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Washington Post on Star Wars Galaxies Changes
spartan7891 writes "The Washington Post, by way of MSNBC, is running a story on how fans are outraged at the newest changes made to Star Wars Galaxies. As one player states, 'The game for me probably will be a lost love. Sort of like seeing your spouse with Alzheimer's. Outwardly, everything appears the same as it always has, but you know that beneath the surface, things will never be the same.' There's even rumors of LucasArts being so angry about the changes that they may cancel SOE's contract." Yeah ... if a major newspaper covers what you did in a patch, you probably did something wrong.
I can understand them wanting to go in a different direction than the way SWG was, however, to completely change the game around 1-2 years after its release is only going to anger people. By this point, the people that were initially looking to play the kind of game that they are changing in to are already gone. The only people that were still playing were those that had accepted the old system. They are, essentially, trying to turn SWG into SWG2, on the fly. I think that SOE painted themselves into a corner and instead of working on a whole new game, where they could change the game, they thought they would try to fix mistakes that they made ago when the game was first in development. It is way too late for that and this endeavor is doomed to failure.
Actually the game has as many WOWtards as you can handle. An example of this is a group I dealed with who grief players. Specificly on the leader's Playerinfo, he says, "Recruiting players who can grief with the best of them". Plenty of smacktards in the game, however no way to control them. That is the only reason why Eve has issues, as far as I can tell. And no, the average non-rich player cannot get help to get rid of these griefers, as companies that do take care of that often want somewhere in the double to triple digit millions to take care of it.