Community Relations Archive
Thread: John Smedley's Letter to the Community: April 7th, 2005
HanSolo20
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:41 pm
#144
so whats this commie crap called the CU being forced on us for is this not america i thought in democracy the majority was the way it goes but apparently not at SOE, all joking aside the bigger joke is that you have to lie in order to try to bait others to play this crap. saying something is getting a very positive feedback from your testing player base is just flat out digusting because its not and you know it. take your corporate greed and shove it straight up your ass
Ryobi
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:42 pm
#145
Tiggs, change the link on the Front page of the site, under Smedley's letter, to "Join the Flame Fest"
After reading his letter i KNEW how this discussion was going to go. I do think a lot of people are overreacting to the CU..well, I hope they are, cause if it as whacked as people are making it sound, then thats not good. On the other hand, the Smedley guy needs get out more. Tigg's you had to know some of his outrageous claims would get flamed. I just can't believe you gave the flamers an OFFICAL thread to nail him on. hehe, ouch for Smedley. Some one inform this dude that Elvis is dead, The berlin wall has fallen, and Darth Vader is Luke's dad, because this guy couldnt be more out of touch with current events.
Desolator_One
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:45 pm
#146
you KNEW it, because you know, like we all do, that his statement is some very big pile of bantha poodoo
Ryobi wrote:
Tiggs, change the link on the Front page of the site, under Smedley's letter, to "Join the Flame Fest"
After reading his letter i KNEW how this discussion was going to go. I do think a lot of people are overreacting to the CU..well, I hope they are, cause if it as whacked as people are making it sound, then thats not good. On the other hand, the Smedley guy needs get out more. Tigg's you had to know some of his outrageous claims would get flamed. I just can't believe you gave the flamers an OFFICAL thread to nail him on. hehe, ouch for Smedley. Some one inform this dude that Elvis is dead, The berlin wall has fallen, and Darth Vader is Luke's dad, because this guy couldnt be more out of touch with current events.
tezzla
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:46 pm
#147
The only trouble I see with the CU is that all the people that can go out and stack defenses to make a super toon are now not going to be able to do that and there mad about it cause now they have to work to win the fight, and they wont be able to stroll into a base complex and flatten everything and there mad about that to.
As far as the AS complaints about there profesion being "not unique and the detaoled parts being screwed" come on now, AS for the 6 months i have played make nothing but composite under the current system and due to some peopl saing they can get away with just helmet, chest plate, gloves and boots they dont even make full suits anymore which i have found repeatedly the full suits allow a non-elite, non-super stacked toon able to last longer in a fight. AS doing ANYTHING other then finding out how to make the best comp is simply BS it does not happen.
Only thing that concerns me about the CU is what there doing to jedi, I am currently tring (or was) grinding my jedi towards knight but, the lack of info about jedi makes me think there going to really beat the snot out of jedi with a nerf bat and there tring to keep the people that have jedi until they absolutly have to release jedi info cause they think jedi's will bail. Honestly though jedi as it stands tring to get to knight is insanely annoying, So while knight is so tough of a toon it damn well should be as its currently the only profesion that takes 1000's of hours and several months just to make padiwan and about 2-3 times that to make knight. I grinded my jedi hard core every day all day for about the first month and still in a fight with my sabres 0032, powers 1000 and defender 0100 and still master tkm i died in 2 hits in a duel, this is just insane to have a toon that you spent 3-6 months to make for him to die like a krettle.
I know they wanted to try to control jedi popultion but, come now is makeing every single toon in the game able to stomp a padiwn with a flick of there wrist really the way to do it? I would think that iot would only doscourage people as it has for me from even going there in that case if you dont want then tring why have it as an option ? sicing a master BH on padiwans everytime the wind blows the wrong way is just insane knowing they have no hope of defending them selfs.
Sorry turned into a jedi rant but, the fact remains if they are not going to further screw jedi then why no info ? I personally dont want to fill my jedi boxs to find when i have to respec that my long time grinded jedi is not better then a TKM and now i have to start completly over to make a toon that can even defend him self.
The cu over all is just fine it makes you think of what your going to do instead of just run off and kill things at random or sit on a spawn point to get the good loot so no one else can, or go completly flaten a faction base defense cause you want to not cause you care aabout your faction (which no one does).
rant ends here.
ob-gli
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:52 pm
#148
i read every responce in this thread minus the ones that were deleted and all i will say is, if they dont listen to your words here, cancell your accounts and send the message loud and clear you wont be dictated too. im not saying quit, just let them know you wont pay for seomthing you dont like and feel is not the star wars game we've all been playing the last few years. there sticking it to us, stick it right back, and wave to them while their standing in the unemployment line.
