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Thread: Overall State of the Game in relation to Musicians

MajorCurt
Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:16 pm
#1

As I read Jester's post http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=GCW&message.id=220038 regarding Combat, it makes me realize how much of a downward nose dive this game is taking. While I do think that Musicians need some loving, I realize that in spite of buffbots, I still get decent buffing buisness (at least on my server), I still get hired for gigs, and I still have fun in the cantina (Theed, not Coronet). And I read about horribly unbalanced combat, gamebreaking bugs and other things, it makes me realize that a game that I love is taking a turn for the worst.


It's really sad that so many people cancelled their accounts this evening. I've heard unconfirmed reports of upwards of 5,000 people cancelling tonight. That's huge. Something needs to be done to /bonk SOE and wake them up and pull them away from their lovechild, JTL.


/sigh


I'll be surprised if my account makes it to JTL. I'm just really sad right now.



-Psylion Highwind (Chilastra)

Master Musician
Master Dancer
Master Entertainer
Warryyr
Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:45 pm
#2






MajorCurt wrote:

As I read Jester's post http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=GCW&message.id=220038 regarding Combat, it makes me realize how much of a downward nose dive this game is taking. While I do think that Musicians need some loving, I realize that in spite of buffbots, I still get decent buffing buisness (at least on my server), I still get hired for gigs, and I still have fun in the cantina (Theed, not Coronet). And I read about horribly unbalanced combat, gamebreaking bugs and other things, it makes me realize that a game that I love is taking a turn for the worst.


It's really sad that so many people cancelled their accounts this evening. I've heard unconfirmed reports of upwards of 5,000 people cancelling tonight. That's huge. Something needs to be done to /bonk SOE and wake them up and pull them away from their lovechild, JTL.


/sigh


I'll be surprised if my account makes it to JTL. I'm just really sad right now.







I know a lot of people cancelled (or at least said they did).


Before the thread got deleted, there were a lot of folks saying they're cancelling all of their accounts (some were 3 or more).


I think it was that trend that perpetuated, so they thought if they got rid of the thread, it wouldn't incite such a furvor. The problem is, they don't realize deleting the thread will do nothing. It's just some temporary damage control. People were pretty unhappy that this happened. And rightfully so, as far as I'm concerned.


SOE dropped the ball when it came to this Jump to Lightspeed nonsense. They didn't integrate it into the schedule the way it could have been integrated. They focused the last 4 publishes on mainly 2 professions - Droid Engineer and Jedi. And the rest of us have just been flappin in the breeze. And from what they said today, we'll keep flappin away for who knows how long. A lot of these combat folks are looking forward to getting their game back - with a challenge, and more level playing field for PvP. Once again, they wait longer.


What SOE should have done is realize the resources that Jump to Lightspeed would take - and consider the fact that their paying customers (all of us) aren't going to be happy being left out in the cold basically for another year. I still don't understand why they took all those Devs off the Live game for this expansion - they should have hired more folks on a long time ago and maintained some attention to their paying customers.


On the plus side, I think they very much realized they screwed up big with delaying this badly needed stuff yet AGAIN. We're probably going to getlistened to pretty seriously, as I think they really want to quell the uprising that happened tonight.


Panthu (the Dancer correspondent) said she's already submitted some issues, and TH already requested feedback on them. That's a gigantic step all ofa sudden, and the correspondents may suddenly get paid attention. I can't wait to see how this turns out.


NewJedi
Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:11 pm
#3

Well, something does seem to have gotten the devs attention. They're posting very actively in the Correspondent Forum tonight. But it's one thing to post; it's another to devote time and resources to improving professions like ours.
DarkY0da
Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:16 pm
#4

$230 bucks so far to them for THIS game.

I get 1 song and dance some time in the next few months.

Nothing except we don't like AFK.

No fixes to my broken dances.

They ruin a huge part of my game from Hologrinding.

They don't want to police 3rd party programs , so they make it so that you use their macros to not play.

Nothing "In Concept" Nothing "In Develpment" Nothing "In testing" nothing to be seen except 1 song and 1 dance for the next year. They have taken my $230 that I have spent on THIS game. And instead of improving my game here they took it and used it to make a new game that I already own(X-wing vs Tie Figher anyone) and want me to spend another $50 to buy it.


When is WoW coming out again ?



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Warryyr
Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:12 am
#5






DarkY0da wrote:

$230 bucks so far to them for THIS game.

I get 1 song and dance some time in the next few months.

Nothing except we don't like AFK.

No fixes to my broken dances.

They ruin a huge part of my game from Hologrinding.

They don't want to police 3rd party programs , so they make it so that you use their macros to not play.

Nothing "In Concept" Nothing "In Develpment" Nothing "In testing" nothing to be seen except 1 song and 1 dance for the next year. They have taken my $230 that I have spent on THIS game. And instead of improving my game here they took it and used it to make a new game that I already own(X-wing vs Tie Figher anyone) and want me to spend another $50 to buy it.


When is WoW coming out again ?






5 stars

MajorCurt
Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:33 am
#6

I agree with whoever made the suggestion to just give us the darn songs and forget about the quest. We dont care about the quest. We care about the song.


Any chance we could pass that along, NJ?



-Psylion Highwind (Chilastra)

Master Musician
Master Dancer
Master Entertainer
starcraftWS
Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:03 am
#7

I am due for a break from this game and will be walking away in a few days. I'll determine, in a few months time, if it's worth coming back to.


After yesterday's announcement, I'm heavily leaning towards never coming back. I'd miss playing with you guys (like Ricky and Psylion), but gotta weight all options. A game is meant to be fun, not infuriatingly frustrating.



- I support ATK people and playstyles
My baloney has a first name. It's c-o-m-b-a-t.
My baloney has a second name is u-p-g-r-a-d-e.



Two accounts cancelled due to SOE's continued idiocy
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