Well you'll never know if things like this are a big deal from reading a forum. You'll get the "fanboi" or "troll" flame threads to watch.. and perhaps amuse.
Most people that play these games don't post on forums. If they get mad they cancel and you won't know... Unless you played with them, knew them.. or notice that your once thriving server is dead.
Then the worst thing you could do is post here.
Someone will tell you how alive your server is.. which will probably only piss you off more as you wait hours to do any group content (this isn't isolated to soe games so don't worry).
*disclaimer*
To be clear I never said this will or will not have a negative effect.. I am talking in general.
I'm not sure what Smeds thinking is. In the past when an obvious majority felt one way he kept talking about have 100% support. Then seemed amazed when the player base.. vanished.
Maybe they want to enter the asian market... they have never been successful there. They could probably get more subs and make more profit in that market to be honest. Just open up the full blown cash shop and go.
They haven't had a game I really wanted to play since 2005'ish (tho I do like eq2 now and then).
So if they went into the asian market and were very successful.. I wouldn't notice.
I just don't think Smed's concept is going to fly to well in the "western market". I did notice on the free realms website that they now are listing that it will have IN and OUT of game TCG. I don't think that was up there the last time I went to the site (yes I watch their games because if they had something fun I'd play it).
*last part of ramble* Yes by the last sentence I wrote I am not an SOE hater.. nor does the TCG really bother me. However, my friends that were still playing/raiding in EQ2 have said they are leaving now.
1ST Came the console game,Then I moved in o the Online PC game,Then I moved on to the MMO games and that was the end of my console gaming until now. Looks like I will be going back to console gaming now that the MMO industry is infected with TCG and Cash Shop Viruses. MMO indistry RIP.
Well done, Sharkypal. Because the only action that customers can take right now to send a message to SoE is to cancel their subscriptions. But are we sheep or are we lions? If enough people cancel some bean-counter deep within the bowels of the SoE machine will take notice and the damage control will begin. But if people just post angrily on the forums and take a "I hate it but I'll stay subscribed and see what happens" attitude, then nothing will happen. Please people, take action!
Actually this is what we thought when they brought us the SWG NGE. There was a rush of cancellations. Petitions were started and thousands upon thousands of people spoke up on mmo forum boards all over the place.
But in the end, SOE was immune to customer outrage. They went full steam ahead with their plans despite what the majority of SWG players wanted.
I can see another potential possiblity to SOE's RMT. Perhaps it is greed, but could it also be DESPERATION. Maybe they are more desperate for cash than they are letting on? They act like they don't need subscribers. They alienate customers left and right, all the while operating servers at well below maximum capacity. The few players left do not add up sufficiently to pay the mounting bills, and so now we have this disqusting act of desperation. Could the end of SOE be near?
It does seem like a last desperate grab at the wallets of the few remaining subscribers in their games doesn't it?
Stopped reading there. Provide some actual evidence that sub numbers are what you say they are. And no, "taking your word for it" is not an option.
So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys...I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers, a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things, but I tell you, Jerry, at that moment ... I was a marine biologist.
I think waiting around for SOE to die is about as much a waste of time as waiting by the clock for the end of the world. It'll happen when people stop giving a crap about SoE period, the fact that people are still protesting their company and raising hell is just giving them more fuel for their fire.
Honestly people thought SWG was going to die years ago; but, look it's still trailing along like a diseased calf. It'll never crash as long as people keep paying for those stupid card games and subs for SOE products. There is only one way to take SOE down.
Initiate Order 66
Kill all the subscribers! Kill them all! /sarcasm off
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
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Well you'll never know if things like this are a big deal from reading a forum. You'll get the "fanboi" or "troll" flame threads to watch.. and perhaps amuse.
Most people that play these games don't post on forums. If they get mad they cancel and you won't know... Unless you played with them, knew them.. or notice that your once thriving server is dead.
Then the worst thing you could do is post here.
Someone will tell you how alive your server is.. which will probably only piss you off more as you wait hours to do any group content (this isn't isolated to soe games so don't worry).
*disclaimer*
To be clear I never said this will or will not have a negative effect.. I am talking in general.
I'm not sure what Smeds thinking is. In the past when an obvious majority felt one way he kept talking about have 100% support. Then seemed amazed when the player base.. vanished.
Maybe they want to enter the asian market... they have never been successful there. They could probably get more subs and make more profit in that market to be honest. Just open up the full blown cash shop and go.
They haven't had a game I really wanted to play since 2005'ish (tho I do like eq2 now and then).
So if they went into the asian market and were very successful.. I wouldn't notice.
I just don't think Smed's concept is going to fly to well in the "western market". I did notice on the free realms website that they now are listing that it will have IN and OUT of game TCG. I don't think that was up there the last time I went to the site (yes I watch their games because if they had something fun I'd play it).
*last part of ramble* Yes by the last sentence I wrote I am not an SOE hater.. nor does the TCG really bother me. However, my friends that were still playing/raiding in EQ2 have said they are leaving now.
/shrug
1ST Came the console game,Then I moved in o the Online PC game,Then I moved on to the MMO games and that was the end of my console gaming until now. Looks like I will be going back to console gaming now that the MMO industry is infected with TCG and Cash Shop Viruses. MMO indistry RIP.
Actually this is what we thought when they brought us the SWG NGE. There was a rush of cancellations. Petitions were started and thousands upon thousands of people spoke up on mmo forum boards all over the place.
But in the end, SOE was immune to customer outrage. They went full steam ahead with their plans despite what the majority of SWG players wanted.
I can see another potential possiblity to SOE's RMT. Perhaps it is greed, but could it also be DESPERATION. Maybe they are more desperate for cash than they are letting on? They act like they don't need subscribers. They alienate customers left and right, all the while operating servers at well below maximum capacity. The few players left do not add up sufficiently to pay the mounting bills, and so now we have this disqusting act of desperation. Could the end of SOE be near?
It does seem like a last desperate grab at the wallets of the few remaining subscribers in their games doesn't it?
I've been told that they lost 100k subs in the first 30 days of the NGE.
100K of 225K which were subbed before the fateful announcement.
Took a year to lose 100K more.
The last year they've been bleeding off the last 25K. Down to what, 10K now?
Stopped reading there. Provide some actual evidence that sub numbers are what you say they are. And no, "taking your word for it" is not an option.
So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys...I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers, a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things, but I tell you, Jerry, at that moment ... I was a marine biologist.
Sorry to ask this stupid question but what is RMT ?
Never mind found info on RMT . 
I think waiting around for SOE to die is about as much a waste of time as waiting by the clock for the end of the world. It'll happen when people stop giving a crap about SoE period, the fact that people are still protesting their company and raising hell is just giving them more fuel for their fire.
Honestly people thought SWG was going to die years ago; but, look it's still trailing along like a diseased calf. It'll never crash as long as people keep paying for those stupid card games and subs for SOE products. There is only one way to take SOE down.
Initiate Order 66
Kill all the subscribers! Kill them all! /sarcasm off
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei