New Producer Letter, well note really

Producers Letter: Charging Into 2018!

 

So many details!

 

Spoiler alert: There will be another letter this year to tell you they're hard at work on the new expansion.
Second spoiler alert: The new expansion will be a small overland zone and an instance hub.

 

I disagree on this one Feldon..

I read: "Thanks for the money (but we need more), here some image create by my 4 years old nephew. We planning (like we planning the class balance.. ups, i really hope the players have already forgotten) to do stuff. Please keep sending money, or we will kill the Tradeskill Signature."

Planning.. But i bet the new signature quest line will have 3 step in heroic, and 2 in raid zone.. just for keep the crafter occupated.


ps. so.. Mooncast is the producer, and Holly the Executive Producer.

 

Don't like it, don't read it!

 

Maybe Holly is in charge of one of the two new titles DBG is working on...

 

"...and please shut up about the PoP Crafting Timeline, its coming!"

 

I usually don't judge a book from the cover

After the EqN fiasco?

atm develop a new game with modern standard is very expensive. If you don't have an army full of programmer and graphic, you will need to buy some structures from other company.. and most are not cheap. In any case the Eq brand, outside the eq bubble, is dead. Pretty much no media cover, 4-5 fansite "active" (eq2u, eq2 wikia, eq2maps, eq2traders, library. And the worse part, a lot of information are out date, a new player without some "veteran" is lost, since the closed box structure for many game part), articles in editor/news/ecc are few, and usually they hit hard.. no press conferences, 0 exhibition..

They lost any credibility, likely, the same game will sell more without eq brand connection. Is sad, i know.

 

Just make another Champions of Norrath game. Probably has more positive name recognition than EverQuest itself at this point, and we could have fun itemization again since loot RPGs have different balance considerations than MMOs.

 

But how will you know you don't like it if you don't read it?


That is not a producer's letter. That's an advert for some desktop art to distract folks from realizing that there are no details on upcoming 'content' (can't give details on what's not there) and that the tradeskill signature line is being pushed back - again.

The wording 'which offers an additional way to earn progression' is curious.

And while they don't have time to work on and test real content, they can crank out those familiar crates (and other crap) for the cash shop like clockwork.

I'm not sure anything they put out at this point will justify the excuses they gave for not having completed it to begin with, but some folks will just be so grateful to get anything at all, they'll take a pile of **** with a candle in it and call it a cupcake.

 

To me this EQ2 Producer's Letter reads as if it was something on the 2018 Q1 To-Do list and can now be checked off as done. There is very little substance and almost no details or specifics. The contents seem to rehash in different words what is already known and commonplace information. Perhaps there is some portion of the population that is over the moon that Season Three of Familiars is coming, maybe???? But come on, man....Is it really all that informative to say that Erollisi Day will be happening around February 14th?

And the Executive Producer's comments were all of three sentences which is being generous based on the number of period and exclamation characters used.

I think this par for course for the EQ2 management team and really what the level of expectation should be nowadays for this sort of communication. But perhaps the underlying message to glean from this article is "We, the EQ2 team, are still here...and the lights are still on..."

 

When I read it my reaction was "Do I laugh or cry?" I don't have adequate words to express how I feel. This whole thing is like a sad tragic comedy.

 

It's like turning your head when you pass a car accident, you don't want to look, but morbid curiosity gets the best of you.

 

This was some of the best entertainment I've seen yet.

1. Spinning the ts timeline as a game update, like it's some kind of special event or new dlc.

2. Concept art from already published content. This, combined with the apparent jubilation over planning what's next almost implies they are not even sure if, come March, the game will still exist.

3. Buy more familiars.

I have absolutely no clue why Holly felt the need to chime in.

 

Also, did I miss it, or did they not post this letter to the forums?

Someone will start a thread about the producers letter.

This is gonna be fun.

And by fun, I don't mean the people who come back with "Ummmm.....what?"

I mean Tekka's small army of bubble gnomes with comments like....

"Omg, So excited!"

"Thanks for the update, Holly. Keep up the great work!"

"Will there be pink monkey mounts?"

"Can't wait for the tradeskill quest line. Yay!"

"Can we buy that art as house item?"

"Can we expect class balancing now. I hope so. Please give us class balancing!"

 

I just noticed in my mailbox a mass mailing from Everquest inviting me to read the EQ Producer's Letter. So I did...

The similarities between the two Letters (granted now, written the by hands of same Producer and Executive Producer) is striking.

I joking thought to myself this looks like when a high school student is trying to carefully word-smith a Cliff Notes into an "original" book report of their own...

 

At least the producers and players can agree on how they feel when it comes to writing and reading the new producer's letters: