You know I am a big fan of gaming... have enjoyed many games... years of games... but was pisses me off about this. Is that the reason behind lucasarts and there protection of there stuff is that they can create an orginal idea and profit from it... but this mod team can't create and orginal idea and they will profit off of lucasarts... I am a huge fan of the star wars series... My uncle works for Lucas Arts; i find this to be an upsetting thing because not only has this mod team not created a worth wild mod that presents new gameplay ideas or new content to the star wars era... but it takes away from what lucasarts has spent so many years creating..
I mean i agree we need a good Star Wars FPS or a good Star Wars RTS... but lets leave that to those who know that they are doing.. I have played this mod and i can say i was not pleased.. i saw nothing great other then a bunch of stormtroopers running around killing a bunch of rebels.. I have seen this before in so many other star wars games... WOW its on the UT engine well if that is so hot then why not let Lucas Arts make a nice FPS game using the UT2k3 engine.
I just think its wrong that they have allowed them to use what they have worked so hard to create, to have that dumbed down by nothing new...and old and dusty ideas. I would be more incouraged to enjoy this mod and this agreement if they had something new to offer and where just not gaing fame because they have star wars in there name or because they have a storm trooper model as a playable character.
First off i would like to disclaim that my views do not represent the company's views. With that said, I can say that I worked at Netgear for a short period of time in the area of support.
This specific issues was raised back in may... I can say within that same week they had already started testing firmware to fix the issue. The issue comes with the huge break between Netgear engineers and Netgear support. Umm often times the supports reps do not know of the release of the product until like 2 days or 3 days after its already hit the market. On top of that there is very little communication between the two on firmware and whats the latest version. Its been only in the past couple weeks have they really started to communicate.
Along with that Netgear did not have a device testing program until i would say about 3-4 months ago, before that it was just people there who had the time to test products... woudl test them. I know being one of those who has and still does test there products, that the communication is not very stable and that sometimes issues like these get short-cutted for other major issues such as security and hardware stability.
I am also sure anyone in the hardware market understands the rush that sometimes comes with products; in netgear this is not different. I can this was an issue that was not expected and was fixed as soon as it was reported. It should have never gone out as is and the products should have been tested throughly in the consumer enviorment.
But, to Netgear's credit the company does sell pretty good products and there customer support although you may not always be able to get your answer to the issue or may not be able to sometimes understand the reps any and all issues do esclate to people who can fix them. If you issues are not getting fixed at that point the president of the company does read your mail and does forward them to the Head of the customer support. I can say that issues like these will become less of a problem now that Netgear has started a beta program and engineers are required to speak to support engineers on a regualr basis
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You know I am a big fan of gaming... have enjoyed many games... years of games... but was pisses me off about this. Is that the reason behind lucasarts and there protection of there stuff is that they can create an orginal idea and profit from it... but this mod team can't create and orginal idea and they will profit off of lucasarts... I am a huge fan of the star wars series... My uncle works for Lucas Arts; i find this to be an upsetting thing because not only has this mod team not created a worth wild mod that presents new gameplay ideas or new content to the star wars era... but it takes away from what lucasarts has spent so many years creating..
I mean i agree we need a good Star Wars FPS or a good Star Wars RTS... but lets leave that to those who know that they are doing.. I have played this mod and i can say i was not pleased.. i saw nothing great other then a bunch of stormtroopers running around killing a bunch of rebels.. I have seen this before in so many other star wars games... WOW its on the UT engine well if that is so hot then why not let Lucas Arts make a nice FPS game using the UT2k3 engine.
I just think its wrong that they have allowed them to use what they have worked so hard to create, to have that dumbed down by nothing new...and old and dusty ideas. I would be more incouraged to enjoy this mod and this agreement if they had something new to offer and where just not gaing fame because they have star wars in there name or because they have a storm trooper model as a playable character.
First off i would like to disclaim that my views do not represent the company's views. With that said, I can say that I worked at Netgear for a short period of time in the area of support.
This specific issues was raised back in may... I can say within that same week they had already started testing firmware to fix the issue. The issue comes with the huge break between Netgear engineers and Netgear support. Umm often times the supports reps do not know of the release of the product until like 2 days or 3 days after its already hit the market. On top of that there is very little communication between the two on firmware and whats the latest version. Its been only in the past couple weeks have they really started to communicate.
Along with that Netgear did not have a device testing program until i would say about 3-4 months ago, before that it was just people there who had the time to test products... woudl test them. I know being one of those who has and still does test there products, that the communication is not very stable and that sometimes issues like these get short-cutted for other major issues such as security and hardware stability.
I am also sure anyone in the hardware market understands the rush that sometimes comes with products; in netgear this is not different. I can this was an issue that was not expected and was fixed as soon as it was reported. It should have never gone out as is and the products should have been tested throughly in the consumer enviorment. But, to Netgear's credit the company does sell pretty good products and there customer support although you may not always be able to get your answer to the issue or may not be able to sometimes understand the reps any and all issues do esclate to people who can fix them. If you issues are not getting fixed at that point the president of the company does read your mail and does forward them to the Head of the customer support. I can say that issues like these will become less of a problem now that Netgear has started a beta program and engineers are required to speak to support engineers on a regualr basis