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They push the expansion, and all the stuff in it, knowing full well they're going to nerf every single bit of it along with the changes in the last 6-8 months worth of patches. Why? What caused the drastic change? This change to the game is obviously not something that was too well planned. No game designer in their right mind would alienate/nerf an entire player base. SOE has apparently done it Twice now.

Why? What is your goal? What direction are you guys trying to get into?

It seems more than anything that you're basically saying "Screw old blood, throw all Jedi to the wind, throw all players to the wind, nerf everything, and lets bring in new blood by promising them a chance as a Jedi at starting." This very idea is completely stupid. You're going to say "SCREW Your 15 bucks, and all payments of 15 bucks prior to it, their 19.95 and whatever we can milk out of them until we turn the servers off is enough to make our investment finished."

Seriously, at the rate the nerfs, changes, and miscommunication, ceception, and overall ignoring the subscription paying player base is completely going to kill this game by next December.

I'm calling it now, by December of 2006, SWG will be shut down or shut down will be announced.


What kind of game designer takes away content from a game already lacking in content? "Lets turn 32 in depth professions to 9, why? Cuz our dev team SUCKS."

Are you guys THAT lazy? What happened? TELL US.

december 2006? wow you give it more credit than I do.. heh id say about same time as the CU hit in 06, so around June or July.. at most.

you dont need to concept when you have a bunch of stupid idiots that will do it for them...namely us.

ceception = deception.


I wanna know what exactly sparked the sudden change of face completely

Either it is THAT good it has to come out NOW.

or

They got sick of seing ghost towns on any server compared to the hundreds that use to be logged in, and decided it could NOT get worse.

What sparked it was the fact that gamers in Japan hate bug-ridden games where the developers don't pay attention and fix things.

Star Wars Galaxies tanked over there, they just announced it. So to recoup their losses, SWG producers are in a panic mode, bringing out SWG2 disguised as an update to SWG.

They're basing these changes on the feedback of people who left the game. People who didn't have an attention span longer than five minutes, couldn't be bothered to discover and read the forums, and threw the manual away after they'd torn out all the pages for toilet paper. People who want to be led, by the hand, through everything. People who can't understand that flexibility is good, and thinking is a good way to approach and solve problems. People who are easily distracted by whatever new game comes along, and have no loyalty to any game, period.

That is what is driving this sudden and complete gutting of the game.

they've been planning this for some time... remember back when they posted information on how rangers were gonna be come spy-like? They meant that literally, they've known this for months, probably nearly a year, since it's already hitting player testing tommarow..

If ya think about it, the new AI, the CL level system, removal of the combat queue, nearly every change in the CU (except for the new hotbar icons and cooldown rules) seems to fit seemlessly with this change, the CU was just a progression patch for this..

Message Edited by Maxil on 11-03-2005 08:57 PM

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Naw, because if it was a planned thing, they wouldn't have wasted Dev resources on things like Ranger improvements that they were putting into 25 (which were shown a week + ago.)

sure they were, all that's still gonna be part of the new system.. Alot of the new changes, if ya look at it, almost adapt perfectly for the new style.. for it to already be ready for player testing this had to been in development for months already, and then closed testing as well

I think they came up with this as an emergency backup plan, or maybe it was just a concept that was lying on a table being ridiculed that some Exec saw and decided to pick up and put into action in a last act of desperation.