Station.com
Sign In Join Free Why Join?
Sony Online Entertainment
Community Store My Account Help
  Search   |   Recent Topics   |   Member Listing   |   Back to home page
Through The Looking Glass - May 11 , 2007
Search inside this topic:
The Matrix Online » Top » News and Announcements » Broadcast Depth Previous Topic  |  Next Topic      Go to Page: Previous  1 , 2 , 3  Next
Author Message


Mainframe Invader

Joined: Dec 27, 2006
Messages: 6283
Location: Invadin yore Maneframez
Offline

ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY


I agree with the above point, there certainly needs more info on these. However, Rai is still getting into the role, and I'm sure he'll get better at it as time goes by. Remember there were times when even Walrus just talked about office competitions!

I am intrigued by promotion aspect of it, obviously it's pointless advertising the game 'in game' unless they are trying to make web adverts of in game sequences... Still it'll be fun trying to work it out, I just hope the community at large isn't disappointed when it is revealed.



Transcendent

Joined: Aug 15, 2005
Messages: 192
Location: Recursion Server
Offline

I don't mind the summaries so much. Especially since the local newspaper hasn't delivered for awhile (I need to have a word with the manager of that newspaper-stand chain =P). But I admit, I also was hoping for a little more development wise. There's really good stuff coming and the word needs to get out.  It's good to here about the promotions but I'd really love more promotion of us outside than promotion of others inside...



Jacked Out

Joined: Aug 15, 2005
Messages: 1361
Offline

Man, I miss Walrus' BS.  Promotion...bah..humbug.



Mainframe Invader

Joined: Sep 15, 2006
Messages: 1679
Location: Moose Juice Brewery
Offline

great update, really happy with it



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Nov 18, 2005
Messages: 4852
Location: The soul's eclipse
Offline

Perhaps someone could help me out, because I've obviously missed something along the way.

The last I saw of Seraph he was still on his corrupted madness trip.  What happened in between then and his 'return' to The Oracle?

 




Femme Fatale

Joined: Mar 31, 2006
Messages: 5017
Location: Groznyj Grad, North of Sokrovenno
Offline

exsuscito wrote:

Perhaps someone could help me out, because I've obviously missed something along the way.

The last I saw of Seraph he was still on his corrupted madness trip.  What happened in between then and his 'return' to The Oracle?

 


I was dissappointed about that aswell, untill the archives come out, unless you are Zion (possibally mach) you dont hear much on it, he just changed SMILEY



MC Photographer

Joined: Aug 17, 2005
Messages: 3659
Online

i thaught i heard we were geting a new launchpad to any news on when thats gonna hapen?



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Oct 29, 2005
Messages: 4481
Location: Shinjuku Organization: Mero Faction: Les Enfant Terribles Server: Vector
Offline

ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY

We don't really need updates on buddy keys.  We've been through it before, and the trial periods have always proven to be a success.  When are the higher-ups going to start seeing that people want to play this game, and start allocating funds to the project to market it?

We have the term "in-game promotions" to speculate over.  You say you can't go into further detail, when in point of fact you really didn't go into any detail at all other than it's "exciting", "innovative", and "uniquely MxO".  Seems like kind of a cop-out.

And to sum it all up, we have a summary of the live events that occurred over the last week.  Anyone can check the Live Events boards and get the exact same recap with pictures included, or they could just check out the weekly Community Uplink.  Are live event recap-recaps just a way of filling up space for the Looking Glass article? 

Where's the news about the upcoming Corrupted quest?  The latest image retrievals have stirred up a lot of buzz about what could be in store for this, but it's not mentioned at all in Through The Looking Glass.  SMILEY

These articles have always been a highly anticipated source of development information every week for the community, and they've always been a great way to end a Friday.  These last few articles leave something to be desired.
i would agree...



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Sep 29, 2005
Messages: 5031
Location: HvCft Transom
Offline

supersdcurge wrote:
ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY

We don't really need updates on buddy keys.  We've been through it before, and the trial periods have always proven to be a success.  When are the higher-ups going to start seeing that people want to play this game, and start allocating funds to the project to market it?

