EverQuest: Letter From John Smedley

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John Smedley, the President of Sony Online Entertainment posted a letter to the players of EverQuest live regarding a decision to push back the upcoming expansion "Omens of War."  Here is the letter:

Hello Norrath! I wanted to announce that we've decided to push Omens of War back to Late August in order to give the EQ team time to respond to important issues that the EverQuest community is raising (specifically including the issues with Gates of Discord). We've heard some concerns from within the community that we feel are important enough to push back our next expansion and spend time fixing the problems you have brought to our attention. At the end of the day, we work for you and it's important for us to demonstrate that we both understand and appreciate that. We're also inviting many members of the community to join us here at SOE for a day to have a direct dialog with the development team about issues that are important to the EverQuest community as a whole. We've already sent out the invitations and are making all the arrangements. In addition, our EQ community managers will be coming up with a list of issues raised on the message boards so that we can come back to you with a specific list of things we're going to address. I'm sorry if you feel we haven't been listening and reacting appropriately. We do our best to balance all of the needs and concerns you raise along with expanding Norrath and giving you new and wonderful things to do in EverQuest, but we do make mistakes. We've heard you loud and clear. We have many things planned for EverQuest over the upcoming years, and our goal is to keep you happily playing EverQuest for a long time to come. The best way for us to do that is by first and foremost is by listening to you. John Smedley President, Sony Online Entertainment

You can read this at the official site at this link.

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

n2sooners

Speculation is that this

http://www.gucomics.com/archives/view.php?cdate=20040526

and this

http://forums.gucomics.com/viewtopic.php?t=2057

may have had something to do with it because of this

http://forums.gucomics.com/viewtopic.php?t=2072

Clever_Glove

"SOE's rapid push for this next expansion is little more than a money grab attempt by the corporate big whigs before the well runs dry. In other words, Smedley and his peers has his hand buried elbow deep in our pockets digging for every scrap of our cash that they can get. "

Pretty much exsactly how I would have said it.

To my understand much of the high end content in GoD is still broke.

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