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• • Sick of people complaing?

  • Originally posted by Sevensodd
    

    Sick of people bitching about a game thats not even out?  Want people to give it a chance?  Or try it before they bitch?  Me too!

    sick of fanbois and people that don't understand the term "open beta" as defined by it's use of the past several years?

    me too.  me too.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 6:42 PM
    Age of Conan
• • U.S. players?

  • any players from Louisiana, in the U.S.A.?

  • Posted: 5/11/08 6:02 PM
    EVE Online
• • Excerpts from an interview with Smed

  • Originally posted by roeddog
    

    Originally posted by brostyn
    

    Originally posted by Orphes

    
    Q: Does that provide learning experiences as well, things to take into partnerships, maybe advice to give to developers?

    John Smedley: ... behind the scenes in that they were putting on a brave face to customers ...

    A

    Q: It's a pretty brave decision to have to take?

    John Smedley: I wouldn't call it brave, you just have to learn those lessons from things like Vanguard. I would say that the circumstances sometimes dictate things, and as a company we are less and less willing to do anything that might harm our reputation, and we want to make sure that our games are super-high quality.

     

    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/mmo-week-soe-president-john-smedley

    Talk about putting a brave face up to the customers. Since when does SOE care about its reputation with gamers? A little too late for that.

    
    Actually brostyn, they don't have to care, considering they're the best publisher/developer out there. Smed's word not mine.  From the same article, the 7th question down here's here's his take on things

        "We're on generation two, whereas everybody else id on generation one - and I think that will give us a leg-up in our future titles."

    This quote says it all....

     

    the one thing i like that SOE has done... the ONE thing, is the idea of the station pass.  now if only there were a bunch of games i enjoy playing on something like that.

    maybe ccp will buyout ncsoft next and then come out with the world of darkness mmo and put all those on one pass, that i can purchase with eve-online isk~!!

     

    indeed.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 5:35 PM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
• • The Agency: SOE Aims for Free-to-Play Business Model

  • Originally posted by senadin
    

     

    
    

    this game COULD be good.  this game COULD be great.  it's related to soe; it won't be.  soe doesn't buy/produce/publish GREAT games.  sorry.

    Yes and Everquest hasnt been around for 10 years.

    UO has been around a couple of years longer than EQ.  not sure where your point of quality/quantity is at here.  you saw where i capitalized the word GREAT for emphasis, yes?  i've tried and retried the SOE games and i can't honestly categorize any of them in the GREAT category. 

    SWG is still making money or else they would shut it down  rolling in the cash, didn't they just double the number of servers swg has?  oh wait.

    EQ2 has a strong subscriber base

     yummy, another cookie-cutter fantasy game to be bored out of my mind in when they start talking raiding.  YAY!

    It's a no brainer here, if SOE wasnt making money and if the sum of all their games was in the red, they would shut down servers! Frankly some of you haters dont really have much of a logic sense in you. They would probably shut down servers that arent generating money first and then try to consolidate servers as well. Which they have done and will do as their sub base shrink.

     and didn't vanguard shut down servers? swg also shut down servers? what about the others in the harem?  doesn't take a huge amount of subs to keep a game afloat, especially if servers get shut down.  no brainer indeed, so much whining and blind faith in companies that will ignore you completely and laugh at you when they finally break enough games to irk you.  bravo.

    You guys need a good shake of your head.

     mcdonald's has a HUGE following. i don't normally eat at mcdonald's. i want a bit more QUALITY for my buck.  yup, need to be shaking something somewhere.  maybe we should settle for bacon that's raw and been run over by a truck?  or, station pass games.   same same.

     

    Also this game is gona be frikkin free! Why are you even bitching again? I guess you probably figure that SOE has to pay you to have the honor to have you play their game?

     so sowwy dramafested-one.  again, i was talking about quality.  i don't really play any free to play games cuz a lot of them don't interest me because of ... quality.

    If you dont like it, if it doesnt appeal to you just dont play! How's that for an idea?

     but then, you would have nothing to cry online about...

    it shouldn't be player vs player, it should be players vs gaming companies; but alas, we have the fanboi camp to destroy what could be great games.  kudos and bravo indeed.

     

  • Posted: 5/11/08 5:31 PM
    General Discussion
• • Excerpts from an interview with Smed

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    Originally posted by Orphes
    

    Originally posted by damian7
    

    
    

    Q: Why do you think there was that response?

     

    John Smedley: Because we didn't listen. I think we were a little too arrogant as a company. We thought we knew what was best as a company, and we should have listened more. That's really the biggest lesson we've learned as a company in the last eight years. Listening to our customers is everything.

     

    is that why there are those pre-cu SWG servers up and running currently?  because they're listening to their customers? oh wait, that would mean that smed both tells the truth and has a clue about the "players".

    Current customers or former customers, you pick. Hmm, people have been wanting they to admit to been doing wrong alot of times, and when they do...

    And you believe that people will return to SWG if they went PRE-CU, yeah, right, 200k people when it was 'hot' and still it wasn't talked about as a success. A pre-cu server would just be a dent in the statistics today.

    
    

     

     

    i laughed when i read this reply and the one above it.

     

    thanks for making my day.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 5:04 PM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes