Welcome Jack Emmert, new CEO of the Austin DBG studio!

https://www.daybreakgames.com/press/new-ceo-daybreak-austin-jack-emmert-june-2016

Jack Emmert, co-founder of Cryptic studios, has just become CEO of our studio. He has worked on a ton of MMOs over the years, including City of Heroes/Villains and Champions Online. I'm excited to see what he brings to the table.

Credit to Torikumu for linking me to the article.

Hopefully something good.

Mmmm tasty.

As someone who played both City of Heroes and Champions this definitely seems like a good move.

Whoa!! I remember him! He was behind good decisions with CO!

This has potential. Lots of potential.

That's great news!

Very interesting.

I've met Jack on more than a few occasions. In fact, the first time was at a Wondercon in San Francisco when CoH was just getting started, and later in Los Gatos at a "BBQ in the park" event Cryptic was putting on as a promotion for Champions online. All other personal opinions aside, I will say that he is very passionate about his games and it will be nice to see that enthusiasm brought to DCUO. A fresh perspective is just what this game so desperately needs right now.

Posted this elsewhere.....

Never tried CoH. And now it is gone.

DDO was fun.
Although they made a pretty big mistake at the time.... they went with the new unproven setting of Eberon instead of going for the classic and more popular Forgotten Realms. They course corrected after a while.... but I was already gone by then.

Neverwinter..... tried it..... did not like it very much.
Again they made a pretty big mistake of pretty much ignoring the character creation system of D&D.
One of the great thing about D&D was how you can customise your character.
They went with a much different way in Neverwinter.

Not sure why they went to make a D&D game...... but ignored a LOT of what makes D&D D&D.

I just hope with this new acquisition, we can have a very near future, new bodies, new styles, new ways of personalities, more styles of movement, more hair, fur, beard, auras, open worlds, and so many other things we implore all the days!

I'm excited about this. I shouldn't be excited because that just sets me up for a disappointment or failure when nothing changes (as is the case with so many DCUO related things), but I can't help it.

I've heard good things about all those games listed. I haven't personally tried any, but they all seem decent. If he had a hand in making those, hopefully he'll be able to improve this game and future proof it so that it lasts long into the future.

Welcome

DDO was really good, however it already had a great foundation.

DCUO has a great foundation but I am worried, simply because DDO had alot of support, while DCUO doesnt.

I hope so.
He knows superhero MMOs and one thing this game has been needing for a while is someone with a clear understanding of what a game of this type should be, plus the ability and experience to tell good ideas from bad.
If you don't have that, then all the feedback in the world might as well be white noise.

Huh. Call me a pessimist here, but I don't think it will fix a lot of the problems with the game due to restrictions with hardware, but we might get some good content changes with the model.

I'll hold my optimism until next year.

When did this happen? Are we going to be getting an official introduction to our new boss? Where does this leave the existing team? Is this guy replacing anyone or will they be working together?

While Ive joked about Champions online and City of Heroes in the past I would have most likely gotten addicted to them if DCUO was not announced back in the fall of 2005. I had to hold out for DC. This guy just seems perfect.

I'm like super excited.

I only know Cryptic Studios from STO but he hasnt any influence there or?

It was announced just this morning. There may be an announcement here in the forums during the day.

Maybe we'll some positive changes. Hopefully he's rich so we don't have to wait a long time too

But not too rich, to where he would poke a sleeping dragon and think an entire company wouldn't get harmed.

Interesting development, but it's best to keep in mind that even with his background in super hero MMOs, there's still the detail of having to deal with DC and getting their approval on things.

Also, if there's more than one game being made/worked on at the Austin studio, it's entirely possible DCUO won't be his sole focus.

Guess we get to wait and see.