Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | 07:44 BST
SOE: The Agency playable “within weeks”
Waiting a long time for SOE MMO The Agency? If new comments from president John Smedley are to be believed, your pain is almost done.
“You are going to see The Agency,” Smedley told GT in a video interview at GDC. “Here’s an interesting comment I’ll make: you’re going something around The Agency very soon, like weeks. And I mean playing within weeks.”
Beta, innit. But what about the full release?
“I don’t want to give an exact time frame when we’re ready to release it. We’re really proud with the progress its made and we’re happy with it internally, but we’re not going to put it out there until we feel like we’ve got something that’s better than everything else, so that’s going to take as long as it takes,” he further added.
The spy MMO was announced back in 2006 for Windows and PlayStation 3.
No date has been given for it yet other than this year.
Thanks, Gekidami.
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Posted in: Hot, MMO, PC, PS3, Sony Online Entertainment
Tags: john smedley, the agency
12 comments
#1
Redh3lix
01/04/10, 7:53 am
I suspect to participate in said beta you but be a subscriber to Sony’s new FirstPlay.
#2
BraveArse
01/04/10, 8:13 am
“Waiting a long time for SOE MMO The Agency?”
Yup, long enough for me to give up on it.
#3
Erthazus
01/04/10, 8:28 am
The concept of it looks really promising. Its not the WOW killer, but really something new in MMO universe.
We need EVERQUEST III! SOE BRING US EVERQUEST III and kill WOW damn it. You have so much potential.
#4
Gekidami
01/04/10, 8:30 am
From what i’ve seen it looks like something that would compare more to APB then most other MMO’s.
#5
DrDamn
01/04/10, 8:52 am
Ah so this is you April 1st story
#6
Blerk
01/04/10, 8:52 am
Weird that this pops up just a couple of days after I said we hadn’t heard squat about it for months and months.
#7
Robo_1
01/04/10, 9:26 am
Hey, when the 2 time VG247 poster of the year speaks, publishers take notice.
#8
Blerk
01/04/10, 9:34 am
If they send me a PS3 I might even play it!
#9
unacomn
01/04/10, 9:36 am
I registered for the beta two years ago.
I’m a shoe-in!
#10
DrDamn
01/04/10, 9:40 am
It’s been so long the shoe no longer fits though
#11
daytripper
01/04/10, 1:02 pm
been looking forward to this for a while
#12
blackdreamhunk
01/04/10, 2:39 pm
we will see what the game play is like,after all it’s soe!