Hateful Gamers

Holy Crap, do we even use this anymore?

*scratches his head* I had half of a review for 99 Nights written, and haven’t finished it..I really should. I’m sorry guys, I just took a slight break from 360, and started playing EQ2 a bit with the women.

It’s enjoyable to a degree, because it’s “new”.  It’s got enough of an achievement-set to it, that I can feel like I’m accomplishing something, which is a fun component for me, though slightly dangerous as I get obsessive about such things (Hello Gamerscore!)  But, it feeds a roleplaying tick that I have, and gives me an excuse to spend time with the lady, so, why not, right?

However, I must be honest with you all.  This game has problems.  Simplistic, easy to see, why the hell are they still there problems.  It just baffles my mind that the problems that I’m running into, each and every day are in the game.  Maybe they fired most of the developers?  I know quite a few people have moved on to other projects and companies, which isn’t saying much, since many of the problems are day one problems, or fairly old 05/06 issues, that still plague this game today.

So, while I’m taking a break from consistent 360 playing, and doing the EQ2 thing, I’m going to try something.  I’m going to post an issue daily.  Not a long post.  Just a WTF SOE post, to explain my displeasure with at least one thing I’ve found in the game.

When the list has grown, I will create a single thread with all the issues.  Hell, maybe SoE can use it as their QA issue database.  I question whether they have one with all the issues I’ve seen.

Problem 1)

Kilzak the Twisted

http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Kilzak_the_Twisted

What is suppose to happen: He is suppose to give you AA, a special kind of Rare Experience.

What happens: He doesn’t.

Whenever you kill someone with a proper noun name, they are suppose to give you something called Achievement Points (AP, or AA as the community calls it, which is the name derived from EQ1).  Kilzak the Twisted doesn’t give AA.  He’s part of a questline, where the next boss in the series gives AA, so why not him?  Is “Kilzak the Twisted” a generic name?  Is it the name of a tribe of crazy human alchemists?  Maybe he is Bob, of the Kilzak the Twisted tribe.   WTF. 

See, AA was added post release…they most likely didn’t have a flag indicator in their monster database to mark if a monster was a named monster, so they probably went, line by line making monsters worth AA.  Why then did this guy get skipped?  Maybe they went by zone, because this guy is in a BFE zone, that people only go into for 15 minutes, late in the game, for this one quest..and I’m sure few people even do it anymore.  Do you think their monster database is split by zone?  I guess it could make sense, since very few monsters exist in multiple zones, maybe this table was overlooked.  I still don’t see why they couldn’t get a QA code monkey to sift through the database and update anything that even remotely looks like a named monster with AA.  Kilzak isn’t the first, or the last named monster I’ll run into that wont give me AA. 

So what happens when you petition SoE about it? 

I wanted you to know that I have forwarded your concerns about this quest to our development team. Unfortunately, I cannot say whether or not this will be changed in the future, but I wanted to thank you for providing feedback on this.

Galatee

Hey Galatee, I wasn’t even talking about quests, I was talking about named mobs.  Way to pick the wrong prewritten response.  Sorry SoE, this isn’t something you get to brush off and not fix.  Hire more data monkeys to fix your data.  Be consistent, because this is simply unprofessional.

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