Word comes to me today of a protest on the SWG Bria server regarding the impending combat upgrade. For, you see, regardless of how much SOE is saying players are loving the new combat upgrade -
(from an SOE generated email)
Don’t take our word on how much fun these changes add to combat – try it yourself!
Player Comments from Test Center About Combat Upgrade:
“I love the combat upgrade
.”
“I enjoy the new look of the hot keys, adding images was a great idea....”
“The new cooldown timers are much easier to understand.”
(Thanks for the words about the smaller, less controversial changes. Here's your free month of play)
- there are still quite a few of players who would rather see the existing combat system rebalanced rather than playing the proposed system that has been eloquently described as "OMG. suxxorz!!1!". And by "quite a few" I mean many. Many many.
So, today saw the creation of a last ditch effort from the unhappy players for their pleas of reconsideration to be heard and answered. Unexpectedly, SOE did answer. However, it was not the happy words of care that was the response. Nor was it the time-tested acknowledgment then refusal to budge. Instead SOE GMs responded by spawning a bunch of droidekas and sending them into the crowd to help disperse it (read: kill people).
Of course, if it wasn't for a helpful chap (thanks, Tale) I wouldn't have known about this protest. For, you see, SOE is currently doing is damndest to delete any threads pertaining to the protest on the Bria boards.
Instead one opponent to the CU asked if SOE would try to buy off unhappy players with something shiny.
Answer: Yes.
Which is just great if what I'm hearing about xp being cut by more than half in the CU publish proves to be true.
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