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[yyewman]

Originally Posted by Belfedia

I agree with Khan, since 03/23/2005 (it is 04/12/2005), no devs answer to this... And newb ask same and same question, because don't have just one index page site up to date...

Kelly Flock, ex-CEO for VI before Sony bought'em out, he stepped down sometime a year after he made this quote..........

"When asked if he takes into account consumer input Flock is dismissive, relying instead on the expertise of his staff. 'No, we never talk to consumers - they just f--- us up. Someone asked for a copy of our market research which made us take the decision to do EverQuest. I said we hadn't done any market research. Had we done, the game would never have been made. We never focus on them. Gamers don't know what they want. We just want to know if they have a valid credit card."

It appears even Blizzard who created WoW is doing the same thing now, a editorial on this is found here....

http://archive.gamespy.com/mmog/stra...01/stratics15/

I agree as I am seeing the same thing happening now with the nerfs in WoW.

I quit after all the nerfs took place, WoW is no longer fun anymore.

Yiz

[Windcatcher]

Wow, talk about a blast from the past. I remember reading about Flock on Lum (Lum the Mad's site for the newbies). I thought someone had said that Sony had placed him there after the buyout, and that he was never happy there. Rumor had it that he had a reputation for dressing down SOE employees in front of everyone and generally being rude and overbearing (and refusing to let problems become known to any of his superiors--preventing them from being fixed). I remember reading on Lum that things got *really* ugly at SOE for a while as a result. I don't know how true any of this is, though...the people reporting at the time said they had a mole at SOE, but I recommend taking it with a grain of salt.

[RangerDown]

I presume that he has since then been summarily dismissed...??