Not that I mind the Landmark key – I like their games. SOE is just confusing, even for a game company. But hey, at least they’re just confusing, and not plain evil like EA!

If I have time, I might watch some landmark videos. I’m just not much of a video streaming person.

And hey, I can always stop by later when you got a couple more half-finished projects done!

I have never had anything but exemplary Customer Service from SOE in all the years I’ve dealt with them. I would rate them head and shoulders above any other gaming company I have to deal with although to be fair my experience with almost all of them has been pretty good. What you’re describing isn’t really customer service though – it’s more this weird new method of dealing with the player SOE and other game companies large and small seem to be inventing as they go along. You see it in a lot of other media, too. I guess it’s part of the social media cultural revolution, under which a lot of the definitions we have grown up with – producer, developer, consumer, customer, player, viewer, reviewer, commentator – are being redefined or thrown away altogether.

I haven’t had time to do much in Landmark during beta and my claim is mostly a complete litter of half-finished experiments so not much to see at my claim, which is within sight of the spires on Courage-Peak. Easy to recognize – just look for something like a portakabin hanging from a tree.

I could claim that spot, but I’m not sure how much better I’d do. My last experiments with building stuff (minus IKEA) are probably from pottery in high school, and the results were best described as “abstract”.

Go grab my old claim spot on Courage. My monstrosity should have expired by now.