Devs : considerations for better community activity and health

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Originally Posted by Khaleesi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have we ever seen Rogean sit down with us all and explain why a lot of things were done, are as they are and may or may not be in the future?

I get that you can't 'talk' to mobs or crowds ; and if the government shared things daily with the masses of sheep, we'd constantly have riots and discourse.

I greatly respect what Rogean and all of the devs and admins here have done in emulating the most classic and authentic version of EverQuest. We owe them a lot of gratitude for their hard work.

Part of the classic EverQuest experience is that the SOE devs were in a constant state of dialogue with EQ players on their forums. Without the input of the dedicated playerbase SOE would have probably failed to make many of the changes and improvements to the user experience.

In 2004, in the face of a widespread player revolt, John Smedley and SOE staged a weekend guild summit where the concerns of the top guilds and others were brought to the EQ dev team for consideration.

Here's an article of what went down.

http://www.moorgard.com/mobhunter_archive/001330.html

Passionate MMORPG players who provide bug reports and thoughtful feedback have always been one of the greatest assets of classic EQ. No other video game community has done more to shape the future of a video game genre than the MMO playerbase.

I think the P1999 staff would do well to make the effort to open up channels of communication and harness that same passion here in the P1999 community. This could be done by conducting polls and surveys at first. Later it could include direct and respectful mutual dialogue. After all, we are all in this together.