Feldon
What started out as a thread by players wondering why an interesting feature (Map Fogging) had been removed got a clear explanation from Gninja and Caith as the team tries to solve the crashing issues certain players have been reporting. Gninja started with: This was actually a quick change and the reason it was done was because the amount of data that had to be stored on each character was contributing negatively to individual performance. Caith added: This change directly reduces character data that is sent to the client when zoning, by a significant amount in many cases. Character...
Day: February 12, 2015
More than a few players have looked at my EQ2 character‘s vacant adornment slots with incredulity. Why have I been so slack on adorning? The answer has multiple parts: I never knew when I will replace a piece of gear and thus be out the cost of the adornments or worse unable to carry those adornments forward. War Runes have been by-and-large out of reach of my casual heroic gameplay style. The purple adornments I really want have been drops behind an unfavorable RNG. Green adornments for the most part have lacked significant growth, or just haven’t been worth...
Not surprisingly, my article “Daybreak Games: It Didn’t Have to Be This Way” received a lukewarm response from its subject, Daybreak President John Smedley. @EQ2Wire Feldon I'll make it simple – your article was so offbase I actually laughed. so much of it is just factually incorrect. — John Smedley (@j_smedley) February 12, 2015 After exchanging a few candid e-mails with him, I’m able to release this comment: We absolutely made sure that taking care of our employees was the highest priority and this deal was by far and away the one that took care of people the best....
Have you ever wondered just how many status points it takes to level a guild? Fortunately EQ2 player Xanadin has done the math and made a table of guild XP levels that has the necessary numbers. Here’s the direct link to the site and the link where it’s mentioned on the EQ2 Forums. We meant to post this before all the news broke yesterday.
Bumping this article up as we’ve learned of two three more layoffs — Xelgad, Jeffrey Bard, and Fyreflyte. From EQ and EQ2 Creative Director and awesome fire dancer Akil “Lyndro” Hooper‘s facebook (a public post): Sitting in a room, getting laid off with some of the brightest and most talented developers I’ve had the pleasure to work with. No idea what comes next, but if history holds true I’m sure that it will be fun. From @Douglastweets (Endymion) who worked on EQ2 as a programmer and added a ton of stuff including Gear Sets to EQ2, helping EQ2U and Dragon’s Armory...
UPDATE: SOE President John Smedley has responded to this post. The day has arrived that I’ve been dreading since I heard the first rumors. Layoffs have befallen Daybreak Games, affecting H1Z1, Planetside 2, EQNext/Landmark, EverQuest, and EverQuest II. The Community Relations team was one of the hardest hit, with Brasse, Amnerys, Ashlanne, Hats, and Afista all let go. We haven’t confirmed any other layoffs in any other department such as QA, CS, Platform, Web, etc. I have to hand it to the EQ2 team who has pulled together as a family over the last week in the face of...