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OMG, has Nancy heard about gardner Owen yet?
kissodeath
Member Posts: 102
Jerkoffs, there was no Farmer profession and they throw all that no one wants to be farmer Owen
Then make a Gardner profession just WTF man. What drops UBER lawnmovers.
Crosses fingers for paperboy profession
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I sleep with a pillow under my gun.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
I sleep with a pillow under my gun.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
Hehe, are u really a fanboy of this Crap NGE, or just an SOE paid Tool? They are doing what players want? If they were , Pre-cu would be back, That Simple! Now Go back to Kiss SOE"s A$$ at their board.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
QFE!
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
Well excuse me mister high-and-mighty, I have been playing since 03', probably much longer than you. I remember every change this game has undergone, and yes I do remember when they said that no one wanted to play as Uncle Owen. Well guess what son. Read my second sentence and you MIGHT understand. "People have different playstyles". *gasp*! "You have got to be kidding me right? You mean some people....don't like combat?! Blasphemy". Oh no, I kid you not, some people just enjoy sitting around crafting their wares and chatting with friends. Soe (yes notice, I did not use $oe, another *gasp*!) has probably figured that tending to ALL of these playstyles will have much better appeal to the non-combat players who have inactive accounts.
And anyways, you don't even play, so why have your panties in a bunch? Would you rather have it so they don't fix their mistakes and just tend to combat? Or even better, just get rid of all crafting and make the economy loot? "Well most of the economy now is looted". Psshhht. Armor, house decor, space chassis, structures, city decor, psg's, etc. But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
Hehe, are u really a fanboy of this Crap NGE, or just an SOE paid Tool? They are doing what players want? If they were , Pre-cu would be back, That Simple! Now Go back to Kiss SOE"s A$$ at their board.
While aren't you just the fiesty one. Are you the alpha-male of these boards? You must have quite the e-peen son. I don't want to waste your precious time all mighty one, so I will make this quick.
Please refer to the SWG game boards and look at gameplay discussion. Report back with me how many posts are titled "Bring back pre-cu!" or have anything to do with the topic. You will quickly realize that that number is slim to none in the last months of the games existence. Want to know why? Because the players have GOTTEN OVER IT. Much to my surprise, the people of this forum have not. I have always viewed fellow veterans of the game as mature gamers, but I must have made a vital mistake in my interpretation. It would seem that these boards are full of people who cannot move on past the fact that pre-cu is not coming back.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
Well excuse me mister high-and-mighty, I have been playing since 03', probably much longer than you. I remember every change this game has undergone, and yes I do remember when they said that no one wanted to play as Uncle Owen. Well guess what son. Read my second sentence and you MIGHT understand. "People have different playstyles". *gasp*! "You have got to be kidding me right? You mean some people....don't like combat?! Blasphemy". Oh no, I kid you not, some people just enjoy sitting around crafting their wares and chatting with friends. Soe (yes notice, I did not use $oe, another *gasp*!) has probably figured that tending to ALL of these playstyles will have much better appeal to the non-combat players who have inactive accounts.
And anyways, you don't even play, so why have your panties in a bunch? Would you rather have it so they don't fix their mistakes and just tend to combat? Or even better, just get rid of all crafting and make the economy loot? "Well most of the economy now is looted". Psshhht. Armor, house decor, space chassis, structures, city decor, psg's, etc. But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
Lies and Lies. By reading your post I can tell that U never played it Pre-cu, U like the NGE? You should be playing it and spendding less time here don't u think?
But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
If the SWG management team had an iota of credibility left, then yes, you could give them the benefit of the doubt and say this was a genuine effort to "fix their mistakes."
But, actually having long-term memory and the ability to learn, there's really only one conclusion for former SOE customers to reach: this is yet another cynical cash-grab trying to get people to extend their subscriptions for a few extra months to keep cash flowing into a broken game that will never be more than a shade of its former self -- by design.
But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
If the SWG management team had an iota of credibility left, then yes, you could give them the benefit of the doubt and say this was a genuine effort to "fix their mistakes."
But, actually having long-term memory and the ability to learn, there's really only one conclusion for former SOE customers to reach: this is yet another cynical cash-grab trying to get people to extend their subscriptions for a few extra months to keep cash flowing into a broken game that will never be more than a shade of its former self -- by design.
QFE
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
Well excuse me mister high-and-mighty, I have been playing since 03', probably much longer than you. I remember every change this game has undergone, and yes I do remember when they said that no one wanted to play as Uncle Owen. Well guess what son. Read my second sentence and you MIGHT understand. "People have different playstyles". *gasp*! "You have got to be kidding me right? You mean some people....don't like combat?! Blasphemy". Oh no, I kid you not, some people just enjoy sitting around crafting their wares and chatting with friends. Soe (yes notice, I did not use $oe, another *gasp*!) has probably figured that tending to ALL of these playstyles will have much better appeal to the non-combat players who have inactive accounts.
