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Thread: Ok.. Ok.. Call me a glutton for punishment :-}

Pallida
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:08 pm
#1

We may not be the most appreciated profession...

We may not be the most effective profession...

We may not be loved by the Devs...

We may NEVER be able to build what everyone seem to want in Droids...


But dammit... I REFUSE to give up a profession that I slaved 7 months to master! Everyone else can bail if they like.. I'll STILL be here... in the dark... sitting in a pile of "Dev-provided fertilizer"... building my droids.


/openCrownBottle

/pourDoubleShot

/sipSlowly

/sigh


ssssssssssssssssSSS(:-<




- Account: Master TKA (cancelled)
- Account: Master Doctor (cancelled)
- Account: Smuggler (cancelled)
- Account: Master Chef (cancelled)
- Account: Master Droid Engineer (activity suspended pending developments)
Total loss of annual revenue (SOE): ~$715US to ~$900US
- Bad press: Priceless
Should Sony and Lucas Arts be worried? (15000 users * 5 accts = ~$13MIL in potential lost gross annual revenue) If I were the CEO for either LA or SOE, I would certainly be worried.
Sodan-droiddreamer
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:14 pm
#2

Pass me the bottle, Mr. Jones.



Sodan Droiddreamer (GEGN)
Sodan's Exotic Droidgarten - In Bohemian Grove (Geigen Shuttle), Tatooine (6156 7275)
Sedona1
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:30 pm
#3

Amem brother...pass me that bottle!


Kenton



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The force is not so strong in this one.
patchman70
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:35 pm
#4

DITTO! Next round is on me!!!!!



Janis Si'ind Greedy Engineer - Si'ind Shipwright
scotchie Greedy shipwright - Si'indicate Droids 2005, 5634
New Pratia, naboo
To quote Uncle Owen on the nge "give us one more season"
goatt_13 "HEY LEY'S PLAY MONOPOLY, BUT SKIP THE RENT PART!!!"
Cyberus-SWG
"Kind of ironic hey? You can get killed and your swoop totaled .. your swoop stays totaled but your armor is unharmed and automagically appears on your clone. "
Mortac10
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:37 pm
#5



I think


/takeCynide






Mortac'
Flurry
Resource Dealer
Master: Droid Engineer br>Resources, Droids R'US
PHX Mall, Lake Natron, Dant
Chunkbacca Flurry Master Id,Music & dancer
Ackis
Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:05 am
#6

It takes all of my self-restraint not to /laugh when I see a DE now.



Imperial Captain Ackis Losackego - Über f335h

TheNosveratu
Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:26 am
#7



I just had a thought. All us DE's are choked right? We all feel decived right? We would all love to punish those who mislead us right? I mean we are the customers right? And most of us long hauler's are near burnt out......so.....


You always hear about folks saying "I am quiting the game! That's it ! I love star wars but I'm done! This game is bugged out and the Dev's don't listen". But honestly we all know (as we can smell our kind) that in the end, spazzing aside, we simply won't quit something that has so much potential and thatwe worked(and hoped)so hard at. SO how bout this. A realistic boy-cot ; WE ALL TAKE ONE PARTICULAR MONTH OFF. Thats right. We organise, chose a month and cancel our accounts for that single month. I mean Geez we could really use a break. All this dissapointment and endless anticipation is a wee bit frustrating for somthing we pay to do. I mean this sorta thing may really make em think and hit em (SOE)hard, in the only thing that matters to em, the pocket book. Class action boils and goils. You live in a democracy! Get into it! We can make a differance. Money talks.


PS I don't blame the Dev's. I mean they would love to double there staff. But that fact is the Exec's call the shots not the artists and craftsmen. The Dev's prolley hate giving us smoking mirrors as much as we hate receiving em.

Pallida
Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:58 am
#8






TheNosveratu wrote:



I just had a thought. All us DE's are choked right? We all feel decived right? We would all love to punish those who mislead us right? I mean we are the customers right? And most of us long hauler's are near burnt out......so.....