LordScotticus
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:53 pm
#149
Sehera wrote:John Smedley's Letter to the Community: April 7th 2005
In his April letter to the community, President of Sony Online Entertainment John Smedley discusses an ongoing dialogue with players, new ideas, and recent additions. Join the discussion.erm... *cough*... sounds to me like he is talking about some "very positive feedback" hes getting, not discussing an ongoing dialogue...you see, dialogue means, we are talking with you, and your talking with us... To date we have no response from you about the major points which bug us:These are:Level System:Icons:Armorsmiths:Just give some example to you whats going on. Now, if you want some dialogue at least state some view on some of these topics in the approiate posts. We dont need specific solutions, we just want to know if your going to adress these, or if you just kiss your vets goodbye...
I clickies you. Excellent reading.
Shensen
Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:54 pm
#150
Here's my feedback:
I like:
- Profession revamp: Two thumbs up
- Weapons, armor, buffs change
Those two things alone would have made this CU worthwhile. I think it will add challenge back to an unchallenging game and bring new life to the GCW since their won't be uber l33t professions/stacker templates.
Things I don't like:
- Cheesy new colored icons
- Cheesier hit graphic (large white blob when you hit)
- New Wind up/Cool Down - to me this is just overkill. This concept works in EQ2 for the moment mainly because you don't have PvP. One of the best things about playing SWG was the realism of combat. There was no "I knocked you down, but wait 5 seconds for the unarmed hit3....now wait another 5 seconds" It was all out shoot til your finger go numb, swing batter batter combat. I mean what exactly am I waiting for before I can spin kick yer butt again? Am I tired? C'mon I just hit you in the head once..I'm not out of breath, not breaking a sweat...I'm a highly conditioned martial artist so what's up with that? I think I'd rather see them leave this aspect of the combat alone, but add a fatigue bar instead...spam all you want, but once your fatigue bar is gone it needs to regen and does not regen as fast while in combat. They basically have this with the special move costs so I say just remove the silly icons and the wind up/cool downs and leave weapon delays in. PvP combat just seems slow to the point of being retarded.
Concerns:
- While I think this is great in getting people together again for hunts, I hope the final product still accounts the other half of the community that enjoys solo play. The main reason I left EQ2 (long time EQ fan) was because it was way too group dependent....hence EverGroup 
I don't want to see people soloing Krayts and Rancors again, but the ability to solo on-par mobs for decent xp would be nice.
I don't want to see people soloing Krayts and Rancors again, but the ability to solo on-par mobs for decent xp would be nice.I'm sure there's more I'm leaving out, but these are the things that stick out the most in my mind. Some might saythe thingsI don't like are such little trivial things. Yes they are, but these are some of the little trivial things that make this feel more like SWG and NOT EQ2.
LordScotticus
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:24 pm
#151
dehumaniz wrote:Eh, cant make an omlette without breaking a few eggs. Some people like the changes on test.
Fine for that. I'm glad they like it, and I concede to you that some people do.
The majority of those polled do not. The majority of forum posters do not. Do you refute?
Datow_Cetifi
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:25 pm
#152
1st of all, 80% of that letter talked about EQ2, second of all...
"positive feedback about the CU"
lol no offense but thats total BS have u even read any of the polls and post talking about them?
"positive feedback about the CU"
lol no offense but thats total BS have u even read any of the polls and post talking about them?
Imnostanist
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:28 pm
#153
LOL!!! anything very posted about mmorpgs always has a gadrillion complainers (just like common society) AND I HATE IT!!!! but for once the flamers arent actualy flaming, they are speaking the truth, i tryed out CU on test server and the changes (just like all the other changes mostly made) are going for the worse. I've been playing from the beggining and i realy dont want this CU published.
JIJA
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:28 pm
#154
one question whens the next election so we can vote for a new president?
Datow_Cetifi
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:29 pm
#155
oh yeah and the colored icons are horrible
devs ur trying to hard to make this game very similiar to games like WOW and EQ2
dont u understand most people that play swg dont like WOW and EQ2 because swg is different and most people like it that way, however, ill still be playing whether the CU is amazing or not
devs ur trying to hard to make this game very similiar to games like WOW and EQ2
dont u understand most people that play swg dont like WOW and EQ2 because swg is different and most people like it that way, however, ill still be playing whether the CU is amazing or not
DRACORESS
Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:33 pm
#156
CU upgrade = GREAT
ICONS = GREAT
WEAPONS = GREAT
STUPID SILLY GRIPPING PAIN IN THE ASS PEOPLE = BLOWS
THIS IS THE GREATEST PATCH EVER!!!
You people are just silly. " I can't get XP" BUZZzzzzz....wrong....I moved up in my blocks faster than 2 yrs ago when I first did it.
"I have to group to gain XP" silly.....I never grouped and I made Rifleman in 3 hrs.
If you guys are gonna leave...go....it will be better without u.
I don't need ya....I love anything they put it it....Ep3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, ....heir to empire......general thrawn...I don't care..I love it all!!!!!