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Thread: Christmas Gift from SOE

DeQuosaek
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:18 pm
#157




aibo220 wrote:
What tradition is that we are celebrating? The one the developers began last year but decided to end like the story arcs?


Actually it's the tradition started more than 20 years ago in the little known 'Star Wars Holiday Special' that aired on national television.




Some of my pet peeve bugs:
•Armorsmith protection layers were not converted with the CU.
•Ship Details window does not close when you click "Travel" resulting in the message "You have lost the target. Closing interface."
aibo220
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:23 pm
#158

DeQuosaek wrote:

aibo220 wrote:
What tradition is that we are celebrating? The one the developers began last year but decided to end like the story arcs?
Actually it's the tradition started more than 20 years ago in the little known 'Star Wars Holiday Special' that aired on national television.




Yeah, I have that on DVD. lol

But I celebrate Christmas as does my character ingame. She runs around singing Christmas carols and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. She even told the wookies at their little get together about the true meaning of Christmas.

Ingame the wookies might celebrate Life Day but my character doesn't. And I the real world we all celebrate either Christmas, Hannukah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and us all the New Year.



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DeQuosaek
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:31 pm
#159




aibo220 wrote:
But I celebrate Christmas as does my character ingame. She runs around singing Christmas carols and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. She even told the wookies at their little get together about the true meaning of Christmas.

Ingame the wookies might celebrate Life Day but my character doesn't. And I the real world we all celebrate either Christmas, Hannukah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and us all the New Year.


Eh... but the game isn't Real Life™. None of those holidays exist a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.




Some of my pet peeve bugs:
•Armorsmith protection layers were not converted with the CU.
•Ship Details window does not close when you click "Travel" resulting in the message "You have lost the target. Closing interface."
Rypht
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:37 pm
#160

I just received the following email (to my real email address, not ingame email)





Subject:
Star Wars Galaxies - we're giving you in-game credits
Date:
Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:54:26 -0500
From:
"The [email protected]" <[email protected]>


Dear Current Star Wars Galaxies™: Jump To Lightspeed™ Subscriber,


Congratulations – we are pleased to inform you that you have just received 75,000 in-game credits added to one existing character per galaxy as our way of saying thanks for a great year.


Our best to you this holiday season.


May the Force be with you,


The Star Wars Galaxies Team


Important Information


To qualify to receive the 75,000 in-game credits you must have an active Jump To Lightspeed account, in good standing, on or before 11:59PM PST on January 31, 2005. The 75,000 credits will be added to one character per server one time only. Credits will only be awarded once. Credits that are lost, traded or otherwise not redeemed cannot be traded for other game items or for cash. Credits awarded will not be replaced/reissued under any conditions.


LucasArts and the LucasArts logo are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars Galaxies is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. SOE and the SOE logo are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment Inc. © 2002 - 2004 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. or Lucasfilm Ltd. & ® or TM as indicated. All rights reserved. LucasArts, a division of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., P. O. Box 10307 San Rafael, CA 94912. SOE, 8928 Terman Ct. San Diego, CA 92121.





I have asked some friends and no one else has received this email, I can't confirm if I received the credits because I really don't recall exactly how many credits I had when I logged in and there was no ingame notification. Is this real?




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zineotic
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:40 pm
#161




Tiggs wrote:




FultonMeigs wrote:

Life Day was a excellent Chirstmas season gift. Very creative and vastly more interesting than just having something show up in inventory.


Merry Christmas anda Happy New Year






We wanted to make the holiday gift this year be more consistent with the Star Wars Galaxies themeand alsogive you something to do to receive this gift. Glad you liked it, the events team worked hard on this and they did a bang up job. =)



Last year tho it was much much better... Robes and Orbs were given out, and on top of that everyone did receive a gift... the Holocron. If you also remember there were also some really cool events... anyone remember the event to get a TIE fighter or Xwing permenantly placed in your city? What happened to this kind of stuff? No disrespect at all, but a simple quest that just requires you to run to a planet and talk with a wookiee seems like the EASY way out to give us a great holiday line up.




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DeQuosaek
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:43 pm
#162




Rypht wrote:


Congratulations – we are pleased to inform you that you have just received 75,000 in-game credits added to one existing character per galaxy as our way of saying thanks for a great year.


