Eq put alot of time into testing in Beta and I am glad it went gold rather
than wait 6-10 months more ..personally. As I have previously said they
though have messed about too much in game with things suggested in the Beta
phase which had they been done then wouldnt be winged about on a daily basis
as they are now. That is my gripe about Beta not the fact it was released
too early. As with the many i see posting in these newsgroups many have been
playing for like 1-2 months. What game have you ever played some of you for
that length of time be honest if you are a n RPG fan online seriously.
Interplay could not even devise a stable engine for BG for most people even
when played through Heat or Gamespy and that is with possibly a 2 Gig
install. Here we are talking about a 500 MB install with the movie and
weekly patching. At least it is playable.
Not flaming you and have run slightly off topic here but just saw the
reference to they should have kept it in the bag a bit more before spilling
it out and wanted to say i am glad they did...
Re AC have the beta and havnt got round to the down load yet as have heard
some bad reports plus didnt like there xp amway pyramid thing. Will have to
do it and form my own opinion.
Fair thee well
twylork
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Schlagenhauf <trelane@...>
To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] another topic
> From: "Mike Schlagenhauf" <trelane@...>
>
> Actually, there's not much else they're working on, other than
> stress-testing and zone population, that was in the letter I got when I
was
> accepted into the 2nd phase of the beta. They're just doing minor
tweaking
> here and there to fix bugs and make sure balance is right (something EQ
> should have paid more attention to in beta perhaps?), but they've said
they
> don't have very much left to do. I will for one say that when I tried it,
I
> played for maybe about 3 hours total before I got totally disgusted with
the
> clunky interface, not to mention I'm not a great fan of that style of
> gameplay. *shrug* Just figured I'd throw out what MS/Turbine has said
(and
> some of my opinions ^_^ ).
>
> Mike
> Lohre Soulsaver
> Bristlebane Server
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Erik Maynus <jmaynus@...>
> To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] another topic
>
>
> > From: "John Erik Maynus" <jmaynus@...>
> >
> > Asheron's Call isn't really Microsoft, it's Turbine's. Microsoft is
just
> > the publisher, Turbine is making it. And it's not all that bad they are
> > still working on it. Give it time don't judge it till it's released.
> >
> > **************************
> > Azor
> > Lvl 18 Human Cleric of the Rathe