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John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, has said the developers of EverQuest II have been considering a a game-wide reset for the game for quite some time now.

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Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts announced today Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures has registered one million users just one week after the free-to-play MMO’s launch on September 15.

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SOE has announced details – although scant – on its new MMO in development at its annual Fan Faire event in Las Vegas.

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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.

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SOE MMO Free Realms is entering scary-large territory, with more than 8 million users now signed up.

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The “REALLY MASSIVE” [sic] Planetside follow-up SOE’s John Smedley was rabbiting on about this morning probably isn’t called Planetside Next, according to Massively.

“We spoke to SOE and confirmed that this is an internal working title, not the official one, so we may be hearing about a new title in the future,” said the site.

Smedley said today that the sequel to SOE’s MMO shooter is to feature bonkers-huge battles and “much better organization”.

Praise be to God. No date. Thanks, The_Villa.

During the Q&A session following John Smedley’s keynote at GDC Austin, the SOE president informed attendees that Free Realms should land on PS3 sometime during the middle of 2010 and may also support the PS Eye.

“It’s next year sometime, toward the middle of the year,” he said. “For the PlayStation 3 version, it’s very likely that the Eye is going to be something we support.”

Interesting.

More through Joystiq.

Free Realms has officially hit the five million users mark, according to SOE’s John Smedley.

Speaking during GDC Austin, Smedley revealed the number during his keynote.

The free-to-play MMO has been live since April 28, and back in July Smedley told Gamasutra that the game was close to the five million account mark then.

Looks like it finally made it.

More through Massively.

SOE president John Smedley has told Joystiq that rumors regarding the cancellation of its PS3/PC MMO action game, The Agency, are pretty much just that – rumors.

“We’re not going to release it until it’s right, said Smedley, “but there’s this rumor going around that we’re going to cancel it — that’s ridiculous.

“We’re going full-bore towards it. We’re simply keeping it under wraps more because we want to make it the best possible game we can. I’m an FPS player first and foremost, so we’re going to get that game right, period.”

He also said that staff departures back in July didn’t halt nor slow development, and estimates that the game will be released “next year”.

More through the link.

Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley will be delivering a keynote at GDC Austin.

The event starts September 15 in Texas and runs through the eighteenth.

More than likely Smedley will be talking up Free Realms and the millions of players it has accumulated since launching on April 28.

Other keynoters include Blizzard’s J. Allen Brack and France Pearce.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Sony Online’s Free Realms has close to 5 million registered players and the game has only been live since April 28, according to SOE president John Smedley,

During it’s first ten days, the game hit 1 million subscribers and has steadily grown by leaps and bounds each week.

Smedley attributed the popularity and success of the game to the company’s free-to-play business model, with microtransactions.

More through Gamasutra.

Oh dear. SOE’s John Smedley’s told a GDC lecture this morning that DC Universe Online will now release in 2010.

The PS3 and PC MMO was originally intended to hit this year.

Worse, SOE’s other big-name MMO, The Agency, has also been pushed back into next year.

Not so great. Thanks, Joystiq.

Speaking to MTV, Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has confirmed that all SOE MMOs will appear on consoles from this point on.

“Yes,” he said, when asked if this were the case.

The firm’s next biggies, DC Universe Online, has been confirmed for PS3 from the off.

Smedley said recently that SOE was looking at PSP for MMOs.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has told MTV that the publisher’s considering PSP as an MMO platform.

“I think PSP is something that we’re definitely looking at; 34 million [sold] worldwide really opens your eyes, and they’re all connected,” he said.

“We started to get very interested in [the PSP] when we switched over from Sony Pictures to Sony Computer Entertainment back in April,” Smedley added.

“And as we’ve kind of got our heads up looking around the world within Sony Computer Entertainment, we’re really starting to see a big push for PSP. We think it’s a world-class device… In the future, we see full MMOs that are designed for the PSP.”

More through the link.

Speaking here, Sony online entertainment president John Smedley said that consoles are the perfect platform on which to release MMOs.

“I think by having a stable platform where every customer has an online capable box is a huge, huge potential advantage in building an MMO because you’ve already got an online userbase,” he said. “It’s a massive advantage over the PC and we don’t have to worry about graphics cards or things like that.”

When talking of future titles he said, “If you look at The Agency, our DC universe MMO, and even our Free Realms title, we’re doing PS3 versions of all of those games.”

By Mike Bowden

John Smedley, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) president, will keynote Seattle Game Conference ION on May 13. According to this, he’ll be talking about SOE’s dealing in the MMO market – the company publishes EverQuest II – and the development of anticipated online spy title, The Agency.

“John Smedley and SOE have had an indelible impact in the online game industry,” said Peter Freese, conference director for the 2008 ION Game Conference. “His insight of the past and vision for the future is a message we are excited to share with our attendees.”