"letter sent today.

To the community, I am sorry, but my blood pressure and well being come first.  I just feel like 5 months of beta testing is more than my fair share of the contract I signed up for.  I know the launcher pistol will give you some relief, but the bigger picture, is that I don't feel like the Dev's are serious about quickly bring commando up to "release status", and I do have too many emotions tied into this persona to start over as carbinier, or pikeman.  Good luck, and I hope the future of SWG greatly improves for all you fellow commandos.

Via con Dio, amichi!"

Hello Kevin,

This letter is to inform you, that you must select a new commando
correspondent as of today. I am disheartened and severely agitated at the
lack of commitment on the part of the SOE developers to fix the commando
profession and I cannot bear to change my profession to the elite Bounty
Hunter class. No one on the TC has tested any of the commando changes with
regards to the flame thrower and heavy acid rifle, and it will be weeks
before any one can, due to the nature of the class. The minor change to the
launcher pistol is not enough to balance this class, and the lack of
response to the last 2 letters has cause me much anguish. I have played too
many mmorpgs to put up with the lack of support. Have you ever sat down and
wondered why so many combat types are Bounty Hunters and Pistoliers? And so
few are commandos? Why the dev's continue to ignore a broken class to cater
to the elite, is backwards thinking, How hard would it have been to activate
the heavy acid rifle cert 3 weeks ago, once it was brought to your
attention?  If all classes were equal in development, then it would make
sense. I cannot invest any further emotions into playing a game that is bent
on introducing new content that is surely to need "adjustments" and new
"classes" when so many other classes and content are clearly broken. The new
pvp damage rules severely reduce the commando's playability in a pvp
environment, lack of true testing on the TC and beta has severely overrated
the weapons which are a laughing joke to the community, and the lack of
response from the dev's (which could have satisfied 100's if not 1000's of
players) clearly indicate the total disregard for the 2nd or 1st most
difficult class to obtain outside of the Jedi. Not to mention that grouping
is totally annoying, due to the built-in competition of team mates. The sad
thing is, You are probably totally unaware of this aspect of the game as
well.

In short, Today I cancelled my account. I was also appalled at the lack of
subscriber refund for the monthly fee. At no time in my 6 years of online
gaming have I ever encountered a sneaky policy such as this. Especially when
you consider, that the first day of registration was soo buggy, it was
impossible to read the "formal" policy. If I had been able to read it, I
would not have signed up for 6 months. So I have contacted my credit card
company, spoke with their lawyer, and they are blocking payment as of today.
I agreed that I owe SOE the regular fee of one month, and this will be paid.
The remaining charge will not. I tried speaking to a SOE CSR on this matter,
and was rudely told, "sorry, no refunds. Is there anything else I can do for
you".  I view this as theft for unpaid services (the remaining 5 months).

I am like many late 20, earlier 30 year olds, who are working people, and
play for fun during the evenings. SWG was suppose to be for us, and it is
not. The built-in daily maintenance upkeep prevents a casual game play, the
lack of friendly formed groups that work together as oppose to fighting for
damage dealt to get exp is annoying, the constant soloing and broken ingame
quest are disheartening, and the totally broken class I choose to put my
emotions into is too much. Tomorrow's update will not fix enough, and after
5 months of beta testing, I've done my best to help fix the problems, but I
have failed.

I wish you luck in your game, and hope in a years time, the neglected
players of SWG are finally heard.  I am sorry that this has happened.
Because I am like 10,000's of customers.. when we leave a mmorpg, its for
good, because there is always a new one.  100,000's left EQ, AC, and DAoC,
and they will never return.

A domani.

Andrew

aka "Garibaldi"





>
> You have been selected as our Commando Correspondent.
>
> Today we will change your forum title and announce it to the community.
Our
> request is that you read through the forums and interact with the
community
> to learn the top issues. Please be polite and humble (we want you to
> represent the community, not lead them). Once per week, send an email to
> SWGCorrespondent@soe.sony.com detailing the Top 5 issues of the
profession.
> Please be as objective as possible with these issues and include links to
> relevant threads if you wish. Feel free to add one personal pet issue at
the
> bottom just to get it out of your system .
>
> Participation is completely voluntary and you can stop helping out at any
> time. Don't get too attached to the title; In the interest of well-rounded
> feedback, once a month we may select a new correspondent. Please do not
take
> that personally, we just want to be fair and give other people an
> opportunity.
>
> Kevin O'Hara
> Community Relations Manager

-----------,  Dathomir Outpost, Dathomir, Bria

hey gabirbaldi we may not have always seen eye to eye but you represented us with distinction and integrity and i am very sorry to hear you go.. but i definetly understand why 

take care and good luck man

I totally agree with you Garibaldi and infact you've stated everything that is making me lose interest in this game. It is sad to see that such lack of interest is being shown by the SOE devs, what you said about the acid rifle certification is true that was something that should've been fixed a long time ago. Also, these improved special attacks in my opinion are not going to help us commandos very much. Every class except ours has working weapons regardless of special abilities. I do respect and understand that the devs are trying to make our lives easier by making the Launcher Pistol give hw xp but if we do have to use them as a primary weapon that would mean that unless we get skills from Pistoleer. In conclusion, I am eager to see how much this patch helps us commandos and let's see if we finally become what we were meant to be!

thats all that can be said...gonna miss ya

This sincerely saddens me that in such short time SOE has managed to drive off such a good correspondent such as Garibaldi.  He showed so much interest in wanting to make commandos such a great class, not a godlike class, just a fun and enjoyable class that could actually compete.

I plan on checking out this patch tomorrow and seeing how it is.  However after seeing Garibaldi leaving SWG, I think that I have had enough SWG as well.  I had hoped that SWG would be a great game.  No I didnt expect it to be at release, but I did expect the profession to be working the way they should.  Hell I would have been happy with only 1 commando line (flamethrower) to actually work the way it was suppose to.  At least that would have been something.

For me what disgusts me the most is the lack of communication from the devs to us.  Now for those who are saying the devs were forced to release the game by the suit,. that may be true, however the devs can still post their thoughts of the the direction of the game and the fixes that are so desperatly needed.  They have chosen not to and even went further by ignoring most of the letters and recommendations by correspondents such as Garibaldi.  Whats the point of having a corespondent who is suppose to be a liasen between us and the devs when they dont even communicate with them.

Looks like I'll be playing alot more daoc till WoW comes out.

<salutes>

Hiya Eisei Kai'shi Clan Kryshi

Commando in Training

"Quality may be better then quantity, but quantity has a quality all it’s own."

Garibaldi: Thanks for the time you put in and effort put forth. I think you where a great representative of the Commandoes and I'm sorry it came to this. I wish you well on your journey.

Dristen

that was very well put, and very much needed to be said.  unfortunately could only be said under such bad circumstances

thanks for your efforts geribaldi, SOE may not show it, but we certainly do appreciate all the provided feedback.