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Thread: The real reason why SWG has become ruined and SOE doesn't listen to us!
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I_Love_Wookies
Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:14 am
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I emailed Smokejumper ages ago(ex dev of Planetside) I asked him why he left SOE and why Planetside went down the drain?
He replied with:
I don't think SOE will cancel PlanetSide. Mind you, I don't work there anymore, so it's just an opinion, but the game is low-cost to continue and *does* bring in profit, so it doesn't seem smart to cancel it.
However, SOE doesn't always do the "smart" thing, so all bets are off. 
Core Combat was a mistake, plain and simple. We told management that it was too soon to create an expansion and that adding more real estate to the game (new gaming areas) was a mistake due to what it would do with population density. They required us to create the expansion anyway, and then didn't allow us time to test it.
Thus, you got what you got. Not because the Dev team wanted it that way, but because the company needed cash.
We did the best we could, but 3.5 months is not long enough to create *and* test a full expansion product. And that's all we were allowed.
So...in short...I agree with you. Although I think there were some really good things that we added after launch, that expansion pack was an error. (I *do* think Core Combat could have been great if we'd been allowed to test and tweak it properly...but without any signficant public testing, it was doooooomed.)
Have fun with the game anyway and I wish you the best.
-- Dave Georgeson.
Now theres your reason! SOE only cares about money and they don't actually have time to test any of the content!
If they gave the dev's enough time maybe we'd have a good product!
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