All Posts by Beery

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Originally posted by Reachwind

The reality was that the entertainers who played in that style preNGE all wanted it, but the few people who were GS and their friends have always wanted entertainer to be what it is right now... A completely isolated unrelated to the game side profession for an ALT character that hangs out with a small circle of dedicated friends making movies of themselves while "role playing" being slaves or prositutes.

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As I said, I played in that style pre-NGE, but when entertainers became isolated I welcomed the break.  Until that time we were constantly barraged with abuse because many combat players didn't want to be 'forced' to go to a cantina to heal.  Many felt entertainers were 'sissy' and wanted to keep their manly characters uncorrupted by dancing and music.  The removal of entertainer healing abilities was purely driven by combat-oriented players.

I'm 100% entertainer.  My character isn't an ALT.  I've played entertainer exclusively for two and a half years and haven't touched a weapon in the game in all that time, because after mastering Pistoleer I found combat incredibly boring.  I've never hung out with anyone making movies or roleplaying a prostitute or a slave.  In fact I resent the suggestion, as it seems to me that it's part of the general prejudice that non-entertainers have about the profession.

Well, for one thing, I'm not in any nefarious clique, and I'm more likely to disagree with the current entertainer clique than anyone else, but I'm also one of the folks who thinks that adding combat to entertainers will do a lot of harm to the entertainer profession, and I've played entertainer since launch (so it's not like I don't know what it's like to play an entertainer with combat abilities - I used to be a Master Dancer/Pistoleer).  The reason it will harm entertainers is that entertainers will never get non-combat content if entertainers become a combat class.  The developers have told us so on many occasions.  The developer's refrain "If you want content, go kill something" became infamous on the entertainer forums before the NGE.  The only hope for entertainers to get entertainer content is to remain a non-combat profession.

As for why combat never made it live in the recent publish, that was purely because it didn't work very well.  Trust me, the developers desperately want entertainers to be a combat class again.  They want it because it will make their job so much easier if they can tell us that same old refrain - so that they don't have to bother making content that's specifically attuned to a non-combat class.

I don't really understand it though.  I mean if the game got so bad that it was actually painful to play, would these folks still defend it?  I mean are they completely free of any critical thinking ability?

I just can't get over the fact that there are still rabid fanboys and fangirls over at the SWG forums who are still of the opinion that: "The folks at SOE and LA are doing their best and just be patient for a little while longer and stop complaining".

It's ludicrous.  I mean these same people have been saying that for three solid years.  When do these folks ever get a clue?  I mean, if LA/SOE pulled the plug tomorrow these folks would still be putting a positive spin on it.  It's like SWG has a bunch of fans who live in Stepford.

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Originally posted by kyme

CU/NGE SWG + Star Wars I, II and III = male-ass

Well done George and Sony.

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It seems to me that that armour would actually increase the likelihood of an upper arm wound - if a sword hit goes anywhere near the shoulder it will be directed towards the upper arm.  Also, the thighs are unprotected (unless that dark stuff is a kind of chainmail).  However it is better than most of the armours we've seen.

What's the deal with that sword?  Seems to me it's too long to be of use to anyone who's not on a horse, and it looks too heavy for any human to wield effectively.

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Originally posted by littlema
i have been playing on World Of Warcraft for about one week now, and its great!
the gameplay and sounds that is enroled into the story line is ace!
plus it has mining!
im in love!

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Hi Littlema,

I've been trying to get info about WoW elsewhere on the forums, but I've had no luck.  Since you actually play it, and since you play in a non-combat (mining) role, I wonder if you could tell me what options WoW has for non-combat and/or roleplaying?

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Originally posted by Kuzzle

Firstly, I figured you encouraged it because I thought you'd said you were given the money because you were playing a female.

Again, I figured you were flirting, but the distinction between real world cash and game cash doesn't matter much. It's still personnal gain.

And, dude? You need to calm the hell down before you give yourself an aneurism. I was just stating how I felt on the subject, and you bit my head off, and placed views on me that I don't endorse. In fact, you insulted me by saying that I thought all these imbecilic things. I'll let it slide, but, please... Don't assume so much.

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I accept your apology, even though it's not really an apology, and even though you felt you had to insult me because you realised you were in the wrong.

Never assume you can call into question a player's integrity without upsetting them.

I notice a lot of players have elf characters.  That's sick.  Why on Earth would anyone play an elf.  I mean yuck!  It's a completely different species.  Oh gross!

