Armorsmith Archive
Thread: The Armor Resource Changes
You know, I was one of those people that still had hope before the CU went live that they would change the resource requirments. Looks like I was proved completly wrong.
Going to be hard for me to log...
well apologies for brigning up something that has alreadybeen discussed, but don't you think that the expectation of a full answer is fair, just and within our expectations as people who have entered into a monetary contract with SOE? If the board has been talking about this for weeks and no answer has been heard, then perhaps the message needs to reach a higher level contact at SOE: one who is not so foolish as to think that by simply ignoring people and their questions will a problem go away.
The lack of contact and communication between SOE and we players is quite simply mindblowing, and borderline negligent. I would imagine that whoever is responsible for this is hiding such behavior from their superiors, because Sony is a publicly traded company and this type of corporate irresponsibility towards its customer base would certainly be of interest to Sony's shareholders, to the point of enfuriating them to a level unacceptable to the highest higher-ups at Sony.
Message Edited by ahabi on 04-28-2005 10:37 AM
Message Edited by ahabi on 04-28-2005 10:38 AM
ahabi wrote:
well apologies for brigning up something that has alreadybeen discussed, but don't you think that the expectation of a full answer is fair, just and within our expectations as people who have entered into a monetary contract with SOE? If the board has been talking about this for weeks and no answer has been heard, then perhaps the message needs to reach a higher level contact at SOE: one who is not so foolish as to think that by simply ignoring people and their questions will a problem go away.
The lack of contact and communication between SOE and we players is quite simply mindblowing, and borderline negligent. I would imagine that whoever is responsible for this is hiding such behavior from their superiors, because Sony is a publicly traded company and this type of corporate irresponsibility towards its customer base would certainly be of interest to Sony's shareholders, to the point of enfuriating them to a level unacceptable to the highest higher-ups at Sony.
Message Edited by ahabi on 04-28-2005 10:37 AM
Message Edited by ahabi on 04-28-2005 10:38 AM
Not to sound harse, but we've all "been there, done that" at this point. But please feel free to pursue any avenues you feel are appropriate.
Well, as much as it hurts to say it. The only way they will see our point of view and listen to usis through the massive loss of revenue through account cancellations. I for one will give it (1) week. That is (7) days. I will explore and work to reinvigorate my characters inside the CU. If by the end of that week (MAY 6th) I feel less than satisfied. I will cancel my last two accounts.
HEHE, my wife would love that. Wait a minute....she has been on the phone alot lately, is she working with SOE????
Message Edited by Andreas-Shadowfire on 04-28-2005 01:53 PM
No worries about sounding harsh. It takes more than that to flap the generally unflabppable me 
Perefectly understood that you all have been there and done that. My points, then, are two:
I feel exactly the same as you do, and i've spoken to many other Armoursmiths who do, i just couldn't be bothered to take things further as i feel it's a lost cause trying to get this changed, or anything for that matter, when SOE are involved. They just don't seem to listen to what the peopleplaying the game day-in-day-out think
. Do they play the game at all!?!?!??
We have an Armoursmith correspondent (who's name escapes me, check out the stickies) who has contact with the "higher powers" i beleive, try contacting him and he should be able to shead some light on what you seek.
May the force be with us all!
Jay
I won't make a single piece of armor. I don't need to make armor for credits. I made it because it was fun to make that next "better" item. Right now I'll have to spend months just collecting the resources to make the basics... let alone premium quality stuff. The CU trashed our profession. Ah, but let's not let our forum turn into a mess! I swear, I'll just keep my mouth shut right there.
Renea,
i'm guessing everything is changing so that everyone is on a equal playing field going forward at this critical time
- they are releasing the ROTW expansion
- Episode III movie is coming out
- obviously, they are expecting a lot of new customers
if those customers joined the game and found out it would take a year to collect the resources to compete with you... well, they might quit (ie fewer new accounts)
Guess what.... it still will. And now that there is no variety in crafted armor there is no niche for an up and coming AS to fill.
Epak wrote:
if those customers joined the game and found out it would take a year to collect the resources to compete with you... well, they might quit (ie fewer new accounts)
Actually Blix said he was an AS and funded a city off the profits. However, even a large city with research etc is maybe 500k per cycle so really this isn't saying much. Based on his design choices I would say that while he played an AS, he didn't truely understand being an AS.
jayzane wrote:
I feel exactly the same as you do, and i've spoken to many other Armoursmiths who do, i just couldn't be bothered to take things further as i feel it's a lost cause trying to get this changed, or anything for that matter, when SOE are involved. They just don't seem to listen to what the peopleplaying the game day-in-day-out think
We have an Armoursmith correspondent (who's name escapes me, check out the stickies) who has contact with the "higher powers" i beleive, try contacting him and he should be able to shead some light on what you seek.
May the force be with us all!
Jay
Two of the reasons suggested as to resource changes.
1- Because Docs would need less organics the responsibility of making the ranger skill of hunting useful is now ours. So its to make it fair and fun for scouts and rangers....
2- Some of the new resources I have heard said have built in limits on the stats they can have. Thus automatically keeping armors from ever reaching pre CU stats.
Dont know how true number two is but number one was stated somewhere in a nicer way. But still basically we are being given the financial hardship to support another profession. In the long run things will balance back out, prices may be settled upon etc but in the meantime, yeah, try and make some armor....
Cyrus Master Armor Smith