Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Great Expectations, Major Schedule Changes and making SWG the finest MMORPG ever
riebowok
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:10 am
#1223
Zetic wrote:
So what will happen between the Jedi Trials (Publish 10, AUGUST) and JTL (Late OCTOBER)? "Integrating the ground game with space." What major changes are in store for us during the 2 months between these events?
under those 2 months i think they add more durnis to kill some sort of quest driven kill the durni felloshiper or something.
game is just gettin more borked and goin down the hill more and more , thank god for eq2 WoW etc etc
Quinnt13
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:11 am
#1224
Dancerxtroidenair wrote:
don't you all see the dev team is on summer vacation. just a bunch of toddlers with a little bit of programing skills. I mean hell playing in the ocean in SD is far more important than customer service. That is until the convient time of Sept when school is back in.... cya after summer devs. enjoy your last year of highschool.
I think they've all fled to some non-extradition country in South America, wearing fake mustaches and sunglasses.
Trobon18
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:11 am
#1225
Ok. So we've been waiting a year for a Combat Balance. We've seen jedi go ahead of us on priority lists. And Smugglers still get no love. But, I have some great news....
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurence.
Twiggy_Gorath
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:11 am
#1226
3D4D wrote:
I hope the devs are in some kind of mega meeting to add more programers
Me too! I need a job!!
Moonnstarz3
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:12 am
#1227
Dancerxtroidenair wrote:
don't you all see the dev team is on summer vacation. just a bunch of toddlers with a little bit of programing skills. I mean hell playing in the ocean in SD is far more important than customer service. That is until the convient time of Sept when school is back in.... cya after summer devs. enjoy your last year of highschool.
Sorry no oceans in South Dakota!!!
Shinjo_Kanzaki
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:15 am
#1229
nefarious2 wrote:
Shinjo_Kanzaki wrote:
"new SWG 9.2 now 33% less lag, because we pissed off the majority of the player base!"
I like this, makes for a good Signature.
good idea, i think i'll try that now. 
Oracul
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:15 am
#1230
/subcription(s) cancelled
I find it a tad interesting that Q-3P0 resigned just before this news broke...hmm did he know something. Thunderheart I feel for ya bro, Kudo's to you man.Your going to need a nice vacation in the south pacificafter this post.Tell some of the SOE upper management to step up to the plate and give us and explanation of what the _________ is going on here. CoH and WoW here I come. I might even blow off the dust from mechwarrior 4 mercs...chat's work, PVP is full on, and the updates work!!, and best of all it's free
Zetic
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:15 am
#1231
Cowoth wrote:
Zetic wrote:
So what will happen between the Jedi Trials (Publish 10, AUGUST) and JTL (Late OCTOBER)? "Integrating the ground game with space." What major changes are in store for us during the 2 months between these events?
Quote from TH:
The development cycle still has momentum and we still have some other important items, big and small, coming out of the pipeline.Here is what still lies ahead:
Publish 10 is slated for the end of August, but one of the reasons for these delays is to make as much room as possible for extra implementation and testing time.
My point is, we're being downgraded from 1 major publish a month, to one every couple months. And I'm ok with that, as long as we get some cool changes, ie new mounts, architecture, new types of gameplay(like the swoop race track..great idea!) etc, during that time.
DarthJar
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:16 am
#1232
Thunderheart wrote:
Meplorium wrote:TH please do convey to the higher ups that the customers are very pleased with the job the few people working on this project are doing but are very displeased that there are few people working on this project.
I have. I've been going over the details, the history and the effect this announcement is having on the community for some time now. I've spent more than a couple of sleepless nights in the past couple of weeks thinking about this post. It's not easy for anyone involved.
Yeah, least of all those of us who have been Jerked around by your company for too god damn long. Go ahead, ban me, I could give a **edit**. ya'll ain't getting anymore of my money anyway.
BackBite
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:17 am
#1233
DarkHelmet-TIO wrote:
That is true, we are kinda shooting the messenger right now. Thunderpants is just here to give the bad news.
BLAME THE DEVS!
No, don't blame the devs. Blame the devs for the countless bugs and shoddy QA, but don't blame them for this announcement. The developers are just code-monkey and artists, things such as this are not up to them and the sooner you realize that the sooner that you can direct your mistrust and anger toward the proper target.
Blame the suits making the decisions over at SOE for the delay of the combat balance and the decision to add more broken content to get new money from the outside instead of fixing what they already have and keeping whatever revenue they already have (had) going and lure back those that cancelled long before this announcement was made.
The sad part is that, yeah, this all will probably make them more money in the short term. As for the long haul...well, if I worked at SOE, I wouldn't plan my kids' college funds around what moneySWG will be bringing in six months from now.
Bambal
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:18 am
#1234
um...my suggestion to everyone that isnt working on this game is this:
shut the hell up and letsony do what they need to do. if you had all shut up and not whined about your respective professions over time to begin with, things would not be that out of whack to begin with. if you dont want to play, for the love of god leave. if your subscription is paid up through december, too bad...you arent happy, you plan on leaving, get it over with so the rest of the world can focus on the future and not hundreds and thousands of posts with nothing but whining, protesting, petitions, and just general trash. if you play on bloodfin, and took part in that little show in corellia the other day, i really wish sony would just get up and permaban you. disrupting service for others because you cant get what you want doesnt solve anything, and you idiots do that in corellia so often to begin with, it can hardly be considered a protest. "hell guys, we are pissed! lets protest this...lets do what we did 6 days ago in corellia!!!!"
get a grip on yourself kids.
have a great day ! 
MrSclod
Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:18 am
#1235
Rubicon47BC wrote:
As for the number of subscriptions, this link below goes to a page with at least indicative data on numbers of subscribers to MMO's. SWGhardly broke the 300K mark and went downhill in January. From my experience, it hasn't gotten any better, except for maybe the last month with summer vacations starting. Don't be so sure about the number of subscribers. I would not be surprised if they are dropping towards the breakeven point.
http://pw1.netcom.com/~sirbruce/Subscriptions.html
Here you go ,click here to see SWG's progress.
