Development Cycle Archive

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KaptainKrude wrote:

I simply can't believe that this is the same team who impressed me so much in beta.

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Akilazel wrote:
joydiv66, it's not "just a game", is a service I'm paying for, so I have the right to demand quality in that service, just as I'd do with other services. Imagine your internet connection, if the bandwith were half of what it should be, and the company wanted you to wait one year to get the quality you're paying for, wouldn't you be angry? This is the same.

For TH and the Devs, I just can say:

LIARS

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Thunderheart wrote:

Great Expectations

There are great expectations in the community for the upcoming Combat Balance and the Galactic Civil War revamp. These announced upcoming major features are pivotal to making the Galaxies experience more of a Star Wars experience. To deliver on these major features, we will need the full development team and re-assembling the team isn’t going to happen until after the upcoming Jump to Lightspeed expansion is shipped.

Hmm, some might say that most of the community has pinned their account status on these changes. You've proven time and again that even with a full staff you can't get it right. What's to say this is any different?

Delaying these critical features was not something we are doing for our convenience, but only to ensure they are done well. The team leadership has been discussing these changes, the future of SWG and the feedback from the community. Clearly the community wants us to do a better job at delivering the game service and this reinforced our decision to make sure we have adequate resources on each update to the game.

One of the dumbest comments I've ever heard you make dude. This is all about your convenience. Don't try lying to make us think different. And yeah, the community doesn't just want you to do a better job, we expect it. The fact is you focused on Jedi first for 1 reason. It gives people something to do to take their minds off the fact the game is struggling. Only 1 problem there Sherlock, if you were to poll the community most people would rather have a good functioning game then a f ucking Jedi. You guys really are clueless. Keep delaying, I'm sure a few folks will stick with you until you release a broken expansion.

At the core of the discussions are our team goals. The team’s goals are to increase the quality of the service, make the game more fun and accessible and finally to make a much more intense Star Wars experience. In this, we agree with the community that our design and implementation process should continue to be improved and we want to assure our customers that it is our goal to exceed their expectations and make SWG the finest MMORPG ever.

Funny that you list your final goal to make a much more SW experience. Question, what's the name of the game Thunderheart? star WARS. We don't even have a goddamn GCW and you're telling me that you want to make a more intense star wars experience? LOL How bout making it Star WARS first off. The graphics may look like Star Wars but that's where it begins and ends. And does anyone really believe, other than yourselves, that your design and implementation process is anything but flawed? I doubt it. Your team hasn't proven in 1 instance that you can plan, test, and implement a well thought out and bug free patch. Not 1 time. If you want to make this the greatest MMO ever you better get off the bench and get in the game pal. This game isn't gonna make 2 years at the speed you all are going.

Rather than continue to split the team’s forces and try to accomplish too many goals, we’re going to do a few things and do them right. Once the Jump To Lightspeed is complete, the team as a whole will be re-grouped. Then the combined team will accomplish the Combat Balance, the GCW and all the other improvements to the game.

Who didn't see this delay coming? And how many people did you hire in to design your JTL? I hear you hired quite a few folks in to help you with it. Funny, you're team is split? So is your a$$ but you don't hear us complaining about it.

What’s Ahead

To offset this very big announcement that will affect all of you, I will be immediately working with the correspondents and the community to develop a list of pre-combat balance fixes to get combat into a more enjoyable state. This will encompass many items planned for the Combat Balance, and will happen in a steady stream between now and JTL. The Combat Medic and Bounty Hunter changes that are coming in Publish 9.1 are the first of these efforts.
Once again, you're clueless. You can't offset this one. Too many people that have played this game for a long time, myself included, won't look past this. I'm not paying you another dime.

Between now and JTL is where I come in. Right out of the gate, I’ll be working with the community to develop plans for the Combat Balance and post them on the site; we’ll do a few features and I will continue to post updates. Later we will do the same for the GCW, the Squad Leader Revamp and all of the community issues on the table. In this, we can marry community expectations and development goals in a way that has never been done before with online games.
Too late.

Our next major update, Publish 10 will bring us “The Jedi Trials”. Finishing the revamp of the Jedi profession is a big task. Being a Jedi is a big part of the Star Wars experience and it is a big game system. To become a Jedi, there needs to be a known path with mysterious quests, new NPC’s, new NPC behaviors, new places and all the little things that will make The Jedi Trials a publish to be excited about. To accomplish this, the team has expanded the scope of publish 10 so there is more design time and more testing time (hence the big changes).
Where you will allow everyone the ability to be Jedi to A. Destract them from the reality that you haven't fixed anything. B. Money....lemme say it slow for you all that are slow. M O N E Y and they love taking it from you. Like a bunch of crack dealers.

Not long after The Jedi Trials, we’ll be focused on the JTL Beta and integrating Space with the ground game. Meshing the live service with JTL is a big challenge since it means it will be the first time anyone has ever integrated a complete RPG and action Space game before.
What's thepoint of space combat with no war to fight in?

The Jump to Lightspeed is currently on track for a later October launch, which is a relatively short time away. Prior to that, we’ll be finishing up the Jedi Trials (Publish 10) and right after that, we will begin integrating the ground game with Space, start the JTL Beta Test and get on with making the game we all want to play. The good news is that the Jump to Lightspeed beta registration site is opening later this week

Ooh, are you sure you can get it done with your "team" divided as it is? Doubtful, and even ifyou do I'll pay bet you 500 dollars right now that the day JTL speed is released we have a repeat of when the game went live. MAJOR SYSTEMS ARE DOWN will be the cries. lol

We appreciate your continued participation in the SWG community. Please continue to give us constructive feedback on our message boards as it helps us keep focused on your needs and priorities.

You won't be getting my money anymore. And your last statement is the biggest slap in the face to all of us. If our feedback helped you keep focused on your priorities then we would have a smuggler revamp, a GCW and combat revamp long before we got a Jedi Revamp. This would've all been completed by now as well. Please SWG community, do not believe the lies they spew forth. Thunderheart is their disinformation minister. Goodbye.

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joydiv66 wrote:

You're right...but I would just quit my ISP and move on. I understand the frustration...but look at some of these posts...ROFL!

Thoth Amon, TKDS (Feargew's favorite patient)
Master Rifle/Master Combat Medic
-Pie- Faction

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1. Wait longer


2. Quit

Well, I am choosing option #2. I cannot justify spending money on a broken game, that has no chance of being fixed for a very long time. I shudder to think of what JTL will be like if you cannot fix the main game in a reasonable time. Needless to say, JTL will not be found on my computer, and after tonight neither will the rest of it.