So.....roughly 30 hours ago the Cryptic team starts a Poll with regards to developing new sets. Because they don't want the player base to see the results (because gods forbid that the people know what the majority wants) they screw it up so that supposedly they can't see the results. Solution? Hit the self destruct, start over and then don't tell folks that there is a 24 hour limit on Polling. Not that version 1.0 had a 30 day time limit.
What does this give you? Pretty much nothing. Most folks don't read the forums daily because its a poorly run pile of fecal matter where personal attacks are ok as long as you are a good buddy of the Community Coordinators. Many of those that do read daily didn't vote immediately because they wanted to think about the choices and make (oh my god...wait for it) an informed decision.
So now we have a former SOE employee in the form of Alex "Lighthouse" von Minden (yeah...SOE rejects moving to destroy another game, right?) coming on the forums ( as the Community Liaison) and stating that they will not reveal the results because the the Poll results were never to see the light of day, despite a comment on the Poll that led voters to believe otherwise. Change your titles son, because you are no Liaison between the community and anyone else. You are an overpaid press secretary.
Nice work guys ....... I wish I hadn't paid for a year long membership. Had I known how quickly COX was going to spiral down hill I would have never wasted my time or money.....and this is coming from a guy who played SWG for years.
Since Alex and his "assistant" have arrived, we've been treated to an increase in non-topic related and/or irrelevant posts, an increase in censorship of dissenting opinions (straight out of the SOE book) and a steady decrease in mature players. I remember when the forums used to be a place you could go to get help. I know because I helped a lot of folks there either with posts or PM's. Now its a clown car and the only real reason to go there is to see how many clowns or gonna climb out today.
See ya....
Rants on things going on in the world today as well as some personal crap that bugs me here and there.
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And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking them in fury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my righteous vengeance upon them.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007, posted by Timothy at 6:30 PM
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Case in point... I caught the end of this well after it was all over and only the fallout remained. I think it was bad form, ridiculous, misleading, and yet another example of what happens when an MMO is dying.
Heres an idea, lets move Cuppa to a no name game most ppl wont play! Then? We'll hire some SOE douchebag and a PvP addicted lackey! Yeah! If we alienate our subscribers, pay attention to nothing but PvP, which only a SMALL fraction of our players even bother with, and then when we do bother to do anything about the rest of the game? Lets keep everyone in the dark! OH! Auction House! That will keep them busy for hours!
Its a lot of grab ass bullshit. I pay month to month and I could walk anytime. I deal with it because I like playing with Kirs and my friends that play.
Makes me want to just go back to playing Guild Wars. They're lucky there isn't another superhero MMO out there or Id have left already.