banzai51 said: "Since things are balance on the lower level one has to wonder if they did it to push out the experienced players."
If that's true, it's backfiring - I've only been playing SWG for a few months, and I've canceled because of this "combat upgrade"... and I hear I'm not the only new player quiting.
I've played a number of level-based MMORPGs, was never really happy with any of them. It's the skill-based games I like, like UO and SWG. However, with this recent SWG combat upgrade, they've changed the game at a fundamental level from skill-based to level-based, with a token veneer of skill choices. The game now feels like EQ2 with different skins. Quite simply, if I had wanted to play a game like EQ/EQ2, I would not have switched from those games to SWG.
Reading this bit about Washington's law, then the Internet Week article "AOL, Microsoft Unleash Lawyers On Spammers" at http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showArt icle.jhtml?articleID=6900409 makes me think Microsoft is anti-spam only when convenient (or only if they can make money from their stance?)
>"This is a really unfortunate thing that happened," admits Network Solutions spokeswoman Cheryl Regan. "But [McLanahan] is not a customer of ours. He was about to become one, but he didn't."
A real winning business attitude! Hope other potential customers take the hint, and register with someone else.
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banzai51 said:
"Since things are balance on the lower level one has to wonder if they did it to push out the experienced players."
If that's true, it's backfiring - I've only been playing SWG for a few months, and I've canceled because of this "combat upgrade"... and I hear I'm not the only new player quiting.
I've played a number of level-based MMORPGs, was never really happy with any of them. It's the skill-based games I like, like UO and SWG. However, with this recent SWG combat upgrade, they've changed the game at a fundamental level from skill-based to level-based, with a token veneer of skill choices. The game now feels like EQ2 with different skins. Quite simply, if I had wanted to play a game like EQ/EQ2, I would not have switched from those games to SWG.
Reading this bit about Washington's law, then the Internet Week article "AOL, Microsoft Unleash Lawyers On Spammers" att icle .jhtml?articleID=6900409
http://www.internetweek.com/security02/showAr
makes me think Microsoft is anti-spam only when convenient (or only if they can make money from their stance?)
Darn, the option to block addresses or domains won't let me block hotmail.com. It doesn't complain, just doesn't add it to the list when I try.
My Yahoo account is superior though - they allow me to block all of yahoo.com. [evil grin]
>"This is a really unfortunate thing that happened," admits Network Solutions spokeswoman Cheryl Regan. "But [McLanahan] is not a customer of ours. He was about to become one, but he didn't."
A real winning business attitude! Hope other potential customers take the hint, and register with someone else.