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Thread: This is the saddest SWG day of my life...

Eavik
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:00 pm
#14

Agree with everything except this





MISTagent01 wrote:
Honestly, I think many of us would be totally satisfied with a post saying, "We can't post details since they might change, but we're working on something, and we'll get the docs out to you as soon as we can."



At this point, it's been done too many times to believe it. I'm not going to pay to wait for fixes, I'm going to wait for fixes to pay.



HaughtyElf
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:12 pm
#15






Antonnio wrote:
All I want is to HEAR THEM SAY SOMETHING...

Acknowledge us! I am sick and tired of being strung along, this forum has taken a critical blow in the last few days... common, you know its true. The day one of MY THREADS can stay on the front page is the day this forum has sustained heavy damage. Heck, my thread was about MacGyver... honestly...

Give us some sort of sign...





I agree... to be honest, I dont care if stuff changes, if it does change come back say Hey it changed here's why....


Why does it seem like every MMO, I've been apart of, the concept of communication with the player base, the ones paying for the game, is no where to be found.








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NickHeel
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:26 pm
#16






HaughtyElf wrote:



I agree... to be honest, I dont care if stuff changes, if it does change come back say Hey it changed here's why....


Why does it seem like every MMO, I've been apart of, the concept of communication with the player base, the ones paying for the game, is no where to be found.





Because the idiots that run the game or "communicate" with the player base are just that...idiots. These are the morons that huddle together in the computer room at your high school or college and associate with their own kind. If you don't know what they know, you're below them and they treat you as such.


They have no concept of customer service or empathy for their client. I know, I've seen it. I've worked in retail for 4 years now and I see many many people get hired that just don't have people skills. Hell, they can tell you how to rebuild a '72 Chevy or build a 7.6ghz computer out of a toaster and a rubber duck. But you take that person with all that skill in their "hobby" and theycan't even smile and say "hi" to a customer as they pass each other in the isle. And god forbid a customer or client has an issue they need to talk to you about...they get a blank stare on their face and just go quiet or run around looking for "someone else to do it" while the client gets tired of waiting and wonders off. Problem solved from their end...others will be in later to buy stuff and keep the store running.


However, you get people like me. I empathize with my customers. I treat them like I want to be treated. I give them strait answers whether it's what they want to hear or not but I do my best to help them out, even if it includes referring them to another store.


But you can guess which kind of person we have running the show for us.






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TatharLB
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:35 pm
#17

Very well said.
Briar
Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:50 pm
#18

Incredibly true...


...and very, very sad.



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BaronJuJu
Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:40 pm
#19

/deepbow



Bravo Veela.....bravo





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massmurderer
Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:57 pm
#20






MISTagent01 wrote:
I would be really surprised if they banned me, considering I'm Media...it's my job to spread the truth, isn't it?




I would too but you never know.....With their Gestapo-like mannerisms it could happen, if it does u can use my alt. If soe isn't treating us like a bunch of 4-year olds then they treat us like mushrooms(you know keep us in the dark an feed us alot of crap).
SmugglerPie
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:08 pm
#21

The lack of communication is the main reason that will make me cancel my account.


I'm too disgusted with the last couple of day's events to really make a meaningful reply.





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SpinningCloud
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:17 pm
#22






MISTagent01 wrote:
I would be really surprised if they banned me, considering I'm Media...it's my job to spread the truth, isn't it?





I would. They don't seem to be banning anything in this Forum since yesterday. I'd have thought many of us would have been banned or at least our threads locked or deleted. Personally I don't think they want any martyrs on their hands. Silence is about the most intelligent thing they can muster...well that has always been the case apparently.


For me to stay there would have to be an anouncement of SERIOUS SMUGGLING content. And I don't just mean another In Concept post that we discuss for five months only to be deleted with no explanation.


For me THAT (deletion of a five month In Concept thread with no explanation and no discussion AND the bait and switch of the new slicing) is the most telling evidence of all that either;


1. There IS not smuggling content or


2. It is SO different and so watered down from what was In Concept that they don't want us to see it until it's too late.


Please, someone offer me a more plausable explanation...preferable someone at SOE that wants to tell us the truth for a change.






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Taln2
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:18 pm
#23






MISTagent01 wrote:

SOE, you're probably not going to read this...but if you do, why do you (or LucasArts) feel the need to treat us the way you do?

Why does the playerbase continue to be treated like dog **** on a sidewalk? Why do you think that Jedi are your pathway to success?




Three words: The Almighty Dollar. That's all SOE has ever even cared about.


And lately it seems LucasArts is just as bad, if not worse. The latter is a damn shame, because I always thought LucasArts was of the "they can't possibly do anything wrong" tier of companies. Yet, all their aggressive marketing of late is geared more toward making a quick buckrather than acheiving a high level of quality out of star wars products. At least with SOE, on the other hand, I had an indiciation about when I came into SWG. COMPLETE NEGATIVITY. Many veteran EQ1 players warned us well in advance to beware of Verant-turned-SOE, telling tales of Verant's inability to care for it's customers. EQ1 addicts mentioned hating, yes, absolutely hating the EQ1 game but still playing it out of "duty to their friends," thus, EverCrack.


I wouldn't have believed them the first few months of SWG, but after the first year, I saw the evils and worse, still see them today. SWG is the kind of game that a gamer can tell was designed and developed by programmers and NOT gamers. There's a drastic difference, and if a comparison to WoW (a game designed by gamers, by the way) is any indication of the truthfulness of this contrast, then the difference is worth at least several million dollars more per month.


That is why McQuaid went rogue. Say whatever the hell you want to about an "amicable departure," SOE. I am not fooled. He's coming out with a game (vanguard: saga of heroes) which is targeted at YOUR HARDCORE GAMER playerbase. THATshould putSOE intheir rightful place, hopefully at the very bottom of the pile of MMOG companiesto which you are slowly sliding.


I rarely wish ill upon people, but I hope Smedley tanks and drowns for upholding outrageouslyimmoral standards in the gaming market. Him and everyone like him need to be purged by the consumers.



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Taln2
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:19 pm
#24

1-800-doublepost (ext. owned)

Message Edited by Taln2 on 07-15-2005 08:23 PM



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Xeranx
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:29 pm
#25


I wish I didn't see this post. Not because I feel you're wrong mind you, but because it started stirring up my disgust with this company and how they are handling their customer base. I'm just like Nick. I tend to my customers as I would like someone to tend to me when I walk into a store.


This is my first MMORPG and what a way it is to get introduced to the realm, eh? I can't for the life of me believe that a company can do this to the people that pay them and not see anything negative coming at them to make them think.


Let me stop here before I really go off.






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Heciv
Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:45 pm
#26



Eavik wrote:
Agree with everything except this


MISTagent01 wrote:
Honestly, I think many of us would be totally satisfied with a post saying, "We can't post details since they might change, but we're working on something, and we'll get the docs out to you as soon as we can."

At this point, it's been done too many times to believe it. I'm not going to pay to wait for fixes, I'm going to wait for fixes to pay.







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