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Thread: SOE! Either add smuggler content to Privateer or fire your marketing rep!
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DrevenStrobe
Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:44 am
#27
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:
DrevenStrobe wrote:
/noComment
Caylin...I'm assuming you've mentioned something about this on the c-forums...
/shakes head
Seeing as how I've only read it a few minutes ago, not yet.
Gotcha...
BrekCoronus
Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:56 am
#28
Well, since now ANYONE can be a "smuggler of space," I suggest we get a new profession title. "Worthless spice addict" or "weapon and armor technician" come to mind.
BigLands
Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:57 am
#29
Without breaking NDA - Privateer is just a class name, the same way Smuggler is. I don't see anyone but Smugglers avtaully doing smuggly (is that a word?) stuff, and I think you'll see our revamp cover both the ground and the space game. The problem right now, is that for the last year we've been an unfinished profession, that shouldn't really have made it out of Beta. Short of a MAJOR overhaul of the smuggler systems and skills, trying to add content based on what we can currently do is gonna turn out, well , like the Jawa junk idea.
Effectively, we're so screwed up that nothing short a major revamp can help us.
Until the Smuggler revamp we're basically in limbo - we either learn to cope or we leave and play other profs or other games.
lurdanta
Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:31 am
#30
ZarrnOrion wrote:
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:Now folks, it's not a matter of them not telling me. Tiggs didn't know what on earth I was talking about. She sent that information on though to some others who would be interested in seeing that. She has been really helpful
QFE. The part I highlighted is what worries/bothers me.
Doesn't worry me. I've worked in marketing of sorts as a copywriter for a long time and I know that marketing people live in a fantasy world of their own and rarely talk to people who make the product except to get something to confirm their fantasy. And besides, since this copy seemed to only be on gamespots webpage, it's likely it was something their marketing droid came up with without consulting SOE, and even if they did contact SOE, they would have talked to a SOE marketing droid, not a dev, and I doubt the SOE marketing droid would have talked to a dev.
You would be amazed at some of the copy mistakes I've seen, even some no one noticed...let's just say you shouldn't leave the "L" out of "public" when talking about "protecting our constitutional right to access to public gathering places" it kind of takes on a new meaning...I think this is just some innocent marketing copy mistake...probably someone who got too enthusiastic and went a little overboard and took a little liberty with the words.
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