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Originally posted by Hrothmund

Originally posted by Dradiin

Originally posted by CasualMaker

Originally posted by raymerjacque

Fithly, if vets want to come back they will do so, my point is that to post everywhere asking them to return and convincing them that the game is good is just misleading, mainly because they come back expecting PRE CU, and you can't deny it most of them do.

What I expect is that SOE/LA should recognize the facts of 2 solid years of loss, to recognize and act on the proposition that Classic Servers is the only thing that is likely to get them subscription numbers even remotely resembling what they had before. Otherwise, the current situation will most likely persist until SWG is sunsetted: dismally low population, new subs in rough balance with cancellations, a push toward server merges even knowing that it would cost nearly as many subs cancelled as it retained.

SWG has more subs then Vanguard.

... which doesn't say much.

Originally posted by jposavatz

Not selfish I'd say... he just doesn't want to subsidize others... online gaming is not a welfare state after all.

I'll be the first to point out however that I'm no longer an SOE player.  I played EQ2 for years, and had a Station Pass so I could dabble with SWG and PlanetSide, but in the end just couldn't justify the cost... plus I moved over to LOTRO...

Originally posted by CasualMaker

Originally posted by raymerjacque

Fithly, if vets want to come back they will do so, my point is that to post everywhere asking them to return and convincing them that the game is good is just misleading, mainly because they come back expecting PRE CU, and you can't deny it most of them do.

What I expect is that SOE/LA should recognize the facts of 2 solid years of loss, to recognize and act on the proposition that Classic Servers is the only thing that is likely to get them subscription numbers even remotely resembling what they had before. Otherwise, the current situation will most likely persist until SWG is sunsetted: dismally low population, new subs in rough balance with cancellations, a push toward server merges even knowing that it would cost nearly as many subs cancelled as it retained.

Originally posted by Uproar

I am tired of paying for this money loser with my all-access subscription price.  I am happy with all of the others (well planetside sucks too, but I am not so sure it takes up as much resources as SWG is doing in its prolonged death throes). 

Please dump it!  Bring my fees back down.    EQ rocks and population is booming even faster after the release of the Anniversary edition last month.  EQII continues to get better and better and the two new expansions will certainly rock.   Vanguard should hold its own with some guiding care and Matrix Online just needs an expansion to boost it to a playable status.

SWG has had all the chances it deserves.  Let it die -- or at least quit making me pay for it!  All-access subscription are not to become  a welfare system I hope.

I am super anxious to get this to live, playing on test is way too much of a chore right now so i am really not interested in it.

So i am hoping it gets released soon, plus the fact that it will bring back even more vets who left not because of the NGE game mechanics but because BE and CH were removed from the game.

Originally posted by raymerjacque

2. Try and figure things out for yourself before you post, alot of vets are posting every little thing they notice, and what makes it worse is that they do not make use of the new itmes / UI before they post, if they did they would see that it is actually really nice the way it is and that there are advantages for all the disadvantages.

No matter what improvements they make to this game, i will not even contemplate coming back to play me level 42 shaman until they have officially announced that the duping and credit frauds have been fixed and resolved.

In its current state your just looking to get kicked in the nuts once they do fix it . Go to Silky Venom and read all the posts about this and the silence from the devs is deafening.

So yeah forget playing this game till at least that is fixed.

Originally posted by Smusatto
Can't say how I got it, but here's a rough draft of an announcement that will be made in the next few weeks...

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    As many of you know, SOE is in discussions with Sigil regarding the future of Vanguard and Sigil Games in Carlsbad. Talks are going well and first and foremost, our primary concern right now is what's best for Vanguard and its community. We want to ensure that this game and its community have a healthy future. The specifics that we work out over the coming days will all be with that single goal in mind.

