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Originally Posted by Utnayan Sure. I'll try on this one, although I am not sure if it will meet your requirements for who said what.
5> Planes of Power: Already mentioned. But to go one step further, a person named "Tayl0r" who worked QA at the time on the Planes of Power expansion, who we all knew worked for SOE and was now a database monkey, stated on the Something Awful forums that Planes of Power and Plane of Time was fully finished on release and just had minor bugs. We all know that isn't true.
7> EQ2: Froglok quest. Stated many times that this quest was indeed live in the game, people asked SOE about it just to make sure, were told yes, and proceeded to waste 6 months trying to figure out a quest with no ending. Later it was patched in to the disgust of it's fanbase. |
I was tangentially involved with the first and definitely around for the second.
I'm the last guy who's going to dive headlong into "SOE is the devil!"
However, I will say this much.
In both of the above cases, you have a single person making a single definitive statment saying what they believe to be true, simply trying to be helpful and that statement getting latched onto and turning out in the worst of ways.
Unfortunately, neither person who made the statements in the above examples was aware that they weren't right because they weren't directly involved in the subject matter they were discussing.
Don't underestimate people's desire to be nice and overestimate people's desire to be sinister. In both of these cases, the poster was genuinely trying to be helpful and encouraging.
