Pikeman Archive

In this thread I will be adding the statements made by SOE (permiting they let me). I ask that you do not respond to this thread, and that all comments about the statements writen here be disscussed in another tread.

Thank you,

Khrim...

Ok here is the firstmsg sent back to me since I sent mine in...

X_SilverSurfer,

This is an update on the current state of correspondents and should let you
in on what is happening from your help. You should know me as Xahn from the
boards, I'm currently one of the community representatives for Star Wars
Galaxies. I've been working with our community for about 2 years and 8
months, so I've been there since we've opened the boards.

The reason we opened the correspondent positions up is because we've felt
that we've been failing on getting the major issues for the professions from
the community to the designers. I know at this point it's been somewhat of
a disappointment because you haven't seen any progress. This should be
changing very shortly. Next week you should see a post in your profession
that outlines all the issues you've brought up from your first week (we're
probably only going to get through one list a month) and the answers that
were given from our design meetings with your questions and suggestions.

I want to thank you for putting in all the effort you have so far, and also
for your patience. This has not been easy for you, and we're working as
hard as we can to get the feedback that you deserve. The coming posts
should answer your questions that you've brought up, and they should also
start changes in motion regarding those questions and comments. I can't
promise they will come right away. Some will come quickly, others will have
to take a back seat as we work on our fixes/updates/promised features. At
the least, you'll get the opinion from what the designer of your specific
profession thinks about that issue. I think you'll be very please with this
result.

We've accomplished a lot this week, and I think you're going to be really
pleased with the results. I can't stress to you enough how much we
appreciate your work. Many of these issues would not have been brought to
light without you.

Forgive me for making this somewhat of a form letter, but I've just flown
back from Austin today, and I'm dead tired. I just wanted to update you
guys on what's going on. I figure even though I'm dead, you deserve to know
what's happening and the changes you've started. Look for more next
week, I'm going to be compiling the list from the design meetings we've had
into a more postable format and get those out to your boards as soon as I
can.

Thanks,
Glenn Snyder
Star Wars Community
Sony Online Entertainment

I only hope that I am alowed to post these msgs... If not, It was nice being the correspondent

Khrim...

This is great, thanks Silver! Is there any way you can post a copy of what was submitted to SoE? I would love to read that as well.

Goverenor: "This is very serious! We're going to need a lot of harumphing!"

"harumph! harumph! harumph! harumph!"

Governor: (angry) "I didn't get a harumph out of that guy!"

Hedley: "Give the Governor a harumph!"

Guy: "Harumph!"

Governor: "You watch your a**"

I have already posted what I wrote to them, here is the link

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=pikeman&message.id=1483&highlight=#M1483

Khrim...

First we would like to thank you for your continuing patience. The


Correspondent program is trying a while to get up to speed. As soon as we


get our new internal contact hired, things will get much better. Until then,


thanks for putting up with our irregular contact. 





One of your requests that we would like to honor asap is for special Test


Center characters. Please create a character on Test Center and email us the


name of that character. In the next week or so, we will place special


terminals on Test Center to allow your character to get experience in the


profession your represent. We still don't want to give free xp to any player


on Test Center because it allows players to bypass playing the game to see


the higher end stuff. However, we want to make an exception in your case


because clearly you have earned your skills in your profession and also


there is a ton of value to you checking our fixes to your profession first


hand.





Again, thanks for bearing with us during this difficult time.





Kevin O'Hara


SWG Community Relations Manager

This was sent to me at 1:00PM today (8-26-03).

I have Created a Character on the Test Center Server and his name is Khrim Charan. I have created him to be almost exactly like my Pikeman Char on Gorath.

If you have any questions for me specifically, then I ask you all to join me on the Test Center Server. I do not have a fixed time inwhich I will be on, but you can expect me on tonight lvling up my character at 9:00PM to about 10:00PM.

Hope to see you all on,

Khirm...