Creature Handler Archive
Thread: I'm so sorry gang... and a farewell.
Atlantiss wrote:
I am so deeply deeply saddened by these proposed changes.
I am in a deep shock and i really don't see myself continuing my subscription.
The following is what i posted in the feedback thread about these NGE:
I've been playing SWG for nearly two years and i have really enjoyed every second of the game.
It might have its flaws and bugs but it is enjoyable and good fun.
Now your going to remove the fun from this game for me?
Within the first month of playing SWG i knew i wanted to be a Creature Handler and a Rifleman.
I've spent the past two years playing as a Creature Handler and a rifleman.
I've mastered a total of four professions - Scout, Creature Handler, Marksman & Rifleman.
I've never wanted to be anything else not even a Jedi.
I've had fun.
Now your going to remove the fun from this game for me?
I fail to understand why you think these changes (enhancements, that makes me laugh) will be good.
Your going to loose all the uniqueness that SWG had when it launched.
These changes will turn SWG into EQ or WoW in space.
Fun, these changes will not be fun.
Your are going to remove the fun from this game for me.
32 Professions, the ability to mix and match, pick and mix, diversify.
It's all going down the drain.
It'll be no fun.
You will have removed the fun from this game for me.
Did your feedback and focus groups advise you that you'll probably loose 50% of the current subscribers?
Do you really want to kill this game off?
Is that fun for you?
Nine core professions will make your jobs easier as you won't have to juggle 32 professions that need development.
I'm sure that this was one of the larger factors in your flawed choice to make these changes.
Is that going to be fun for those people who'll loose their jobs?
If these changes had been made before the release of ToW i'm sure that many many people wouldn't have bought it.
I wouldn't have. I bought it to get the Creature Handler Necklace.
Now i don't need this necklace, i've just spent 800k buying new CL80 pets ready for when i got the necklace.
What a waste of credits.
Thats no fun.
The fun has gone for me.
Thank you Ko, Mike, for being our corro though some fun changes and some frustration.
It's deeply saddening that SOE feel these changes are needed and its even more saddening that a profession i enjoy very very much will be going.
A sad day, and not much fun
QFE
mch IS...soon to be was...my favorite &1st profession...im at a loss of words
"its as if i heard a million voices cry out in terror...and theywere suddenly silenced...i feel a great disturbance in the force"
Kor-aIri wrote:
Not to mention we're listed above, for example, Commando, which is being preserved in the new system. So there are more CHs than Commandos, yet CH is being cut from the game. Hmm... something doesn't add up.
The Commando correspondent, Starnick, appears to have been in on the development of this new system. On the Commando boards he was talking about being invited to Austin to see the new game, but he couldn't go. And funny, from what i've seen on the forums, the only ones invited to SOE Austin were correspondents who had a hand in the new systems developement and media figures. He's singing the praises of SOE so hard right now I'm surprised he doesn;t have laryngidis (sp)
I play a Commando, and while many are looking forward to this new game, some of us see this for what it is: a bait-and-switch by SOE and Lucasarts. Not only is this new system destroying my template (MC/MSL Commando being split, Squad Leader watered down to Officer) but two of my friends are directly hit. One is a MCH/MP, the other a MCH/BE. Each bought the expansion, like most in my gruop, and they're being told now that the profession they love is being sent the way of the dodo bird.
Creature Handlers are being shafted, pure and simple. I've been in total shock since yesterday about this, and will be cancelling as soon as this X-Box version (because it goes to the public on the 22, same day the new X-Box is released) goes live.
To all creature handlers /salute
Mike,
take care and thanks for all the hard work you put in. You where, by far the best correspondant of any of the professions.
good luck to you.
Been aMCH for over 2 solid years. I love it, they toss it into the crapper and call it good. Unacceptable. I am done. My 2 accoutns with me.
The necklace chase was to push us into buying the expansion.
They charge our credit cards first, then throw this out when the sale is finalized.
1% is a lie, pure and simple. Julio Torres, You Are a Liar.
Class Action Lawsuit time
be well - I am sorry to see CH go away as well. It is a fun and useful profession, and someone in the star wars world had to train banthas to be ridden.. so why get rid of it? (since the proffs look to be based off Epi 4-6 characters)
I know you've done anything you could. I'm impressed at our professions responses. They don't know what kind of community they are losing by getting rid of us quirky buggers.
I wonder those of us who will play the new game will still be able to recognize each other. We are still a different lot, even if we can't all congregate in one profession. /chuckle /tearup
Godspeed ya'll. See you in the wilds (why are we there?),
Glacial deDios
I will play this new game, but Galaxies died with my pets Diefenbaker, Bitz, Poofling, Uriah, and Apocalyte.
No need for apologies, you were amazing at what you did.
This is a sad day for us all
I am stunned... so absolutely stunned. I can't really express how I feel about this, because the rage is still running high right now. I think the fundamentals have been covered by the previous posters though.
I have been playing this game since day one, and CH was my goal from the get-go. I made master in November of 2003, and never dropped it. Through the nerfs, broken promises, broken pets, broken spawns, upgrades/revamps/rebalances/whatchamacalits,CH was ALWAYS fun, even if there were times when we couldn't compete in the pvp, and sometimes pve world. THIS PROFESSION IS FUN, when most others, even the sought-after jedi, are nothing more than a grind.
So now that I get excited about the new tames and level 80 pets in ToOW, I buy that thing right up. I wasn't going to before, because aside from CH, I really enjoy piloting, and we all know what pilots got from this expansion. Like many of us, I was fooled by the developers that CH - and many other aspects of this game, actually - might be entering into a new renaissance.
I think nobody who has ever dealt with SOE for any of its games would be unaware of their generally distasteful marketing and business practices. I know everyone is familiar with their trademark abhorrent customer service. But even I am shocked at how low they went on this one. Wait until THE DAY AFTER ToOW is released and our credit cards are charged to announce these changes, which were apparently under way for a long while? Geez. As much as I run into other creature handlers on my server, I have to say that I think that 1% by Julio Torres is a fabrication.
Thank you Ko, for all of your hard work. I am sad to see you, and this profession, and this game, go. Good luck with all of your endeavors.
This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of creature handlers, and will soon see the end of the rest of the game.
Zaal out