Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is no more - Daybreak is born

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Following a brief Tweet from Smedley, here's the scoop on the changes to SOE.

http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2ujaaj/sony_online_entertainment_becomes_daybreak_game/


Dear Players, Partners and Friends,

Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!

As part of this transition, SOE will now become Daybreak Game Company. This name embodies who we are as an organization, and is a nod to the passion and dedication of our employees and players. It is also representative of our vision to approach each new day as an opportunity to move gaming forward.

So what exactly does this mean for you? It will be business as usual and all SOE games will continue on their current path of development and operation. In fact, we expect to have even more resources available to us as a result of this acquisition. It also means new exciting developments for our existing IP and games as we can now fully embrace the multi-platform world we are living in.

Our games and players are the heart and soul of our organization, and we are committed to maintaining our portfolio of online games and pushing the limits of where we can take online gaming together.

Thank you for your continued support. See you in game!

The Team at Daybreak
 
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All this time and I still forgot the S stood for Sony, just always referred to them as SOE.

Good for them I guess, no more restrictions, they can do whatever they want.
 
Sony online entertainment SOLD, becomes " Daybreak Game Company "

"Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies," the MMO publisher formerly known as SOE revealed in a statement. "This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!"

Full Article here

Didn't see that one coming
 
Erm, you're a bit late with that news. Regardless, you didn't see it coming? Writing was on the wall - SOE was a consistent lossmaker for Sony and so they sold it - bit strange after they were trumpeting F2P is the way of the future but there you go.
 
Erm, you're a bit late with that news. Regardless, you didn't see it coming? Writing was on the wall - SOE was a consistent lossmaker for Sony and so they sold it - bit strange after they were trumpeting F2P is the way of the future but there you go.

I didn't see a thread go up and just got a email from them now about it. went through a couple pages of GD too and didn't see a thread.

Sorry :D
 
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