I try not to rant. I really do. I try to provide a working-man's,
non-statistical insight into being a bard when I can.

But I give up.

I just simply give up.

After logging in last night and seeing that Clouding's see-invis improvement
did not work, nor did the SLN improvement, I just threw up my hands and said
"Fuck it." I have no intentions of enthusiastically reading any more
"Archmage Answers", patch messages or Abashi posts regarding, well,
*anything*.

I can think of no other professionally released piece of software used by so
many people that is regression tested as poorly as EverQuest. As a
professional software developer myself, I find it truly staggering. As
we've all observed on occassion when discussing Verant, people make
mistakes, it's only natural. But to allow so many mistakes to get through
to the customer? I just can't get over it. Verant does not seem to realize
the importance of their testing. Their market is computer gamers, a
notoriously fickle crowd who have thousands of other titles to chose from on
a whim, with more hitting the shelves weekly. Giving those customers no
reason to purchase and play another game should be their VERY HIGHEST
priority. They seriously undermine their customer confidence when they time
and time again insist that something works a certain way and are proven
wrong, or say that something has been fixed and instantly corrected by a
huge number of their customers. Testing Clouding's see-invis aspect is so
mind-numbingly trivial that for it not to have happened is inexcusable.

[45 Bard] Crier (Half Elf) <Seekers of Norrath> ZONE: work