Fuck you, SOE.
Okay, I am fully aware that this post-
1. Is only going to make sense to about 2% of the population.
2. Marks me openly as a huge nerd/geek/wtf ever.
Let me give you a brief summery. I am a gamer. I play games. I even play online games. You know, those dread things with monthly fee's that most people hate and/or cannot fathom? Yeah those. Well... one such game I have been playing for almost three years now, SWG (Star Wars Galaxies). Now, after three years of dedicated subscriptions... and payments- they have fucked me. They recently changed the entire game system, and ruined many things... the "Combat Upgrade". Well, this angered many people... myself included... but I went back to play it again anyways, and while it lacked its former glory... it was still fun.
-But-
Not days after releasing a new and very expensive expansion (Which thankfully we didn't get yet) they announced they were making changes again. -Infact- they are deleting half of the game. They are dropping eighteen classes down to nine, making jedi a main class, removing crafting (Mind you this game won awards for its crafting systems) and get this... making about 60% of its previous expansions null and void. Infact... out of the nine characters I have... only one will still exist after the change. The rest of them? They get thier classes deleted.
Isn't that illigal? I mean... selling a product and then announcing two days later that no longer is supported, and will be removed? They are not offering refunds either.
Thank you fucking Sony Online Entertainment... SOE.. Every game they get thier hands on, they drive into the ground face first. Even if you don't like online games, you can at least appretiate that the origonal game, before all of these changes... was ground breaking and changed the genere as a whole. It moved gaming forward... only to have them hamstring it repeatedly. It just sucks, to spend three years working on a project... and then to have someone else piss all over it. They think they are going to make more money by making Jedi the main feature of the game, to quiet whiners... but those whiney 'd00d' jedi kids are not the people who will stick around... they are not the people who already spent three years supporting the game. From a marketing standpoint... I am at a loss, it makes no sense. Maybe George Lucas finnaly got into the game rights, because he is the only person I know of who makes as bad decisions as the ones that were made here.
-So-
I got bored and made a picture. After posting it in the SOE forums, I got banned... but whatever. Sorry if it doesn't make much sense... you'd kinda have to know a good deal about the game and its history for it to, but I thought I'd post it anyways.
(Edit) The messages in the image are all based on actual posts by the development team, in the forums. I of course reworded them to give them a more military feel, but anyways...
Threads speaking against these changes were destroyed and people were banned... the forums were even shut down for a while to quiet people.
They warned everyone that gathering in game to protest was a bannable persuit, no large gatherings of people are allowed. All of the non jedi melee proffesions are being removed from the game, -completely-.. so half of the items in the game will now be useless.
Crafters are fucked.. Jedi will be 80% of the population.. Jedi have natural armor, and make thier own weapons.. They don't need hardly anything any of the crafters make except maybe skill enhancing food.. thus the Chef joke. Items no longer decay either, so the market will saturate and put everyone out of business.
And entertainers were made usless last patch... so it would be hard to do much more to ruin them.
1. Is only going to make sense to about 2% of the population.
2. Marks me openly as a huge nerd/geek/wtf ever.
Let me give you a brief summery. I am a gamer. I play games. I even play online games. You know, those dread things with monthly fee's that most people hate and/or cannot fathom? Yeah those. Well... one such game I have been playing for almost three years now, SWG (Star Wars Galaxies). Now, after three years of dedicated subscriptions... and payments- they have fucked me. They recently changed the entire game system, and ruined many things... the "Combat Upgrade". Well, this angered many people... myself included... but I went back to play it again anyways, and while it lacked its former glory... it was still fun.
-But-
Not days after releasing a new and very expensive expansion (Which thankfully we didn't get yet) they announced they were making changes again. -Infact- they are deleting half of the game. They are dropping eighteen classes down to nine, making jedi a main class, removing crafting (Mind you this game won awards for its crafting systems) and get this... making about 60% of its previous expansions null and void. Infact... out of the nine characters I have... only one will still exist after the change. The rest of them? They get thier classes deleted.
Isn't that illigal? I mean... selling a product and then announcing two days later that no longer is supported, and will be removed? They are not offering refunds either.
Thank you fucking Sony Online Entertainment... SOE.. Every game they get thier hands on, they drive into the ground face first. Even if you don't like online games, you can at least appretiate that the origonal game, before all of these changes... was ground breaking and changed the genere as a whole. It moved gaming forward... only to have them hamstring it repeatedly. It just sucks, to spend three years working on a project... and then to have someone else piss all over it. They think they are going to make more money by making Jedi the main feature of the game, to quiet whiners... but those whiney 'd00d' jedi kids are not the people who will stick around... they are not the people who already spent three years supporting the game. From a marketing standpoint... I am at a loss, it makes no sense. Maybe George Lucas finnaly got into the game rights, because he is the only person I know of who makes as bad decisions as the ones that were made here.
-So-
I got bored and made a picture. After posting it in the SOE forums, I got banned... but whatever. Sorry if it doesn't make much sense... you'd kinda have to know a good deal about the game and its history for it to, but I thought I'd post it anyways.
(Edit) The messages in the image are all based on actual posts by the development team, in the forums. I of course reworded them to give them a more military feel, but anyways...
Threads speaking against these changes were destroyed and people were banned... the forums were even shut down for a while to quiet people.
They warned everyone that gathering in game to protest was a bannable persuit, no large gatherings of people are allowed. All of the non jedi melee proffesions are being removed from the game, -completely-.. so half of the items in the game will now be useless.
Crafters are fucked.. Jedi will be 80% of the population.. Jedi have natural armor, and make thier own weapons.. They don't need hardly anything any of the crafters make except maybe skill enhancing food.. thus the Chef joke. Items no longer decay either, so the market will saturate and put everyone out of business.
And entertainers were made usless last patch... so it would be hard to do much more to ruin them.