Feldon (left to right) Greg Agius [EQ2 Brand Manager] interviews Rich Waters [EQ2 Lead Designer], Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson [EQ2 Senior Producer] and Salim “Silius” [EQ2 Developer, Itemization], about the upcoming Destiny of Velious expansion including reader questions.
Upcoming Dev Chat Webcasts:
This Friday, February 18th, members of the EQII Development Team will join us again to talk about itemization in Destiny of Velious. This will be the last in our series of four Live Webcasts leading up to the Destiny of Velious launch! Be sure to tune in to learn more about the upcoming features and get the scoop straight from the people who work on EQII every day.
- Friday, February 18 at 4:00 pm PST: Topic TBA
Topics will be announced soon. Tune in on Facebook or on Stickam to watch the fourth webcast this Friday!
So those are the guys that ruined EverQuest 2…
I think its good that they got a taster of some of the itemisation changes out there early with the critical chance thing. Since it’s going to soften the shock of encountering them in game, and it also gets the developers reason for doing so out there first.
I think this is important for setting the right argument, otherwise in the vaccum of reason all kinds of spurious guesses at explanations come up, which only ends up feeding the QQ on the forums instead of any reasonable debate.
Something that I believe explains the success of the WoW team to get their much larger gameplay changes over (including item degradation) while in the past EQ2 forums at least seem to be awash with QQ threads mostly full of posters that don’t even recognise the problem the devs are trying to fix (not saying every change they’ve proposed as been good though!).
I’m loving the idea of the pre and post launch events, I’m still just not believing that flying mounts won’t appear on the marketplace (they haven’t said that they wont!), but they’re not giving any indications that they will, I’m guessing they’ll leave it a GU or three after DoV and we’ll let Johnny Ball reveal all.
Overall while this videocast took a little longer to get going then the last one, I did like it, the ideas of the post launch events sound great fun.