Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Great Expectations, Major Schedule Changes and making SWG the finest MMORPG ever
kolos42 wrote:It's the best idea they could have possibly had.
With all due respect to those players out there that want "what they want, when they want it", it would be foolish for the development team to rush ahead into any update for the game without giving it the due attention, which only they are qualified to say, it deserves.
My one and only hope is that this kind of 'refocusing' becomes even more common. It will not always result in delays, but at the very least, with a clearer definition of where the game is and where its headed. The developers of SWG have a lot to be proud of. And while they could have sat back and blamed these delays on any number of things they stood up and said "We're not ready yet, we need more time and a more fully developed team to do this properly". I appreciate that and I look forward to the quality of work that this action implies they are putting into this as well.
We seem to be in a serious minority here. I totally agree with you. I really believe that too many
players don't really understand the enormous scope of this game, just how grand an undertaking something
like the Combat Balance really is. C'mon, we're talking about core functions here. The entire underlying
structure of the game is being totally re-written. Every single profession is being impacted, from the
combat classes to the entertainers to the crafters. Give it time people.
With all due respect to those players out there that want "what they want, when they want it", it would be foolish for the development team to rush ahead into any update for the game without giving it the due attention, which only they are qualified to say, it deserves.
My one and only hope is that this kind of 'refocusing' becomes even more common. It will not always result in delays, but at the very least, with a clearer definition of where the game is and where its headed. The developers of SWG have a lot to be proud of. And while they could have sat back and blamed these delays on any number of things they stood up and said "We're not ready yet, we need more time and a more fully developed team to do this properly". I appreciate that and I look forward to the quality of work that this action implies they are putting into this as well.
This company reminds me of LTCM. Too much faith on statistical equations and theory. Insurance companies use it but they have a more STABLE market this market is not stable look at Earth and Beyond. This game does not need a change in managements it needs a change in company. Lucas should have given this project to Blizzard. Only thing I don’t like about WOW is the old time setting but if the games is good that won‘t make much of a difference. Though, would have been better had WOW been the World of StarCraft.
We seem to be in a serious minority here. I totally agree with you. I really believe that too many
players don't really understand the enormous scope of this game, just how grand an undertaking something
like the Combat Balance really is. C'mon, we're talking about core functions here. The entire underlying
structure of the game is being totally re-written. Every single profession is being impacted, from the
combat classes to the entertainers to the crafters. Give it time people.
This is our point! The majority of core systems are seriously flawed, poorly executed and some just don't work. In a nut shell, they are asking us to continue to pay for a game where the basic mechanics don't work. If this game had any other title that Star Wars - it would already be done. They are going to launch an expansion while the origonal release still does not work,, more than a year after release.
The real story here is a hidden admission that the core game is so FUBAR that it can't be dealt with any time soon. As far as the gound game goes, what we have in the way of "content" is what we are going to have until well into 2005. That's a serious issue in and of itself. If there was a ton of content in game (i.e. viable things to do that didnt require the community to make up) this would be much less of an issue. Most people were swallowing the lack of any real content on the promises that the GCW was goint to be the focus - the "end game". We not getting any more content additions and we are not going to get what they have promised us, for over a year.
So here we are, a year after launch. Core systems don't work. The GCW is nothing more then roving bands of opposing thugs that roam starports looking for victims. PvP combat is a matter of who gets mind incapped first. The HAM system and damage models are grossly over complicated. The player base is evaporating and the devs are discussing how to best control AFK dancers in cantinas. We want real loot - something to strive for; we get loot kits. I could go on, but you all know everything I would say anyway.
Please dont misunderstand me. I am not taking fault with you or your very vaild point of view. I respect you and your opinon.
-Fabnusen
kolos42 wrote:It's the best idea they could have possibly had.
With all due respect to those players out there that want "what they want, when they want it", it would be foolish for the development team to rush ahead into any update for the game without giving it the due attention, which only they are qualified to say, it deserves.
My one and only hope is that this kind of 'refocusing' becomes even more common. It will not always result in delays, but at the very least, with a clearer definition of where the game is and where its headed. The developers of SWG have a lot to be proud of. And while they could have sat back and blamed these delays on any number of things they stood up and said "We're not ready yet, we need more time and a more fully developed team to do this properly". I appreciate that and I look forward to the quality of work that this action implies they are putting into this as well.
I can see where you're coming from, but I'm afraid you dont see where we're coming from. I agree this refocusing (if it actually happens) is a good sign. Our problem with it is they refocused to JTLS unstead of the core, root functions of the game.
DarkLordFett wrote:
kolos42 wrote:
It's the best idea they could have possibly had.
With all due respect to those players out there that want "what they want, when they want it", it would be foolish for the development team to rush ahead into any update for the game without giving it the due attention, which only they are qualified to say, it deserves.
My one and only hope is that this kind of 'refocusing' becomes even more common. It will not always result in delays, but at the very least, with a clearer definition of where the game is and where its headed. The developers of SWG have a lot to be proud of. And while they could have sat back and blamed these delays on any number of things they stood up and said "We're not ready yet, we need more time and a more fully developed team to do this properly". I appreciate that and I look forward to the quality of work that this action implies they are putting into this as well.
We seem to be in a serious minority here. I totally agree with you. I really believe that too many
players don't really understand the enormous scope of this game, just how grand an undertaking something
like the Combat Balance really is. C'mon, we're talking about core functions here. The entire underlying
structure of the game is being totally re-written. Every single profession is being impacted, from the
combat classes to the entertainers to the crafters. Give it time people.
You said it your self, its the CORE FUNCTIONS, meaning the very simple and basic imputs of the game which should have been mastered before they released this game even as a beta, yet alone expecting people to pay there fat arses money to *fix* **edit** that should have originally never have been there.
The developers here need to have a word to the chap's at Blizzard... (great company, love you Blizzard, cant wait for WoW, im going to love it!). I dont know if you where a Diablo II player, but just incase you didnt know, Blizzard did (FOR FREE) a bigger patch, andentire game remake of the game just because they love their customers as much as we love them, its simple reasons like this and caring for your customers and fixing small and large problems that will make companys like Blizzard succeed in their MMORPG's and others (like say... the tossers that are *updating* this game for $20 a month) fail misseribly once people relise how much they are getting ripped off.
With the state of the game as it is, it should be more like a game with a one time buying fee, not a constant monthly charge for promised updates which to be honest never come on time, do as they should, and dont fix to be frank, basic problems.