You always hear about folks saying "I am quiting the game! That's it ! I love star wars but I'm done! This game is bugged out and the Dev's don't listen". But honestly we all know (as we can smell our kind) that in the end, spazzing aside, we simply won't quit something that has so much potential and thatwe worked(and hoped)so hard at. SO how bout this. A realistic boy-cot ; WE ALL TAKE ONE PARTICULAR MONTH OFF. Thats right. We organise, chose a month and cancel our accounts for that single month. I mean Geez we could really use a break. All this dissapointment and endless anticipation is a wee bit frustrating for somthing we pay to do. I mean this sorta thing may really make em think and hit em (SOE)hard, in the only thing that matters to em, the pocket book. Class action boils and goils. You live in a democracy! Get into it! We can make a differance. Money talks.


PS I don't blame the Dev's. I mean they would love to double there staff. But that fact is the Exec's call the shots not the artists and craftsmen. The Dev's prolley hate giving us smoking mirrors as much as we hate receiving em.







Have a nice *hic* vacation... *hic*


I ain't *hic* leaving my front porch..


HEY! Who STOLE my shotglass? *looks around and falls out of chair*


ssssssssssSSS(:-<



- Account: Master TKA (cancelled)
- Account: Master Doctor (cancelled)
- Account: Smuggler (cancelled)
- Account: Master Chef (cancelled)
- Account: Master Droid Engineer (activity suspended pending developments)
Total loss of annual revenue (SOE): ~$715US to ~$900US
- Bad press: Priceless
Should Sony and Lucas Arts be worried? (15000 users * 5 accts = ~$13MIL in potential lost gross annual revenue) If I were the CEO for either LA or SOE, I would certainly be worried.
MainMor
Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:52 am
#9

The worst part for myself is that I really do not want to give up the profession, but yesterday I logged in... my PA friends with some good natured humor made fun of me... nothing serious or to make me angry... I know where they are coming from and I even joined in.

But I stood around my shop and I just stood there running room to room for 30 minutes....I am simply at a loss. Nothing has sold off of my vendor now in 3 weeks and my cash is almost spent... tonight I am removing my harvesters.

So after my pointless run around my house... I took off for Theed and I invested 100 credits in Novice Medic and spent the evening healing dancers and I had more fun... I felt like I had a purpose and mattered... Especially when some friends came in with a bunch of wounds and I was able to patch them right up.

It really looks like I might head for a career in the medical field... most likely I will be a doctor, but I am really upset with the ninja nerfs and I am actually pretty angry that the developers have stayed quiet all this time and each day I check the Dev Tracker for some feedback... even a "This is how its going to be post". Ignoring us now was the straw that broke it for me.

I don't like this silence we are getting so I have started moving away now from droids...but I am going to go ahead and stock up on all the metals and fiberplast I need to make a quick return to droids in the unlikely event that one day we truly get that loving....yes folks... call me Benedict MainMor.

Its going to take me awhile to transition over to Doctor...so I am going to hang out here a bit longer and see what they have to say to us.

As to you guys hanging in there.... I tip my hat off to you. You are either the most foolish people I have ever seen...lol... or you are a better man/woman/thing... than I...lol



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And I stood with one foot on the shore and one foot in the waves and it was the time between times...
duncje
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:04 am
#10






Sodan-droiddreamer wrote:
Pass me the bottle, Mr. Jones.





Lol. The next lyrics in that song are so fitting to our current situation:


"Believe in me,
Help me believe in anything,
I want to be someone who believes"




Beebo
Master Droid Engineer | Shipwright | Master Artisan
Crazy Beebo's Discount Droids & Ships {-1075 -2924} Bestine, Tatooine

Squygxicus
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:31 am
#11

Well Im not even MDE but Im having fun. Ive crafted up a bunch or droids for my guildies. They've been taking em out in the field and even with my poopy attack ratings (absolutely maxed at 70 if I hold my mouth just right) they've been doing some damage. Sure its an R2 with a saw but one guy was bopping rabid shaupauts with it last night! Me and another guy even went to Kor Vella with some Pre 7 Probots and had some fun with some storm troopers (the repair tool works great). We had the Probots protecting our Rebel NPC's from the Swooper gangs and we waxed a few Storm Troopers!

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