anything other than DCUO at Austin now?

Assuming it is just DCUO what does it say about the title? Somebody make the decision to bring in a new DCUO head to do "whatever" rather than promote from within the existing team or move someone from Austin.

So a "fresh pair of eyes" to oversee .....whatever: staff "efficiencies"; better planning; better co-ordination with DC ......

It suggests "change" however but whether that suggests DCUO was "doing fine" and they want better or "doing not so well" who knows.

And what does it suggest about Cryptic? From CEO of the company he co-founded to "reporting to San Diego office" - sounds like a downgrade to me.

observer

Good news for Daybreak. They desperately needed some good news. Cryptic makes some pretty fine games and content.