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Thread: Here's a thought...
What if part of the Jedi formula is your demeaner on these boards...unlikely...yet I seems to see a direct link between in game preformance issue and this websites preformance issues.
Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Good luck to all on unlocking your FS slot! Figured I'd post something different in here besides
"My buddyunlocked it!"
"Prove it"
*posted edit pic*
"BS"
I am a smuggler and I have slicing 4. I am thinking about dropping slicing 4 and going back to 3. I have a ton of molecular clamp crates and a factory to make them. I can make a few schematics,drop to slicing 3, and get better slice results. Is this accurate?
Here's why I am considering this...
My slice %'s are low and people are now starting to ask if I have slicing 4 and they wonder if I am bugged? You know what... I don't blame them, I'd want to know as well!
Mox Shehalis
Aradia1 wrote:
I hate to be the one to break it to you but the majority people who play EQ are not interested in the gamestyle of SWG. I have a lot of friends that I hang with on a regular basis that have played EQ for many years and not a one of them is slightly interested in moving to SWG and leaving EQ. A couple of them have tried SWG but always go back to EQ.
Yes, but I'm not talking about your friends, or the majority of the people. I'm talking aobut a corporation interested in profits. You can't argue against the fact that they stand to make more money ontheir own brand (EQ), than with a brand that they do not wholey own (Star Wars).
As for the friends who tried SWG, and then went back to EQ, how many of them stayed for the entire year it's been out, and how many of them would have stayed with SWG, or even kept both subscriptions, had SWG had a working GCW and viable PvP?
Again, my point was not about you, me, your friends, my friends, those who play EQ and those who don't. My point was the possibility of corporate profits being incentive enough to keep SWG from being the great game it could possibly be.
ForumBrdr091870 wrote:
nice little conspiracy thereoy, but no. SWG and EQ are vastly different games. i have played both. SWG since launch and EQ for over a year (got up to lvl 62). they are completely different and neither one is a threat to the other.
Heh, I'm just putting it out there for discussion
In all actuality, I'm trying to understand WHY some of the things that have happened to this game have happened. Why, after a year, is the GCW STILL meaningless and broke? Why, after a year, are we still seeing bugs from beta, and why haven't they been fixed? Much discussion and debate has gone on regarding this, but it hasn't really ever answered our questions. TH recently announced that the combat balace and GCW have been pushed even further back, because they want to get it "right". Well, why didn't they get it right the first time, or close to it? Did Jedi even need the priority they got? The answer to the last one was NO! End of story. The timeline this game takes place in doesn't allow for ramapant Jedi, and this game would still have been fun and viable without the need for Jedi.
So this leads me to think that maybe the devs just don't care. I don't want to believe this, as this opens up other avenues of questioning. Such as why is SOE letting a group of people who do not care about this project work on it, at the risk of angering their customer base and losing money? (No matter what you think, Sony IS a corporation, and corporations DO worry about the bottom line, money). And if SOE isn't aware that this is happening, what does that say of SOE as a company? And if SOE is allowing this, what does it say of their parent company, Sony? Also, if the devs ARE competent, then there leadership would seem not to be. If that's the case, is SOE burying their head in the sand, that things aren't going as great as they're being told by those in charge of SWG? Again, a ton of questions, which to me, are more unsettling than if SOE was willing to destroy SWG for their EQ brand, because of profits. Would it be wrong? Yes. Would it be shortsighted? Yes. But it wouldn't be the first time a company made the wrong decision.
And you're probably right that they're vastly different (never played EQ, never will). And in my opinion, they shouldn't be a threat to each other. However, if you're sights are set on profits only, what would make sense, profit wise, to you? Develop and publish a game that you own wholly (meaning every cent goes back to you), or develop and publish a game that does not wholly belong to you (meaning you split the profit with other companies)? I know, they've done both
Given companies penchant for moving jobs overseas where people work for practically nothing, hire workers at such hours that they don't have to pay for or offer benefits, and heap more job responsibility on a few workers rather than hire more, all in the name of increasing the bottom line, something like this would not surprise me.
And let's say, just for the moment, that what I'm saying is right. They will have already made tons of money before SWG gets driven into the ground, and if such a thing were to happen, the failure of said game could be spun in such a way as to suggest that players were simply not interested in playing long enough to sustain it at a level similar to EQ. Thus, a MMORPG set in the SW universe would not likely see the light of day again, as it would possible be viewed as a fruitless endeavor.
Personally, I hope I'm wrong, that there's some sort of kink, yet to be discovered, that is causing this game to be the way it is. I hope that's the case, and that they'll discover the kink and fix it (hire more competent leadership, more competent devs, maybe seeing that the staff for this game needs to be larger than initially anticipated, whatever), thus paving the way for this game to be what it CAN be. Either way, I and alot of other people, have questioned, and continue to question, the direction this game is going in. I pay my $15 a month, and while I don't think everything should be the way I personally want it, I do expect some honest, truthful explanations about this. Not marketing crap, not the lies and half-truths (which are still lies) that we've gotten and continue to get, but an honest explanation. It would certainly help things out alot around here.
