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Thread: Scoundrels, Rogues, Smugglers...Lend me your Ears
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Chavabegga
Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:25 pm
#1
There is alot of anguish and annoyance out there about the way things have developed with this game. No one likes seeing something they want and then seeing it taken farther and farther away from them. The game has alot of problems, many bug related, many balance related, many communications related. But we must always keep in mind something. The Devs are not the ones we should get mad at. It genuinely appears they care about the game and want to do what is best for it as a whole. While they maynot be good at communicating they are also game developers and not communication specialists.
The source of our woes lies with SOE. The developers are constantly trying to finish things that we all want but are told to do something else by SOE. Does anyone actually believe that the Devs seriously wanted to devote time to swoop track races and auction channels? Seriously, auction channels? Instead of fixing things?
SOE is goal is to make money. They are after all a business. However, instead of the goal being to make a great game that people enjoy and that works properly and the making money aspect only be a required component it is instead the end goal. While this is fine for SOE to want that they are interferring with the development of the game and its designers whose goal IS to make the great game we all want.
The true saver of this game is not the Combat Balance. It needs to be the Business Balance. There needs to be a balance between SOE's desire to see a profit and the Devs(and our) desires to make a great game. Currently things are out of balance. SOE is the CM/Rifleman and the Devs are the Smuggler/Pistoleer. And the Devs have about Feigned Dead.
What needs to happen is two fold. We need to rally behind the devs and use the GTEF to strike SOE with our complaints of the way they are handling things. The Devs can then stand from FD and /lowblow; /lastditch SOE. And it needs to happen soon. SOE is rapidly causing severe Blackrot and Armor Decay on the Devs and they will soon be so burned out that when they do stand it will be instant DB and they will leave the game. What will we get to replace them? People whose only concern is doing what SOE wants and not making a great game.
At the same time as we rally behind the Devs and voice our displeasure with SOE they need to utilize their +100 language skills and improve communication. If they don't know something, they need to say "We don't know". If they can't do something they promised (ala GM and TH) they need to say, "Sorry don't have the time to do that". And if they can't say something they need to say "I can't answer that yet" instead of giving a nonanswer.
FrankLee
Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:30 pm
#2
I remember when I was like you.
I remember when I thought they could be swayed by logic, torture, or stop-payments.
Now I realize that this game is a sickness, and they're my twisted junky enabler girlfriend. Once I realized that, it got easier.
What was the first step again...?
I remember when I thought they could be swayed by logic, torture, or stop-payments.
Now I realize that this game is a sickness, and they're my twisted junky enabler girlfriend. Once I realized that, it got easier.
What was the first step again...?
Whiteness
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:24 am
#3
FrankLee wrote:
I remember when I was like you.
I remember when I thought they could be swayed by logic, torture, or stop-payments.
Now I realize that this game is a sickness, and they're my twisted junky enabler girlfriend. Once I realized that, it got easier.
What was the first step again...?
Frank is zen, he is eloquent in his simplicity.
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