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Thread: Ms. Tiggs, I'm curious about this
A Declaration of No Confidence in the Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies
On Behalf of the Player base of Star Wars: Galaxies
Respectfully Submitted to LucasArts, Sony Online Entertainment, and the playerbase at large.
As the individuals responsible for creating and maintaining an entertaining, thrilling, and fair game, enjoyed by fans of Star Wars, while protecting the financial interests of their employers and their partners, thedevelopers are accountable to a large constituency:the players,for whom they must ensure a viable game; their coworkers, for whom they must maintain a productive and welcoming working environment; the families and friends of theseplayers and coworkers, for whom they must uphold a proud and respectable image; and the community at large, for whom they must guarantee economic and communal stewardship of theintellectual propertywith the utmost of transparency and integrity.
The behavior recently exhibited by the Developers of Star Wars:Galaxies compromises all the aforementioned obligations and clearly indicates they are not up to the challenges required of their positions. Their divisive tactics have resulted in irresponsible—and possibly irreversible—harm to morale, undermined their ability to effectivelymanage this Project, and ultimately compromisedtheir professional integrity.
As evidence, we provide a short list of the charges against them.
The Developers of Star Wars: Galaxieshave:
1. Weakenedplayer trust and confidence in Sony Online Entertainment andtheir partnersby aggressively pursuing and encouraging a policy of shortened development cycles, poor testing, lack of communication, and failure to respond to feedback.
2. Tarnished the reputation of the Star Wars franchise by repeatedly violating the player bases basic expectations.
3. Diluted our most valuable pool of ideas and soloutions that would give the game a stronger "Star Wars feel" by flat-outignoring, and, at times, shamelessly moderating productive posts.
4. Misled the general public duringseveral periods in the game, most blatently, the commercials that aired in conjunction with the RotW expansion and CU, while lying to the player base, saying "just give us time".
5. Failed to fulfill the obligations oftheirpositions by refusing to personally discuss disputes, thereby squandering player time, and relegating their own obligations to arguably disinterested parties.
6. Needlessly placed subordinates and their families at risk by failing to maintain a viable level of quality that would ensure a large, and content, playerbase.
For all these reasons it is therefore right and fitting that the player base of Star Wars: Galaxies do hereby formally document and submit this Declaration of No Confidence in the present Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies, and do further petition the management of Sony Online Entertainment, as well as the Management of LucasArts, to remove and seek suitable replacement of saidDevelopers for thispotentially fine and respectable MMORPG.
Message Edited by Unit_ on 10-21-2005 07:50 AM
Unit_ wrote:
Taken from our Community Policies:
Participation in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts. This includes but is not limited to, "flaming", "spamming", and "trolling". "Flaming" is defined as: Making insulting criticisms or remarks to incite anger. "Spamming" is defined as: Sending numerous and or unwanted and disruptive amounts of messages. "Trolling" is defined as: Stirring up trouble to incite disruption. An example of trolling would be posting to a thread without the intent to provide positive suggestions or comments and instead making negative and or disruptive comments.
This is a warning to everyone in this forum. If the trolling continues you will have action taken against your account.
Ok, how does the petition that I will repost below fit into the above statement, it was very well written and accurate in my opinion...I am not sure you realize the extent of PR damage done with garvas heavy handed tactics....I believe he should be fired for his actions and his thread and your status shoud be reviewed as well for allowing it....you and he have a very low level of respect on these and most forums atm and I think you should be concentrating on repairing it rather than making this type of meaningless threat..too many good games on the horizon for this type of dictatorial action
Maybe you not me, so far I have liked every pub with CU, cept for the EXP one, but they CHANGED IT!. Once again, Jedi complain about how even harder it is when it was even harder pre-CU, STOP WHINNING!
Unit_ wrote:
Taken from our Community Policies:
Participation in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts. This includes but is not limited to, "flaming", "spamming", and "trolling". "Flaming" is defined as: Making insulting criticisms or remarks to incite anger. "Spamming" is defined as: Sending numerous and or unwanted and disruptive amounts of messages. "Trolling" is defined as: Stirring up trouble to incite disruption. An example of trolling would be posting to a thread without the intent to provide positive suggestions or comments and instead making negative and or disruptive comments.