And anyways, you don't even play, so why have your panties in a bunch? Would you rather have it so they don't fix their mistakes and just tend to combat? Or even better, just get rid of all crafting and make the economy loot? "Well most of the economy now is looted". Psshhht. Armor, house decor, space chassis, structures, city decor, psg's, etc. But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
Lies and Lies. By reading your post I can tell that U never played it Pre-cu, U like the NGE? You should be playing it and spendding less time here don't u think?
Well then, please point out to me valid facts in my post that would give anyone the idea that I have not played pre-cu. And I would also LOVE to see anywhere, ANYWHERE in my posts that I have directly stated that I liked the NGE. Please, please do. To be honest, I do not like the NGE, it was poorly implemented and was/is bug infested. BUT, that is not say that I do not like the direction that SOE is going. In-Concept posts asking for feedback is certainly an improvement in means of communication. And once again, I would much rather have that instead of nothing.
Once upon a time, there was an entire In Concept forum.
You know how thoroughly discussed the NGE was in that forum. Nada, zilch, zero ... because they didn't even bother to bring it up in the forum that supposedly existed for the purpose fo discussing future game direction. Because in the end, they knew what we'd say and didn't want to hear it. They knew what they wanted to do and they just went ahead and did it, and if we didn't like it, we could leave.
We left.
You think a couple patronizing 'what if we did this?' topics in the forums where they continue to ignore the vast majority of player input is going to result in something different than an entire forum devoted to discussing future game development?
Toss a penny into a well and wish for a million bucks while you're at it, similar odds of satisfactory results.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
And if they did that -- you would not be here defending some sort of plant farmer crap.
In fact you would be getting beat down in the game somewhere.
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I usually picture the Career builder commercial with the room full of monkeys and upside down sales chart when thinking about the SOE/SWG decision making process.....
SOE's John Blakely and Todd Fiala issued a warning: "Don't make our mistakes." Ref NGE
Winner of the worst MMOS goes to.... the NGE and SWG..!!! http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadFeature=1034&bhcp=1
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
Hehe, are u really a fanboy of this Crap NGE, or just an SOE paid Tool? They are doing what players want? If they were , Pre-cu would be back, That Simple! Now Go back to Kiss SOE"s A$$ at their board.
While aren't you just the fiesty one. Are you the alpha-male of these boards? You must have quite the e-peen son. I don't want to waste your precious time all mighty one, so I will make this quick.
Please refer to the SWG game boards and look at gameplay discussion. Report back with me how many posts are titled "Bring back pre-cu!" or have anything to do with the topic. You will quickly realize that that number is slim to none in the last months of the games existence. Want to know why? Because the players have GOTTEN OVER IT. Much to my surprise, the people of this forum have not. I have always viewed fellow veterans of the game as mature gamers, but I must have made a vital mistake in my interpretation. It would seem that these boards are full of people who cannot move on past the fact that pre-cu is not coming back.
Nop! You are Wrong again!
The reason that you don't see it over there, is because Most of the vets have quit the game, Most of the year long subscription plans have expired, so we can't post over there, + SOE Deletes and Bans anyone Who post Pre-cu over there. Get The facts, The game SUX, The Game is empty, and It shows no potential to get any better. With new games Comming out, SOE Knows that Soon The number of players Won't be enough to pay They salaries, Even most of the fanbois acknowledge This. This game is dying, and there is only 1 solution.
Clasic servers.
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
are you an idiot? Do you not remember what Nancy Mcretard said about getting rid of being the moisture farmer, and becoming luke skywalker or Han Solo?
No, your just an NGE R-tard. Go to current
Well excuse me mister high-and-mighty, I have been playing since 03', probably much longer than you. I remember every change this game has undergone, and yes I do remember when they said that no one wanted to play as Uncle Owen. Well guess what son. Read my second sentence and you MIGHT understand. "People have different playstyles". *gasp*! "You have got to be kidding me right? You mean some people....don't like combat?! Blasphemy". Oh no, I kid you not, some people just enjoy sitting around crafting their wares and chatting with friends. Soe (yes notice, I did not use $oe, another *gasp*!) has probably figured that tending to ALL of these playstyles will have much better appeal to the non-combat players who have inactive accounts.
And anyways, you don't even play, so why have your panties in a bunch? Would you rather have it so they don't fix their mistakes and just tend to combat? Or even better, just get rid of all crafting and make the economy loot? "Well most of the economy now is looted". Psshhht. Armor, house decor, space chassis, structures, city decor, psg's, etc. But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
Lies and Lies. By reading your post I can tell that U never played it Pre-cu, U like the NGE? You should be playing it and spendding less time here don't u think?