We have the term "in-game promotions" to speculate over.  You say you can't go into further detail, when in point of fact you really didn't go into any detail at all other than it's "exciting", "innovative", and "uniquely MxO".  Seems like kind of a cop-out.

And to sum it all up, we have a summary of the live events that occurred over the last week.  Anyone can check the Live Events boards and get the exact same recap with pictures included, or they could just check out the weekly Community Uplink.  Are live event recap-recaps just a way of filling up space for the Looking Glass article? 

Where's the news about the upcoming Corrupted quest?  The latest image retrievals have stirred up a lot of buzz about what could be in store for this, but it's not mentioned at all in Through The Looking Glass.  SMILEY

These articles have always been a highly anticipated source of development information every week for the community, and they've always been a great way to end a Friday.  These last few articles leave something to be desired.
i would agree...




Femme Fatale

Joined: Aug 16, 2005
Messages: 3417
Offline

exsuscito wrote:

Perhaps someone could help me out, because I've obviously missed something along the way.

The last I saw of Seraph he was still on his corrupted madness trip.  What happened in between then and his 'return' to The Oracle?

 


He finished removing the programs from all the overwritten people he could find, so he went back to Oracle SMILEY



Administrator

Joined: Aug 15, 2005
Messages: 2815
Location: Parts Unknown...
Offline

NightTrace wrote:
supersdcurge wrote:
ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY

We don't really need updates on buddy keys.  We've been through it before, and the trial periods have always proven to be a success.  When are the higher-ups going to start seeing that people want to play this game, and start allocating funds to the project to market it?

We have the term "in-game promotions" to speculate over.  You say you can't go into further detail, when in point of fact you really didn't go into any detail at all other than it's "exciting", "innovative", and "uniquely MxO".  Seems like kind of a cop-out.

And to sum it all up, we have a summary of the live events that occurred over the last week.  Anyone can check the Live Events boards and get the exact same recap with pictures included, or they could just check out the weekly Community Uplink.  Are live event recap-recaps just a way of filling up space for the Looking Glass article? 

Where's the news about the upcoming Corrupted quest?  The latest image retrievals have stirred up a lot of buzz about what could be in store for this, but it's not mentioned at all in Through The Looking Glass.  SMILEY

These articles have always been a highly anticipated source of development information every week for the community, and they've always been a great way to end a Friday.  These last few articles leave something to be desired.
i would agree...

I've explained this a few times -- this isn't the same article as the previous "Other Side". This is a more community centric article that will have some dev goodies here and there when I hear word of something but it won't be on a week to week basis.

The problem I think most people are having is the fact that the article *IS* different  and again I've made it rather clear that it *WILL* be a different article so it is what it is.

I'm all for giving out as much dev info as possible but the simple fact is that information isn't going to come about every week.

Sorry folks.

Message edited by Raijinn on 05/17/2007 19:19:07.



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Aug 22, 2005
Messages: 4558
Location: away from you :P
Offline

Raijinn wrote:
NightTrace wrote:
supersdcurge wrote:
ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY

We don't really need updates on buddy keys.  We've been through it before, and the trial periods have always proven to be a success.  When are the higher-ups going to start seeing that people want to play this game, and start allocating funds to the project to market it?

We have the term "in-game promotions" to speculate over.  You say you can't go into further detail, when in point of fact you really didn't go into any detail at all other than it's "exciting", "innovative", and "uniquely MxO".  Seems like kind of a cop-out.

And to sum it all up, we have a summary of the live events that occurred over the last week.  Anyone can check the Live Events boards and get the exact same recap with pictures included, or they could just check out the weekly Community Uplink.  Are live event recap-recaps just a way of filling up space for the Looking Glass article? 

Where's the news about the upcoming Corrupted quest?  The latest image retrievals have stirred up a lot of buzz about what could be in store for this, but it's not mentioned at all in Through The Looking Glass.  SMILEY

These articles have always been a highly anticipated source of development information every week for the community, and they've always been a great way to end a Friday.  These last few articles leave something to be desired.
i would agree...

I've explained this a few times -- this isn't the same article as the previous "Other Side". This is a more community centric article that will have some dev goodies here and there when I hear word of something but it won't be on a week to week basis.

