Why not have -Weekly- OFFICIAL dev polls?

[Rowyne]

We could have told them they shouldn't release it. We could have told them a lot of things. Actually we kindof did.

the players told them to release it, no matter what state it is in....

No, Peregine's right on this one. We absolutely did tell them not to release it. The beta feedback forums were inundated with posts telling SE, straight out, push back the release date on this game. It's not ready. I remember the deluge, because I was one of the many people saying it.

They just didn't listen.

[Azurymber]

No, Peregine's right on this one. We absolutely did tell them not to release it. The beta feedback forums were inundated with posts telling SE, straight out, push back the release date on this game. It's not ready. I remember the deluge, because I was one of the many people saying it.

They just didn't listen.

I posted a lot about how the game was severely flawed and needed serious updates before release and HUNDREDS of people responded by saying that the open beta was just an example and when the game was released there would be more zones and lots more content and UI fixes (they said UI was only bad because they were testing limits) etc.

Sadly official release was -no- different than open beta and im pretty sure 90% of those people quit.

this is another example of poor communication. I wonder what would have happened if SE was honest and said the release would be like the beta instead of letting 1000s of people speculate on what the official release would be like and get let down.

[Mack]

I posted a lot about how the game was severely flawed and needed serious updates before release and HUNDREDS of people responded by saying that the open beta was just an example and when the game was released there would be more zones and lots more content and UI fixes (they said UI was only bad because they were testing limits) etc.

Sadly official release was -no- different than open beta and im pretty sure 90% of those people quit.

Yep so true. I defended this game in beta, I was so sure it would turn out better than XI at the very least and while I knew there were plenty of problems with the game in beta I didn't think they would release it half finished. I was actually so sure that the zones we got were limited to 3 out of plenty more! and I would bash every naysayers head in if they said anything remotely bad about the game and well little by little I became worse than the people bashing the game during beta because it eventually hit me how lackluster everything was and how its like they didn't even care about making a good game.

[Wynn]

No, Peregine's right on this one. We absolutely did tell them not to release it. The beta feedback forums were inundated with posts telling SE, straight out, push back the release date on this game. It's not ready. I remember the deluge, because I was one of the many people saying it.

They just didn't listen.

^This

This is absolutely, 100% true. However, on the other spectrum (as there is always both sides present) there were just as many people saying "no release now. We don't wanna wait. No MMO is ever finished. You can fix this stuff later." Of course, these people mistakenly believed there was better stuff they were not allowing beta testers access to, so naturally they wanted the game to release so they could see it. Too bad it wasn't there. ^^