now im considering calling into work tonight. cant miss the party of the year, watching soon to be banned palyers disappear left and right. lol
but really, I understand ridding ourselves of cinematics frees up valuable dev time for actual in game improvements. its just the direction that worries me. who needed a datamine construct, who wanted a recycled event with horrid tshirts that arent worth wearing, who wants to hang around waiting to see when the lights go out, with or without warning?
i already planned to take another /afk trip after this current month of subscription and pop back in here around october or so, but now...now, i feel like i must stay and fight for the game that was once great but now has fallen so far.
on a side note, fight this guys, but keep your words in check and dont just go get banned or suspended. i fear the banstick is vaselined up and ready to go. some of you i completely agree with and will support but not if you just run your mouth and get pointlessly removed.
NightTrace wrote:That does not promise any content/good news/effort.They will cut features/costs until the playerbase is gone and THEN they will shut us down.Thanks SOE for the consistent *CENSORED* you've given us over the years of our games span.There will still be content.. Datamine for instance.Please name one game SOE has ever closed down?
That does not promise any content/good news/effort.They will cut features/costs until the playerbase is gone and THEN they will shut us down.Thanks SOE for the consistent *CENSORED* you've given us over the years of our games span.
MxO-Insertion wrote:We are no longer 'different' than other MMO'sReally? When did the other MMOs get the IL system like MxO?
We are no longer 'different' than other MMO's
Gerik wrote:MxO-Insertion wrote:We are no longer 'different' than other MMO'sReally? When did the other MMOs get the IL system like MxO?PotBS is remarkably similar.
MxO-Insertion wrote:Gerik wrote:MxO-Insertion wrote:We are no longer 'different' than other MMO'sReally? When did the other MMOs get the IL system like MxO?PotBS is remarkably similar.Im not convinced. You dont actualy get locked with the NPCs in pirates
No more cinematics?I.. I.. fu... ..*turns red*......*door slams*......*from other side of door* Can someone help me? I got my tail caught.
Many of us will be here phor the long haul, no matter what.
I will not let this bring me down or make me stoop to utter negativity at the party. Yes, I'm upset over no more cinimatics just like the rest of you, but... give it a chance. You never know what the new sentinal may bring. We can hope, and see where it goes.
Above all else... please people... don't cause problems, and drama nonsense at the party later, and embarrass yourselves. It's not worth being banned, if you still love this community like I do. The people that made mxo possible and keep it going still deserve our respect and gratitude.
Some may think I'm too positive, but... that's ok. I've phound that being positive only helps, and never hurts.
So happy that it is party day.. but so sad now at the same time
V, we're not so worried about the game being closed down so much as we are that the company's letting us stagnate. Chadwick got the can, and now suddenly we're not worth an artist/animator or the money that was dropped on voice actors previously. Keep in mind Datamine was produced under such conditions where we still got cinematics, so it's fair for us to expect both moving pictures with spoken words as well as constructs on our fifteen bucks.
And this isn't the first time it's happened, either, considering that our fifteen bucks used to pay for a whole team of people who would sit around and play live events characters day in and day out for us in addition to a combat revision, three new ability trees which still haven't been released, fully CG panoramic cinematics, and other stuff.
And it's hard for us to believe this is the cause of inflation, man. When you're in the community position, it's not hard to see how things are slipping away. Maybe SoE won't shut down the servers, but no one's going to want to play when there are no active developers because Rarebit, Fu, and Dracomet have been taken to develop SoE's new Hello Kitty MMO acquisition. We're being treated like our fifteen bucks doesn't matter, and since it's all going into the company tip jar, it's not so hard for any of us to imagine that it's being recycled into EQ2 or Vanguard instead of MxO, because really, our staffing only goes down. And when you're considering the buck, that's where it goes. Not into "content" per say, but into paying people to make content.
So despite the fact that we're still getting the same game content and that creative control is now entirely within Rarebit's hands (a good thing, in my eyes) this is still a net loss on the fifteen bucks we pay.
Taking all bets!Who's next? The engineers? The QA department?Are we soon to be left solely with Rarebit? He's only one man. ONE.No, wait, I have an idea! Let's hire an intern, hand him a little notebook based on the loose thoughts of the collective Dev Team, and make HIM the sole person left! That'll really lower the costs.FA-LLUUUUUUUSSHHHHHH.
