Frank wrote on Jul 13
th, 2016 at 8:06pm:
This is one of Turbine's largest failings, amongst the many others: They don't have the project management skills needed to make a change and also update all the things that change impacts.
An excellent and recent example of this is
their post on the upcoming changes to CC.
It's a very long, detailed post with a lot of lists and explanations. But it is at 17 pages and counting mostly because of the things which were left out.
Impact to Cannith Challenge gear and Runearms;
Interaction with trapmaking since small essences are going away (no response on that, make your traps now because trapmaking will probably be broken for the next 6 months after NewCC goes live);
Gah, the list goes on and on, I'm not going to belabor the point.
That point being that a competent project manager would have made a list of every possible intersection in the game with Cannith Crafting and Lesser/Greater Essences, and would have been asking the devs at every status meeting for an update on all those actions. Then, once the action to be taken is decided, a post can be made in the forums which will explain all w/o the need for 17 pages of questions and confusion.
I'll discount them a few pages due to the utter, stunning idiocy of some of the people who have posted in the thread, but the real issue here is that they made an informational post and didn't include all the information. That just a big FAIL. I've seen
players make more detailed and comprehensive posts on some build they have thought up, which required only a few questions and clarifications or edits.
To be fair, NoWorries, whoever that is (World Designer?) has been fairly responsive in the thread. But what she (someone in the thread used that pronoun so I'll go with it)
hasn't done is update the OP with the new information she has provided, meaning that all new people who stumble across the thread will probably have the same questions about the things which were left out, poorly explained or not explained, etc. Because most people will just post a question rather than read 17 pages of drivel. Updating the OP would solve that, and it wouldn't take her much time to do so.
Nor would getting it right in the first place.