Not much to preface here, but another post was put up by Mark Jacobs on the Warhammer Alliance boards concerning the “ruckus” that came from the beta update about 10 days ago (on pvp flagging). Here’s what Mark has to say:
Folks,
Me annoyed by what is said here? LOL, not likely. I find it really kinda humorous actually at this point. I’ve been very clear about the fact that no final decision has been made regarding the RvR/PvP/PvE/RP/etc. servers/rulesets for WAR and since I am the one who makes that decision, there is nothing else to say at this point. If that isn’t a good enough answer, well, I’m sorry but I can’t talk about what I haven’t decided on yet. More meetings will occur next week and I may have more to say about it then. However, the only thing that does distress me is when people get so worked up over it and all sorts of stuff starts getting slung around.
As to updates to the non-beta community, well, it’s a safe bet that after this first update we will not be releasing anything that is the least bit controversial and unfinished from the future beta updates to non-beta testers. We’ll continue with our planned updates, newsletter, shows, etc., but I won’t let out any other information unless I’m sure that it is either something that is finalized or that is not likely to cause a ruckus. To do otherwise, especially in light of this past release, would be silly. We wanted to give the non-beta community some additional information and well, it’s apparent we should have waited until we finalized things a bit more. Everything that has been said here and at other sites as been said by our beta testers so it’s not like we didn’t get plenty of feedback. As I’ve said here for the last two years, we know that we will not make everybody happy with our game, that is both not our job and an impossibility. No game, no film, etc. will ever make everyone happy and we won’t pretend to even try to do that. Our job is to make a great game and if some people don’t like it or like what we do with it, well, there are lots of other options.
As I also said, back when I first started posting here, as we got closer to release, more trolls would appear, tempers would flare and the entire tenor of many of the conversations here would change. This thread, full of personal attacks, accusations, etc. is a perfect example of it.
As we announced when we shut down the beta, we plan on reopening it in December and nothing has changed in that forecast in the last few weeks. Work progresses well, lots of new stuff going in, new additions to the WAR team heading our way and overall, things moving along just fine. I look forward to hitting 500K beta signups before the end of the year and the numbers will go through the roof once we take WAR into Asia.
As always, your mileage may vary and remember, please don’t feed the trolls, they just leave a mess wherever they go and then the poor Mods have to clean up after them.
Have a good weekend everyone, I’m heading off to sleep.
Mark
So there you have it. We’re all still in “wait and see” mode, but I do think War will end up being a great game. There are obviously still a lot of things under discussion and decisions to be made. O.k…well I’m not heading off to sleep, I’m headed back into my EQ2 session. 
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October 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm - Edit
Damn that is great. Mark pwning msg boards. Great find Kevin.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pm - Edit
Mark rawks. It is nice to see him take personal care into such matters as the PvP flagging debate and ensure future releases aren’t as confusing. Though, most of the PvP flagging bitching is coming from people that have no damn clue about how WAR was actually designed.