Tailor Archive
Thread: New Article on swgtailor: deflecting criticism of SWG for offering alternative professions
NJ62 wrote:
I've posted a new article regarding some gamers' criticism of SWG for offering nontraditional professions, such as tailoring and entertaining.
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Well said!
I'm hoping that this problem will vanish with hologrinding. The hologrinders have overpopulated the cantinas and caused many of the dedicated entertainers to quit entirely. Hopefully, when they get rid of hologrinding, the cantinas will return to normal, the hologrinders will leave, and the regulars will return to the profession.
Similarly, we were peeved and threatened when hologrinders started flooding the market with tailored items. That has settled down, thankfully, because hologrinders are in too much of a rush to even pause at master to make items to flood the market with, or they have enough money that they don't care. But if it hadn't, perhaps our profession would be in as dire a situation as the entertainers'.
Just because entertaining has become a bad state of affairs, doesn't mean that it isn't a good idea. Anything, if done incorrectly, can be yucky.
Fantastic article 
I am not a tailor(i would be with more sp... *sigh*) but i check these forums every so often for... well clothes info I am a master dancer, often accused of doing it for a holo. And i am not... and it was annoying haveing 50 people with me... and having ONE of them to talk to...(different story... sorry)
But aye. i love talking to tailors for me you make the world go 'round, just a lil input from the other useless proffesion lol
Dynom is no more...
Amen Smi. When the holotainers go the way of the dodo, after the new jedi path comes into existence, I intend to pick up dancing again. Ah, I miss the chatting and socializing in the cantinas. Now every cantina butTheed and Coronet are abandoned.
The people that feel tailoring is a waste have become too focused on the Counterstrike mentality.... a game equates to point-and-kill experience.
Quite frankly, having tried every other aspect of SWG play (well, except Jedi, if you wanna get technical), I've found to Tailoring to be the most functional and the most fresh. It's gotta be doing something right to have me playing it since Beta 3.
Besides, Tailoring allows me to emulate the coolest Cardiassian to ever exist: Garak. /grin
It seems to me that winning over the MMORPG powergamers is kind of a lost cause, anyhow. You'll never satisfy them, and on top of that, they're fickle, and will just move to the next "latest and greatest" MMORPG, then complain loudly that it doesn't satisfy them either.
I think a related problem (and one you see in fandom of all sorts, too) is that a lot of people (and they tend to be *very* loud) don't truly *want* innovation. What they really want is "More of the same, only different." Despite a lot of protests to the contrary, I think many players truly *do* want SWG to be "Everquest in Space."
Kudos for the article; it's a very nicely done rebuttal to a completely narrowminded and ignorant attack on the game. But as Bindi points out, the devs seem to be listening to voices like this. They're already ignoring the aspects of the game this clown was complaining about in his review, and those are the ones most of us on this board got into it for in the first place.
Message Edited by Sriva on 02-23-2004 03:11 PM
Sriva wrote:
The biggest problem I'm starting to have with the game is that there are glaciers that move faster than the devs do on fixing existing problems and providing new content to professions that aren't completely busted. Tailors, image designers, and entertainers all focus on the visual side of the game, and they've done virtually nothing for any of those professions since release. How about some new schematics, guys? New hairstyles? New flourishes for the higher level dances that only have around three apiece? What's worse, as the chef hat and apron addition shows, they seem to have the same problem the EQ people did of not just failing to listen to their playerbase, but wilfully ignoring them. It's like wandering in the desert dying of thirst and being offered a burrito to eat. You gasp, "no thanks, I'm thirsty, not hungry," and they say, "no, really, have a burrito!" There's just a basic failure to comprehend what you're asking for. They give you crap you don't want and don't ask for, while ignoring reasonable requests for things you do want, and don't seem to see any problem with that way of proceeding.