    We feel that in order to ensure each class gets the attention it needs, the amount of classes should be reduced. It is too tedious to try to balance 15 classes. To alleviate this problem, we will soon introduce the Vanguard Game Enhancements. This entails the removal of the Dread Knight, Bard, Monk, Psionicist, Disciple, and Cleric classes. Most of their abilities will slowly be rolled into the remaining classes as we introduce more enhancements. Those who currently have characters of the soon to be removed classes will be allowed to respec to any other class of their choice, as long as their race is able to be that class. 

    Once these changes are in place, the development team will be able to focus more on the remaining classes as well as adding new content at a quicker pace. We feel that these changes are the best thing for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.  We hope the community feels the same way.   Thank you all for your continued support.  We'll see you in Telon.

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I think the idea is to be able to use all the content in those games again for players who feel overwhelmed by the concept of raiding or 4+ hours of grping in dungeons.

The idea is not to compete with a full functioning single player game. The idea is to make simple alterations to an existing MMO and then allow players to access the worlds in a soloish form. Weather there is a limited singleplayer mode that allows small grps to form like in BG2 would be at the developers whim.

Yeah thats what i was thinking, i would love to just run around int eh game as if its just a single player like say Oblivion.

It would make me want to play WoW again thats for damned sure and i would get the BC expansion to.

Think of getting all new players to buy your game and not even have to worry about those games being pirated anymore, they can fricking just DL it if they want, what the player pays for is the access key. It would be something simmilar to BF2142 where they game has been pirated alot but the real game is the multiplayer and that requires the access to the servers.

I dunno there are so many well done MMOs that i don't even bother with because i just do not have the time to get started in them but think if those games gave you acces to all the content in a solo environment, i would be playign all those old MMOs new to me or even ones i have left behind.

It's a win win for both the devs and the players, not only will it allow the devs to concentrate on more grp based content for the live game it will allow them to just funnel the casual players into the live content with a modified difficulty for them. The players win because those who like the online grp based environs will have a blast knowing that those in the game are like minded, and the casuals can just play at there own pace in the single player version, and still experience it all even if it is a watered down version.

I have to admit after reading this entire post and all the replies to it i have found myself intrigued by how the game is running now.

Course i must admit i have strong reservations about resubbing mainly because i am not a fan of SOE and how they handled the changes they forced on all of its players. But i do have to admit i am semi interested in seeing whats new and what is being added soon. After the dismal release of Vanguard and the boring same as all the rest gameplay in LOTRO i am at a loss as for what MMO will interest me till AOC/WAR/DF get released.

Anyhow this is not a statement for or against the NGE i freely admit that i think it is flawed and a horrible representation of that SWG was and should or even could have been, but i am still curious, and i am still interested in the central games core.

I dunno i guess i will get flamed as this will be seen as a pro-NGE post but its not just me saying that i am semi interested in how it is right now, maybe if the rest took a serious look at the game it might not be as dismal as we all think it is. Course more then likely i will get in game mess around for an hour and just plain hate it. Never can tell till you make the attempt.

So i recently replayed Baldur's Gate 2 again and while i was playing i was thinking to how i would love to take the same kind of single player game and export it to a game like WoW, DAoC, EQ1&2, Vanguard, AO .... you get the point. In other words make encounters act liekt hey do in BG2 and add a small party option.

This could be achieved by a small grp of developers and all they would need to do was introduce small adjustments to monster stats and maybe ai. The small player controlled grp could be along the same lines as Guild Wars henchmen, where you recruit or Hire them, or even more elaborate to have them grow with your main character.

So i am curious if anyone else would be interested in this idea and if they would be willing to pay a subscription for it just like any other MMO player ? To me it could be an answer to alot of the casual players who want to experience these worlds yet don't have the time to dedicate to 40 man raids, or 4 hour uninterruptible quests.

I am sure there are other aspects i have missed and i hope anyone else who likes this idea or even hates this idea will elaborate on it more.

Originally posted by rznkain

 

 

      Just curious about this given funcoms widely known rep as a greedy company who half ass does everything and lies to there customers do you have faith they will be any different for AoC?

