Originally posted by insomnia175

Well, this thread seems interesting. Why would they put a thread for SoE hate in the forum of the only half decent game they have going for them? Thats just like kicking an autistic child when its on the floor.

They had to do it because the number of "SoE" suxx posts were getting out of control.
By creating this thread, they can now close every thread that explicitly criticise SoE, therefore the game and SoE looks better.......

I can't blame MMORPG.com, after all SoE is a good advertiser and I would have problably done the same.
Plus some of the threads were frankly too trollish.

But then again if people hate so much SoE, there is a reason.
People just don't wake up in the morning and decide that all of a sudden they don't fancy SoE anymore..........

People hate SOE because of SWG. Honestly people, why keep on crying about something that happened years ago?

Well, SoE finally kicked itself with the RMT update yesterday. Having promised that no RMT will touch the non-exchange servers, we had a surprise yesterday -- welcome to F2P with a damn paid subscription icing.

It's no wonder why folks HATE SoE with a passion.

No warning, and an excuse that the ingame survey dictated this move. Ah, it had to be programmed w-a-y more in advanced than one week that survey existed.

Station Trash is the new name for it. Pass it on!

Originally posted by UNATCOII

Well, SoE finally kicked itself with the RMT update yesterday. Having promised that no RMT will touch the non-exchange servers, we had a surprise yesterday -- welcome to F2P with a damn paid subscription icing.

It's no wonder why folks HATE SoE with a passion.

No warning, and an excuse that the ingame survey dictated this move. Ah, it had to be programmed w-a-y more in advanced than one week that survey existed.

Station Trash is the new name for it. Pass it on!

personally i am very unhappy about the adding of the itemshop, and how they did it in a stealth action.

but on otherside i don't agree with  itemshops = RMT, for me RMT involves a waythat players can sell other players things and  earn money (and itemshops usually don't allow that). but that still changes nothing to the fact that this is just another greedy way for soe to earn more money.

i agree with the idead of having itemshops  in F2P games to allow developers to earn some money, and if teh implementation is done in a way that you also can live without spending money. But itemshops in a p2p game is just pure greed.

If SoE made EQ2 a F2P (like canceling the subscriptions) it could be tolerated more, but what burns me is I didn't even get a advanced warning. Compound it to buy TSO and that crap, I'm more than irriate.

Hate to leave my friend who've I've been playing with for awhile, but a game with cheaters by design isn't gaming. Already enough of those dopes are claiming XP/AA potions are "fluff".

Hello, Morrowind and Oblivion.

Well it just goes to show these extras (Items)are the types of things that should be included in content patches and or updates with subscription games. New armor, decorations, different items. Why should players have to pay for it twice? You know you aren't going to get any more cool new Items/Armors/Weapons/Mounts in patches, right? It will be added to the store and  or card game,RMT.And just to add this in, what do you think if they ever went with another Expansion Pack?Are those days over for the packs as well?So much for the New stuff...
 

After 4 years of Loyalty to SoE, we are over them.

If you aren't somewhat Raid equipped, dugeons/instances are over powered & there is nothing to do beside grind writs for factions.

For 4 years, my hubby, Son & I managed to log in & find something to do.

Those days are over & we have cancelled 4 accounts.

Personally, I still miss my time in EQ2, but my hubby & son are well over the direction the game has taken.

I expect that by after Christmas, I will feel the same & NEVER go back to an SoE game.

I guess the economy where SoE is is better than Australia, & they can afford the continued revenue loss.

To the Fanbois who will defend EQ2 until the end of time, let me say I was a Fangirl too once, but not anymore.

Yeah, in some ways I miss playing EQ2, as I miss playing that F2P game. But item malls ruin gameplay, to the point that leaving early will save you more grief down the road. You'll be thanking yourself later.

BTW, is there any MMO publisher hated more than SoE? I mean this thread has over 21,000 views alone.

cancealed my subscription today. been loyal since it came out. this was the end for me.

Originally posted by drag9999

People hate SOE because of SWG. Honestly people, why keep on crying about something that happened years ago?

LOL. If after all these years you still think it's only because of the NGE. Well then you are pretty narrowminded and very naive.

After the NGE, years later they brought a lot of hate on them with Station Exchange.

So much even... that The Smed himself was forced to come to their official forums to calm people down and that they reverted the idea and put Station Exchange on new seperated servers.

I guess you forgot that one didn't you.

Now years later again SOE brings a lot of hate on themselves by STEALTH patching a Cash Shop on ALL EverQuest 2 servers! Something they said never to do on the existing servers!

Now months later, a game they would never touch with any RMT, Vanguard is the next victim and they going to slam FULL FLEDGED RMT (Live Gamer) to ALL Vanguard servers!

