Game Director Letter – July 2013

[Chillee]

I tried to give Joel and the new team every benefit of a doubt. That goodwill is pretty much gone where I'm concerned.

As mentioned above, you have a simple game breaking rez box bug that has been present for the last few months. I've been told it is fixed on TL, though I haven't seen that for myself. But if so, why is that not on live by now? Joel said when he took over that he planned to implement regular maintenance. 6 months in, how is that not began?

6 months of the new team, and we have nothing to show for it. All we get are vague notions of future content, and excuses as to why the content done by the previous team hasn't been polished and published to the servers.

If someone who loves the game and has been dedicated to it as much as I have is out of patience, I can only imagine that those who have been wavering on whether to stay are done with AOC, or will be soon.

[Tura]

Achievement Unlocked: Ignored 50 Goldspammers!

[Legionx]

Bull@#$%!!! Cannot xfer for another month?? Are you serious Funcom? Toons stuck on dead servers and you disable paid xfers till merge is complete.

[Bibik]

What about the 'event' on TL in order to test latency with high-populated instance ?

[tman1991]

What about the 'event' on TL in order to test latency with high-populated instance ?

you mean for the 8 people that log on TL?

[Bibik]

you mean for the 8 people that log on TL?

Well, the purpose of this kind of event is to get more than 8 people at the same time !
Like old siege testing back in 2011.

[sardanapal]

It is only me that thinks the 1-2 last letters reminds me of the letters of the previous "his name must not be spelled" GD?

Wow it seems it comes with the job description of AoC GD:

Give them promises that even you have serious doubts you can deliver.

[Kurt2013]

I wonder who picks which dungeons to "unchain" because those are three of the worst dungeons currently in the game. Maybe the unchained versions will be a lot better but somehow judging from AoK I won't hold my breath. Make xib unchained and I would be thrilled though!

Look at it from a positive side...if they mess up unpopular dungeons...not much harm done. If they mess up Atzels and Xiba...and looking at their capability to "undo" bad choices...i'd rather see scorpion cave and halls of frost unchained.

I just hope they would leave the old instances alone this time as "nostalgia" version. Also on TL or on the old forums have been nice suggestions made of how "unchained" could be done.

[mashta]

Wonder what is GD job description at Funcom. Nvm.... Posting Rephrased previous month GD Letters check,Promise to players content that meets 7 month deadlines check, Organazine stuff Vacations check, More Vacations and sitting around check, Itroduce more Anoying Bugs to keep players busy check.

[Harrn]

http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/g...tter_july_2013

Looks like I'm playing the "wrong" game...