All Posts by salvaje

At this point even if they Pre-CU'ed it, I probably won't come.  For Blixtev's bastardized but still NGE, no.  Not even if it were free.

On merit, the NGE should have closed over a year ago.  For some reason they are still willing to throw money down this shithole.  Why, I don't know, clearly SWG will never recover even to last year's sub numbers, much less 2004-2005's.

So, I'm through predicting when it closes, because there is nothing that the epic incompetents in charge of SOE and LEC can do anymore which will surprise me, my expectations for them are really that low.

If they are willing to keep losing money on the NGE, that's money that they aren't spending to make any other MMO that will ruin someone else's game experience.

Plus, think of the poor fanbois...  If the NGE closes, where will they ever be able to go where someone will call them a "senator" again?

Originally posted by jaxscorpio34

And the issue here is?

 

The way I read it, it sounds like the developers are a little worried that merging servers could cost some subscriptions so they're exploring other options to make everyone "happy".  I doubt it will work in the long run though because the game is aging and it's very unlikely it'll ever see a large enough surge in population to make the group search tools useful on the low population servers.  So those on the low population servers will continue struggling while SOE pretends the low population server issue has been adequately addressed with the introduction of an lfg tool.

And of course they continue to ignore the elephant in the room that the NGE and horrible past and present mismanagement and incompetent development is the CAUSE of the servers being empty.

The fact that they think some new search tool is going to change the fact that there isn't enough population to have a server is in and of itself proof positive that everyone in the SOE Austin building is insane and needs to be locked up.

Imagine what SWG could have been if SOE and LEC management weren't a bunch of blithering idiots.

I still can't believe they continue to try to duct tape the NGE.  Their latest crafting update is really stupid.  EVERYONE hates bio link.  Well, their new "repeat business" method is by making...  EVERYTHING bio linked.

Blixtev, to call you stupid is to actually insult the stupid.

When the CU was a downgrade that reduced the depth of combat and professions and wasn't any sort of upgrade at all.

SWG will gain server populations if, and ONLY if, they reinstate Pre-CU.  Anything else means decline.

And they already have lost 95%+ of the pre CU populations.

Originally posted by Lateris

The NGE is a factual failure. That is on record.

At this point it's an undisputed fact.

What Smed describes is exactly why RMT games will fail, because unethical companies like SOE will do exactly what he's stating they will do, deliberately obsolete the stuff you bought so that you have to buy more.

Why does he continue to assume that the MMO customer is the "NGE target audience", ie: simpletons who can't read, when clearly they are not? 

Originally posted by MickeyMann

 No more player events , its will not be long now.

Agree..  Even loser games that are dying do player events. 

If SOE really wanted to put SWG into the hands of the players they'd do pre CU.

Smed is the FAIL.

He couldn't pitch heaters to Eskimos at this point with his reputation.

Smed thinks that somehow because no one wants to subscribe to his failed games that they will somehow be willing to PAY THROUGH THE NOSE to do so if only it's less than $14.95 flat rate, but more if you actually play the game to the max...

Doomed as the NGE was.

Stupid is as Smed does.

Smed thinks the flat rate sub model is dead only because SOE has failed at it.  WRONG!

Give the players what they want..  Such as PRE CU...

How can you visit Hoth before ESB takes place?

This is just as outside the timeline as all the KOTOR/Clone Wars stuff,  unless they advanced the story forward (which they aren't doing).

The article is nothing more than typical lazy industry "reprint a press release as a story" "journalism".

People move on.  But what should be of concern to the fanbois is that a whole aspect of gameplay (supported events) is ending with his departure.

And he isn't being replaced.

So, SOE isn't willing to provide any event support to SWG when they do to their other games...

My old toon was one of the rarest in the game.  A Bothan Jedi.  (unlocked in 2005).    There never were more than 5 that I knew of on Bloodfin, and 2 of them were in FOAD.

TimV gave me every one of the CSR badges...

Because I was audacious enough to be a BOTHAN Jedi...  He he he.

SOE might not have ruined Vanguard and MXO.

However, they failed to improve them or turn them around.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=656160&#7148844

He's leaving to become community manager for the SOE game Free Realms.

This is a very bad sign for the NGE.  Sure, storyteller can do some things, but now Vader, Leia, Luke, et all will forever remain in their places where you only interact with them once in the themeparks.

Another bad sign:  Someone is leaving and NOT being replaced.  That is not growth in the team, it's a reduction in force.

I expect other Dev departures soon.  I expect they will begin breaking up the NGE team as they reassign them to other projects.  This is all expected in a prelude to closure.

I appreciate that.  I did send a PM with instructions on where to look.

Allowing SOE' s ideas to "percolate" all over the inside of SCE would help it in what way?