Chatting with Lorien Carney, OCR of AC2, Part 2

How bad was the Asheron's Call 2 debut? Imagine the a debacle on the scale of Funcom's Anarchy Online debut and Playnet's World War 2 Online debut rolled into one, and then stretch it out over a 6-7 month period. It was any wonder that the PR people at Turbine didn't have interns starting their cars for them at the end of the day, you know, just in case someone decided that complaints were best expressed through some liberal use of dynamite and ignition triggers.

Enter into this mess Lorien, intrepid reporter from a renowned fansite, whose new job was to act as Turbine's representative to the community that remained after the year-long cycle of skill-balancing, server consolidations, and other attempts to bring the game out of the darkness of bad press and bad spin.