Things have been quieter than usual on the blog as PVD headquarters relocated across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom. Thanks to Spinks and Roger from Contains Moderate Peril for answering some random questions about telecommunications as I got ready for the move. I suppose I should be dreading whatever Blizzard is going to demand that I do to verify my identity the next time I try to use my Battle.net account, but otherwise things here are going relatively smoothly. Server maintenance and developer events are most likely going to land on inconvenient hours in this time zone, but I knew that going in and I guess someone always ends up with the short end of the stick.
Amongst various British customs that I find amusing, the British Prime Minister regularly holds live televised Q+A sessions with the British House of Commons. It's oddly like the MMO forums. The people asking the questions are not afraid to phrase a complaint in the form of a question, to include random and obscure issues that have nothing to do with the rest of the conversation. The PM, like a good MMO community team member, is going to give answers that make his government look good regardless of whether he agrees or anything is going to change. They don't appear to have image macros, response memes, and leet speak, but I suspect this is only because those hadn't been invented at the time of the Magna Carta.
I don't know whether this means that MMO forums are more respectable than I realized, or the British Parliament is less so.