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Originally Posted by Croco
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There are tons of changes that Verant & Sony put into the game via patches that did not end up in patch notes. They left stuff out of patch notes literally all the time.
Here's a link from a player back in the day that was keeping track himself of changes to various spells and if you go and cross reference those changes with patch notes you find plenty of them not listed in the corresponding patch notes from when they were put in game.
(re: https://web.archive.org/web/20020205.../spdatch.shtml)
That's just from Aug/01 to Jan/02 and there are a number of examples just from changed spells. To say nothing of quests, mechanics, abilities... etc. Just because there are no patch notes saying something changed does not mean it didn't change. There are too many examples to the contrary. |
The Official Everquest Patch notes and code dumps from the EQ devs are the most reliable source of information for how the game actually worked. The only source that comes close to that is In era Vidoes and Verified Log files. Everything else is just anecdote that is subject to a heavy dose of skepticism. Unless whatever anecdote you post is backed up by credible sources, I'd say it can be mostly ignored and filed away as a speculative curiosity. It's quite possible that the EQ devs did "ninja" patches during the timeline, but without actual reliable evidence we have no way of Knowing what they did. Defaulting to current live mechanics in most cases is usually best in the absence of reliable data.