Star Wars Galaxies

For me, it was the Imperial Officer's Cap.

I remember post in the forums some time in 2004: 'What kind of a company is it that has hived off three-quarters of the development team to work on cash cow expansions but can't fix something simple but iconic as an offier's hat?'.

Then, of course, everything proceeded exactly as I had foreseen. I can't of course link you to the post because I was forum banned about twelve minutes after the NGE kicked in.

Test Center - CU testing before launch. Couple the game changing system alterations (which were much different from the notes that were given to the players) with the wholesale daily  deletion of any post that was not sunshine up their blowholes in the testing thread and then the pushing of it live onto the servers with all the bugs still in it despite our pleas to just hold off long enough to fix them...

It wasn't murder. It was sociopathic genocide of a playerbase. In order to make room for a mythical elite group of subscribers which were rumored to be millions in number.

September 2004. I heard a few things through the grapevine of what was coming down the pipe.

I had prepaid for 1 year so was there for the ride and saw the CU and the NGE.

Originally posted by kefkah

Test Center - CU testing before launch. Couple the game changing system alterations (which were much different from the notes that were given to the players) with the wholesale daily  deletion of any post that was not sunshine up their blowholes in the testing thread and then the pushing of it live onto the servers with all the bugs still in it despite our pleas to just hold off long enough to fix them...

It wasn't murder. It was sociopathic genocide of a playerbase. In order to make room for a mythical elite group of subscribers which were rumored to be millions in number.

In the aftermath, with some responses to player input, with the profession revamps, and with the coming of the ToOW expansion, I thought things might be turning around for the better.  Then SOE and LA surprised everyone with the NGE, and things dropped to a new level of insanity.

I saw that if I stayed with this game run by these people, I was in for a rough, frustrating and disappointing ride.  I got off at the next stop, and I'm glad I did.

I still wish I didn't try the game again about 8 months into the NGE, but hey it was supposed to be running smoothly within 6 months, so we were told.  I logged in to a horror show.  The longer I stayed, the worse it turned out to be, so I stayed just long enough to give my few remaining friends that still played all my gear.

2 weeks prior to the cu...

the night of the cu my guild canceled but for me i was the care taker but even that got old..

we are for the most part playing wow may go to AOC

I was hoping the collective outcry would somehow stop the NGE....

If I recall, there was a delay in the CU because of the original outcry...but they eventually pushed it on us anyway....The mass of yelling and complaining about the NGE was sooo massive, that I thought 'surely this is going to get poo poo'd'......I was shocked and amazed really....  I am glad I paid only month to month....they got not one penny from me on NGE time.  and I got 3 TooW refunds back too.

Faxx....  Once of Bria

When the CU was a downgrade that reduced the depth of combat and professions and wasn't any sort of upgrade at all.

Let's play SWG Columbo - when did you first suspect that SOE was going to murder the game?...

When i started or returned to the official forums and saw the outcry's of many people complaining about just anything that made the game fun at the time. As i keep saying SOE did listen to it's players or beter yet to those who had plenty of times to spend on forums to complain and most likely already left the game very shortly after it release and moan about feature's that we ingame already enjoye'd. We who enjoy'd the game where to bussy ingame instead of walking the forums, and we came in to late to speak, and sure SOE did not listen to those who where enjoying themselfs with SWG cause we weren't vocal enough untill the CU had hit us. Even plently of good constructive post couldn't be left alone by the bashers, kinda like this section where i do read many people being very closeminded about the past/future, which is really a shame in this genre.

Why do people totaly forget how messedup the forums where back then, where JOE who enjoyed the game got bashed instantly by Jack who didn't care or who simply did not enjoy the aspect pre-cu gave us.

The majority of the 200/300k people wern't the loudest one's in fact on forum we the majority of players ingame where the minority when it comes to being on forums, simple fact the game was to much fun to spend large amount of time on forums, thats why many of us where left in the dark. and came in to late to speak out about how we felt about the CU.

And another fact is that no person in his right mind would be satisfied to have a mmorpg with a IP like SW and only bringni 200/300k players, anyone who is in business knows the game needed a change and not only fixes as fixes might have gained the game another 200 maybe 300k of people which still would not have been enough for such IP. Afcourse it would be more then they have now, but atleast SOE had the guts to try and turn the wheel, unfortuanly for them and us it backfired on them.

Overall it's a part of the community that killed SWG and SOE trying to cater towards the wrong set of people , but then again it's always much easyer to blame a company then to look at what really happend.

Open beta.

An "inside" source posted a long thread on the forums in SEP 2005. The insider detailed what was about to happen almost as if it was a developer making the post. No one believed the guy and the thread was soon locked and yanked. But in the end he was right about everything.