I think DC made a mistake going with SOE. I know far too many people, myself included, who will never ever play another SOE game. Personal issues aside, SOE has failed to capitalize on what should have been the easiest sell ever, a Star Wars MMO. Th…
I think rumours of SWG's death are being somewhat exaggerated
Though not ruled out, just not so soon. And very much deserved, in my opinion I might add.
Heh, LucasArts are not the saints you make them out to be. They are the ones behind the NGE, afterall Julios, LA guy, is the lead designer of the NGE.
This is very important to remember.
From what im seeing the servers are vibrant with life. Almost every server is medium and some are heavy.
SOE has full control over setting what threshold should determine "medium" and "heavy", etc. People have been travelling to all planets to loc…
if it's fun, I'm playin'
And that's fine for you. Personally, I was around long enough to have seen and experienced more than my share of SOE's deceitful actions that I wouldn't play their game even if it was the best one on the planet.
100,000 new accounts, 80% of all active accounts are pre-NGE, so they have an active playerbase of 500,000+? How many people believe that? It's all just very deceptive counting and reporting, standard practice as you point out.
And of course the is…
they aren't out to lie to you
Are we still talking about SOE/LA here? Given SOE's history, I think it's completely reasonable to have a real problem trusting them. These numbers are a jumbled mess of "sugar-coating".
Personally, I say that would be a somewhat misleading review then. If 80% of the people playing were playing before the NGE, then 80% of the people are looking, at least partially, at the game in terms of comparison to the previous version (the revi…
Originally posted by anarchyart
Give me a review by someone who has never played SWG before and that will be an unbiased review.
And that's exactly SOE's thinking too, erase the past, remove all players who know how they treat their customers. Sho…
There has been talk from people noticing the load level and just how many people they see in the game, and it's very possible that SOE has adjusted the thresholds for determining load level. Seems reasonable for a company to do when faced with lower…
The way SOE/LA plays tricks with the numbers is amazing. Take a look at what they are suggesting here:
1) 80% of active players in Galaxies are veterans who were in the game prior to the new game enhancements (NGE)
2) our unique usage dropped by 10…
Typical SOE spin. They're really trying hard now, basing their population numbers off a free trial.
Let's follow their spin logic for a moment anyway. 100,000+ new players, 80% veterans (yeah, right - even the forums are the majority people regist…