Flood the database of the spammers with junk email, using tools like robocage.
From the product readme:
" RoboCage is a Zope product that produces random text out of a word dictionary. It mixes fake email addresses into that random text, as well as links back to itself (with different URLs, though). Thus, it provides a cage-like facilitly to "catch" email-harvesting robots."
Let me start by saying that I was a long time dedicated fan of SWG, one of the first Jedi on my server in the old system. To this day, the experience of playing SWG in the first year was one of my best MMO experiences ever.
Sony's blunders with SOE are obvious in origin. The marketing team is making the decisions, instead of people with a passion for the game.
SWG was beautifully complex, had a great economy, and a lot of diversity, which was a major draw for many players including myself. But the marketing team thinks its too complicated. So, they destroy all the depth and wonder, and there goes a percentage of the player base.
The marketing team recognizes that everyone wants to be a Jedi. So they make it possible for everyone to become a Jedi by following a few simple steps. And, since there will be so many jedi, they'll have to be made essentially balanced with other classes. Suddenly jedi are running around everywhere that can't kill most other professions. Another percentage sliced off the playerbase.
It seems that every step of the way, the Marketing Committe decides the direction for the game to head, and its always the wrong one.
Sony... If you want to save the game, fire the marketing staff, and hire some people that care about the game.
Take a clue from EvE (www.eve-online.com) one of the most complex, slow paced, and long-term games out there. They have been increasing usership since launch steadily without fail. Why? The devlopers care about the game. they're not watering it down for stupid players that can't figure it out. They've made something that has passion and it's obvious to everyone.
I'd post this on your own stupid forum SOE, but you refuse to alow me to log in. Apparently you dont want the input from past subscribers.
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Flood the database of the spammers with junk email, using tools like robocage.
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From the product readme:
" RoboCage is a Zope product that produces random text out of a word dictionary. It mixes fake email addresses into that random text, as well as links back to itself (with different URLs, though). Thus, it provides a cage-like facilitly to "catch" email-harvesting robots."
http://www.zope.org/Members/philikon/RoboCage/fol
Let me start by saying that I was a long time dedicated fan of SWG, one of the first Jedi on my server in the old system. To this day, the experience of playing SWG in the first year was one of my best MMO experiences ever.
Sony's blunders with SOE are obvious in origin. The marketing team is making the decisions, instead of people with a passion for the game.
SWG was beautifully complex, had a great economy, and a lot of diversity, which was a major draw for many players including myself. But the marketing team thinks its too complicated. So, they destroy all the depth and wonder, and there goes a percentage of the player base.
The marketing team recognizes that everyone wants to be a Jedi. So they make it possible for everyone to become a Jedi by following a few simple steps. And, since there will be so many jedi, they'll have to be made essentially balanced with other classes. Suddenly jedi are running around everywhere that can't kill most other professions. Another percentage sliced off the playerbase.
It seems that every step of the way, the Marketing Committe decides the direction for the game to head, and its always the wrong one.
Sony... If you want to save the game, fire the marketing staff, and hire some people that care about the game.
Take a clue from EvE (www.eve-online.com) one of the most complex, slow paced, and long-term games out there. They have been increasing usership since launch steadily without fail. Why? The devlopers care about the game. they're not watering it down for stupid players that can't figure it out. They've made something that has passion and it's obvious to everyone.
I'd post this on your own stupid forum SOE, but you refuse to alow me to log in. Apparently you dont want the input from past subscribers.