Originally Posted by Gallenite

Here's a suggestion when forming questions that devs are likely to answer whether it's in a chat, at a fan faire, or on a board: Difficulty has nothing to do with it. We ask each other questions on the clock every day that are just as difficult as anything we get asked in public. Hell, most of us think the difficult ones are a lot more interesting.

The ones that most frequently get skipped/rejected are the rude or slanted ones. It's possible to ask a tough question without being offensive. The people who've figured that out tend to be the ones who get their difficult questions responded to. Here's some examples:

• "Is such-and-such going to suck as bad as the last time you did it, or worse?" That's not a difficult question, that's an idiotic one. We've skipped over plenty of those in chats.

• "Are you going to fire (person) for doing (some part of their job I didn't like)? If not, why not?!" Probably not, but even if we were, I'm fairly certain I couldn't tell you.

• "What are the biggest issues you run into trying to balance high end raids?" That's a difficult question with a myriad of answers that we could talk about for an hour, and probably be pretty entertaining with it. But to a small number of people. Much more likely to get answered in person at a fan faire, rather than take up a whole session responding to just that question in a chat, because it needs that much time to do it justice.

• "What was the thinking behind (thing)?" That's a question that's frequently difficult (read: hard to summarize in a short answer) and objective, and likely to get answered. The answer is likely complex, but they're always worth answering, especially in person.

- Scott


edit: board sw eats GT and LT signs, replaced with parenths

Originally Posted by LFG

again double or triple our bandwidth and throughput.

Originally Posted by Coyote

Yes. Yes it is. The image you have in your head is *totally* fucking skewed.

SOE held a summit meeting for "community leaders". Not just fansites. Not just fans.

They invited the fanboys, the *haters*, and some of the people from the fansite community. It wasn't a bunch of people trashing each other's site and e-peening about numbers.

The ONLY reason you see Radar addressing "Kendricke" on here is because Kendricke repeatedly came off as miffed that a representative from EQ2 Flames was invited, and had a "look down on that kind of site" attitude.

It wasn't a flame of Kendricke, who despite having a *really* arrogant persona is actually quite intelligent and comes up with REALLY good questions, but a simple fact pointing out that Cal put up with a lot of flak for backing this site.

The summit had nothing to do with fan sites or numbers or anyone being "better" or worse. We were all equals and we were all treated equally.

Maybe you should learn about what you speak of before you throw out bitter half-assed assumptions.