Comment I've cancelled this morning (Score 1) 184
I tested the combat upgrade throughout its testing and found it to be very unbalanced and boring. Sony Online Entertainment continued to ignore 80% of us who were tell them this. Their Director of Customer Relations was quoted as saying that the people who were complaining were those who had exceptional weapons or wanted to solo Kray Dragons. On none of my 3 characters did I have exceptional weapons and only hunted dragons a couple of times and only in a group.
Starwars Galaxies was unique init combat system and style of play (both fighting and crafting) and it all suited the genre. Yes it needed a lot of tuning to sort out some of the anomalies that developed over time (many caused by SOE themselves - they introduced exceptional weapons, they made buffs as strong as they were, they made it so the only armour to have was composite).
Now SWG is an 'also ran' amongst games and with the fiasco concerning a failed upgrade on the Chimaera galaxy, and they hadn't taken a backup! so we returned to 2 weeks earlier. This just shouts of total incompetence. What was worse was they announced the roll back and didn't respond to the hundreds of concerns customers were raising for over 12 hours.
To me the Combat Upgrade has ruined a game that was unique by making it the same as every other.
Starwars Galaxies was unique init combat system and style of play (both fighting and crafting) and it all suited the genre. Yes it needed a lot of tuning to sort out some of the anomalies that developed over time (many caused by SOE themselves - they introduced exceptional weapons, they made buffs as strong as they were, they made it so the only armour to have was composite).
Now SWG is an 'also ran' amongst games and with the fiasco concerning a failed upgrade on the Chimaera galaxy, and they hadn't taken a backup! so we returned to 2 weeks earlier. This just shouts of total incompetence. What was worse was they announced the roll back and didn't respond to the hundreds of concerns customers were raising for over 12 hours.
To me the Combat Upgrade has ruined a game that was unique by making it the same as every other.