Via digg, allegations that SOE regularly lied about the feature set of their games.
In EverQuest 2, there is a world event quest that would introduce the froglok playable race to EverQuest 2. Players had to figure out the quest to unlock the race. Well, people started trying to figure out how to go about doing the quest, and working on it. They looked everywhere for clues, used months of play time. When they asked SOE if the quest existed at launch, an SOE community manager stated that the quest was in.
Six months later, SOE added the actual quest.
Beautiful. I remember something similar related to the Jedi quests in SWG; players were strung along for around a year trying to figure out how to unlock the Jedi slot. It wasn’t anything, well, relevent to the game — you just had to put in hundreds and hundreds of hours mastering different game professions in the correct (secret) (unique) order. What a waste.
SWG recently made the Washington Post as well. It sounds like the game is dying. SOE claims they are adding a lot of new players, but they refuse to release numbers… which makes me suspect they are very, very bad.
