Age of Conan - Interview @ WarCry

WarCry chats to Shannon Drake about his role as Community Manager for Funcom's Age of Conan.  Also available: two exclusive screenshots.

WarCry: On the other side, how important do you feel community feedback is to a game's development and evolution?

Shannon Drake: I think community feedback is tremendously important, within reason. Part of synthesizing all the viewpoints represented on the forums and various other places is figuring out how to present that information, and fitting what everyone says into the larger picture. For example, "Funcom totally favors Race X over Race Y" is, on its surface, a silly comment. However, "Race X fighters are significantly underpowered compared with Race Y fighters" is something that merits investigating. Now, it could be as simple as Race Y being the weaker of the two for story or balance or character reasons, but it could also be something someone mistyped in the database.