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Originally Posted by FohMD 1) One employee lying does not equate to a "dishonest" company (unless, of course, its the CEO or similar lying - though even then it's a stretch).
2) I have yet to see any proof anywhere of an SoE employee deliberately hiding the truth. At best, I've seen some inaccurate quotes of minor employees (not CEOs or developers, mind you) who probably didn't have all the information. Now this might sounds like fanboi talk, but we all know the communication lines at SoE/Verant in the old days weren't so good (they are much better now I hear). Thus, I think it's reasonable to suppose that no one really lied, they just gave information they thought was right at the time (but wasn't).
If you're going to try to refute 2 (good luck refuting 1), please provide the context and the quote (you can paraphrase it...I'm not a stickler on this point). |
Before you send Ut into a raging ball of righteous fury...
Off the top of my head I can think of three things which SOE needed to divulge about EQ1 and never did.
1) Vex Thal not being in/working correcly... take your pick.
2) Access to Plane of Time was impossible to access due to an intentionally busted Plane of Earth B. It was intentionally busted because PoT was basically not done.
3) Gates of Discord was impossible to 'finish' because a very important mechanic... i.e. 5 extra player levels... was left out and packaged in with part 2 of GoD... Omens of War.
The only thing I can think of for EQ2 was the whole Froglok thing. I believe they either inferred our outright said Frogloks were in but needed to be unlocked before saying months down the road that they weren't ever in. They subsequently added them in with an LU patch which also coincidentally added in one of their early few Raid zones.
SWG is and always will be a big ball of broken promises and outright lies. I can tell you a big one right now (which is moot because they moved away from the Combat Upgrade after less than 6 months to the NGE). Anyhoo, each Correspondent was asked to choose 5 people from their communities to help with the Combat Upgrade. These people were given special access to a sub-forum where documents were presented and poured over and feedback was given, all with the promise that we'd get our hands on the material ingame first so we could give it a proper shake down. Fast forward a couple of months, about a month or so before the release of their first post-Space expansion. Test servers come down, test servers come up, CU-Beta is in full force. Alpha was skipped, the Correspondents and their picked testers were told "Feedback from the Documents we presented has been invaluable"... or basically... "no Alpha for you suckas!" Everything we wanted Alpha for in the first place, bad press, bad bugs, bad systems, is out there in full. There's literally no positive feedback at all for the entire Upgrade and a month later it's still not completely right... it goes live anyways. Yay!
*cough*
Out of all the SoE products, EQ2 has done their customers the most service but even they have a few blemishes.
So basically Curt: Don't hide anything the players are going to find out about anyways. Be upfront and honest, even if that means telling people that something they were looking forward to was shitcanned.
