Producer's Letter: Expansion 17, Beta and Preorders!

Feldon, you are authorized for full nuclear release.

Give 'em hell.

 

You missed my post in that thread which happened right before it got deleted. Also, set it on fire.

 

It is astounding that this pathological behavior of a failing frsnchise toward customers, former customers, and fan sites continues to be flouted right under the nose of the new owner.

Are Caith and Kander trying to intentionally harvest a severance package, or something?

If it were me, I'd probably just say screw it, shut down eq2u and walk away from all the dysfunction.

However, I recognize you're not that ruthless, Feldon, so an email blast is definately a kinder alternative. I say send the sucker

 

Without EQ2 Wire, EQ2 would have died a long time ago. Your contributions to the community cannot be overstated.

 

Truth. I'm the petty type though, and I say burn the fugger to the ground. Take down EQ2U for a chunk of time, and see how many returning or new players are able to figure anything out....

 

Don't nuke the forums because I like y'all and one of the many things that this year has done is make me not like people.

 

I wouldn't see shutting eq2u down as petty, more like ending an abusive relationship.

 

I'm grateful you've kept the forums open here. Without EQ2WIRE (the entire site), not that many new players are going to EQ2, but the few that do will for sure be confused and probably give up and take their money elsewhere.

LOTRO suffers from that to some degree. I've been playing it since the beginning, but intermittently, so I have to look a lot of stuff up. Just yesterday I tried to find current information on how the prestige kinship house storage works/expanding it. The information on the official LOTRO help wiki is out of date. All the fan sites that still exist are out of date. No current forum threads. I gave up and logged off - now I'm not paying - lifetime sub. But if I was paying? That would make me take my money elsewhere (not being able to get up to date information about the game).

 

How do people feel about recent expansions? | Page 2 | EverQuest 2 Forums

"How do people feel about recent expansions"

 

That's amazing.

 

I'd be surprised if AoC allowed an API to tap their census. They're real sensitive about the pvp aspect of the game, so they're not even going to allow mods.

You never know, though. Half the staff over there are former eq franchise peeps, so they'll be familiar with eq2u, and I'm sure you know some of them.

I mean, there might be some cool wrinkles that might be interesting for you, helpful for them, and fun for players.

 

Well, I really believe their flagging system is going to work better than the easily exploitable on-off button.

We'll see. Once that game goes live, I'm gonna roll the juiciest pk tank I can roll, pop my flag, and see how things go over the span of a couple of weeks.

That game is just too interesting and innovative for me not to try it out

 

Well, the EQ1 expansion launch is going exactly as expected.

 

You mean much like the Chicago Cubs fan comparing the launch to his team's performance.

Maybe i can go one better. Expecting Caith to fix the ranger Class is like hoping for the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Superbowl.