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[Sei Teirson]

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Hi .folks, DeV Brenlo here. Please keep this to relative discussion on how great the NGE is. Please do not put up negative posts because we are already hurting for subscribers, and myself and the other devs cannot afford to pay for more accounts than we are already. Please do not leave us alone in SWG. If we get fired, we will not have anywhere to go. after what SoE has done to the MMO world, we will never be able to find work anywhere again with their name on our resumes. Please stop posting negative comments, because I have to feed my 4 dogs and Tigg.

(btw, RiP tigg and I actually like TH)

Oh, almost forgot. This thread has been locked. =P

[Dement]

im so pissed off at soe that even if somebody did buy the pre-nge code and put up some servers i dont think i would go back

Oh and by the way i think that it is TRUE

[Sei Teirson]

im so pissed off at soe that even if somebody did buy the pre-nge code and put up some servers i dont think i would go back

Oh and by the way i think that it is TRUE

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But SOE wont be running the server or game changes (could be a good or bad thing) but I would play it it I had the chance

[Dement]

the only way i would try it out is if it was a pre cu server not just a pre nge server

but what gets me is if they do decide to try this pre nge server will they do updates and bug fixes and stuff like that?

cause playing a game with no new content or anything will get old soon

[Dement]

i thought we should have a copy of this here too just in case

this was posted on the DnL forums, i gather its been on swg forums too but just in case you havnt seen it....

This is a copy of a post from the Official SWG forums. Not sure if this is the right spot to post but I'm sure most community members plus Mods won't mind as there are a TON of us coming to D&L due to SOE's royal screwups!!!I'm posting it here for all the SWG exiles' enjoyment. It's being deleted from all threads over there:

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I don't expect you to take my word on this but I will share with you what I was told by a friend of

mine who works for SOE. I can't give you any more detail like his position, department, etc for

fear of him being identified. They apparently are bound by some air-tight non-disclosure

agreements.

Below is what I was told:

Apparently, the NGE has really, REALLY stirred things up in Austin. All sorts of fingers are being

pointed among SOE employee's as nobody wants to take the blame. Right now EVERYONE is trying to

distance themselves from being responsible for making ANY decsions on pushing the NGE live. Every

single employee is avoiding any connection to the NGE like the plague. I was told that the Dev's

expected SOME account cancelations when the NGE went live, but my insider said they were willing to

take those vet losses with the hopes of bringing in new subscribers over the holiday sales season.

Also, the devs were counting on most of the threats by vets to quit to not actually go thru with

cancelling. They have admitted, at least internally, that they number of cancels has FAR FAR FAR

exceeded the number they were willing to take. As a result, there is beginning to be some serious

discussion of a pre-NGE rollback. Several dev's are in serious jeopardy of being fired, and many

many many of the support staff etc are polishing up their resume's because SOE has become the

laughing stock of the online gaming community. No longer is it a badge of pride to work for SOE

according to what I was told. Even my friend says he is no longer proud of working for SOE because

of how they have destroyed their reputation.

Also, after having to report to LA on the NGE results, specifically the account cancels numbers,

some of the big dogs from LA have flown into Austin for some serious intervention. No details on

what that means yet, but it is known that Smedly and the senior crew at SOE have been behind closed

doors for unusually lengthy meetings and have emerged with scowls on their face. The speculation

is that LA is gearing up to crack down big time. (I would love to have been a fly on the wall in

those meetings)

Because of the signifacant loss of subscriptions, customer service has laid off 25% of their

support staff starting the 1st of January with more cuts expected.

All in all, the NGE turned out to rock the player base more deeply than what they expected. Talks

are now underway on cutting the game off sometime in the first quarter of 2006. There is

discussion with an outside company that is interested in purchasing the pre-NGE code with the aim

of running a handful (5 tops) of pre-NGE servers, and maintained with a skeleton support staff.

Right now this is apparently looking to be the most realistic result.

I will post more info as I hear stuff.

Added stuff:

Oh, and my insider said the Devs are being intentionally vague on their forum posting and player

communication because they want to keep as many subscribers as possible right now. A memo was

passed down to ALL Dev's by the SOE execs with a list of topics that are completely not to be

discussed or responded to on the forums. It is generally feared by the SOE team that the more info

the player base has, the more of them will quit the game.

Also, the game WAS in the pre-development phase on porting to consol (xbox, playstation), but that

those cycles have been 100% stalled at the moment because the future of SWG is so uncertain. But I

was told that if any Dev posted or said that consol talks were never taking place it is a lie

because significant discussions had already been underway with the design teams experienced with

porting PC games to consol systems and that the NGE was partly (not entirely) designed to acomplish

this objective.

[Sei Teirson]

Yeah, that has been spreading around everywere, although I doubt they will fess up to being stupid with all the changes.