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Galahede

Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:33 am

SOE:

We have made a decision to address major combat issues only and not do the full combat balance at this time. After the Crafting Experimentation experience, we realized that we need to spend more time than a single publish to truly accomplish our goal, which is to make combat fun and engaging. To have the depth to combat that I think everyone wants in the system we want get much more player feedback and balance on these types of things. We will be developing the Combat Balance separately in a Sandbox over a long period of time, with plenty of Test Center and correspondent participation. We will release this one when it is ready... and not before.

I highlighted the important stuff... now for my response...

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Devs, this isn't a way to run a business. It's very disappointing. You completely frustrate me and probably most of the player base. This just looks like you're stringing us along. It's a shame. It's a real shame.

Fix the broken specials TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! ALL OF THEM! TODAY!

And take out the useless, frustrating, annoying timers. TODAY!

Thank you. I know this will be ignored by the Devs but I need to vent because, sometimes, I feel like I spent my money foolishly on this game.

--== Master Pistoleer, Creature Handler 3/4/1/2, Scout 4/0/4/0, Artisan 4/0/0/3, Medic 0/0/0/0 ==--
Non-Grinder, Jedi at heart.

Ragmop

Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:48 am

#2

This may be the final straw that makes me and some others give up Pistoleer. I promised my self I would wait for the "Combat Balance" but it is getting harder and harder to do so. I have been Master at this a while now and would finally like to be useful.

Po-Mo

Old Dirty Bastards

Master Pistoleer| Master Doctor

Alliance Colonel & Ace Pilot

Okkarri-Hassakka

Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:01 pm

#3

I'm a manager in a large Information Systems Shop. It comes down to priorities. It's not their priority obviously to make combat fair and fun. If your a pistoleer which I am, it's really irritating.

I'm getting fed up with your game. I'm going to wait for one more release. Pub 8 is my last pub if you don't fix itnot that you all care.

Your excuses are lousy. If a special is broke, damnit it's broke. You don't need server testing and a complete combat balance to fix a broken special. If body shot 3 is less effective then body shot 2, it's broke.

When a rifle shoots faster than a pistol for twice the damage and is more accurate at close range then thats broke. It doesn't take genious to figure that out.

When you pull panic shot from us but give ranged dizzy and ranged knockdown to the rifleman profession, it's unfair. You didn't wait for a "combat balance" or "server testing" to do that. You simply did it.

I'm not reskilling. I've spent all the time skilling I'm going to in this game. I'm waiting for one more pub and then I'm going to go play someone elses game and take mymultipleaccounts give my money to someone else.

We are the ones paying. You don't do this on YOUR TIME. You do it in response to your customers. If you have an entire group of them that you have ignored for close to 6 months (ie. Pistoleers), you do something about it. It's not that hard to fix some of those things. Some of those things are simply table modifications.

Stop making excuses and just do it!!!

Okkarri-Hassakka

Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:03 pm

#4

I'm a manager in a large Information Systems Shop. It comes down to priorities. It's not their priority obviously to make combat fair and fun. If your a pistoleer which I am, it's really irritating.

I'm getting fed up with your game. I'm going to wait for one more release. Pub 8 is my last pub if you don't fix itnot that you all care.

Your excuses are lousy. If a special is broke, damnit it's broke. You don't need server testing and a complete combat balance to fix a broken special. If body shot 3 is less effective then body shot 2, it's broke.

When a rifle shoots faster than a pistol for twice the damage and is more accurate at close range then thats broke. It doesn't take genious to figure that out.

When you pull panic shot from us but give ranged dizzy and ranged knockdown to the rifleman profession, it's unfair. You didn't wait for a "combat balance" or "server testing" to do that. You simply did it.

I'm not reskilling. I've spent all the time skilling I'm going to in this game. I'm waiting for one more pub and then I'm going to go play someone elses game and take mymultipleaccounts give my money to someone else.

We are the ones paying. You don't do this on YOUR TIME. You do it in response to your customers. If you have an entire group of them that you have ignored for close to 6 months (ie. Pistoleers), you do something about it. It's not that hard to fix some of those things. Some of those things are simply table modifications.

Stop making excuses and just do it!!!

Orew

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:18 pm

#5

Okkarri-Hassakka wrote:

I'm a ...

While I don't like the size of the font he's using I agree with what he said.

Mr. Smedley's immortal words:
There are long threads that I've started myself on our forums, but we have community representatives that are answering questions diligently on our forums already, and I'm very involved in what's being said.

Mr. Smedley's user statistics when the above statement was made:
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Bzzzz

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:47 pm

#6

I guess it's time to stop waiting with money in hand. Instead of recommending other players against the pistoleer profession, it's time to cancel and recommend other buyers against SWG. I never expected to be uber, but I damn well expected to have some basic functionality.

-Zz

Okkarri-Hassakka

Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:04 am

#7

Sorry for the font size of my previous post.

I was yelling. Did not mean to offend.

I also did not mean to send it twice.

KzinKiller

Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:16 pm

#8

So, some of the really unbalancing and non-sensical things they did in the last couple months and explained by saying "This is part of the balance and it will not be nearly sobroken when the balance goes in ..."

Are they going to un-do those, or just ignore them?

I don't need a Magic 8-Ball to tell me the answer.

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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them
Albert Einstein

CU-1 ... CU-2 ... CUL8R

JohnMarble

Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:32 pm

#9

The whole philosophy behind this game is very frustrating. Everything was done half assed and rushed, with the idea, "we'll eventually come back and fix it." But will they?

Just look at the sky. Why are there stars in front of the moons? In any other computer game I've ever played they make the sky look right. We want moons, we want stars. Hm, we can't figure out how to do it. In any other game, they'd either fix it or leave out the stars or moons--whatever it takes, make it look like... a normal sky. In this game, it's like: well, it looks really silly and bad, but we'll just sort of leave it like that for now. We'll fix it. Soon, it won't like that long. No that won't look bad very long, no problem, we can fix that, we'll just get to it later.You look into the sky at night in SWG, and you see a metaphor, a big fat Pistoleer, just hanging there all ugly.

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