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EverQuest II: Fan Site VIP Event (Part V)
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Today we have unveiled the fifth and final installment in our coverage of SOE's "Fan Site VIP Event 2004." In this last feature we will cover graphics, artwork and quests. In addition we have an entire gallery full of photos from the event for your viewing pleasure! Here is a snipped from today's piece:
The one thing right now that the fanbase can see is the character creation disk that recently shipped. There has been a lot of very passionate and vocal criticism in that the characters look very doll-like and plastic, and also the hair looks like it is made of playdoh.
This game has been in development for 4, almost 5 years, ever since right after Kunark. It's been in development for a long time, there's a lot of legacy things we've had to do. I think of the original team, out of the 100 or so people on the EQ2 team only 16 or 17 have been here for the duration. We've seen a lot of turnover in not only the members of the team but also the approach to how certain things are done and even the idea of what we were going to do with the product. Because of a lot of that as we've gotten closer to wanting to produce the game we've had to prioritize what is important and what is not. So for example the skin, we've done a lot of work on that at the expense of the hair because people are going to see more skin than hair.
To read the full feature, just follow this link.
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Comments
Thank you for doing such a great job on this article. I have read all the others (Fan Site Event articles) that have been written to this point and all of there work was a waste of my time. Your article was well done an informative. Thank you for the great work.
I agree, thanks Kunou and MMORPG.com. I think I learned more about EQ2 from those articles than I have so far reading everything else.
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Jake
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring
- Richard P. Feynman, 1988
Thanks guys, just doing my job.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Great job on the article, but a few points about the interview.
No doubt the game will be pretty good (hopefully excellent) but I have to say that the attitude of the developers really sucks on this one. Firstly any game that has been in development for nearly 5 years has problems. No game takes this long. The fact that he said that only a handful of the original team is still in place, just shows how poor the management of this project has been.
Secondly, it sounds like they are fully intending to push this game out before it's really finished. You don't sell people a car without wheels, and then provide them as an "upgrade" at a later point. This is one of the most disappointing (and frankly appalling) aspects of the games industry that needs to disappear fast: namely releasing an unfinished product and then fixing the bugs/problems (which should have been done before release) by patching the hell out of it.
I hope that this doesn't happen, but if the comments in the interview are anything to go by, it sounds like that is their intention. If so, they're guilty of ripping-off the consumer for the sake of making money, and saving their asses because they couldn't get the game done in a decent timescale.
Chuckle,
Just doing your job? Wish I had a job that made me travel to exotic places, eat lobster, take pictures, play an unreleased game, and generally hang out with a few like minded individuals. Here, let me wipe that sweat off your brow, you lucky bastage.
Seriously though, thanks for the article. Very informative and well written. Nicely done.
Grym
(My son speaking to his Japanese Grandmother) " Sorry Obaba, I don't speak Japanese, I only speak human."
(My son speaking to his Japanese Grandmother) " Sorry Obaba, I don't speak Japanese, I only speak human."
these five articles really gave me a feel for what to expect of EQ2 unfortunately I do expect a lot of patching as pointed out by Saipan.
After some down-time from MMORPG I hope to get a nice start with EQ2 once it is released. I'm just crossing my fingers that they don't use expansion after expansion to fix the probs (like the guild-system).
'till swords meet again!
V.
'till swords meet again!
V.