Professionals

[Klodovik]

A question.

What is their purpose, or job?

[Chrys]

Other than bug confirmation:

The Professionals is a one-way (players-to-Funcom) feedback program which exists to
- inform the Anarchy Online development team of the players' wishes for future development within their profession.

Apparently that includes locking threads.

[Malaxia]

We can discuss directly with FC about new content, bugs, wishes etc.

[Flynicist]

Amagad they're doing PvF!

[shadowgod]

i've been tempted for past weeks to make a post about "What Are the Professionals".


And i know things are a bit sketchy to regular players, since theres not much up-to-date, let alone many public-statements about our "powers" or roles.

The primary role we have, is acting like a funnel (a liason to say..) between our respective communities and FC. to further help with this, we're responsible for trying to maintain a public wishlist and buglist.

With attempting to maintain such, we have limited privleges on Testlive, where we can usually request (being nice, and such help as well) new items that have an effect on our professions to test, and give any feedback about these items to our community and/or FC.

When it comes to the forums, yes, it can be said we were originally given moderator status primarily for stickying certain discussion posts. However, even the community team of the time (and this has been ever so many years ago.. yes.. before my time even) realized that the professionals could help with minor moderation of their respective forums.

The conflict people have seen is due to the mix of conflicting NDA agreements all volunteers must agree to. and no one at FC has taken the time to fully review all rules that cross NDA agreements, and attempt to unify them so that everyone better understands whos authorized to do what. it somewhat becomes a "we said, they said" with neither being able to show their proof, due to the legal agreements.

What is important now, is that we beleive we all have worked out these differences (along with some FC officials) and things should be going peachy now.

[viandante]

A funnel, thats great.

I had the funny idea they where a filter, that wouldn't be good, you know?

[Klodovik]

So, how is it going?

What does FC think about our latest suggestions about our profession's improvement? Can we get a summary?

[Xtremtech]

The Professionals is a one-way (players-to-Funcom) feedback program

My emphasis. Just checking that your expectations aren't too high.

X

[Klodovik]

My emphasis. Just checking that your expectations aren't too high.

X

Ah. Nerf.

[shadowgod]

A funnel, thats great.

I had the funny idea they where a filter, that wouldn't be good, you know?

clearly, i cant speak for the other current prof professionals, however, you can be assured that the MP Profs have on many occasions have brought up ideas to FC we didnt care for personally. sometimes its in hopes they'll agree with us, and sometimes they like it, and annoy us.

So, how is it going?

What does FC think about our latest suggestions about our profession's improvement? Can we get a summary?

My emphasis. Just checking that your expectations aren't too high.

X

If and When(tm) we ever get info from FC that is deemed "non-NDA", we always share it.

if we had some dedicated FC Community staff for AO, i'd love for them to start back up the old Q&A that use to be done. maybe not as frequent as the old method. but just something to get some info back out of FC and to the players about more specific issues than whats covered in the FWM posts.

[Klodovik]

The main reason why I care about the summary is, I don't intend to level up flavor of the month prof, so I would really like to know why should I keep on paying for this game (free 30 day offer about to end), if I intend to play as a MP.

What's there to come in the future, for MPs (except AS nerf ofc)?

[Phargus]

The primary role we have, is acting like a funnel (a liason to say..) between our respective communities and FC.

My God! You're all little Famine clones. The horror!

[shadowgod]

My God! You're all little Famine clones. The horror!

hey! thats an insult! (to me, not femine!)

[Xtremtech]

What's there to come in the future, for MPs

We'd all like to know that I guess.

X

[Dancingrage]

Hey, at least there's the chance we'll get to SEE and HEAR what's coming our way before it actually makes it to live so we have an option of saying 'no, this isn't what is gonna work' etc.

I suspect all 3 pet profs will be in the rebalance at some point at the same time.

Though with all our various ideas and suggestions on what we think the prof should get, and how it should be rebalanced, I think a lot of us want some sort of feedback from FC on our ideas and thoughts, since we seem to have so many of them. I know I'd love to hear what the devs think of our ideas and if they might make it into the rebalancing in some form.