Why the BFG was removed.

[zanderklocke]

EverQuest popped up an article in my Facebook newsfeed that had some interesting EverQuest stories from current developers related to Project M and other things like the BFG.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/25/th...e-muffin-zone/

And along with the ninjas came guns.

“And any time you have pirates, there’s a cannon there,” Caraker said. But that wasn’t the most famous gun in the franchise, he said. That one is actually an homage to another game altogether.

“In 2000, in the Scars of Velious expansion, somebody put in a reference to the BFG from the Quake franchise,” Jonathan Caraker said. “They put in this quest, and you did a couple of things, and you got a weapon that used archery but it looked like a robotic arm that you wore.

“It was out of character, and it did some things in our game that weren’t good for the gameplay. When you would attack something, it would fly back across the zone. A huge swath of the zone would come back to where you are. It created crazy trains. Players have been asking for us to bring it back forever. We have said no for 15 years.”