Ladred

I posted this on TDG and am reposting it here because of the Warden/Druid question in particular.

I sent in a series of questions to Froech for some quick heads up before everyone leaves for the holidays, here are the results.

• Is Bruce going to reintroduce production ideas that he had from when he was in that position before and after release?

• Yes. No. Some of the ideas have already implemented, so they don't really need to be brought them back up. Some of them were abandoned, as they didn't work out under scrutiny. The fact is that it isn't any single person's ideas that drive this game; it is the team and the community of players that drive the ideas. Some concepts come from random comments in meetings that we then hash out and decide if they will work, some ideas come from random comments in the boards, or in the game itself while we are playing, from you, the players. It would be nice for my ego if I were able to say that the ultimate ideas have been mine, but I'd be lying to you if I did. In our planning meetings, I'll bring up ideas we have, just like all the other folks, and we'll discuss them, figure out if they make sense, and then drop, repurpose, redesign, or implement as necessary.

• Are there any plans to do work on the druids, wardens in particular?

• We're always working on all classes in some fashion or another, it just may not be as apparent externally as you may like. There is always a pull and a push to ensure that each class gets the "love" that we all want it to, and to make each one balanced with all of the others, so we expend a tremendous amount of effort in that direction.

• When are the character models expected to go live?

• When they're right. Much as I'd love to announce a particular date, the fact of the matter is that the work involved is so tremendous, and impacts such a wide variety of things that it is likely that we won't be announcing a date until all of them are done, and mostly through our QA department. Rest assured, when we think the time is right, we'll certainly be trumpeting them!

• When are the guild halls expected to go live?

• See the answer to the previous question. We have a schedule that we're tracking towards that right now, but in reality, if we make an announcement of a date, and then for reasons unforeseen miss that date, we tend to get a substantial amount of backlash. So we're working hard on making it happen, and when we get to a point where we feel that we can make an announcement, we will. And yes, I should probably copy this answer and be prepared to use the paste function for other questions

• Is there anything else slated for release along the lines of Unrest and Shard of fear?

• Nothing we're prepared to announce at this point.

• Are there any other new game enhancements coming out within the next six months?

• See answer to 5.

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Goaldan

No offense, but there's really no useful information there. =/


It's just the usual answers they give for class issues and ETA's:

1) We work to keep all classes balanced and fun/desireable/<insert balance reason here>, so we're going to use that excuse to dodge the question about the state of <insert class>.

2) We don't wanna give any ETA's, cause we know if we miss them half the community will explode with rage.

Ladred

Your perception of the obvious baffles me.

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Goaldan

I do tech support for a living, you'd be surprised how often that's not the case.

Oakmiser

I quit. I won't be coming back to EQ2, atleast for the first half of '08.

If I do come back, it would mean they have already introduced and made live changes to he warden class that make it a raid worthy, or even game worthy class.

Peace my tree hugging buddies.

Seiryu

Hey there's another person with some sense out there /shocked~