This is a warning to everyone in this forum. If the trolling continues you will have action taken against your account.
Ok, how does the petition that I will repost below fit into the above statement, it was very well written and accurate in my opinion...I am not sure you realize the extent of PR damage done with garvas heavy handed tactics....I believe he should be fired for his actions and his thread and your status shoud be reviewed as well for allowing it....you and he have a very low level of respect on these and most forums atm and I think you should be concentrating on repairing it rather than making this type of meaningless threat..too many good games on the horizon for this type of dictatorial action
A Declaration of No Confidence in the Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies
On Behalf of the Player base of Star Wars: Galaxies
Respectfully Submitted to LucasArts, Sony Online Entertainment, and the playerbase at large.
As the individuals responsible for creating and maintaining an entertaining, thrilling, and fair game, enjoyed by fans of Star Wars, while protecting the financial interests of their employers and their partners, thedevelopers are accountable to a large constituency:the players,for whom they must ensure a viable game; their coworkers, for whom they must maintain a productive and welcoming working environment; the families and friends of theseplayers and coworkers, for whom they must uphold a proud and respectable image; and the community at large, for whom they must guarantee economic and communal stewardship of theintellectual propertywith the utmost of transparency and integrity.
The behavior recently exhibited by the Developers of Star Wars:Galaxies compromises all the aforementioned obligations and clearly indicates they are not up to the challenges required of their positions. Their divisive tactics have resulted in irresponsible—and possibly irreversible—harm to morale, undermined their ability to effectivelymanage this Project, and ultimately compromisedtheir professional integrity.
As evidence, we provide a short list of the charges against them.
The Developers of Star Wars: Galaxieshave:
1. Weakenedplayer trust and confidence in Sony Online Entertainment andtheir partnersby aggressively pursuing and encouraging a policy of shortened development cycles, poor testing, lack of communication, and failure to respond to feedback.
2. Tarnished the reputation of the Star Wars franchise by repeatedly violating the player bases basic expectations.
3. Diluted our most valuable pool of ideas and soloutions that would give the game a stronger "Star Wars feel" by flat-outignoring, and, at times, shamelessly moderating productive posts.
4. Misled the general public duringseveral periods in the game, most blatently, the commercials that aired in conjunction with the RotW expansion and CU, while lying to the player base, saying "just give us time".
5. Failed to fulfill the obligations oftheirpositions by refusing to personally discuss disputes, thereby squandering player time, and relegating their own obligations to arguably disinterested parties.
6. Needlessly placed subordinates and their families at risk by failing to maintain a viable level of quality that would ensure a large, and content, playerbase.
For all these reasons it is therefore right and fitting that the player base of Star Wars: Galaxies do hereby formally document and submit this Declaration of No Confidence in the present Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies, and do further petition the management of Sony Online Entertainment, as well as the Management of LucasArts, to remove and seek suitable replacement of saidDevelopers for thispotentially fine and respectable MMORPG.
Message Edited by Unit_ on 10-21-2005 07:50 AM
RJUK wrote:
Unit_ wrote:
Taken from our Community Policies:
Participation in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts. This includes but is not limited to, "flaming", "spamming", and "trolling". "Flaming" is defined as: Making insulting criticisms or remarks to incite anger. "Spamming" is defined as: Sending numerous and or unwanted and disruptive amounts of messages. "Trolling" is defined as: Stirring up trouble to incite disruption. An example of trolling would be posting to a thread without the intent to provide positive suggestions or comments and instead making negative and or disruptive comments.
This is a warning to everyone in this forum. If the trolling continues you will have action taken against your account.
Ok, how does the petition that I will repost below fit into the above statement, it was very well written and accurate in my opinion...I am not sure you realize the extent of PR damage done with garvas heavy handed tactics....I believe he should be fired for his actions and his thread and your status shoud be reviewed as well for allowing it....you and he have a very low level of respect on these and most forums atm and I think you should be concentrating on repairing it rather than making this type of meaningless threat..too many good games on the horizon for this type of dictatorial action
A Declaration of No Confidence in the Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies
On Behalf of the Player base of Star Wars: Galaxies
Respectfully Submitted to LucasArts, Sony Online Entertainment, and the playerbase at large.
