Originally posted by erictlewis

Originally posted by superniceguy

Originally posted by erictlewis

 

All I can say is I am not sure where I am going but it will not be an SOE game for sure.  

 

I gave SOE another chance after SWG, but now they have blown it, although there is still hope. The deal has not been fully finaalised yet, but there looks to be no negotitions currently to fix the situation, unlike the issue of being stuck on EU servers.

When they migrate EU customers over to Prosibien and they have their multi-game pass going we will lose access to EQ1 and Vanguard on our mulli-game pass, so if we want to play EQ 1 and Vanuard, and other SOE games, we will have to pay whatever for Antisibiens multi-game pass + $15 for EQ1 + $15 for Vanguard individually, plus no doubt lose the extra char slots with Vanguard you get from SOEs All Access deal.

To make matters worse, US players are not affected, which is good for US players and I am glad they are OK, but it shows SOE  feels fit to treat EU customers horribly, which I will not stand for.

Hopefully they are in the works to fixing this, but if not then I will not play a SOE game ever again either.

New EU players can still get SOE All Access by choosing their country as United States, but will probably incure currency conversion fees when charged in USD to whatever currency you use. So not totally ideal, as will probably still cost more, but not a much as paying for individual subs

This affects us players as well, those who are in the military or sometimes have to do business outside the us. If your in the military and stationed in the EU your going to get locked out as well, despite the sofa agreements.  Not to mention what this does to those of us who had guilds made up of EU players,  In the guild that I was in we had 3 folks from Norway, 2 folks from Denmark and several other spread out though the uk.  Now I not played since AOD was released been over in swtor, but I frequent our guild forums to talk with them.   All 8 of them when the deal goes though will be affected, 5 of them refuse to open an alaplaya account, the other 3 are still on the fence.  Too carve out and ip lock and force part of your player base to use another company is crazy.  SOE lost me when aod was launched with 0 playable content other than beast lord, and now I know I will not go back to them. I don't care what planet-side looks like not going to touch it, as prosieben bought the purblishing rights to that game as well.

Yes, I suppose it does affect US players more than I thought, although I was specifically meaning SOE All Access.

I can see where it messes people about when built of guilds of US and EU, but it should not affect people who have their accounts as United States, and will be going through SOE, not Probibien.

I created an account yesterday in the UK, and chose United States as my country, and went to see if I could choose SOE All Access and I was able to. I tried using an old SWG account set to UK not on All Access and was unable to choose All Access. The lock out seems to be tied to whatever country you chose your account to be tied to. If you are in the military and have an account set to US, and then play outside the US, you should still be able to avoid Prosibien and connect to SOE directly. Unless they will fix this, and change the system to detect which county you are logging in from, or there is more to this than I can see. If it was based off IP, I would have thought I would have been locked out of getting SOE All Access. Either they do not know what they are talking about, or there are changes coming.

Originally posted by RefMinor
Back on topic, I am hoping for an SWG like game to be released soon, I also am interested in Archeage, WoD and the Repopulation.

Repopulation is in a very rough alpha stage(just for those that will inform me of how bad it looks), but I'm very excited for the ideas they are implementing in that game. We're trying to get into alpha testing.

Something about player driven economies and cities/nations seems exciting.

Originally posted by william0532

Originally posted by RefMinor
Back on topic, I am hoping for an SWG like game to be released soon, I also am interested in Archeage, WoD and the Repopulation.

Repopulation is in a very rough alpha stage(just for those that will inform me of how bad it looks), but I'm very excited for the ideas they are implementing in that game. We're trying to get into alpha testing.

Something about player driven economies and cities/nations seems exciting.

this is the game i'm going to wait on and hope comes out ok..sci-fi..sandbox..pvp..sounds good..lets hope they pull it off

miss swg pre-cu till the end with a white out on first 6 months of the nge bs lol

bamfbamf from ss

I'm going to try out TSW in the short term, but very much looking forward to The Repopulation. All its features so far promise almost everything I've been looking for in an MMORPG.