 

   I played Ao for a number of years I am fully aware of how funcom works and how they handle there player base and have handled there player base for years.I have heard lie after lie after lie told to there customers,I have seen expansion packs released like AI with the main feature of the expansion pack(player shops) not even added into the game till 6 months after ppl paid them for the expansion.

 

 

  Just curious to you AoC fans if you really think given Funcom's track record that they will somehow manage to do this game right and actually treat there customers better than they have the last 6 years.

This seems just odd, not sure how serious this post is let alone you understand the ramifications of attempting to even make a MMO.

I can tell you that as a player i am sick to death of fantasy based and class based MMOs. Let alone a leveling tread mill type of progression.

If i was to make my dream MMO it would be either alternate historical, Sci-Fi, or present day contemporary.  I would also make my own intellectual Property and not use something already established. Leveling would be replaced with skill based progression, and classes would not be needed. There could be a large variety of races either human or alien. If i did have alien's i would move far away from a bipedal humanoid and go with strange and varied body types.

If i could i would look into procedural animations and ai, similar to those being created for Spore. Procedural ai will allow for very in depth creature behaviors and there are procedural weather systems also.

I think if it went with a sci fi  theme i would make the world large deserts with a band of jungle along the equator, and huge acrtic expanses at the poles. The main land masses would be barren and harsh. No centralized beginner towns would be available to those who start the game in fact all structures would be researched and then created through an easy to use crafting system, maybe taking a blueprint and nanobot system from Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander idea.

Take that another step and leave all wildlife unnamed and each creature could be named by explorers (course with filters to exclude obnoxious names).

Anyhow i could go on forever talking about these ideas i have a design document that i have been working on but i have not gone beyond writing it all, fact of the matter is i know all to well the type of capitol one would need to make a MMO and publishers are looking for something that will sell not something thats a good concept, my idea is conceptual not the next WoW and really  thats what publishers want. The next WoW will be made by Blizzard and it will be SCO(Star Craft Online).

Indie developers are being slowly fazed out now because of craptastic failures like Dark and Light, and i even have to say Vanguard is a failure also.

Anyhow if you for some reason do have a way to get this kind of capitol and think soem of my ideas are great let me know just PM me or leave a reply here.

Originally posted by Blurr

Yay another trolling thread.

For the record, I've played both LOTRO and VG, and I can honestly say there's no chance of me ever going to LOTRO. I mean seriously, it's basically a rehashed DDO. The game looks like absolute garbage even on the highest settings.

In VG, I never have a problem finding a group, I almost never have connection problems, I almost never crash. I rarely have any problems at all with the game.

But then again, it wouldn't be a LOTRO thread unless people were exaggerating and bashing VG, right?

Originally posted by mlbslugger
Whew!  Before we start, I too am glad Vanguard is not a car. That said, I am truely amazed at the amount of anger people are venting over a MMO. Especially when people are coming back and constantly venting negatives.

Originally posted by Elikal

One might wonder how the VG devs will react to the ongoing exodus? I mean, ya you can make teleport and faster horses, but... thats all just minor tweaks. Will teleport bring back the masses of players thet were in VG in later beta?

I am following VG's patches and discussion despite I dont play it yet anymore - hoping it becomes great one day. But everytime I read the testcenter patch notes or real patch notes - they worked over many days and still the majority of changes is "spell X is now at level 26 instead of 24" *yawn* Or "NPCs lv50+ now drop loot" WOW, yes THAT was really a big issue. Level 50 loot drops. Who the FUCK is making such decisions? Is the patch schedule made by Blizzard spies? I mean, they see their 40 milion dollar child going down the drain and all they care about is arbitrary things like moving spells up and back down! You really should not practice patching like masturbating! Tsk...

I think you all missed the frigging point.

Away missions are a part of the game... the other part should be ship to ship combat or even fleet battles. As far as i know fighters are not a large part of the ST universe. So why make one of the larger portions of the game into something its not. ?</