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Thread: SOE Is Not Prepared For Expansion
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lemonella
Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:37 am
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One of the biggest, and most commonmistakes for a new business is to not be prepared to expand that new business. To not be prepared for an influx of new customers. New business, and small businesses constantly encounter these problems. SOE is not new, nor are they small, yet they are falling into the same trap that many newbie businesses do.
SOE, how are you prepared to handle the influx of new players with JTL, if you cannot even handle the ones you have now, what with the database problems? What do you think is going to happen when new players hit the scene? I know your marketing JTL towards old customers, but I see that your trying to market it towards getting new players into the game. Did you think that they're all going to join combat professions, so you wouldn't have to worry about them flooding your database with new items that they create as crafters?
Seriously, it is time that you consider expanding your database, instead of trying to "make do" with the crappy one you have now. One more suggestion....hire new database administrators. I can't believe the ones you have now have only these proposed changes as fixes for your problems. I for one will gladly take a few days off of playing your game while you update and transfer to a new database. I promise, I won't even ask for a refund for the few days downtime. I may even get my house cleaned and caught up on laundry.
BlackEdge
Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:56 am
#2
/sarcasm on
lemonella wrote:
One of the biggest, and most commonmistakes for a new business is to not be prepared to expand that new business. To not be prepared for an influx of new customers. New business, and small businesses constantly encounter these problems. SOE is not new, nor are they small, yet they are falling into the same trap that many newbie businesses do.
SOE, how are you prepared to handle the influx of new players with JTL, if you cannot even handle the ones you have now, what with the database problems? What do you think is going to happen when new players hit the scene? I know your marketing JTL towards old customers, but I see that your trying to market it towards getting new players into the game. Did you think that they're all going to join combat professions, so you wouldn't have to worry about them flooding your database with new items that they create as crafters?
Seriously, it is time that you consider expanding your database, instead of trying to "make do" with the crappy one you have now. One more suggestion....hire new database administrators. I can't believe the ones you have now have only these proposed changes as fixes for your problems. I for one will gladly take a few days off of playing your game while you update and transfer to a new database. I promise, I won't even ask for a refund for the few days downtime. I may even get my house cleaned and caught up on laundry.
Yeah they are, they're making ground pretty much unenjoyable, forcing us to buy JTL so they can make more money, and while people are in space busy shooting spaceships constantly and PVP in space will also be pointless like GCW on ground, that people will end up waiting hoping things in space and ground get fixed where there are a lot of contents...
It's all in their big plan...
/sarcasm off
I have no idea what's going through the developers and the upper managements mind.
Lupaerian
Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:26 am
#3
I'm starting to wonder more and more if I'll be better off just living in space when JTL shows up. Drop armorsmith and weaponsmith... pick up shipwright... make my own ships, earn a living by selling other people ships... and forget about all the broken stuff on the ground. Of course, that assumes that JTL won't be broken like the rest 
Oh well... I'm still here... and I probably will be for a long time... but the more I think of it, the more it seems to me thatit's not because of the game... it's because of the PA I'm in.
Oh well... I'm still here... and I probably will be for a long time... but the more I think of it, the more it seems to me thatit's not because of the game... it's because of the PA I'm in.-Lupaerian
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