Community Update - July

bluestuffzzz

So, we are a few hours under a full two weeks (14 days/half of the month) into August. There has been no "Community Update" for this month, nor has any of the inquiries into things like the DQ system been discussed here on the forums by any PWE staff.

Some will sit here and use the content update/expansion coming next week as an excuse to why they either:
-Have been too busy to discuss anything
OR
-Know that the DQ system will be implemented in the update

Both are just excuses, and the chance of the DQ system being implemented in the next update while no mention on said system being implemented at that time has happened. If they are too busy with the upcoming "update", then people like our own CM shouldn't state that more information will be coming. It's been about a year now and all we have seen is excuses. It doesn't take 365+ days to implement a change like the DQ system. Simply using the old system and converting it to ARC would be all that's needed - a simple web script. They have personally chosen to get rid of a system that people didn't want removed, and in it's place have lied and used a multitude of excuses to cover up the fact that the company (Perfect World Entertainment) can't get their act together.

Why has it taken almost a full year to figure out how to:
*Contact China developers
*During said contact conversation, bring up the NEW DQ system, and get them working on it
*Contact China when they have completed the above, and correlate a web-script through ARC via PWE's web development team
*Get said patch from Wanmei/China Devs & implement into Client & Server-side emulation
*Post news about new system being in and give users access to the web interface through ARC so that they can use the DQ points to redeem items

???

Profit?

Seriously. This takes a year, Sparkie? Why? The team that contacts Wanmei should have brought this up last year (early 2013), when it was confirmed that the old system was being removed and a new system was "wanted". So what is it? Is your team that unproductive, or is it Wanmei? Both? Where's the logic?

Of course we will never get a reason nor a response to the above inquiries, as PWE has a heavy turnover and don't hire often. Two layoffs in the last couple of years has left most departments covering for way too many things that one could handle. Sparkie is overworked for sure, and doesn't have enough time to complete the CM part of PWI's forums, generally speaking. It's really unfortunate, because he seems like a much better CM than Frankie, and genuinely seems to care. Poor guy is probably mighty overworked, would be my guess.