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Originally Posted by kyp275
Show me an actual commercial MMO that requires their GM to log into the game and go to a specific in-game location to use their tool, else I have a bridge to sell you too.
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As mentioned, the console was an emergency use console, but if you want me to list some MMO's that have GM's log in and do fixes to the game from inside so can I mention EQ and WoW as somewhat comercial successes.
What you seem to be missing is that to design new content for a MMO so do you need some way to view the actual results from the code you make. Now you seem to think that the developers would make some unique app specifically made for that. But there is already a program that does exactly what you want, the actual game. If you had a specialised app then it's quite possible that bugs in the game wont show up in it at all anyway. But all you need is some extra GM commands to manipulate the code of the game and some means to move around. GM's will generally have powers like invis, invulnerability, flight, teleport of different types etc.
Now most coding will be done and tested in a test copy of the game, without any players around. But if a player notices a bug then a GM can log in, go to that player and talk to him about it. This bit is less common nowdays as any contact with players is usually handled by a PR department rather then actual GM's.