Star Wars Galaxies

Originally posted by Thunderous

The real question he is trying to outline is would all of the SWG Pre-CU/CU vets STILL subbed knowing that the NGE was being developed for 6 months?

As a SUBSCRIBING customer to an ongoing sandbox game in which you have houses, belongings, skills, and hundreds of hours of gametime, DESERVE to know that the game was secretly being changed in 6 months to the degree it would no longer be the same game?

Did the PAYING customers deserve to know that the game would not exist in November of 2005?  I believe they did deserve to know, and there is a BIG reason they weren't told -- Subscription money.

It's that simple.  SOE/LA used that money to code a new game instead of fix the existing game. 

So it was a LOT more than half a month of subscription money they essentially stole from the customers.

SOE knew full well that if they told us about the NGE when they began coding it that most of us would quit that month, so they kept it a secret.  Doesn't take much intelligence to figure that one out.

Bingo.

Had SOE told us "hey gang we've decided to revamp the entire game" we likely would have quit immediately. So instead SOE decided to lie to us for the 6 months+ the NGE was being worked on to keep us paying.

Whenever a jedi player would ask "hey when is FRS coming back ?" the reply wasnt "never" it was "soon" This clearly was done to keep taking our money.

If the 200,000 had prior warning and quit, SOE would have had to pay the NGE costs out of their own pockets. So Smedly decides why not lie and get the players to pay for the new game. And a couple of years later Smedly thinks a flimsy apology will make things all better lol ??? The only thing Smedly was sorry for was that his sleazly ploy didnt get the wow numbers he predicted. He certainly wasnt sorry for screwing over the players and stealing our money.

And make no mistake, SOE admitted publicly they knew the majority of players would quit over the NGE. Therefore keeping the NGE  a secret was clearly an act of THEFT.

How can the current players justify playing this game ? Or a better question, why would you trust them not to do it again ???

Originally posted by admriker4

Originally posted by Thunderous

The real question he is trying to outline is would all of the SWG Pre-CU/CU vets STILL subbed knowing that the NGE was being developed for 6 months?

As a SUBSCRIBING customer to an ongoing sandbox game in which you have houses, belongings, skills, and hundreds of hours of gametime, DESERVE to know that the game was secretly being changed in 6 months to the degree it would no longer be the same game?

Did the PAYING customers deserve to know that the game would not exist in November of 2005?  I believe they did deserve to know, and there is a BIG reason they weren't told -- Subscription money.

It's that simple.  SOE/LA used that money to code a new game instead of fix the existing game. 

So it was a LOT more than half a month of subscription money they essentially stole from the customers.

SOE knew full well that if they told us about the NGE when they began coding it that most of us would quit that month, so they kept it a secret.  Doesn't take much intelligence to figure that one out.

 

Bingo.

Had SOE told us "hey gang we've decided to revamp the entire game" we likely would have quit immediately. So instead SOE decided to lie to us for the 6 months+ the NGE was being worked on to keep us paying.

Whenever a jedi player would ask "hey when is FRS coming back ?" the reply wasnt "never" it was "soon" This clearly was done to keep taking our money.

If the 200,000 had prior warning and quit, SOE would have had to pay the NGE costs out of their own pockets. So Smedly decides why not lie and get the players to pay for the new game. And a couple of years later Smedly thinks a flimsy apology will make things all better lol ??? The only thing Smedly was sorry for was that his sleazly ploy didnt get the wow numbers he predicted. He certainly wasnt sorry for screwing over the players and stealing our money.

And make no mistake, SOE admitted publicly they knew the majority of players would quit over the NGE. Therefore keeping the NGE  a secret was clearly an act of THEFT.

How can the current players justify playing this game ? Or a better question, why would you trust them not to do it again ???

I completely agree. SOE did completely screw us. I mean, I payed from 2003 to Nov 2005. Normally, when you pay these fees, you expect to be paying for what your getting plus updates (meaning fixes, and additional content). Never would people say, "Yes, I'll pay $15 a month, please make sure you change the game twice in one year and make my current accomplishments worthless."

Ya, I'm sure thats what people would be saying.

But, not 3 years after the whole mess, I just miss playing an an sw mmo. I miss what i had. Please, the people that go around telling people to get a life, TRUST ME I HAVE A LIFE!!!!!  But, swg was a way to relex for me in my down time. I no longer have that, and I yearn for something like it. Thats why I want to retry it. Not even thinking about what SOE did 3 years ago, and might do again. I'm probably making a big mistake, but I need to play a sw mmo LOL

 Since this 30 days free does not include a free transfer to another server ,I really don't want to go back to Kauri to run into about 20 peeps and 18 of them speak only in French.   PASS!

Originally posted by JestorRodo

 Since this 30 days free does not include a free transfer to another server ,I really don't want to go back to Kauri to run into about 20 peeps and 18 of them speak only in French.   PASS!

The french already bailed.  The ones left now simply refuse to give $OE anymore $$$ and intend to go down with the ship so to speak.

Oops.

no.

Heh, well this thread started as an invitation or so I thought... Funny I had a few questions about this group on Kettemoor and everyone was too busy flaming one another to awnser them. Way to send out the welcome wagon.

-Dailus

lol my alt sub got the free time but not my main good old soe still i see :)

Originally posted by admriker4

Originally posted by miagisan

sorry but it wasnt stolen money...the money you paid was for time following the payment....so at most you lost half of the month of November ....tops......

 

not even close....

The NGE took 6+ months to develop in secret. Thats 6 months of paying devs with my subscription fees to make a new game behind our backs. My subscription fees are supposed to pay for fixing bugs and adding content for the game Im playing. Its not meant for the developer to use in any other way. This is why we pay a monthly fee folks.

The expansion was sold to us without informing us that in 2 weeks the game would be completely changed. For me, thats two copies $60 down the drain.

Finally, SOE wouldnt refund our money for prepaid accounts. I had 8 months left on two accounts for Star Wars Galaxies. SOE threw my game in the trash then expected me to be happy to have paid for a new product. We deserved a refund. I didnt buy a quasi-fps beta stage game.

200,000 players didnt just quit for no reason. They objected to the outright stealing and lying SOE did.

To quote Dylan Thomas, "we will not go gently into that good night"

The interesting thing was that you have been