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Thread: Update and Cantina Gossip from the Corr Summit
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Reachwind
Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:49 pm
#66
I have no interest in flaming you Esharra, however I do forgive you for resorting to childishness in order to have your say in the discussion.
Esharra wrote:
I'll be the first to acknowledge that it can be very frustrating to have little or no knowledge of what is being planned for the future of our characters that we have invested so much time in. As with most of Reachwind's posts, if I remove the ascorbic, angry and insulting rhetoric, I can eek out a sentence or two that actually voice a valid point (flame away Reach..I've supported a MMOG..I'm flameproof) and I think this is what he is trying to say. Ideally, this would be the responsibility of the Community Relations team not the correspondents. And I'm sure TH will make the information available to us in the appropriate forum when the devs believe it is in a form that represents what they plan to implement.
PoetDancer
Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:58 pm
#67
I don't like the system. Mind you, I think the bluetags do all they can to try and help. But they are just players and customers. The developers are under no obligation to listen to respond to them any more than they should listen and respond to us. Which makes me wonder why they listen to them and not to us? Not that the bluetags are not on the same page with the players in the forum. In many cases they are. But if they are on the same page as us, then why don't they post here in our forums to get input?
In my opinion, the correspondent system is a cheap andconvenient solution to the customer service and market research problem. They should have real game testers andreal SOE representatives of the professions that are paid a salary to do the very best they can to live and play in the galaxies. That is not to say that our bluetags don't do this. They do. But I think that the corr system is more of an illusion of a player input system, and not the real thing.
And I am not saying this because the correspondents are not serious about the issues. They are. But I have been around long enough to understand that if it is an issue where they would find player input useful,it gets postedin the relevant development forum as it should be. And I have also been around long enough to know that however serious the developers seem to take corresondent issues, they seldom, if ever, get realized in truth.
And though I do sympathize with the plight of the correspondents, I like the fact that their input is seldom acted upon. Because if real issues that impact my recreational experience were seriously considered by less than 40 account holders who have their own ideas about what the game needs or not, I would be afraid they may change the game in ways that make it unenjoyablefor me. They have their own ideas about what the game needs, and are ambitious to get it done.
Be you a bluetag, a greytag, or a tealtag, we all pay $15 a month to engage in a form of recreation that is subject to great changes. All I can do is put my faith in you all that you will try to make the game work as a whole, and not work for your own vision about what the game should be. Because you all have the eyes and ears of the gods, and I do not.
Message Edited by PoetDancer on 09-03-2004 08:11 PM
Kyorlana
Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:34 am
#68
I think our correspondents do a WONDERFUL job keeping up with the forums and collating our thoughts. Keep at it! /cheer
Xyrdre
Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:52 am
#69
If we didn't have Panthu as our Corre, I'd have to /pout.
/cheer Panthu! 
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