[AC] Weekly Update delayed

[Ziv]

[turbine]

http://forums.ac.turbinegames.com/showt ... hp?t=31359

As you all know today is the 5th anniversary of a horrible day. Every year since that day I have spent this day with family and friends, some of who were/are Fire Fighters. This keeps me out of the office for most of the day, which makes it tough to get an update together.

I will have an update posted tomorrow along with the Developer's Notes and Rollout Fiction. It will be a busy day for everyone.

Just as a reminder tomorrow September 12, all worlds will be down from 8am EDT - 3pm EDT for the September event, Come What Follows.

Last but not least, on this day of mourning and remembrance please take the time to let those close to you know just how much they mean to you. It may not seem like much, but sometimes we take for granted being able to say we care to those closest to us.

Everyone have a good day.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc

[Kezz]

http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread ... post308094

Weekly Update 9/12/06

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Hello there everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend!

As most of you know by now, it’s time for the September event, Come What Follows. This is the month we let pets roam free in Dereth for the first time, and we are all very excited about this. Please keep in mind however that they are still a work in progress and sometimes may act a bit… funny. Over time we will continue to adjust things as we go to improve how pets work and what they can do. Those little guys are pretty cute, though.

We also know that some of you are concerned over what impact pets will have on game performance. We feel that this should not be an issue, but we will be watching things closely over the next few weeks to make sure that there is no negative impact from the Pets.

As was pointed out yesterday in another thread, our advertisements have begun to show up online, this time over at the Microsoft Marketplace. This is the first of many more ads that we, along with many of our partners will be running.

This week we are working on all things Festival, as we are in full swing on development for the October event. This is the time when all the writing is done and the beginnings of implementation start. This is the fun time, when all of the little details of each thing being done get worked out.

Finally we would like to thank everyone for the suggestions given to us in last weeks update for quests or areas you would like to see us go back and take another look at. I am gathering all of that information together for the team and we will go from there deciding what to do with all those suggestions. That kind of feedback is very important to us, so again thank you.

Everyone have a great week!