Smed, a High level executive at IBM once said at a conference that "In order to Increase our success rates, we need to double our failure rates"
Well when it comes to this game, in my opinion, it has been failing miserably for a long time... and ill tell you why honestly...
I used to play on 9 accounts, and believe me, i used to play them! and NEVER ONCE NOT A SINGLE TIME did i mind paying the $15 a month for each character and ALWAYS had all 9 accounts active..
Nowadays, i play on 2 accounts and 3 different characters, and it bothers me i need to pay for the 2nd account because i dont feel im getting my money's worth (there are some issues with a server transfer that would mess up some housing/quests so i wont transfer till they get fixed).
My other Major problem is with the NGE is that Grinding is HORRIBLE, we are forced to do these deliver and kill type quests over and over and over again.. THIS IS NOT FUN! i have not grinded a character since the NGE (i started a new character when the 2nd slots were given out and i got to level 30 before i was ready to hang myself from boredom)
Why is this? Simple, because in the old days, even at "level 54" a.k.a. Master Rifleman (For example), we were still "competitive" and could play the game! My old Character was (for example) a master droid engineer and a TKA, and guess what, i could duel and have fun still!
Now, if you are not level 90, your ONLY objective in the game is to do quests and grind. THATS BORING!
Smed, this game will NEVER be what it once was... Look, it was a "good attempt", but you guys see the real numbers, why do you think servers have lost 80% of their population. Look at all the dead houses on all the servers for god's sake. Im not saying Roll back the servers to pre-cu, But jeez, do something! We Need diversity, 9 professions is boring! Ya expertise is a "nice" attempt and diversity BUT ITS NOT THE SAME!
Remember the Old Death Watch Bunker? in the old days, with a group of 20 people, we MAYBE got up to the B Door but would always die when going into the Mines! Those were the good old days, THAT WAS CONTENT! People Worked for a Goal, to get mando! it was a True Badge of Honor to show off your mando, Same with RIS ARMOR, it took Weeks to get a full suit (i had probably, if not the first suit of RIS on ahazi back way before the CU) and it was a honor to have it, showed my dedication and time i spent ingame.. THESE Items dont exist anymore? everyone and their brother has a peice of mando if they want it, its WAY TO EASY, a spy could get a full suit in less than a week, i have done it.... THATS TRULY SAD! pathetic actually.
We need Ingame Items, things, weapons, armor, that actually Mean something, that takes time to get. The hardest thing to get ingame now is probably a lava crystal or maybe a OR hilt from HK, everything else can be gotten in a day or two or money can buy these things otherwise...
Now that the Reverse engineering system is coming out to make Skill attachments, its all based on JUNK loots and kills from elite mobs to get bits. What happened to the days of killing the hardest mobs in the game to get good SEA's? DJM's, Krayts, Nightsister Elders, Lord Nyax, etc, i know it promoted camping but it was fun and challenging!
Another Disappointment with the NGE was Jedi, in the Pre-CU days, we needed to grind up to "32" professions to unlock, with the village, it took "126?" to unlock, and then in the NGE it was just given out.... Jedi was a badge of Honor, a show of determination, now "non elder" jedi's are the red headed step children of the community. I am a elder jedi (pre-cu), but when i wear my "master cloak" instead of my elder robe ingame i get "comments" and called noob and such, ill throw on my elder robe and tell them to shut the hell up, and they usually shut up right away once they look at my badges and see that im a "pre-cu" jedi, Its a Badge of Respect, people respect that (in general that is, mostly older players that have been around.) that you are a Non village Elder, i dont get it myself, its weird, but people in general hold that as the highest accomplishment in the game being a elder unlock jedi. Hell i went to a video game conference a few years ago and told people i was a "Star wars galaxy jedi" and before i knew it im talking to 8 people about galaxies and the jedi grind and how it is to play a jedi, people were intrigued. Now its a joke, im sorry, people dont give a crap anymore.
Look i am just throwing out some random thoughts here, and ill be glad to discuss my thoughts further, hell send me a private message and ill be glad to give you a call and discuss things in detail as how to "revive" this game, just give me a phone number.
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