A little bird told us yesterday, but Sony issued the official press release today: Sigil games has been purchased by SOE. According to the fine print, a majority of the Sigil team will join Sony Entertainment Online (50 people according to theVGNecroforums). I bet the peeps that gotfired outside the Sigil offices yesterdayare relieved to hear they don’t have to go stand in the unemployment line just yet.
The plan is to keepVanguardmore or less unchanged, with focus on cleaning up legacy issues.Brad McQuaid will be a consultant to SOE as well as a creative advisor forVanguard. The press release reads like a bit of Cyrano DeBergerac, featuring such fine snippets as “With an unparalleled team and exceptional product, Sigil has been a creative force in the online games space.” I guess they must have missed those cricketsdying of boredom around launch time.
As great as it would be to hear the real story of what went down, we’ll have to gossip about what we have for now and hope for better dirt down the line. Does anyone think this change will have an actual effect onVanguard’ssuccess (or lack thereof)? What would they have to do to the game to make you care? Would my life be betterif I had a pony?
