All Posts by Sonno

Well you know, when you're lying on your back at rock bottom, the only thing you can see is up. ;)

Originally posted by wolfmann

Pex leaving is like having the last decent person walking out.

For all its worth, he's the only one left on SOE's SWG team I had any respect for.

Ditto that. Pex was a cool dude. And he was always there to help you out when you needed him. I know he helped me out with events more time than I could thank him for.

Still waiting...

You want to know what made me hit the cancell button?

A smilie.

That's right, a stupid stinkin emoticon smillie. It was this one to be exact: :P

It came in an announcement about the CU. There was a poll up in the CU test forum that asked us "Do you like the changes?" or something to that effect. 80% said no. 80%! The CU announcement said something to the effct of "The players have posted positive feedback about the changes, try it out :P" That's when I knew for certain that SOE didn't know it's mouth from it's asshole and I left. Looks like I made the right decision.

Last night, for the first time in years, I spent 6 hours on Dath hunting Rancors and NS... as a TKM/MR... and it was a total blast! All I can say is, once this thing is done, SWG is doomed.

Originally posted by hubertgrove

Originally posted by Sonno

Funny, here I am sitting in a PreCU AH cantina talking about this very topic... it was the Hologrind that was the beggining of the end, it was all down hill from there.

Huh? Which pre-CU AH Cantina? Where? I want to be there and play that.

Been playing every day for the last week or so. Not done yet, but it's getting there. ;) and it's PreCU.

Funny, here I am sitting in a PreCU AH cantina talking about this very topic... it was the Hologrind that was the beggining of the end, it was all down hill from there.

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I'm tired of all this. SWG is dead. My game ain't coming back. And this forum is the same old arguments carried out by the same people day after day after day. I think it's time to move along.

Someone shoot me an email or something when they decide to pull the plug. Until then...

Peace out.

The most "Star Warsy" experience I ever had in SWG was my first Imperial Crackdown while I was out in the field somewhere. Me, covert Rebel, running around grinding out... Commando I think... on Tatooine and all the sudden this shuttle lands near me and out come a whole lotta Stormies... coming after me! That was cool!

Other than that... I've got mixed feelings on it. Yeah somethings kinda maybe were, other things not so much. Even PreCU needed a whole lot of work, I've never understated that.

Rehash of a post I made yesterday...

I think the number one problem facing these folks (and I can expand this view to the entertainment industry as a whole) they've lost sight of the most important thing: Games are supposed to be fun. If they could take a step back and look at games the way players do, they wouldn't have to worry about looking at it as product units. If you put your heart and soul into what you are doing, if you have a real passion for it, you don't need to worry about making money, it'll take care of itself. If you want to say, that's just not how it works, read a biography on one of the greatest producers of entertainment the world has ever seen: Walt Disney. He never did anything he did for the money; he just had a passion for what he was doing and settled for nothing less than perfection.

I just wish I had a lump of clay.

Last I remember Nancy "Picture Book" McIntyre, and Julio "gay ol' time" Torres worked for LA.

Originally posted by mdolsen

But what have you won?  Absolutely nothing, unfortunately.  Your game is gone, never to return, and while teaching Lucasarts and Soe a lesson may be an admirable short-term goal, it has done nothing productive except inch your long-gone home closer to oblivion.

So what do you suggest? Go back to paying them money again?

Originally posted by spikenog

Originally posted by Sonno

I don't care who is responsible for it, I'm boycotting both of them. They both suck. Niether could give a rats ass about their products or their customers; only the $$$. Screw em both is all I gotta say about it.

Hate to break it to you...all companies only care about the money.

Those two words used together in this statement make it incorrect.

I don't care who is responsible for it, I'm boycotting both of them. They both suck. Niether could give a rats ass about their products or their customers; only the $$$. Screw em both is all I gotta say about it.

Originally posted by shinkan

Yet another poster failing to make any interesting points worth taking note of.

Then why did you bother?

I have actively boycotted Sony/SOE/LA/LEC since the CU went live. Screw me? Screw you!

I didn't read this whole thread, so if this is a rehash, my appologies...

He does make a good and valid point:

Smedley revealed that he believes that the console space actually has an advantage over the PC when it comes to that particular genre. When asked whether or not he believed that a console MMO could be as successful as World of Warcraft, Smedley responded "I absolutely do, and in fact I think by having a stable platform where every customer has an online capable box is a huge, huge potential advantage in building an MMO because you've already got an online userbase. It's a massive advantage over the PC and we don't have to worry about graphics cards or things like that.

One major headache in making games for the PC is designing them to be used by the least common denominator. It totally kills innovation. By having a baseline standard that's equal across the board (the console hardware is the same for every player) you eliminate the inequalities from the equation and can actively work to exploit the systems full potential.

Now about the part that says Smed and Co will make a game that'll "KO WoW"... them actually being able to do that, well, let's just say it's not a horse I'm willing to bet on. I think the number one problem facing these folks (and I can expand this view to the entertainment industry as a whole) they've lost sight of the most important thing: Games are supposed to be fun. If they could take a step back and look at games the way players do, they wouldn't have to worry about looking at it as product units. If you put your heart and soul into what you are doing, if you have a real passion for it, you don't need to worry about making money, it'll take care of itself. If you want to say, that's just not how it works, read a biography on one of the greatest producers of entertainment the world has ever seen: Walt Disney. He never did anything he did for the money; he just had a passion for what he was doing and settled for nothing less than perfection.

I just wish I had a lump of clay.

Best of luck there Smedster.