The problem I think most people are having is the fact that the article *IS* different  and again I've made it rather clear that it *WILL* be a different article so it is what it is.

I'm all for giving out as much dev info as possible but the simple fact is that information isn't going to come about every week.

Sorry folks.
Understandable.



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Sep 29, 2005
Messages: 5031
Location: HvCft Transom
Offline

deviljonny wrote:
Raijinn wrote:
NightTrace wrote:
supersdcurge wrote:
ManicV wrote:
I still think these Looking Glass articles are severely lacking.  SMILEY

We don't really need updates on buddy keys.  We've been through it before, and the trial periods have always proven to be a success.  When are the higher-ups going to start seeing that people want to play this game, and start allocating funds to the project to market it?

We have the term "in-game promotions" to speculate over.  You say you can't go into further detail, when in point of fact you really didn't go into any detail at all other than it's "exciting", "innovative", and "uniquely MxO".  Seems like kind of a cop-out.

And to sum it all up, we have a summary of the live events that occurred over the last week.  Anyone can check the Live Events boards and get the exact same recap with pictures included, or they could just check out the weekly Community Uplink.  Are live event recap-recaps just a way of filling up space for the Looking Glass article? 

Where's the news about the upcoming Corrupted quest?  The latest image retrievals have stirred up a lot of buzz about what could be in store for this, but it's not mentioned at all in Through The Looking Glass.  SMILEY

These articles have always been a highly anticipated source of development information every week for the community, and they've always been a great way to end a Friday.  These last few articles leave something to be desired.
i would agree...

I've explained this a few times -- this isn't the same article as the previous "Other Side". This is a more community centric article that will have some dev goodies here and there when I hear word of something but it won't be on a week to week basis.

The problem I think most people are having is the fact that the article *IS* different  and again I've made it rather clear that it *WILL* be a different article so it is what it is.

I'm all for giving out as much dev info as possible but the simple fact is that information isn't going to come about every week.

Sorry folks.
Understandable.

It is understandable, to a point. I agree, in so far as my understanding of the situation goes, the reason your articles seem to lack the same in depth information is because you are in fact not really involved with MxO outside of being its CRM. Walrus was also the production managers, so he had a very in depth knowladge of what was going on. However, because I understand that does not mean I have to enjoy it. We here at the MxO community [and if you disagree you can post as much] have come to expect a certain level of "service" from the communications we get from our CRMs. To go from the page+ long OSOTLG's from Walrus, to your three paragraph copy paste "lip service" postings is a huge let down. We were all told to give you a chance [hell, Walrus sent me a PM to do as much before he left O_x], and I think we have and still are. But just because we're giving you that chance, doesnt mean we cant vocalize what we would like to see an improvement in. We pay our $15, and one of the things we've come to expect is the weekly read from these articles. I dont think it is unfair of us to ask you to beef them up, especially when you do show a more in depth approach to some of the other games that you also are the CRM of.

-Trace




Femme Fatale

Joined: Nov 26, 2005
Messages: 4217
Location: Shellcode
Offline

I kinda understand that Raj can't get any good information about upcoming content and stuff. I rather read all about upcoming patches, fixes and alike than to read this but if that's how it's gonna be then so be it. OSOTLG and the Image thing were the only 2 articles I visited DN1 for. The whole website is becoming quite useless for me because I can find more information on this forum.

Anyway, as a CRM, I thought it's part of the job to get involved with the community?
Apart from getting some scoops about future content, or small hints, whatevever, Walrus was also pretty involved with the community itself.
And when something got out of hand on the forums, or a major exploit/bug was found, or whatever big thing there was: We could read about it on friday and sometimes there was a solution given as well, but at least we knew the MXO team was working on improving what the players found out.

If this all cannot be done anymore then so be it. I can understand that.



Systemic Anomaly

Joined: Sep 29, 2005
Messages: 5031
Location: HvCft Transom
Offline

Reeverb wrote:
And when something got out of hand on the forums
Apparently the new shift in CRM has also included a shift to "shhh dont rock the boat, and never admit it if the boat did in fact rock"

 
The Matrix Online » Top » News and Announcements » Broadcast Depth Go to Page: Previous  1 , 2 , 3  Next
Go to:   

Version 2.2.7.43