Big Brother is watching you 
Geschrieben am 24.08. 2007 - 22:42 von aNiHiermit ist nicht etwa das Fernsehformat eines für seine kulturell wertvollen Beiträge bekannten TV-Senders gemeint, sondern vielmehr das Auswertungstool "Evil Eye" welches die Flagship Studios in Kooperation mit EA zur Qualitätssicherung von Hellgate: London entwickelt haben.
In einem weiteren Interview im Rahmen der Games Convention (diesmal von IGN.com 
) erklärt Bill Roper, wie dieses Programm durch die Bereitstellung und Analyse diverser Daten den Entwicklungsprozess von Hellgate: London profitieren lässt:
"To help polish the game, Flagship worked with EA's Quality Assurance teams to create a new software tool called the Evil Eye. This new program allows the developers to cull basically every single bit of data they could want about the game."
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In one case, the team was getting feedback from players that the Swordmaster "sucked." Digging a little deeper, the Evil Eye data revealed that the class fell behind the power curve at level ten. It turns out that nearly every single Swordmaster player choose the Dual Wield ability once it became available at tenth level but the ability wasn't quite offering up the same damage out vs. damage in ratio that some of the other classes were getting at the same character level.
The Evil Eye information allowed the developers to make some intelligent choices about how to solve the problem. Rather than just tweaking it through trial and error, the developers can see exactly where the imbalance is and address it directly. In the case of the Swordsman, that meant adding the Dual Wield ability as a default ability for the class and slightly increasing the effectiveness of swords across the board.
Though it was originally built for the beta, Flagship plans to use Evil Eye to continue balancing the game once it ships. (EA is also currently encouraging other developers to incorporate Evil Eye into their own development processes.) Given all the extra content that the team has in mind for after the game's release (new classes, new weapons, new events), this balancing feature will definitely come in handy.
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- Quelle: IGN.com
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