As the individuals responsible for creating and maintaining an entertaining, thrilling, and fair game, enjoyed by fans of Star Wars, while protecting the financial interests of their employers and their partners, thedevelopers are accountable to a large constituency:the players,for whom they must ensure a viable game; their coworkers, for whom they must maintain a productive and welcoming working environment; the families and friends of theseplayers and coworkers, for whom they must uphold a proud and respectable image; and the community at large, for whom they must guarantee economic and communal stewardship of theintellectual propertywith the utmost of transparency and integrity.
The behavior recently exhibited by the Developers of Star Wars:Galaxies compromises all the aforementioned obligations and clearly indicates they are not up to the challenges required of their positions. Their divisive tactics have resulted in irresponsible—and possibly irreversible—harm to morale, undermined their ability to effectivelymanage this Project, and ultimately compromisedtheir professional integrity.
As evidence, we provide a short list of the charges against them.
The Developers of Star Wars: Galaxieshave:
1. Weakenedplayer trust and confidence in Sony Online Entertainment andtheir partnersby aggressively pursuing and encouraging a policy of shortened development cycles, poor testing, lack of communication, and failure to respond to feedback.
2. Tarnished the reputation of the Star Wars franchise by repeatedly violating the player bases basic expectations.
3. Diluted our most valuable pool of ideas and soloutions that would give the game a stronger "Star Wars feel" by flat-outignoring, and, at times, shamelessly moderating productive posts.
4. Misled the general public duringseveral periods in the game, most blatently, the commercials that aired in conjunction with the RotW expansion and CU, while lying to the player base, saying "just give us time".
5. Failed to fulfill the obligations oftheirpositions by refusing to personally discuss disputes, thereby squandering player time, and relegating their own obligations to arguably disinterested parties.
6. Needlessly placed subordinates and their families at risk by failing to maintain a viable level of quality that would ensure a large, and content, playerbase.
For all these reasons it is therefore right and fitting that the player base of Star Wars: Galaxies do hereby formally document and submit this Declaration of No Confidence in the present Developers of Star Wars: Galaxies, and do further petition the management of Sony Online Entertainment, as well as the Management of LucasArts, to remove and seek suitable replacement of saidDevelopers for thispotentially fine and respectable MMORPG.
Message Edited by Unit_ on 10-21-2005 07:50 AM
I have been playing SWG since launch and I HAVE to say this petition is the best thing written since sliced bread...
I totally agree with everything it says / states
omg i cant get away from this no confidence thingy.....
but /sign anyway
RJUK wrote:
I have been playing SWG since launch and I HAVE to say this petition is the best thing written since sliced bread...I totally agree with everything it says / states
So have I and I think its an absolute joke.
i agree with the author(unit_) of this thread.
but /sign anyway
What's sad is... it had gotten over 600 signatures before it got deleted 
We all haver our opinions... sorry to say, alot of people have the same opinion as me *shrug*
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
RJUK wrote:
I have been playing SWG since launch and I HAVE to say this petition is the best thing written since sliced bread...
I totally agree with everything it says / states
So have I and I think its an absolute joke.
RJUK wrote:
We all haver our opinions... sorry to say, alot of people have the same opinion as me *shrug*
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
RJUK wrote:
I have been playing SWG since launch and I HAVE to say this petition is the best thing written since sliced bread...I totally agree with everything it says / states
So have I and I think its an absolute joke.
Yeah but a lot of people bought N'Sync albums as well. They're horrible. Doesn't mean the majority is correct.
Ok i'm gonna stop simply because your starting an argument here... and i'm not giving the mod's an excuse for deleting this thread.
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
RJUK wrote:
We all haver our opinions... sorry to say, alot of people have the same opinion as me *shrug*
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
RJUK wrote:
I have been playing SWG since launch and I HAVE to say this petition is the best thing written since sliced bread...
I totally agree with everything it says / states
So have I and I think its an absolute joke.
Yeah but a lot of people bought N'Sync albums as well. They're horrible. Doesn't mean the majority is correct.