| Dirk Pfeiffer 2006-02-26, 4:07 am |
| <"I sense a disturbance in the Force." – Qui-Gon Jinn
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<Hello again.
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<Clearly the producer letter that I posted yesterday hit a nerve with
<our core community. In an effort to address some of your concerns I
<want to respond to a few of the most common questions that were posted.
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Your "CORE Community" left when the NGE came live....idiot!
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<Where is the roadmap/vision for the game?
<
<My producer letter was intended to introduce myself in my new role to
<the community and to mention a few high level goals that the SWG team
<is working towards in the coming year. It was not intended to be used
<to discuss our plans for the upcoming year. Clearly however people
<were expecting more. Can I share all of our plans for the year with
<you? Not yet, but I can at least share with you two of the features
<that we are planning for the next two publishes. In publish 28 we will
<be making some changes to armor. In publish 29 we are planning on
<introducing new Bounty Hunter enhancements. We will be discussing
<these changes in greater detail during the Stratics chat tomorrow night
<(Feb. 15, 2006) and we will be posting more information on our site
<about them later this week as well. When can you see a roadmap for the
<future? That will be the focus of next week’s Friday Feature (Feb 24,
<2006) which will outline our live game plans for the next six months.
<
YAY..BH enhancements. Enhancements for a now USELESS class since you
removed Player bounties.
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<What is the ETA for Publish 27?
<
<I would like to release Publish 27 to the live galaxies sometime this
<week. Why am I not committing to a date? Because I am standing by our
<commitment to only deliver high quality updates to the game. Though we
<are getting close to a version, there are still a few minor issues we
<are working to resolve. Once they have been addressed, then the
<publish will be released to the live game servers.
<
Translation from SOE Propaganda: "We are not committing a date cause we
don't have a clue and are too busy posting "Romance story crap" instead
of doing our work"
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<What are the plans for traders and entertainers?
<
<We are actively working on concepts and designs for them, but we want
<to make sure we do them well – polished and balanced. We have lots of
<ideas. We get plenty of feedback from these forums. However, creating
<a feasible design that addresses the majority of player’s requests,
<within the constraints of our game systems takes time. You may have
<heard recently that we were actively working on entertainer changes.
<This is true. However, after reviewing them, they just didn't feel
<like they were delivering something that would meet the expectation
<levels of our players, so we are revisiting them.
<
All your remaining players expect is a WORKING game.
All your (LOST) Veteran players expect is PRE-CU, lol.
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<What are you doing for the next expansion?
<
<This is something I can't share yet. Part of running a business like
<this requires that we hold back some information to be revealed as the
<year goes on so that PR and marketing have something to do (just
<kidding!). This has always been the case with expansions and is
<certainly the case with this one. Will we be working on one? Yes.
<Expect to see more information about our expansion plans as we get
<closer to E3.
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Translation from SOE Propaganda: "Again, we don't have a clue of what to
do!"
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<Have I been able to share all of the information you were asking for?
<No. There are limitations to the amount of information I can reveal at
<this time. Do I hear your request for more information? Absolutely,
<and I will be working to share more information with you going forward.
<
<
<Remember, ultimately our goal is to deliver to you the best online Star
<Wars game experience that exceeds your expectations – and that is no
<easy task! We all want to have fun adventuring together with our
<friends in a Star Wars online universe. We appreciate your support and
<look forward to communicating often throughout the year.
<
You already HAD such a game, but you noobs decided to completely break
it and piss off your loyal customers!
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<May the Force be with you!
kthxbye
Dirk
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