Is this real?


Confirmed. Me too.




Some of my pet peeve bugs:
•Armorsmith protection layers were not converted with the CU.
•Ship Details window does not close when you click "Travel" resulting in the message "You have lost the target. Closing interface."
TheWardog
Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:53 pm
#163




FultonMeigs wrote:

Life Day was a excellent Chirstmas season gift. Very creative and vastly more interesting than just having something show up in inventory.


Merry Christmas anda Happy New Year







How was this "celebration" creative? They dumped a few wookiees in red robes out in the middle of Dathomir and your "quest" was to walk in a circle and talk to them. Not a lot of thought went into that "event". Much like the rest of the events that go on in this game. I've been with this game from nearly the start and have yet to see an "event". If you aren't in the right spot you miss it. And they happen not nearly enough (the excuse of too many servers is old and lame for a company as big as SOE).



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Wolveryne40
Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:19 pm
#164

aries_liak wrote:

ShyaAlar wrote:
I look around this post and I'm awestruck by the greed and demands of some of the people posting in this thread.
This is the time of year to give thanks and be grateful. To give and to celebrate with family....
/shake's head
What message are you sending everyone? /sad
Happy Life day everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!! /Spreads the joy

Expecting a gift isn't greedy you moron. A gift is defined as follows:

"Something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation"

It can be a worthless item to a million dollar ring. I expect a gift. A token of appreciation. A happy holidays.

I expect it from my boss and my friends and family. I do not expect it to have a significant monetary value. I want them to remember me and appreciate me as I do they. I would send SOE a christmas gift but I cannot seeing as soe is a nameless faceless organization. I expect things I pay a 149.99 subscriptions to to wish me a happy holidays with a token of appreciation. Even my magazine sends me a christmas card.





Thaats right moron you expect it .. there for it is neither voluntary nor with out compensation. To you its demanding or suffer your whinyness.

I expect my friends to be friends not fuel me with gifts expect my boss to keep me in a job, my family to be therein time of need. i do not "expect" a gift from any of them. there fore when it is giving it is indeed voluntary.

I expect for my 15 a month for s.o.e. to do their job and that goes with the devs. i do not expect nor desire a flipping gift.
my gift to s.o.e and the devs is to not be a child every moment i get on here and realise somethings do infact take time to build.
I yell at them, because... well i yell at everyone and why should they be the expections. lol

So now you know why you do not get a gift from me, you expect it, hence you would not get it.

Friends like that i can do without you ingrate.



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Mariki
Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:31 pm
#165
It would have been a lot better if we could have had the option to choose the gift we recieved...

As said many times in this thread, if you got an item you already had from last year, then you basically got nothing new or something you could have bought at a vender. I was unlucky enough to get an orb twice.

This to me was a big waste of my time.Not to mention that the placing of these villages, like they really had to be in the middle of no where on the most dangerous planets, what was up with that?

So what was the selection criteria on who got what? My 30 bucks a month isn't worth a new virtual painting for my virtual house or PA Hall? Well enough of this topic, it justannoys me. We ask too much obviously...a virtual gift in return for our real cash month after month... At least we can be thankful for our friends we have made in game, they are the only things tangible.



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Last day Dec 2nd
Death by NGE
- All Hope Gone
DarthMinos
Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:56 pm
#166




Rypht wrote:


I just received the following email (to my real email address, not ingame email)





Subject:
Star Wars Galaxies - we're giving you in-game credits
Date:
Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:54:26 -0500
From:
"The [email protected]"


Dear Current Star Wars Galaxies™: Jump To Lightspeed™ Subscriber,


Congratulations – we are pleased to inform you that you have just received 75,000 in-game credits added to one existing character per galaxy as our way of saying thanks for a great year.


Our best to you this holiday season.


May the Force be with you,


The Star Wars Galaxies Team


Important Information


To qualify to receive the 75,000 in-game credits you must have an active Jump To Lightspeed account, in good standing, on or before 11:59PM PST on January 31, 2005. The 75,000 credits will be added to one character per server one time only. Credits will only be awarded once. Credits that are lost, traded or otherwise not redeemed cannot be traded for other game items or for cash. Credits awarded will not be replaced/reissued under any conditions.


