Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: TO BH's from a Jedi
The thing that annoys me the most is that they announce this days after going live with Trials of Obi-Wan. I Pre-Ordered for two accounts and if I had known about the radical changes getting ready to hit this game I would not have spent $60 (that is U.S. Dollars not Star Wars credits) until after I decided whether I would continue playing. They have been working on this for a year, they knew this expansion was coming out just in time to begin their big marketing campaign for the Christmas season. They offered three Pre-Order rewards and hyped them so they could maximize the number of veteran players purchasing the new expansion. Now they are going to radically change the combat system into a more arcade style system to capture the Christmas crowd. I have no doubt that these changes will look good on paper over the next six months. This type of bait and switch may not be illegal but is certainly unethical.
In reading the description of the changes it sounds like they are taking a unique gameplay experience and changing it to become more like the other Online games out there. The reason this game is so hard to learn in the beginning is because the documentation supplied by Sony is terrible. 99% of the documentation for this game is put out by the players on these forums. I did not discover these forums for six months and had a terrible time advancing in the game because of the lack of documentation. I feel they are dumbing down the game which is a loss for us all.
/salute to all BH's, I will miss the fights
But this is one of the reasons they change the gameplay... many ppl did not advance in the game due too high complexity!
Groco wrote:
The thing that annoys me the most is that they announce this days after going live with Trials of Obi-Wan. I Pre-Ordered for two accounts and if I had known about the radical changes getting ready to hit this game I would not have spent $60 (that is U.S. Dollars not Star Wars credits) until after I decided whether I would continue playing. They have been working on this for a year, they knew this expansion was coming out just in time to begin their big marketing campaign for the Christmas season. They offered three Pre-Order rewards and hyped them so they could maximize the number of veteran players purchasing the new expansion. Now they are going to radically change the combat system into a more arcade style system to capture the Christmas crowd. I have no doubt that these changes will look good on paper over the next six months. This type of bait and switch may not be illegal but is certainly unethical.
In reading the description of the changes it sounds like they are taking a unique gameplay experience and changing it to become more like the other Online games out there. The reason this game is so hard to learn in the beginning is because the documentation supplied by Sony is terrible. 99% of the documentation for this game is put out by the players on these forums. I did not discover these forums for six months and had a terrible time advancing in the game because of the lack of documentation. I feel they are dumbing down the game which is a loss for us all.
My point is that instead of changing the game they should supply better documentation. Oh, that won't work, we live in an ADHD society that won't read anything that consists of more than three pages. Forget my suggestion let's just dumb down the game so that everyone can understand it with just a simple 10 minute walk through.
Well I got to say I am a jedi and by taking bh hunting of jedi outta the game they completely ruined the game for me. I complain that there isn't more bh's coming after me because it was the only thing left that gave the game some excitment and "fun" that julio keeps talking about. BH's only doing npc missions? who in their right mind would ask for that? If all you wanted to do was hunt npcs take any other profession you want and go do regular missions. To add jedi as a starting prof? They would be far better off calling the game the jedi wars. I can't think of anyone that hasn't got a toon making runs to the village to get a jedi and then the second toon to make something else. That's another point for another discussion, on another forum, is what about the free unlock? If they are going to increase the number of jedi by making it a starting profession then as far as I'm concerned to keep the game "fun" and balanced there has to be Bounty hunterspoliceing the new wannabies. Bounty hunter profession should SOLELY be for keeping the jedi numbers down. If The new jedi doesn't want to get hunted in their earlier stages they should find an elder jedi to take them on as a paddi so that the 2 of them can hunt together letting the "elder" help protect him from the onslaught of Bounty hunters or hunt by themselves insuring they are not gaining visibility and grind the damn profession the way alot of us that should get the "elder" title had to do. But I'm not 12 years old and crying for my mom and dad to get me a game card so I can play star wars, and writing letters to soe trying to seem alot older then I am by cursing and crying about wanting to be a jedi but some guy who took the time to figure out the "fair tricks" of the trade of bounty hunting just beat my ass to a pulp and caused me to loose a months worth of grinding. My opinion is that soe has certainly dropped the ball on this one. But you never know everyone was up in arms about the first CU. I don't know about most of you out there but I didn't notice the mass exidus that everyone was saying they were going to do. I'll give the system a try and see how it goes if it's "fun" like julio figures it will be I'll stick with it, if it's not? then my wife will be happy to see me a little more. hahahahhaha
Anyway I'm sure alot of you will have some flaming to do to this post so with that...........Light'er up
Kotakis
nah u wont get flamed, not by me. i called out one of the primary whiners in another post and it got deleted. the game should have been called jedi=not for the faint of heart.
i blame sorry incompetent soe staff and whiny jedi...(and im a jedi who hates whiny jedi)
Ameno wrote:
jafo1 wrote:
jultam wrote:
lol......
Yeah every profession is going to be effective and who knows....new pvp rules may come to effect similar to those of WoW, in which imperial controled cities rebels go overt and vice versa in rebel controled cities.
Then you can have your ganking fun.
What ganking fun. ROFL everyone will go Jedi. instead of 20 jedi running through a starport it will be 100.
All I can say Jedi is Should have been careful of what WHINE for. Ya got it. And Screwed half the communites to get it. Jedi a starter Profession is your reward now.
uh..show me a post where any jedi whined that the class should be a starting profession, seriously, i want to see it.
Well there was no post. However if you have any time in this game. When they do something they go over board. So you ask for a little they take alot. Alot of the most Voiceful Jedi Whined for no Bh to hunt them. They got it with the added bonus of making it a starting profession. This is fact. If ya cant seeit. Well Some people only see what they want to see.
jafo1 wrote:
jultam wrote:
lol......
Yeah every profession is going to be effective and who knows....new pvp rules may come to effect similar to those of WoW, in which imperial controled cities rebels go overt and vice versa in rebel controled cities.
Then you can have your ganking fun.
What ganking fun. ROFL everyone will go Jedi. instead of 20 jedi running through a starport it will be 100.
All I can say Jedi is Should have been careful of what WHINE for. Ya got it. And Screwed half the communites to get it. Jedi a starter Profession is your reward now.
What we whine? I guess you were not at the last fan fest jedi forums,they werefull of BH whining about the win loss ratio of jedi bounties.I think both sides complain too much, as a result both proffesions have been hit with the nerfbat hard. If you lose, shut up, get stronger and do better. That goes for you jedi too.