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• • Bothered by one-sided EULA's? So is the Supreme Court of Washington

  • Thanks Arc. Pretty much what we've been saying all along. I knew it would eventually get there.

  • Posted: 9/02/08 11:29 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • God help me, i'm enjoying the free month

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    Originally posted by bigbaldpapa
    

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    Originally posted by backlit

    Against all odds, i'm enjoying myself in SWG.
    I had to make a different ID, because of the fact of how much griping i have done against the nge. I am too ashamed to admit that i am having fun.
    In all fairness, I rolled a trader, and cannot really make any statements for/against the combat system.
    So there, I got it off my chest.
    

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    Holy moly. You covered yourself in blood and chum and dove head-first into the shark tank. This site takes the SWG Haterade intravenously.
    Glad to see you are enjoying the game again.

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    actually, this site is like a hippie haven of peace and love compared with the Official Forum, regardless of your position on these matters. The official boards are moderated so as to PROMOTE hateful trolling.

  • Posted: 8/27/08 10:30 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Pretty Sad

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    Originally posted by bigbaldpapa
    

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    Originally posted by Fishermage

    
    

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    He has every right to say whatever he wants. He has every place to say whatever he wants. As long as this country is free it is always one's place to speak one's mind. Plus, it is easy to check the state of the game -- enough free passes are given out so anyone may try it.
    As someone who still plays the game on a fairly regular basis, I'm sorry, I don't see any real turn around. A couple of servers are doing well -- the rest of the place is dying. Every step they take forward, they take two steps back. They still do not care about customer effort, still feel it is okay to erase past achievement by players -- in short they still do not know how to advance a persistent world in a professional manner.
    They are failures, plain and simple. They don't know what they are doing. People have every right tp get what enjoyment they can out of it -- I certainly do -- but the game is still a mess.
    

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    I recognize that name from the forums. Being a long-time vet I know your opinion lol. I'm not going to argue with you here. We have had enough there and I respect your knowledge. I just see things differently. A long time ago I had to let the old game go. Like you, I am a die-hard Star Wars geek. I can't log in and play a game that I am miserable and pissed off about so I let the old game go.
    The current team has been left with the dubious task of working with the mess that was given to them and I believe 100% that they are doing well working with what they where given. The population is a mess without a doubt and will never get back to what it was. However, I also believe that is on an upcreep.
    I am an optimist here. I dig MMO's and I love Star Wars so I am making lemonade out of the lemons we have been given.
    
    -JarheddJedi

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    ahh jarhedd :)

    Good to see you again!

    I let the old game go long ago as well, and I am VERY sympathetic to the situation Blix and team find themselves in. I am just saying that they have not done the best job they could getting out of that situation and many of the hard choices they have made have been the wrong ones -- and those wrong choices stem from the same ethical problems that the old team had.

    That is why I don't think it's the teams, it's management -- it's Smed.

    I have noticed the same thing has happened with EQ2 (which is actually a good game even if they make the same kinds of mistakes), vanguard, EQ1, and from what I hear, matric online.

    SOE just has a shabby set of ethics, and that stuff flows downhill from the man in charge.
    

  • Posted: 8/26/08 10:30 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Pretty Sad

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    Originally posted by bigbaldpapa
    

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    Originally posted by pdxgeek
    

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    Originally posted by Gutboy
    

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    Originally posted by yugyug

    Not to mention, apparently SOE allows AFK farming now, they see nothing wrong with it at all. So some of the people who may see online, arent even really there, yippeeee!
    SWG should be put to rest. Just end it, what a pathetic ending to what was truly a great game.
    
    Has there ever been a greater fail by a MMO than what SOE did to SWG? Honest question.
    

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    Off the top of my head, let's see:
    Tabula Rasa
    Roma Victor
    Vanguard
    Hellgate London
    And that Car Racing MMO, I forget the name that shut down a year after it launched.
    
    

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    None of those games launched, stuck around for a couple years and then completely changed the fundamental gameplay in a massively greedy attempt to chase WoW.
    

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    Attempting to chase WoW's success was a huge error. SOE lost loads of subs over it. The old game is gone and won't be back. There are positives and negatives to that. The game that is there now is under an entirely new set of devs and while it is not as good as the skill point system that was there it is going in a good direction.
    The game is picking up from the abyss it hit from the NGE and is slowly and steadily regrowing. Some of the people that were majorly put out by the NGE will never come back around and I cannot fault their reasons for deciding not to.
    However, if you do not regularly play the game in the form it is now you really have no place in telling people who enjoy it that they are wrong and all attempts to keep trying to tell them that their opinion is wrong is nothing short of petty vengence against SOE.

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    He has every right to say whatever he wants. He has every place to say whatever he wants. As long as this country is free it is always one's place to speak one's mind. Plus, it is easy to check the state of the game -- enough free passes are given out so anyone may try it.

    As someone who still plays the game on a fairly regular basis, I'm sorry, I don't see any real turn around. A couple of servers are doing well -- the rest of the place is dying. Every step they take forward, they take two steps back. They still do not care about customer effort, still feel it is okay to erase past achievement by players -- in short they still do not know how to advance a persistent world in a professional manner.

    They are failures, plain and simple. They don't know what they are doing. People have every right tp get what enjoyment they can out of it -- I certainly do -- but the game is still a mess.
    

  • Posted: 8/26/08 9:13 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Pretty Sad

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    Originally posted by Gutboy
    

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    Originally posted by yugyug

    Not to mention, apparently SOE allows AFK farming now, they see nothing wrong with it at all. So some of the people who may see online, arent even really there, yippeeee!
    SWG should be put to rest. Just end it, what a pathetic ending to what was truly a great game.
    
    Has there ever been a greater fail by a MMO than what SOE did to SWG? Honest question.
    

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    Off the top of my head, let's see:
    Tabula Rasa
    Roma Victor
    Vanguard
    Hellgate London
    And that Car Racing MMO, I forget the name that shut down a year after it launched.
    

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    None of those were fairly successful games based upon the largest IP in the history of licensing, then, out of sheer stupidity, completely changes the game. alienating their customers, and lost more than half their playerbase in one idiotic move.

    Sorry, none of those comes close.
    

  • Posted: 8/26/08 9:03 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies