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Message ID: 14507
Date: Fri Feb 4 22:38:24 GMT 2000
Author: Blitz Krieg
Subject: Re: Re: Archmage Answers
> I try not to rant. I really do. I try to provide a working-man's,improvement
> 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
> did not work, nor did the SLN improvement, I just threw up my hands andsaid
> "Fuck it." I have no intentions of enthusiastically reading any moreso
> "Archmage Answers", patch messages or Abashi posts regarding, well,
> *anything*.
>
> I can think of no other professionally released piece of software used by
> many people that is regression tested as poorly as EverQuest. As arealize
> 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
> the importance of their testing. Their market is computer gamers, aon
> notoriously fickle crowd who have thousands of other titles to chose from
> a whim, with more hitting the shelves weekly. Giving those customers notime
> reason to purchase and play another game should be their VERY HIGHEST
> priority. They seriously undermine their customer confidence when they
> 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