Well then, please point out to me valid facts in my post that would give anyone the idea that I have not played pre-cu. And I would also LOVE to see anywhere, ANYWHERE in my posts that I have directly stated that I liked the NGE. Please, please do. To be honest, I do not like the NGE, it was poorly implemented and was/is bug infested. BUT, that is not say that I do not like the direction that SOE is going. In-Concept posts asking for feedback is certainly an improvement in means of communication. And once again, I would much rather have that instead of nothing.
This one Proves it!
If you had played it pre-cu, you Would have learned That SOE never does the things that they promisse. Should I point you out to the list of lies?
Please refer to the SWG game boards and look at gameplay discussion. Report back with me how many posts are titled "Bring back pre-cu!" or have anything to do with the topic. You will quickly realize that that number is slim to none in the last months of the games existence. Want to know why? Because the players have GOTTEN OVER IT.
Not an especially honest evaluation ... such posts still occur every day, and you see them if you manage to catch them before the mods delete them, which happens swiftly.
Only the combination of vets leaving and mods deleting keeps pre-CU/Classic from being far and away the Number 1 topic discussed on the forums. The devs have bludgeoned the customer into submission on this one with threats of bans for having the audacity to keep asking for what the customer wants. Don't try to sell the concept that they don't want it here, we know better and we don't get banned for saying it.
But you would much rather whine about how Soe is trying to fix their mistakes. The game would honestly do better with people posting feedback and not the kind of worthless crap posts like you have presented me. Please, come back when you have found a valid point.
If the SWG management team had an iota of credibility left, then yes, you could give them the benefit of the doubt and say this was a genuine effort to "fix their mistakes."
But, actually having long-term memory and the ability to learn, there's really only one conclusion for former SOE customers to reach: this is yet another cynical cash-grab trying to get people to extend their subscriptions for a few extra months to keep cash flowing into a broken game that will never be more than a shade of its former self -- by design.
Well, it is nice to see a poster around here that will post a well-written, valid response that actually uses the word "you" and not "u".
You make a very good point Kzin. Of course many of the veterans felt cheated with the CU first, then the NGE second. And sure, I can certainly understand while some could view this as a money catcher attempt. But the way I see it, is that there are two points to make here.
1) SOE is indeed a large corporation, and if the game was ever in a state of economical crisis, SOE would most likely throw a few bucks their way to help out; because, after all, they must have billions. So, knowing that if they were ever in trouble they had backup, I'm sure the developers are more concerned on gameplay (whether it be implementing bad changes or good) rather than money. Money is Smedly's job, not SWG's.
And 2) No one really know's is this is another cash grabber attempt at keeping subscriptions, because no solid info has been released on the topic of the concept's being committed to. So, really, all there is is speculation on the subject, and most people get their ideas from the past, CU and NGE wise, and not from the present. The SWG developers have been steadily making changes to the game. The profession expertise for example. Although it hasn't been implemented the best and there were still a few bugs, it is a nice change that the devs commited to for the greater good of the game.
And also, a 3rd possible point could be made here.
3) Some people might consider it a better idea for the developers to have their minds on the money. Because, well, you would figure that with higher quality work, the more people will subscribe, which means more money. Now if the dev's could grasp this idea that they could be making a quality game AND be making good money on the side then the game would be perfect. But it is not, and hopefully the devs will see that soon.
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
Why does this make you angry? People have different playstyles and if you might have read the whole post you would have seen that gardening is not all useless. Hybrid plants can be breed and petrified to produce house decorations. Plants can be harvested and made into buffs or sold to Chefs to make special foods.
And let's backtrack a bit more here to the title of the post. It is an in-concept thread, meaning that "implementation is neither guaranted nor implied", as stated in the first paragraph.
What this REALLY means is that it has a snowball's chance in hell of making it into the game. I don't know why they are making all these suggestion threads over on the $uckboards, since when did they start caring about what the players want?
Since they realized that that is what the players want. And they are making suggestions because it is nearing the end of the year and they are needing idea's for next year's plan; they want to make sure that anything that they start working on is ok with the players. This idea was probably sparked by the realization that their playerbase was decreasing and they did not like that, so they decided to try to get on the right path in terms of player appreciation.
Hehe, are u really a fanboy of this Crap NGE, or just an SOE paid Tool? They are doing what players want? If they were , Pre-cu would be back, That Simple! Now Go back to Kiss SOE"s A$$ at their board.
While aren't you just the fiesty one. Are you the alpha-male of these boards? You must have quite the e-peen son. I don't want to waste your precious time all mighty one, so I will make this quick.
