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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.08 03:30:00 -
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Someone mentioned that Sony shot themselves in the foot about another MMO?
Ask us EQII and SWG players all about it!!! "In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.08 04:30:00 -
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Barakkus wrote:Ace Uoweme wrote:Someone mentioned that Sony shot themselves in the foot about another MMO?
Ask us EQII and SWG players all about it!!! EQ2 is still going, I log in every once in a while to train stuff lol. EQ2 died after Rise of Kunark because of the ******** mechanics for raid encounters. People got fed up with random chance affecting whether or not you'd be able to complete an encounter, or having to be ridiculously over geared for the encounter to win. There was no longer any progression, but reliance of either random chance or out gearing the content and not having any progression...top that off with microtransaction garbage and you had a perfect storm for mass exodus. I have 2 lifetime free station pass accounts so I still log in from time to time, but I have a feeling EQ2 isn't going to get any more influx of people. The other problem was the pure apathy in maintaining the game...they released some stupid dungeon designer so they didn't actually have to release significant new content, just let the players make the content...that's not what the players want...they don't want to develop their game, they want someone to make the game so they can play it.
EQII died because it went to war against the players. EQ2Flames wasn't created because it was just a fansite, it was created for all those who were banned (fully, not just on the forums, permanently banned from the game for disagreeing with SoE's design choices), and a place to expose the trash. You know something is wrong when a fansite about the trash is more popular than the official forums (more park themselves there than the EQII forums).
The backlash was horrid.
You bet SOE didn't like the exposure of their booster club antics or with Aeralik doing what CCP did with BoB.
Antics like that with another choice to play (WoW) was the downfall of EQII.
SOE has improved a lot since then, but not at the time it mattered. It's on life support now (a flagship IP Sony writes off).
I love EQII and will be there on the opening day of EQNext, but hope history doesn't repeat itself. "In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.08 05:00:00 -
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Barakkus wrote:You have EQ2Flames history all wrong. I was one of the forum moderators they were mad at when they made the site (StrollingWolf),
Ah, no.
If that isn't biased (a EQII moderator claiming, "YOU GOT IT WRONG!!!") when guess who helped ban the players who were protesting?
EQII's moderators can be pretty bad. I remember getting into a fight with one as she tried to control what I was posting -- trying to tell me how to post my content. That type of micromanagement of the "message" is horrid. No other game forum have I been on had the staff trying to control the very content of a player's posts.
Remember the RMT discussions/debates back in 2008? Yeah, that's the time when it got nuts. Support for it was glad-handing players to post what SOE wanted (and I was actually for it...but no, don't tell me how to post to even support it). Sleezy marketing.
No one controls the content of my posts or my viewpoints. Not Blizzard. Not EA. Not CCP...and certainly not SOE. I'm never a paid stooge.
So really do tell the truth, and tell the world what actually goes on and not white wash it.
Barakkus wrote:that and gaige and his buddies were just a bonafied dicks who would stab their friends in the back given the chance.
Although I don't readily approve of Gaige's antics, he did help to expose the rotten core in SOE. The booster club junk and what Aeralik did that was no better than what CCP did with BoB (and CCP got away with it a lot nicer).
The result from the Aeralik fiasco was he was given his walking papers.
Too bad it didn't occur in 2005 when it mattered, and we know the aftermath -- WoW became the #1 MMO. "In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.08 06:03:00 -
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Barakkus wrote:The allowing of moderators to edit posts was a bad idea and put an end to pretty quickly. Gaige, if you didn't know was a moderator...Let me guess Mawie was editing your posts? lol...she was sort of a ***** anyways...
I'm not talking about editing posts, I'm talking about a moderator telling me what to post itself. PMing me about it.
Remember the booster club antics? Well, it extended to the forum and what players were posting.
It was b-a-d.
SOE didn't want to hear honest feedback. They wanted to dictate the feedback itself.
EQ2Flames had to exist to combat that amount of control of the "message". "In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
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Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.06.09 11:36:00 -
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Owena Owoked wrote:But yeah, if you think that your thumb is every bit as accurate as your entire arm plus all of your hand and finger stabilizer muscles
Doesn't matter how fast you are, you're still limited by the speed of your controls.
Console controls are not as agile as a laser mouse (and can't mod the USB controller for even more speed...computers you can).
Consoles are cheap for a reason. You compromise performance and modifications for $$$ saved.
A lot of voodoo is done to get games to perform similar to PCs (notice the gate animations and loss of control? That's the stuff done to make consoles play when it can't perform on par as a computer).
There's no substitute for a PC for FPS games. Let us know if the PS3 can perform as well as a quad SLI computer; 16GB of fast memory; and a processor that'll run circles around a console -- Hint: it can't it doesn't have the horsepower.
In BF3 do you know how they got the XBox and PS3 to work with PCs? Things like auto aiming, as they can't compete with PCs and their speed.
It's a joke about accuracy and speed to compare console performance against computers that regularly play FPS games. "In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~George Orwell
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