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azhrarn

I nabbed this off the Station forums because it's just too on-target to let fall by the wayside. It was done by Malicia, the same person who went to all the trouble to compile all the devs' comments from Friday's thread.
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Instant message session between SOE and community ABOUT GAMEPLAY

Community: Hello?

Community: Anyone there?

Community: Heeelllloooooooo????

SOE: hi

Community: Hi! Um, could we get target lock? (rollback) More professions? Creature Handling? (pre-cu) Bugs fixed? Diversity?

SOE: We're definitely making the game better.

Community: But we really liked it before. It was *really* fun. We're not really having fun now.

SOE: We know, and we're taking steps to make the game even more Star Warsy and Iconic.

Community: But, it was really fun. I liked just being a regular person living in the Star Wars world.

SOE: It wasn't just like the movies. You want to be Luke!

Community: No, we don't! *Some* of us want to be Uncle Owen, or that guy in the cantina, or that trandoshan bounty hunter, or that twilek dancer, or that Imperial bio-engineer, or that female creature handler,or that rodian swordsman, or that ithorian ship builder, or that mon cal rebel pilot/ranger or that human image designer/tailor, or that master TKM/pikeman, or that wookiee master scout/rifleman, or that ....

SOE: No, you don't. You want to be Luke! Or Leia! Or Han!!! Or that droid! You want nonstop combat and looting!

Community: No, we don't. Not all of us, anyway. Can't there be a compromise? Why is it all or nothing?

SOE: You'll get skillz! It'll be an online SW adventure! Instead of all jedi being the same, there will be like 8 different kinds of jedi! See, it's going to be just like the movies!

Community: But in the movies, in this timeline, there were no jedi! Yet, every other person I see is a jedi. How is that just like the movies?

SOE: (waves hand) This is not the opinion you are looking for. Move along.

Community: (blinks) So it'll get better?

SOE: Absolutely, just give us a little bit.

Community: But it's been 3 years now.

SOE: Just another little while, and it'll be great. You won't have to worry about a whole virtual world. It'll be just quests and pvp and killing stuff. We'd get rid of player cities and politicians if we could, but it's probably too much work, so we wont' bother. Hey, wouldn't it be cool to assassinate politicians and make traders a skill set just like WoW?

Community: (blinks) You have no idea why we play this game, do you?

SOE: Because it's Star Warsy?

Community: Nope. Goodbye.

/logoff
/cancel

Message Edited by Malica on 03-25-200610:25 PM

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Malica- former Master Creature Handler|Ranger, Eclipse
Wicca- Master Tailor|Master Fisher|Master Resource Gatherer, Eclipse

Xcathdra

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Originally posted by azhrarn

I nabbed this off the Station forums because it's just too on-target to let fall by the wayside. It was done by Malicia, the same person who went to all the trouble to compile all the devs' comments from Friday's thread.
__________________________________________________________________________
Instant message session between SOE and community ABOUT GAMEPLAY
Community: Hello?
Community: Anyone there?
Community: Heeelllloooooooo????
SOE: hi
Community: Hi! Um, could we get target lock? (rollback) More professions? Creature Handling? (pre-cu) Bugs fixed? Diversity?
SOE: We're definitely making the game better.
Community: But we really liked it before. It was *really* fun. We're not really having fun now.
SOE: We know, and we're taking steps to make the game even more Star Warsy and Iconic.
Community: But, it was really fun. I liked just being a regular person living in the Star Wars world.
SOE: It wasn't just like the movies. You want to be Luke!
Community: No, we don't! *Some* of us want to be Uncle Owen, or that guy in the cantina, or that trandoshan bounty hunter, or that twilek dancer, or that Imperial bio-engineer, or that female creature handler,or that rodian swordsman, or that ithorian ship builder, or that mon cal rebel pilot/ranger or that human image designer/tailor, or that master TKM/pikeman, or that wookiee master scout/rifleman, or that ....
SOE: No, you don't. You want to be Luke! Or Leia! Or Han!!! Or that droid! You want nonstop combat and looting!
Community: No, we don't. Not all of us, anyway. Can't there be a compromise? Why is it all or nothing?
SOE: You'll get skillz! It'll be an online SW adventure! Instead of all jedi being the same, there will be like 8 different kinds of jedi! See, it's going to be just like the movies!
Community: But in the movies, in this timeline, there were no jedi! Yet, every other person I see is a jedi. How is that just like the movies?
SOE: (waves hand) This is not the opinion you are looking for. Move along.
Community: (blinks) So it'll get better?
SOE: Absolutely, just give us a little bit.
Community: But it's been 3 years now.
SOE: Just another little while, and it'll be great. You won't have to worry about a whole virtual world. It'll be just quests and pvp and killing stuff. We'd get rid of player cities and politicians if we could, but it's probably too much work, so we wont' bother. Hey, wouldn't it be cool to assassinate politicians and make traders a skill set just like WoW?
Community: (blinks) You have no idea why we play this game, do you?
SOE: Because it's Star Warsy?
Community: Nope. Goodbye.
/logoff
/cancel
Message Edited by Malica on 03-25-200610:25 PM
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Malica- former Master Creature Handler|Ranger, Eclipse
Wicca- Master Tailor|Master Fisher|Master Resource Gatherer, Eclipse

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Lmao... to funny... and yet right on the nose.

Tigerfyre

/agree. Thats exactly true. It seems like they are trying to dictate what we want and dont listen to us. It feels like they are treating us like lap dogs that will follow a certain order and agree with them but we are not. We yell murder and $OE just continues to pat each other on the back for such a wonderful (not) idea. Well, we will win in the end, at least I hope we do. At this time though even if soe rolled back I doubt I could ever trust them again, and they will never see my dollars again.

ep103855

This must be the first usage of an Expert BS(ystem) that SOE has developed for SWG. It took them long enought but they made it. As in an Expert System, they enter knowledge of several expert professionals and then they just ask a question and they get a reply, SOE has managed the impossible: a FAQ where all the MAJOR BS have been entered and then they gave it to the PR management. Now, everytime there is a "dialogue" between players and "developers", they let the system answer all the questions. This is possible since within the 3 years of operations of the game, players have managed to ask all possible questions about anything at all. So the Expert BS(ystem) has been deployed with a suitable answer to all questions.
WELL DONE SONY...YOU HAVE MADE HUMANITY A BETTER PLACE
A PLACE WHERE IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS, BUT WHAT THE COMPANY CAN PROVIDE.
And you!, yes you the player. have you no shame in demanding from those hard working professional to respect your money? you should be giving them the money for allowing us to have a background wallpaper with the Star Wars name on it...

(and something in greek)
an pote xanaempisteutw thn sony kai oti software exei anaketeutei to onoma sony. 8a katsw na me gamisete oloi

ClaudeFR

But i do miss her posting about suming up the essentials from the 200 pages thread.

Was his/her sumeup deleted ? Any1 got a link ?

Sago

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Originally posted by Tigerfyre
/agree. Thats exactly true. It seems like they are trying to dictate what we want and dont listen to us. It feels like they are treating us like lap dogs that will follow a certain order and agree with them but we are not. We yell murder and $OE just continues to pat each other on the back for such a wonderful (not) idea. Well, we will win in the end, at least I hope we do. At this time though even if soe rolled back I doubt I could ever trust them again, and they will never see my dollars again.

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They don't CARE what we or the playerbase wants. It is all about making the game attractive to 10 yr olds and young teens playing the new PS3 and improveing the Station Access package.

We were sacraficed.