What surprises me is that he was surprised by the fact that players want content.  So their purpose for releasing the Mustafar expansion was not to provide players with new content but to screw over pet handlers ie, revamping profession?  I find much of what this guy writes, or says in interviews, very disingenuous.

I have never known any players to have serious gripes about the guild terminal thing.  I used it, sure it can be a pain but with travel as fast as it is now, whats the big deal?  The huge ghost towns and inability to administer ones city because homes still counted as residents, combined with unused harvester, "hoping that they would come back..." was the final nail for me.  Travelling trough Dat was like running an obstical course.

Losing ones abiltiy to play the game the way they had started playing the game, and were enjoying just fine, only to have it changed yet again, does nothing to instill player confidence.

Though by stating he would look into server consolidations to me is the closest thing to an admission that numbers truely are as low as most players, both present and past, have been stating for a long while now.

Anyhow.

Who knows where SWG will end up in the next six months.

Me I am hoping they lose the license and it goes to the Bioware/Pandemic partnership.  (NO nothing has ever been hinted that they would be taking the license, they just have not said what the theme of their MMORPG will be, but a player can dream)

I would play a space MMORPG based on Knights of the Old Republic.

What's to "understand"? 

NDA: N = Non D = Disclosure A = Agreement.  As was stated above me, don't tell anyone anything about the game while under a NDA, and you'll be fine. 

EULA: E = End U = User L = Licensing A= Agreement.

If you can't take the time to read them that's your problem, not the owner of the title.

Standardizing will only make users even lazier than they are already.

Originally posted by Laiina

Originally posted by sodom1234
I didn't touched Vanguard and i'am glad none of my friends touches it too. So i'am not asked to enter it anytime soon.

I know several people who get raped by SOE and still are willing to pay SOE to play EQ2 or Vanduard (and none of them liked the changes in SWG). What kind of sick masoshism needs to be in their minds. It's people like them that let the company do such things. If they won't pay them any money for beeing ignorant maybe SOE would remember that the customers are more than simple cash-cows. It's this stupid behavior of the customers that make it possible that every new game (MMO or not) comes to marked buggier and unfinishder than the one before. If they wouldn't buy any hyped game from well known "black sheeps" maybe there wouldn't be so many of them.

Maybe Vanguard is a nice game, i don't care, Sigel should have known better than to buddy with SOE, not that i think Microsoft would be a better option anyways.

as always .. only my two cent...

If you knew anything about it, you would also know that the changes that SOE made to SWG were forced on them by Lucas Arts....

But, I am sure I am wasting my time trying to convince any of the SOE haters that all the worlds problems were not caused by Sony.

Ya it never cease to amaze me how many people fail to realize that some of the changes made to screw up that game were announced by LA and not Sony.  I recall they even paired up an expansion with the realse of E 3.  LA's marketing only further Fk/d up the time line in the story.  Went from Galatic War post Order 66 to >> Everyones a Jedi in a course of about a year.  When did that happen?  Maybe after EP 3 so LA could sell more Obiwan and Ankin rubber dolls? 

Anyhow yes SOE is to blame for some of the problems but LA is just as Fking dirty - if not more so IMO.

BTW I played pre and post CU.

LA has become what Lucas had orignally claimed to stand against when he made the first three. The Evil Media Empire he had hated when he first started out.

... yet it is also very different from WoW in other respects.

As for the why did VG copy WoW in some aspects, why reinvent to wheel?  If it works and people are used to doing something a certain way repeating them, like the interface for instance, helps people adjust and accept the new "thing" - in this case a piece of gaming software.  Its actually a fairly common practice in systems design, some would say successful systems design.  For instance most Windows office programs have a similiar look to them, like Word and Wordperfect for example.  Wordperfect "could" totally redo their menu bar to be completely different from Word but why would they?  If it adds any, and I mean any unnecessary confusion to the user, out it goes. (Kind of like how Blizzard desgined WoW itself  ie, "get rid of anything not fun").

Anyhow...

With a gazzillion of subscriptions, like it or not, WoW is the dominate standard for MMO's in certain respects, and possibly RPG's in general.

.... and Bioware gets the license FTW!