On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Heather Daley wrote:

> there are many very powerful items in the game and there are other
> containers that reduce weight 100%, not a real big deal actually, they are
> lore so it not like you can stock up on them. We are not Beta testers,
> these problems with "code" supposedly, should have been fixed a long time
> ago. Them saying "there was an erorr in the code" is a scape goat that they
> use to justify screwing with us, just like when they reduced the amount of
> damage our DD spell, retribution does.

You are not a programmer.

It is amazingly easy to have errors in code -- especially when the
error is with data (as the amount of damage is, I've gathered, from
the way it was described) -- that do not show up in the beta-testing.

Then you go on to realize that the game is not a shipped product. It is
continually evolving. You might not like all the changes. But I truly
don't believe they are using errors in code as any sort of scape goat.
I can easily believe that they have errors in their data that do not
show up in the beta-testing.

If you want a game that never changes, do not play an online game. Buy one
of the off the shelf games. Daggerfall. Or something like taht. Online games
will change on you.

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