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Last night we held a Dev Chat where MMORPG.com members had the opportunity to talk with the good people from EverQuest. Today we present the transcript of last night's chat.
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tigris67
 Smart-Alek
Joined: 9/18/05
"You know what happened to the man that got everything he ever wanted? He lived happily ever after" |
OK. I'm officially confused. I thought this dev chat was listed specifically towards the devs of EQ1. And even the article is posted under news for EQ1. But how come its in the Everquest 2 section?
EDIT: Ahh, I read a bit and it is definitaly EQ1, Its just a mistake I presume. Hi! My name is paper. Nerf scissors, rock is fine. |
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Finbar
 Advanced Member
Joined: 6/26/03
Let them hear my utter and complete lack of a voice. - Waking Life |
The RSS feed names it as an EQ2 Dev chat as well. I don't know why they bother with these chats if they are going to limit the questions and have separate chat areas for people to actually chat in anyway. Once they add in all the limitations this might as well be just another private interview with questions that were pre-submitted to MMORPG staff. The same thing could be accomplished by having players submit questions to MMORPG staff via email, and then have the MMORPG staff submit the questions that they deem important to the SOE developers. Then after they edit and compile it all they could just post it on mmorpg.com as an email transcript. But then that wouldn't make everyone feel so warm and fuzzy inside would it. Regardless: glad to see good old EQ is still rolling along. That said I'm not surprised to see that many of the problems of 4 years ago are still present in the game and are still central issues for the player base. I'm also not surprised to see EQ1 developers avoiding or shrugging off questions with general wide based statements that elude to a notion that the players don't know what they are talking about. Developers in general (and especially SOE developers) must really accept the fact that the MMORPG player community does know what it is talking about and can't be so easily blinded by generalities. Truth is the player base likely know the game better than the developers do. At this point (for EQ1 anyway) I guarantee that there are players who have been involved with the game for longer (years longer) than some of the current staffed developers. Regardless of reasons good CS simply demands that perceived authority does not shrug off anything.... ever. At least not in public. FINBAR |
