Jedi Archive
Thread: DEVS Learn from your pub 22 mistake DON'T PUSH CLOAK NERF LIVE!
On behalf of the entire LucasArts and SOE SWG team, we wanted to take this opportunity to apologize for a recent change we made regarding group experience (XP) rates. With Publish 22, we attempted to fix an unintended game play mechanic that we introduced with the Combat Upgrade earlier this year. Specifically, we wanted to correct a large divergence between the rate at which experience (XP) could be earned in a solo setting versus a group setting. After this change hit live, we were presented with a mountain of feedback describing how this change had a major negative impact on your enjoyment of the game. We want to let you know that we hear you and we value your feedback. You were right: we made a mistake on this one and we reversed out the change because of that feedback. We continue to learn from experience and pledge to improve our process for bringing you timely updates to Star Wars Galaxies.
Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you in the game!
Sincerely,
Julio Torres
Producer, Star Wars Galaxies
LucasArts
Todd Fiala
Director of Development, Austin Studio
Sony Online Entertainment
Please Devs, lets not rehash this style incident. We can catch thisissue BEFORE it goes live this time. This proposedyet untested cloak nerf as it has been describedWILL cause a mountain of negative feedback and WILL cause a major negative impact onMY enjoyment of the game as well as the enjoyment of ANYONE who has cloak.
If you value the feedback of myself and every other person against this nerf, then I beg of you not to let this cloak nerf go live.
Please listen to your valued customer here:
1. If there is a problem with cloak in GCW bases then implement in a line of code where it says: "Cannot Perform That Action While Under Cover". This is coded already for using mounts.
2. If there is a problem with cloak in looting dungeons then impliment in a line of codewhere it says: "Cannot Perform That Action While Under Cover". This is coded already for using mounts.
3. If there is a problem with cloak in PvP then please place (1) Waaaaaaaaambulance in that persons inventory. Powers has NO ADVANTAGE in Damage, Speed, Mitigation, or Efficiency against any other single profession. Powers is so gimped ATM that this is the LAST THING it needs.The only good thing you gave this otherwise ultra-lame discipline was cloak, please don't kill this poor defenseless skill set.
I know this is falling on deaf ears and that no one with any power will respond. I, and MANY other paying customers, have voiced out our "valued feedback". Please look at it carefully and make the right choice.
On one hand youstand to LOSE valued customers @ $15 a pop, while further unbalancing the combat "upgrade". All this just from a silly nerf that didnt need to happen.
On the other hand you can continue to run a shady MMO of which no one would play if the Star Wars name was not attached to it. You can continue to run me through the mud of day to day boredom while stringing the proverbial carrot (FRS) in front of the donkey (everyone waiting for FRS). If this cloak nerf stays at bay, I'll probablyput in apreorder for CONTENT (that should be free) and continue my 2 SWG subscriptions.
As a parting shot, PLEASE STOP TRYING TO BALANCE JEDI INTO NORMAL PROFESSIONS!!! PLEASE STOP TRYING WITH ALL YOUR RESOURCES TO MAKE THE GAME MORE BALANCED AND PLEASE FOCUS ON MAKING THE GAME FUN. PLEASE DON'T BAN ME FOR USING THE "F" WORD, I KNOW THE WORD FUN IS A MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT AND IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT FROWNED UPON BY THE DEVS.
Now, everyone else, go ahead and tell me how irrelevant I am, how much I suck, tell me that I need to learn how to play, and how imperfect my spelling and grammar is.
Message Edited by emovamalla on 09-18-2005 02:00 AM
i think experience nerfs for every combat profession and modifying one special of one tree of Jedi are two different things.
prettysure the game is gonna come crashing down over this like the XP thing.
besides, some Jedi think cloak is over powered. others think that at least, it should be a master level skill.
i do agree that they are trying to balance Jedi with other professions...it is a problem they created and are hard pressed to solve.
Message Edited by magneto2 on 09-18-2005 05:11 AM
you have no idea what you are on about how is me standing there unable to attack because i cloaked a 'I win' button. Oh wait its not. AI allowed you to attack and carry on damaging opponents
Yoiaholic1 wrote:
When my non-jedi friends threaten to quit it makes me sad, when a jedi threatens to quit I laugh and so should SOE. You will not quit you will try to sell your account. And that is the problem. The jedi population NEVER decreases even as people leave the game.
Cloak needs a balance. Its not a nerf. Please understand that as AI was considered an I win button before cloak is now.
Liani wrote:
i think experience nerfs for every combat profession and modifying one special of one tree of Jedi are two different things.
prettysure the game is gonna come crashing down over this like the XP thing.
besides, some Jedi think cloak is over powered. others think that at least, it should be a master level skill.
i do agree that they are trying to balance Jedi with other professions...it is a problem they created and are hard pressed to solve.
/agree QFE!!
because I was not a force healer;
Then they came for the enhancers, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a enhancer;
Then they came for the wielders, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a wielder;
Then they came for the lightsaber users, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a lightsabers user;
because I was not a defender;
Then they came for jedi--
and there was no one left to speak out for the jedi.