Smedley Out at Daybreak (Former SOE)

[KevinV12000]

EQII Launcher carries a link to this terse announcement:

Daybreak Games confirms that John Smedley will be taking some time off from the company for the near-term and transitioning to a different role to be determined. Upon finalization of his plans, further communication will be provided.

I have no idea what this means, but...while by pure chance I just happen to know through personal connections that the awful changes on SWG that are commonly blamed on Smedley were actually driven by Lucasarts and not SOE management, he also has been one of those guys who speak of games as "content" and thinks of games as "consumer entertainment." A majority view, to be sure, but, then again, Hollywood making record profits doesn't mean the movies being made today are superior to those made past eras.

i would be interested in hearing thoughts on what this means, particularly if anyone knows anything about Daybreak. This acquisition is a real mystery to me.

 

[Stokowski]

As far as business-speak goes, that seems about the most angry possible version of whatever announcement is required by law to inform shareholders of such changes.

 

[KevinV12000]

Some people in EQII today mentioned some "Lizard" something group that has been personally pursuing Smedley for a reason that wasn't clear...anyone know what is going on with that?

 

[Davidshky]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside...ceo_to_go_after_hacker_who_downed_his/csxjztr

I normally don't weigh in on subjects relating to me personally, but I will this time.

I'm extremely angry that the Finnish justice system chose to let Julius Kivimaki off with a 2 year suspended sentence. This guy is the worst kind of bad news.

He's been involved for years in every kind of terrible thing you can imagine including Carding, hacking, swatting people all over the world. He's also participated in a major way in DDOS attacks that caused a lot of grief for gamers and a lot of economic damage to the companies that make and run games.

He was the guy that brought down my flight with a bomb threat. I've heard the entire recording where he convinced an airline customer service agent there was a bomb on the plane. He also in conjunction with others has sent me pictures of my father's grave with nasty stuff on it. I've had my entire credit history put out on the internet including my SSN and my families info. We've had multiple social networks and other things hacked and had my family members called.

I've also been swatted (multiple times) and had over 50 false credit applications submitted in my name and had to deal with the ramifications of what happens to your credit when this kind of thing happens. It's not good. And to top it all off they decided to submit false tax returns.

So to put this bluntly - I want this kind in jail for a long time. You shouldn't be able to do crap like this without any hint of a consequence. I plan on doing everything in my power to see him get what's coming to him in court one way or another. What he just got convicted of were over 50,000 separate incidents of hacking and other nastiness. This has nothing to do with the downing of the plane or the DDOS stuff he did or the things he did to me (not just me btw he did this to a lot of other people too). Those cases are still pending, but they have him dead to rights.

So you guys can debate this.. and that's all well and good, but meanwhile this shit is real to my life and my family's life and I'm sure as hell not lying down for it for a second. I've been working with law enforcement to put him and others into jail where they belong. Some of them are minors which makes it tough. Most of them are outside the US, which makes it tougher. But I'm patient and I'm going to be relentless about this.

Smed

 

[Froglok]

On top of being incompetent, John Smedley is an emotional windbag and doesn't know when to keep his shitty opinions to himself

 

[Kane]

the end of an era. i despise him for about as many things i respect him for. not a good man but a character. daybreak won't be the same without him. if the gaming industry had more j. smedley's (not necessarily *like* john) this forum would serve a purpose again.