I've worked a full eight hours, so I'm allowed to waste time updating my journal. From AO-Basher (again):

My post wasn't meant to critise what you were doing, on the contrary, I think it's great that a diary of the development processes is being kept!

I just think that you are doing yourself down by not making little bits of information (And _any_ information is interesting to us players) more public as it would stop a lot of people complaining about having No communication between Funcom and the players. As I said in the main post, any news is better than no news!

There's Much Truth to this. I really didn't think that my little scribblings were particularly newsworthy or interesting. After all, the players care about more important things, like balancing, phat l00t (I'm not being sarcastic! Phat l00t is important!), bug-fixes, events, and major game-play upgrades planned for the future - not new NPC dialogue. I mean, NPC dialogue is important, otherwise we wouldn't be working on it! But because it's a long way off, and because I've talked about it before without any of the fan-sites bringing it up (E3, interviews, journal entries - you name it), I never even thought that this would be something of interest to the majority of players, or worthy for inclusion on the official site. Shows how much I know, doesn't it?

What I'm saying is: This is my fault! Don't blame Funcom! It's all me!

Still, I'm glad the issue has caught the attention of some players, and I'm glad it's gotten people talking, and I hope it will encourage us to divulge more details about the NPC changes in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, I'll go back to writing intentionally vague and morally ambigious entries in my journal.  ¶ 18:34