Smuggler Archive

Well, maybe this is not for everyone, but I am going to take the lead from another thread and say that SOE needs to be called to start answering for what this profession has gone through. I haven't posted much on the boards, but trust me when I say that I have been with this profession since 6-26-03 and I have been waiting for nearly 2 years for a revamp or at least some fixes.

What I have been looking for is not exactly what the CURB is due to address. What I wanted was a bit more atmosphere as far as what a Smuggler is supposed to be and supposed to do. I didn't want to play a Jedi. I wanted to play something like Han Solo or even Lando Calrissian in his early days. I don't smuggle anything. I modify equipment here and there, I make useless spices, and I shoot pistols. There is no underground element to any of this. There is no working with Hutts, there is nothing to the whole idea of space piracy, and the space expansion didn't do much to make the concept unique. Instead, it's Jedi this and Jedi that.

I'm sick of it. I'm so sick of it in fact that I am calling for a boycott of the expansion by Smugglers. Maybe it won't make a dent, but it can make a difference. We can boycott it and we can write as to why we are doing it. We can write articles for the fan sites and we can post the articles and hopefully there will be enough of a noise that SOE has to answer.

Remember GreenMarine and the whole idea of the revamp? Remember all of the promises to have us looked at? So what do we get? An FD nerf. And now, we get some $15 expansion that doesn't introduce much to the game that it needs. It doesn't need another planet, it doesn't need a Jedi ship, it doesn't need 100 new missions, it doesn't need Cybernetics and it doesn't need space mining. Well, the space mining would be nice, but that was something that was talked about for JTLS and frankly the ship, the cybernetics, and the space mining are things that should come through a content patch, not some cheapie expansion.

What we need is the Underworld fleshed out, finally and once and for all. No more excuses, no more delays. We need real content for the profession and we need it soon. And I am not going to pay for any more expansions for this game unless that expansion addresses this in some way, although this should all be frankly through a free content patch. I ask for others to join in the boycott and to send a message to SOE, small as the message may be, that we are not going to stand for this and that our profession deserves the attention that has been promised to it for nearly 2 years. Cheap little expansions designed to sucker people into buying this game amid the Episode 3 hype is not what is going to get the numbers of this game going. What's going to get the numbers going and getting players to return is to see a sign that SOE cares about its promises to its players and is interested in providing unique content that addresses parts of the Star Wars Universe that have never been fully addressed. And this starts with the Smuggler Revamp and Underworld expansion.

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JTGAlpha wrote:

It'll be Dathomir on Life Day. It won't suck or anything. It'll be worth 25 bucks. But it won't be the great idea of a Crime Expansion that I'd pay double if not triple for.

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Actually, unless they come up with some really fantastic news about it, it's worth about ten bucks to me. Twenty five puts it on par with JTL and almost even the cost of the game at this point.... and from what I've seen, it's nowhere near that.

I like you style.... but you should know by now all boycotts on the boards do is ....



well..... Ahhhhh



Thats right... NOTHIN!!


Just like this poor profession.

I do like your heart in this matter, at least you have kept yours.


I feel mine was drained sometime @ JTL