LucasArts and the LucasArts logo are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars Galaxies is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. SOE and the SOE logo are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment Inc. © 2002 - 2004 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. or Lucasfilm Ltd. & ® or TM as indicated. All rights reserved. LucasArts, a division of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., P. O. Box 10307 San Rafael, CA 94912. SOE, 8928 Terman Ct. San Diego, CA 92121.





I have asked some friends and no one else has received this email, I can't confirm if I received the credits because I really don't recall exactly how many credits I had when I logged in and there was no ingame notification. Is this real?






I got that as well.



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Slayermat2
Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:10 pm
#167
Why must people always want more? Sure, it is always nice to have more (such as money in RL) but is it really that important to you to get one maybe two more items in this game? Just as in RL, I am sure you will manage to do without, move on and prosper. So, again I ask...what kind of personal joy, satisfaction or even game enhancement would you get from the extra item(s) many of you say you ( I say you and not "we" as you do not speak for everyone) need, deserve and expect?


I seem to remember people complaining last year that the gift they got was a holo and how that was going to lower the market value of looted ones and that it was causing people to leave the game because it made the holo grind easier and all other kinds of bull. I bet some of the people wanting an extra gift now are the same ones who complained about the extra gift they got last year. Sad.


For those of you who say SOE started a tradition last year with the Christmas holo, I have a question.


Do you know what the definition of the word tradition is?


Let me help you.


Tradition

An inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom)


Since when is a one time event / occurrence a pattern? You cannot have a tradition without a pattern.


Now, some of you may see the word "established" in the above definition and will want to cling to that as your argument.


Again, did you know what the definition of established is?


Let me help you again.


Established

To institute (as a law) permanently by enactment or agreement


When was the Christmas gift ever said to be a permanent fixture of the game?


Now, because this is the second year in a row that Life Day has been put in game, it meets both of the requirements and is a tradition. Where the Christmas gift is not.


This whole thing though is exactly the same as the people complaining of the veteran rewards. People complaining that people of six-month status in the game are getting the same gift as a person with nine months, a year or more. Again, I feel this falls to the lack of knowledge for the definition of the very word they complain about.


Veteran

A person of long experience in some occupation or skill


Six months is plenty long enough in a game to meet the above definition.


So why are people of longer time complaining? Because they confuse the word veteran for another. That word being senior.


Senior

A person with higher standing or rank


This is the kind of reward these people are looking for. The fact is though; the game has not been around long enough to justify a senior reward. Although once it has been, I am sure some will complain again. What these people will in fact be asking for is an elder reward. An elder reward will be much farther down the road though I am afraid and rightfully so.


To be honest, I think those that complain about gifts / rewards ingame get a greater satisfaction out of posting their resentment and hate than they ever would gain from the item they claim they need. want, deserve and expect anyhow.
MadDog36
Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:22 pm
#168
Check your e-mail people. TH, I kinda feel bad. You come out on the forums, say there isn't going to be a gift, and TADA!!!!!!!


TH from 12/18 - "Sorry, but there will be no "automatic" Christmas gift this year.

I do want to thank the events team for pulling all of the Life Day events together though."


MEANWHILE, I come home tonight and my e-mail account says SOE is giving 75k to each character per server.....


C'MON! A LITTLE BIT of communication would be nice!




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TheWardog
Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:45 pm
#169





shadytrando wrote:




FallenWarrior wrote:

Well it could be nothing at all. I swear to god sometimes people cry about the dumbest sh!t.


Isn't there enough broken crap in the game to cry about without adding "what have you done for me for Christmas" to the list?


How about a combat upgrade for christmas.....there we go.


Anyone who wastes one second of their day complaining about what gift SOE is giving or not giving for freaking Christmas needs to get out more. Seriuosly think about it guys.


Flame away, I this place anyways.






I agree, game content is way more important, but at least SOE could have a little more imagination... It's like they don't try or give effort in anyhting they do.




I agree. It's pathetic to whine about not getting something or getting something stupid, but come on! This is so typical of SOE. And only to JTL owners. I bought JTL about a month ago but have yet to install it (WoW took up that disk space :smileywink. This happened with the Veteran reward, you got a spaceship that for playing SWG for a year could only use once you bought the add-on. If that isn't a worm on a hook I don't know what is. And for a company like SOE to do something like that just absolutely reeks...



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