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So with all the hubbub over our latest strifeI got to thinking...how much do the devs make a year? I have no idea what the pay scale looks like for a game developer, but I'm figuring somewhere in the 50-75k mark. Just as an estimate.

Now, at last count there were what, 500,000 subscribers? So if we as the customer base decided that we want to be far more generous then SOE deserves, and offer to pay an extra $1.00 a month for 3 months to pay for more developers salaries...would that get us our Combat Revamp, Smuggler Revamp, and GCW revamp any sooner?

Think about it, if it was possible that we could all donate an extra dollar for the sole purpose of hiring more devs to get this game working the way it should; would you?

I know that a lot of us say that they have received more of our money then they should already, and that we are being ripped off monthly by SOE who are working only for the bottom line. However, I wonder how many of you would participate in such a program. It's obvious that they need more staff in order to get things accomplished. Hell for the amount of money we are talking ($1.5 million dollars) they should be able to hire a small army of developers to get these projects COMPLETE!

Would an extra 20-30 devs get things done?

-Arashi

Bloodfin

Yea, I would do that

Anwar Sadat - Lowca
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/agree... but with SOE's fantastic track record... theyd just promise it .. charge us more.. and not follow through... theyd release like 30 more patches based on holo emotes and clothing colors

I wouldn't go for it. I don't think their main problem is manpower, but priorities (and customer relations).

EDIT: If I could buy some of them a reality check, now that might be money well-spent

Yeppers, I would even be willing to pay a extra 3 buck's as long as they hire besides a couple of more developers but at least 1 guy who goes to each of the servers and plays with different groups to find out what we really think. As it is I agree that it seems like the Dev's are living in a dream land. I mean come on ID before smuggler (Leia's hair dresser before Han?) who are they kidding?

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"STILL DREAMING OF THE FABLED SMUGGLER REVAMP"

Yes, I would be more than willing to do this. However, recruitting the people with the needed skill sets and then integrating them into the team would be extremely time consuming and as for actually managing the multiple projects all at once with so many employees working at once... well, it'd be a nightmare. Something that, judging by the Devs abilities to date, they could not accomplish.

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I wish iwould have been able to keep up with my own thread, but icouldn't so it died, oh well such is life. I agree with what has been said, we'll see what happens.

-Arashi

Bloodfin

In theroy it sounds great.

However, the reality is that whenever a software project is broke or behind schedule, adding more developers to the project just slows it down even more. What happens is that the developers that know whats going on and how to fix the problems end up spending more time bringing the new developers up to speed than fixing the problems that exist.

Trust me... I know from experiance

I want more devs, but i m not going to pay more than what i pay today just to get the game i m supposed to pay for.

I fear it would be like politics... raising taxes for specfic purposes and the money never going where it was suppose to. They make enough money off this game at 15 per month. Thats my 2 cents though.