If anyone thinks I'm being stupid - that playing an elf is just fine, I agree.  But the above reaction is the exact same reaction I often get when I tell people I'm a male playing a female character.  Both are roles that players can play, but one (human playing an elf) is generally regarded as fine, while the other (male playing female) gets a negative response.  I think it's stupid to think that any role should be off limits, especially when it's merely because of a gender difference.

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Originally posted by Joe_Strummer

Did anyone else realize that this thread is the digital equivalent of a circle jerk?

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Originally posted by Kuzzle
   And that doesn't seem messed up to you? Both that someone'd dole out that kind of cash based on percieved gender, and that you encouraged it... I don't get it...

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I didn't encourage it at all.  I merely took the money.  I never misled the guy by saying I was a female in real life and the guy (to his credit) never asked me.  People can give my character money for whatever reason they want.  I take donations for my character being female, being an entertainer, having green eyes, having red hair, wearing nice clothes, putting on an entertaining show, playing a role well, etc.  None of those things are true of me in real life, but it's a role-playing game and 99% of players don't play the same character they are in real life.  I also have a female Wookiee character in the game - if a male Wookiee gave me heaps of credits for being a female Wookiee would that bother you?  Of course not.  I know of at least one person who roleplays himself 20 years younger and 50lbs lighter.  If someone was to offer him money because his character was thin would it seem 'messed up' to you if he accepted the money?  It's the exact same thing - making play money for playing a character that's not who he is in real life.  So what's the difference?  Do you play yourself, warts and all, in the game?  If so, you're about the only one.  It's a role playing game, and a lot of the point of a role playing game is in NOT playing oneself.  Do you think players who have Wookiee characters are misleading people?  What about Twileks?  I mean your accusation is ridiculous.  If I was actively flirting to get real life cash, then you might have a point, but I'm not.

The difference is that I'm playing a female in the game and you think that means I'm counting on my good looks to make money by gulling poor innocent men.  Rubbish!  The reason I play a female in the game is that when I play a game I like the scenery to be pleasant - nothing more - and the players who meet me in the game know it's a role-playing game right up front - it says so on the game box.  If they really think that everyone is playing themselves they're fooling themselves.  As an entertainer I've met a lot of female characters in the game, and I never once wondered what sex the players behind those characters were - I didn't consider it because it doesn't matter.  A player's real life identity has nothing to do with the game, and it's none of anyone's business.

If you think I should not accept money in the game unless there's a good reason for getting it, then you need to play the game more, because often when money changes hands it's just because someone's feeling good enough to share it - is that messed up too?  Also, if you think even a handful of the characters you meet in a role playing game look like the people who are controlling those characters you've got another think coming.

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Originally posted by paranoidpvp
A guy gave me about 90k on GW because he though I was a girl... Needless to say he was not a happy person when he found out the truth.

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SWG is my favourite.  Not because it's all that good, but because there seems to be none better for my playstyle.  I play an entertainer in SWG, and SWG is the only MMORPG where you have so many options as an entertainer.  That's sad, given that the SWG entertainer profession has almost no content compared with the combat professions, but still, it's the best of a really bad bunch in terms of non-combat and non-crafting play

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Originally posted by Mcgreag

As someone else said long time ago. If you are going to be stuck looking at your characters ass for several hours per day the least you can do is make sure it's a good looking ass

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I agree.  Personally, given the supposedly visual bias of males, I can't understand how so many men play as male characters.  I can understand women playing as females, given that they don't share that visual-bias trait that men have.  But to have so many men playing male characters brings up some questions for me.  Not that I'm homophobic or anything, but it's just interesting that so many men prefer to be looking at a male ass.

Needless to say, I've never played a male in any 3rd person game where I've been offered the choice of male or female.  Not that roleplaying a male character is something I'd never do, but the female form (even pixellated and cartoonish) is just more attractive to me.

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Originally posted by Frey
All these computer girls look great and all.  Ashame each and everyone of them is a guy in RL. ^^

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You mean -you- think the first guildwars picture wasn't sexy.  Sexy doesn't have to equal "barely dressed".  I love that armor set and happen to think it's very attractive.  If you don't like a confident strong warrior woman in a sweet set of armor, that's your issue, not mine :)

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Lineage 2, no doubt, has the best armour.  It doesn't look as if it would offer too much protection (or any, LOL), but it looks great.