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Actually, I would rate that the WORST post ever. Its nothing but bull**edit** by some idiot who dosn't know the first thing about psychology, or, for that matter, the motivations of the dev team.

Hmmm, obviously Raph... I mean Arzen353 doesn't get the dry humor in that post. Its ok Raph... I mean Arzen353, we all know humor is bad... mkay

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Arzen353 wrote:
Actually, I would rate that the WORST post ever. Its nothing but bull**edit** by some idiot who dosn't know the first thing about psychology, or, for that matter, the motivations of the dev team.

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If he is breathing and has the capacity to listen to someone, he's understood halfthe concept of psychology....If you didn't realize that then you've been kidding yourself for quite some time. Leave him alone, he's only trying to enjoy a game, or now since all we have left is the message boards,that Raph is partially responsible for ruining everytime something stupid happens. Raph is being a **edit** when it comes to being sensible, as well as understandingthe people that he has taken all their time and work and slapped into the ground because he feels the need to excessively quote a stupid line, "don't bring a knife to a gun fight". Keep saying it until it makes sense to you, but if you fight a guy that is perfectly capable of using that knife, chances are you wont see him because he's sneaking up from a shadow behind you to slit your throat.

Motivation of the Dev team? LOL That all by itself is a joke. What motivation? The motivation to make sure the skill tree is working for EQ 2 and to piss off as many people as they can that are paying them money now to fund the whole project of EQ2? What is motivation to these people? Not a goddam thing is "motivation" other then the paycheck they get on the 15th and 30th of the month. If I were in Raph's position I too would enjoy having people hate the game that people pay me to play, and enjoy wasting their time day and day out, why not? Gotta have a little fun in my job right? Isn't that how it works in the real world? The only thing the dev teams have motivation for is going to the local strip club and slipping 20's down the front of the skanky little highschool coked out dropout. That's motivation enough to remove 400 posts written by people complaining about how horrible they've done, and then they get home and reply, "That's working as intended". Whats working as intended is the simple fact that the Dev team for SOE, Verant, as well as Lucas Arts, is a pathetic joke, that stopped being funny after the first few years of dealing with flunkies that they called Developers. They couldn't develope their own ham and cheese sammich without reading instructions first.

Disgruntled personage,

Ferret you may want to be careful. I got Ip banned from the forums for starting a thread on the Devboard, on a quote that Raph Koster made. The title of the thread was a direct quote from his website. I am not even going to say it again, cause I don't want to be IP banned again.

I guess Raph saw it and got mad and banned me.

Let him bann, it's only temporary. I know his boss' contact information and could care less whether or not he likes my comments, he's not doing his job and we're letting him know about it, thats why these boards are here, for discussion.

Honestly you couldn't find a better person for the job, just look at his resume. He even said he was gone on vacation, sure could of maybe planned the first big patch better when he was back from vacation....live and learn. Who's to say this was all Sony's fault to begin with? I wouldn't be surprised at all if Lucas Arts had more to do with all this than Sony did. I've played Everquest since beta and up to this point SWG hasn't had nearly as many problems as EQ ever did. There are too many ying and yangs in this patch to even think Sony did all this.......KD is too powerful so lets nerf it, CH's are too strong so lets nerf them but hey while we're at it lets give any Imp a 19K HAM Pet that does 1100-1500 Damage in 1 shot. Heck on test KD wasn't costing nearly as much as it does now, seems it was changed at the last minute possibly while Holo was on vacation. Also can't forget the preassure LA put on Sony to release the game when LA wanted, even though Sony wanted to beta it longer. All we can do is wait and see how Holo and the Devs correct these issues now, and if Lucas Arts had a bigger part in this patch than Sony hopefully they will let Sony handle the patches for now on and not interfere with them.

The people that reply on these boards are not representing the concept artist's (lucas arts), they are represnting SOE because Lucas Arts wouldn't know how to make a game if God came down and handed it to them in a pre-wrapped box....*Duhhh how do we copy a CD man?*. Lucas Arts keeps the star wars theme in check while Verant Interactive does all the changes to "balance" the classes that were so "unbalanced" before...Whether or not he's on vacation means jack squat, Raph is a pawn used only to communicate to people on these boards in whatever way makes them shut up the quickest, because honestly they don't have enough people working to take care of the 100,000's complaints made daily. They have 3 CSR reps (if they are lucky) that have played maybe a total of 20 minutes of this game, hence why the changes that go through are so pathetic. Raph has given people enough ammunition to dislike him, I used to defend him saying give him more time, he'll try and do the right thing, over and over....What's the point? There is no need for time, nobody cares what the hell happens to this game anyways so why should they? $$

If it's not SOE's fault then hell froze over, the rest of the world went into a blackout and the cold war just started all over again, you know them dirty russians are on the move now!

This is Everquest all over again....but look instead of "a chunker creep" you have "an orc pawn"...

The only difference is 'a' and 'an' now...