[AC] Weekly Update 01/08/07

[Sun_al-Mage]

[turbine]

http://forums.ac.turbinegames.com/showthread.php?t=32744

Hello there and welcome to the January 8th edition of the weekly update!

I know it has been a couple of weeks since the last update was posted, so I am going to try and cram as much information as I can in to this weeks update.

During the last week I have been busy trying to catch up on all the things I missed over the Holiday vacation. One thing we did discuss on my return was gathering more feedback from players here on the forums and in-game. A fine example of this feedback in action is the thread on returning the Caul to its previous XP yield. Just so we are clear, for the time being we are just talking about the creatures in the area known as Caulcano. Creatures outside of this area were not touched when the XP amounts were lowered.

The January event Bridging the Vast Divide is tentatively scheduled to go live on Tuesday January 16th. As always the date can change if there are any unforeseen issues. We will of course give as much notice as possible if that were to be the case.

In the past, players have stated that they would like schedules of our story-related live-ops. To this end, we wanted to let you know that we do have a story live-op in the works for our January update. We will be posting a schedule of the live-ops in conjunction with the Letter to the Players. We hope that you will be attend, and look forward to seeing you in Dereth!

As some of you may have noticed, we have fixed the errors on the launcher that became evident to those using IE7. The actual issue was that some different coding had to be done when everyone was using IE6 in order to make things look right. This code was actually throwing me off a bit because; for the most part it did look correct. After several posts on the issue I made some quick changes to the old page, which as far as I can tell has fixed the problems people were having. We are still going to have a new page made at some point in the future.

A reminder that on January 19th our beloved Producer, Crowley will be attending a special dinner in the beautiful Pacific Northwest! The will be fun and prizes, as well as the chance to meet and hang with the man behind the scenes of Asheron’s Call. If you are going to be in the Bellevue Washington area and you would like to attend make sure to RSVP john@dilley.com. Having had the opportunity to attend one of these dinners myself, I can say they are really a lot of fun. Make sure you go if you have the chance.

Based on some recent feedback and wanting to keep things going in the right direction as we go forward. We would like to take the opportunity once again to solicit some feedback from you, the players about the last story arc involving Grael. What about the Arc did you like? What about the Arc did you not like? Please keep all responses constructive in nature. Just telling us you did not like it, is not what we are looking for. We want to know exactly what aspects of the event you did like as well what you may not have liked. The more information we can gather, the better. We want to make sure that moving ahead we make the events as strong as we can. Your feedback is an important part of that process.

Some of you have already noticed but, AC along with a few other games has been featured in this month’s Massive Magazine. That goes along with another back cover advertisement. Make sure to check it out if you get the chance.

Well that’s about it for now. Everyone have a great week and see you all in Dereth!
__________________
Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc