Feldon After getting called to the carpet for a revised Game Update schedule that won’t see new level 90 content coming to EQ2 until April, nearly 9 months since last year’s Game Update 61, SOE has laid out a gameplan for February events.
From EverQuest2.com:
February Publish Plans – More to Play, Your Way!
February is here already, and the team is hard at work on Game Update 63! We’ll have some “behind the scenes” videos for you in the coming weeks to give you a sneak peek at the art of some of the exciting new zones coming up, and more information will follow between now and then.
In the mean time however, there’s plenty of new stuff to do in the world of Norrath, and we’re not waiting for the Game Update to bring you some of the improvements and changes we have in store. Here are some of the things we intend to bring you in the month of February!
Love is in the Air
Erollisi Day quests and events will be available from February 7th through 20th.
Dungeon Maker Adventurers to Gain Powerups
Dungeon Maker is becoming even more more fun, as we improve Adventurer gameplay to provide a more active game style using power management! While playing as an Adventurer, you’ll use certain abilities to build up your power, which you can then spend to use other abilities. This should give Adventurers a much more engaging playstyle that we hope everyone will enjoy! This change will be heading to Test server shortly so you can try it out yourself and give us your feedback before we finalize the changes. We hope you enjoy them as much as we are!
In-Game Polls to Arrive as Mail
We now have the ability to send you polls through the in-game mail system, and as promised, we’ll be seeking your feedback on a number of topics of interest. Poll questions will arrive in your mailbox like normal letters, and you can simply delete them if you don’t want to answer; however, we hope you’ll take the time to let us know what you think and how we can continue to improve your experience! We’re looking forward to testing out this new feature and hope that it will be a great source of information.
Polls I cant wait to see that. Dungion maker well if you dont have the xpac then you get squat, I am still not buying the xpac. The rest is stuff they would do anyways, and have been doing for years.
Bad, they are going to give you “behind the scenes videos” in the coming weeks! This will really speed up new lvl 90 content!! I vote for the new hot blonde producer changing in the locker room after a work out!
The DM dungeons can be run w/o the expansion – so even though the new creature spawners aren’t of use to you, the activators are. Plus it means additional variety in the dungeons AND I like the proposed changes to how the avatars work. {I like the dungeons over all, and don’t think balancing with player characters is feasible, but agree that the avatars get boring}
I just don’t understand why they are trying to do more to Dungeon Maker that isn’t play your own character. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
that is because Dungeon Decorator does not make sense at all
If you don’t have the exp then DM is of no use to you, you can’t any of the tokens you get from painfully running one with the lack luster avatars.
The only reason people even run them is for the tokens, just like BG use to be ran for. If not for the tokens these places would be a ghost town like the arenas.
I wonder if the mail is going to go to every one of your toons then? Sounds like spam to me, though I am glad to see some polls in game, I think a better system could have been implemented. Hopefully if you answer on one toon then it deletes the mail from all your toons or something.
In-game mail for polls? Seriously?
I’m kind of disappointed, because I was envisioning an actual mini-survey app that could aggregate and chart replies efficiently, rather than a system where you have to painstaklingly codify open-ended questions. It’s not much different than /feedback otherwise, and it will probably take them forever to figure out what they’ve actually learned as a result.
Maybe it will just include a link to surveymonkey. Ha.
I’m pretty sure they are modifying the Mail system to support questionnaires. I don’t see them expecting everyone to fill out essay questions. The big question is, will they be well-written questions? Most well-intentioned people end up writing push polls with an expected/intended answer. It’s actually very challenging to write good questions that don’t lead the audience.
You’re right about that, Feldon! I work for a market research company and there are many ways well-intentioned polls can shoot themselves in the foot. It will probably be a learning experience for them, you can count on that. Now, will they learn quickly enough… we’ll see. 🙂