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im not insulting you at all just 1 thing you sed "I mean, really, no one is that stupid" thay are so look at gorge w. bush lol and john howard you may not know him his the priminister of my fine countery of australia and his a twat recently out major comunications company called telstra was sold to the americans thay recently opointed a man who crashed his previos company into the ground and thay recently got offerd a contract with blizzerd to hoast 20 new wow servers and guse what thay ternd it down thay could have made millions the resion is some times its more profitable to crash something and sell it off than it is to run it i think thats what is goin on with SWG thay are gona fuck it up as much as thay can and in some way make better money out of it ether that or thay realy are just stoopid like a fish or maby even as dumb as gorge W. bush =) theres my political coment for the month lol

sory again im a verry angery man =)

As I said in another post. Why not get organized and get a lawyer to file a class action suit against Sony and Lucas Arts. Players have a huge case here! I doubt anyone would get money from it, but it would cause a ton of bad press for the company and game. So many people are angry why not....

Body Blow, Body Blow....KNOCK 'EM OUT!!!

Garrett "Shags" Fuller

"No comment" and general "dodge the question" answers like always, they used to do the same in the stratics chat.  I played SWG from beta 3 - NGE and I have to say that the game was a ton of fun until they tried to copy other games with the CU and then the NGE.

As developers they should be ashamed to come into an interview where tons of their players, ex-players, and fellow MMORPG enthusiasts read and post crap like that.

MMORPG.com good job on your part, no complaint at all and thank you for the interview.

SOE/SWG - When will you learn?  You are a sad example of what happens when a great game gets controlled completely by the corporation and money aspect and loses sight of all the reasons to create and run a game.

Everyone I know have boycotted SOE cuz of their incompetence with SWG. I know it sounds extreme but if they did this to SWG, who says they won't do it to their other products. We don't want to encourage this behaviour with subscriptions, otherwise other MMOG companies would follow in their footsteps. IMO, the NGE is a de-evolution in the MMOG industry, not just product-wise, but the company as a whole. They're a bad rolemodel. Imagine your favorite MMOG, cutting your choice of classes in half (but everyone chooses only one class), taking all that you've accomplished and throwing it down the drain. SOE has lost touch, I can't understand how a company can make so many mistakes and still be so optimistic about their failure. If they showed some understanding and compassion in the beginning, I'd respect them a little more. But to late for that. I'd love to see them file Chapter 11. But that's only a dream. I'm sorry I sound harsh, but they pissed me (and everyone I know) off.

sadly i played this when it cameout and I had a BLAST. Though now when Jedi became not a coveted status but another o look there goes Demi-God#45560756. The game has become lame and sad so.
Mount the Cannons and Bury this game at sea people

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Originally posted by miccav

Everyone I know have boycotted SOE cuz of their incompetence with SWG. I know it sounds extreme but if they did this to SWG, who says they won't do it to their other products. We don't want to encourage this behavior with subscriptions, otherwise other MMOG companies would follow in their footsteps. IMO, the NGE is a de-evolution in the MMOG industry, not just product-wise, but the company as a whole. They're a bad rolemodel. Imagine your favorite MMOG, cutting your choice of classes in half (but everyone chooses only one class), taking all that you've accomplished and throwing it down the drain. SOE has lost touch, I can't understand how a company can make so many mistakes and still be so optimistic about their failure. If they showed some understanding and compassion in the beginning, I'd respect them a little more. But to late for that. I'd love to see them file Chapter 11. But that's only a dream. I'm sorry I sound harsh, but they pissed me (and everyone I know) off.

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I would have to say that SWG was more of a warning example than a bad rolemodel. SOE didn't set the standard of anything, they simply did something EXTREMELY foolish. From all this, I don't see how the other MMOGs will follow in their footsteps, especially after the not-so-quiet community uproar. SOE just shot themselves in the feet, so to speak. Though I don't see why the SWG team isn't to blame, SOE runs EQ2 and Planetside as well, both of which are slightly entertaining...

I really wonder if they really believe what they say.   He talks about new abilities for jedi in pub 27 lol.  Lets see they added a new offensive buff and defensieve buff oh but wait they also took away the old offensive and defensive buff.  Opps just a name change.  And not only that you used to be able to use them together now you can't.  You can only use one or the other not both.  Another oops.  Lets see they added an area strike.  The timer spins so long  once you use it the only thing its good for is to agro everything on you so you can die and travel quicker.  Hmm thats a good ability to have.  Lets see an ability to see hidden objects and players.  hmmm another player cloaked and it didn't detect them so wonder what good that one is.  Oh and the cloaking ability which works about 25% of the time and you can't move or do anything or it goes away.  Its pretty useless too as you can't rely on it.  Oh and what they don't tell you that they changed is the silent nerfs that you have to find out for yourself by getting killed when the timer on your heal is longer.   Its also really fun to play a game that is so limited in scope especialy when the specials fire and the timers run but they don't have any effect at all either for you (if a heal) or on the enemy you are in combat with.  The max i've had is 4 in a row  that fire and don't have an effect as after that you die anyway so you don't have time to try anymore.  Thats a really special ability that they give their players.  Its no wonder they got rid of decay cause evyerone dies all the time due to all the bugs and poor design of a game that had such promise but only keeps getting worse.  So do you really believe that when you say you've added all of these abilities that is real or just marketing nonsense meant to feed the press and people who haven't played your game before.  I also like his comment about bringing back the features that most people liked from previous versions.  LOL   They take away the features then give them back to you and call them new.  Cloaking was in the game way before the genius's at SOE dreamed up NGE.  All of the new abilities were abilities we used to have, they were taken away and now put back in in a statment that makes them useless only to have them 'fixed' later.  Its your classic bait and switch.  The reason people don't play your game anymore is that you have broken their trust with your constant nerfs of the basic combat system, bugs, poor customer service and arrogance that you and only you know what you are doing.  You don't because the reviews, the customer enrollment going down, the empty servers, and general dissatisfaction with the game proves you wrong.  SOE is SAD.  The only reason I still play is I still have a lot of friends there and we are all looking for a new game to play.  SWG is still our base till we find this game.   The only time SOE is telling you whats really going on is when they aren't saying anything.

That informative (read: forced civility, no information, typical SOE/Lucasfilm arrogance, playerbase disdain) just reinforces why I will never play another SOE game.  SOE just has complete disdain and disrespec