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Thread: Help us Ralph Koster you are our only hope! The veterans have been forsaken...
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Cafa
Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:46 pm
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No, Raph, like most game designers/producers, has little interest in the games or communities that he creates, always looking for the next best thing. Of course, my opinion, but I have a bit of history to base that upon, whereas Raph coming back to fix anything has never happened.
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Blackjack_Nova
Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:32 am
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Ralph - The rewards system that you designed in UO lead the industry by giving the community an incentive
to play the game much longer then the content was designed to do. You did the same thing for SWG when you where the Lead Designer for the team and I thank you for that!
Now that you are the Creative Director for SOE your course is to "ensure that SOE's products continue to lead the market in innovation and creativity while continuing to lendyour expertise to the growing and involving virtual world of Star Wars Galaxies."
The rewards program has taken a creativity nose dive. It seems to be looked at as a burdon now instead of the one program that could inspire both causal players and hardcore players to keep playing, if not for the game content but for the rewards!
The Veterans of the game have forgiven many features of the game that did not work out.
Now that you are the Creative Director for SOE your course is to "ensure that SOE's products continue to lead the market in innovation and creativity while continuing to lendyour expertise to the growing and involving virtual world of Star Wars Galaxies."
The rewards program has taken a creativity nose dive. It seems to be looked at as a burdon now instead of the one program that could inspire both causal players and hardcore players to keep playing, if not for the game content but for the rewards!
The Veterans of the game have forgiven many features of the game that did not work out.
- The Jedi System - Jedi will be rare...
- The Combat System - no need to comment...
- The GCW - The idea that we could hold ground and that it was worth fighting for...
- Dynamic Missions (they would pop up)
- Battlefields - Never worked right
- Dynamic Missions (they would pop up)
- Battlefields - Never worked right
- We forgave not having vehicles at launch and walked everywhere
- We forgave not having player cities...
We have forgive and the ONE thing that we knew would be there if we forgave and held out was a nice reward.....
Iknow our history because I havebeen here.All I wanted was a reward that was in line with my willingness to stay here though thick and thin. That said "Thank you for not leaving us when things did not work out"
I have been a loyal fan of yours since the days beyond the days. Since Legends MUD, before the time of Designer Dragon and Holocrom.
Please do notlet usdown.
I know that this post is just a message in a bottle but I had to send it into the sea otherwise I just could not live with my guilt over quiting something that I love.
We have forgive and the ONE thing that we knew would be there if we forgave and held out was a nice reward.....
Iknow our history because I havebeen here.All I wanted was a reward that was in line with my willingness to stay here though thick and thin. That said "Thank you for not leaving us when things did not work out"
I have been a loyal fan of yours since the days beyond the days. Since Legends MUD, before the time of Designer Dragon and Holocrom.
Please do notlet usdown.
I know that this post is just a message in a bottle but I had to send it into the sea otherwise I just could not live with my guilt over quiting something that I love.
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