sprite wrote:I probably wouldn't have released it myself, and its obvious that the game designers didn't intend for it to be released...
Who is to say what the designers had planned, it may very well be someone in a similar role who released this. We have not progressed very far according to early roadmaps DCC talked about in many interviews prior to release. Maybe someone wanted answers (or to cause a ruckus) on why we are still so early in the "saga" (we know the finances and released before done issues are big factors) after all this time, without someone telling us when we will get back on track. We have been tossed a few bones and have something to look forward to, but where is the saga/beef ?
Some of us may have been quite happy to read this document... RPers and those who are making up there own things/history/lore may not be so thrilled. There should be no shame in showing where we planned to go, but nothing official until the developer mechanics are moving that way. The story of our saga should be a fountain for us, not something made up along the way.
I don't like the smell of how this went down anymore than anyone else here, and it does reek of similar recent tactics by someone. If GameForge had published this type document to us as their first ambitions for Ryzom, a great many of us would proclaim them saviours... You're future is bleak when you don't even know your history.