Comments on: MMO Development Lesson #29 http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/ Game design, development, and industry commentary by MMO Game Designer Ryan Shwayder. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: sacremon http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/comment-page-1/#comment-75227 sacremon Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:45:58 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/#comment-75227 And when you do play the game, do it with a standard client character, not a GM/dev account one. Otherwise you run into things like: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=410254&#4582337 And when you do play the game, do it with a standard client character, not a GM/dev account one. Otherwise you run into things like:

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=410254&#4582337

]]> By: JC http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/comment-page-1/#comment-75150 JC Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:06:20 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/#comment-75150 Heh. Ran in to this trouble with the VG beta. I had one of the better-geared disciples in the beta, but nothing remotely close to the gear that the class lead could (and did) summon to himself. So the whole time he's going "everything's fine, in fact, I think this class is overpowered" and everyone else is going "huh?" He kept asking for nerfs. Finally got him and the class developer to meet me and had the class lead equip himself in identical gear to mine. He suddenly couldn't even do half of what he'd been able to do before. The class dev then went out and started looking at other dsc's and contacted me a few days later to tell me I had the best gear he'd seen on any dsc, and that he agreeed we needed bumping. The class lead was also removed as lead since he was so clueless about the class itself -- just knew how powerful his ubergear made him, not the class itself. Heh. Ran in to this trouble with the VG beta. I had one of the better-geared disciples in the beta, but nothing remotely close to the gear that the class lead could (and did) summon to himself. So the whole time he’s going “everything’s fine, in fact, I think this class is overpowered” and everyone else is going “huh?” He kept asking for nerfs. Finally got him and the class developer to meet me and had the class lead equip himself in identical gear to mine.

He suddenly couldn’t even do half of what he’d been able to do before. The class dev then went out and started looking at other dsc’s and contacted me a few days later to tell me I had the best gear he’d seen on any dsc, and that he agreeed we needed bumping. The class lead was also removed as lead since he was so clueless about the class itself — just knew how powerful his ubergear made him, not the class itself.

]]> By: Roleplay http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/comment-page-1/#comment-75146 Roleplay Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:34:40 +0000 http://www.nerfbat.com/2008/03/03/mmo-development-lesson-29/#comment-75146 Wow, so true. If your employer doesn't let you play your game... you probably need to start looking for something else. Wow, so true. If your employer doesn’t let you play your game… you probably need to start looking for something else.

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