Please refer to the SWG game boards and look at gameplay discussion. Report back with me how many posts are titled "Bring back pre-cu!" or have anything to do with the topic. You will quickly realize that that number is slim to none in the last months of the games existence. Want to know why? Because the players have GOTTEN OVER IT. Much to my surprise, the people of this forum have not. I have always viewed fellow veterans of the game as mature gamers, but I must have made a vital mistake in my interpretation. It would seem that these boards are full of people who cannot move on past the fact that pre-cu is not coming back.
Nop! You are Wrong again!
The reason that you don't see it over there, is because Most of the vets have quit the game, Most of the year long subscription plans have expired, so we can't post over there, + SOE Deletes and Bans anyone Who post Pre-cu over there. Get The facts, The game SUX, The Game is empty, and It shows no potential to get any better. With new games Comming out, SOE Knows that Soon The number of players Won't be enough to pay They salaries, Even most of the fanbois acknowledge This. This game is dying, and there is only 1 solution.
Clasic servers.
Well, I will ignore your blatant spelling errors and move on to the post.
Well I do not know about your old servers, but I know that the Ahazi server has been one that was hit rather hard with the NGE and the cancelling of accounts. But it seems that every week there are people returning to the server. Some of the most well-known veterans are returning, testing out the game, and finding out that it isn't so bad to be playing with some of their friends again. And it is not me that must get the facts, but rather you. Classic servers have already been mentioned by the developers on a number of accounts. They have all stated that it is not going to happen. Pre-Cu is never coming back, and most of the players know that. So they adapt, unlike you who downright refuses to adapt to the way it is. That will not get you far in life. People have to adapt to the situation at hand, and while the game may still be bad, after awhile some will notice that it isn't as bad as one would seem. Not to mention, the community. And I know some servers do not have a lot of the original community left, but mine does, and that seems to soften the blow.
1) SOE is indeed a large corporation, and if the game was ever in a state of economical crisis, SOE would most likely throw a few bucks their way to help out; because, after all, they must have billions. So, knowing that if they were ever in trouble they had backup, I'm sure the developers are more concerned on gameplay (whether it be implementing bad changes or good) rather than money. Money is Smedly's job, not SWG's.
Can't agree with that analysis, simply because the NGE was clearly ALL about cutting costs. They cut the size of the dev staff, their senior and more talented devs moved on to other projects, and the whole game basically went into "do whatever you can with limited resources" mode from then on. The pace of deployment on updates has been so slow precisely because of the small size of the team.
Even with the smaller subscriber base today, they might be making money on SWG, because they're spending so much less on it now. And this is precisely one of the things that vets despise. We bought the Mercedes Benz of MMO's and paid the monthly payments for it, and they turned it into a used Buick and asked us to keep paying the same price. They're not even trying to make the same GENRE of game we purchased, much less a game with the same depth and complexity. As long as they're making SWG Lite, we're just not interested, no matter how many marketing tricks they try to play. The devs working on the game today don't even believe in the sandbox genre design that half a million people purchased SWG to play, so it can't be a surprise that they're not building anything approximating it .... and never will.
Every promise of future improvements is simply a strategy to stop the bleeding on subscription levels, for as many months as possible, to cynically squeeze as many dollars as possible from the customer base. These are the same guys who sold Creature Handlers an expansion with new features for them knowing that they were going to eliminate the profession the next month. Nothing is too low for them, they have business ethics that would make a Colombian drug lord blush. If you still believe in their supposed goodwill .... I can't comprehend it.
Please refer to the SWG game boards and look at gameplay discussion. Report back with me how many posts are titled "Bring back pre-cu!" or have anything to do with the topic. You will quickly realize that that number is slim to none in the last months of the games existence. Want to know why? Because the players have GOTTEN OVER IT.
Not an especially honest evaluation ... such posts still occur every day, and you see them if you manage to catch them before the mods delete them, which happens swiftly.
Only the combination of vets leaving and mods deleting keeps pre-CU/Classic from being far and away the Number 1 topic discussed on the forums. The devs have bludgeoned the customer into submission on this one with threats of bans for having the audacity to keep asking for what the customer wants. Don't try to sell the concept that they don't want it here, we know better and we don't get banned for saying it.
To be honest, no one EVER gets banned on the forums anymore. I am serious. The only ban that has happened to someone I know was about 3 months ago, and that was when they ninja-edited a mod's post to talk about "beating meat", and even then it took the mod two-days to ban him. No one gets banned in-game EVER, You exploit and numerous people have seen you do it? Oh well, no bans. In fact, most of the people that even post pre-cu threads are actually people who have yet to even play pre-cu. And anyways, anyone who really wanted pre-cu went to the EMU forums, so the board is most definately not cluttered with pre-cu posts.
That pretty much says it all about the quality of current gameplay and the audience the NGE devs are pursuing ... it's not the audience the original SWG was written for, it's not me, that's for sure. They're so desparate for subscribers they'll pander to the exploiters.