Something NO ONE was asking for!

So give me a break. The excuse that people still only hate SOE because of the NGE is getting old!

Originally posted by godpuppet
SOE have had some great game ideas thrown at them. But they always seem to **** up. SOE need to stop chasing the quick buck and learn this is a long term business. Treat your community right and they will ensure you $$$ to come.

Unfortunately SOE will never run out of money so it lies on management or new management to understand this simple fact, pick up the pieces and try to make things right.

They can start by fixing the goddamn bugs in these shitty games they keep making.

I just read something where SOE is going to start using something called a "station wallet".  In a manner similar to some of the "free" to play MMOs they will begin charging real money for certain in game items in addition to a monthly subscription.  I'm not surprised SOE is doing this, what disturbs me about it is:

1. Its a harbinger. I can see this feature being instituted into all future MMOs, "free" or not.

2. Its a sad comment on the priorites of MMOs. I acknowledge that  MMOs need money to survive, but charging for certain in game items AND charging a monthly subscription is a clear indicator of shifting priorities from players to stockholders. 

I stopped playing EQ II about 10 months ago because the game, imo, lacked a soul. Just grind, get stuff and grind some more. There is no overall storyline that I'm aware of. If there is, it hasn't been integrated into the game. The implementaion of "station wallets" is, in my opinion an admission that a bunch of people that hold SOE stock and not players will determine game content from now on.

Well Done!

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Originally posted by Eladi

Well Done!

 

We The Forums thank you for your loyalty to us.

not in my name you don't

so i decided after 2,5years lost in lotro that is really time to move on from sinking ship. i choose everquest II and what a surprise. after install free trial the space on HDD 800MB..only? weird for thta popular game. the graphics should be really awful then :-( first impression bad. ok, i survived the first line and now clicking play the game button. hmm, i can see the process running in win tab but nothing else..still in windows main screen. well ill not bother to write to customer service that im running win7 64bit ultimate and game cant be launched properly...

deleted from HDD. waiting for sto beta

Really I am going to say this again if you want to hate a shitty company that really doesn't care much for it's people Hate NCSOFT really. In my Book Ncsoft 100% worst then SOE.

you people keep on crying over NGE get the hell over that shit.

you cry about them adding in cash shop in game get the hell over it. It has done a little good server xfer's are 25 dollars less.

you cry about there bad customer service go look at aion's customer supper then get back to me.( Also like to add I lost items in eq1 and eq2 gm gave them back the same day.)

Really you all make Soe sound like the worst company out there it isn't go cry over something else it's getting old now.

My experiences with SOE go all the way back to release of Everquest II. I have had more than 25 customer complaints over the years and only 2 have been resolved with what I would call excellent customer service. Most of them were not resolved at all and in one case actually caused me to lose my character name. Recently they told me that I did not attend Fan Faire when I had the badge in my hand while talking to them on the phone and read the badge number. Consequently, I did not get the digital download which was promised for attendees.

Well, I immediately deleted Everquest II from my computer and told the CS agent that I would never play another SOE game. I can't reccommend a game which has such poor customer service. I know that there are people that just take this kind of thing in stride but it's more of an accumulation of poor service with this event finally being the end.

Good luck to all the other players out there who play this game. Hope you never have to call customer service for anything because I can almost guarantee you will be pissed off by them.

I feel I got lucky for once in my life. I did call customer service once for a issue that they helped me with and it was a good experince.

I always thought it was funny how SOE would ban accounts that where reported to be stolen or sold for real life money just from reports.  People would sell high level characters that where stripped for next to nothing then use the individuals contact information and threaten them to get it banned if they didn't give a lot more.

Hell, there where LOTS of scams and things like that in the first EQ.  Suppose there still are probably eh?

I wouldn't expect much from their customer support.  Didn't they also use to have like "waiting lines" for techinical support that would put you in queues for 4 hours, much like the login after a server crash/patch?

Keep remembering more and more, but yeah, it's never been that great, not surprised to see it hasn't changed.

Originally posted by Deien

Really I am going to say this again if you want to hate a shitty company that really doesn't care much for it's people Hate NCSOFT really. In my Book Ncsoft 100% worst then SOE.

 

you people keep on crying over NGE get the hell over that shit.

you cry about them adding in cash shop in game get the hell over it. It has done a little good server xfer's are 25 dollars less.

you cry about there bad customer service go look at aion's customer supper then get back to me.( Also like to add I lost items in eq1 and eq2 gm gave them back the same day.)

 

Really you all make Soe sound like the worst company out there it isn't go cry over something else it's getting old now.

Oh ... it's pretty damn close to worst company out there. SWG will always be proof of that.