Seriously, it is so totally last year to be hating on SOE! I can’t write one article without someone, usually the same person or two people posting after every decent post about how evil SOE is. Ok, post it once. Fine. You stated your opinion, now move on.
Why is it that there is always a certain two or three people who have to find every post they can, and post after every single person how evil Smedley and Soe is. I mean it begins to become ridiculous at some point. This post was the last straw for me:
“I am SO ANGRY right now. I wanted to buy this game so badly, It looked so awesome. SOE is involved now, no way, no thanks. I have been burned WAY too many times. This is another BOYCOTT SOE post. It might be the best game ever, even with SOE. But i’ll never know, cause I just wont play it. Fuck sony, Fuck SOE. I’m out. Hope WAR doesnt get eaten alive.Thank god I ordered a P’zone.”
I mean why even post that? That is the most idiotic and rude post. Why does that have to be posted? Instead how about not saying anything at all? Especially since the poster has said it 50 other times in other threads. You would think that SOE came to people’s houses and stole their children! Enough already!
Here is another one, and actually by the same author, but in a different thread:
“Some of us, me included, have been pushed too far by Sony. I am holding a outright boycott of all Sony products, games electronics and music. I am beyond pissed at them. I don’t trust anything they say, everything they do is a bold faced lie. This will become a Sony brand just you watch. Then it will become Vanguard, or the PS3, or have spyware installed or use some proprietary Sony format. I have been looking forward to this game since the dev cycle started. I can’t even put this into words at this point. It’s just pure hatred. Unfortunately, I’m only one person and cant make a difference.”
That’s it SOE you have gone too far!!! WTH is this guy talking about? Perhaps Smed was in the same kindergarten class and when it was his turn to bring snacks he didn’t give any cookies to this guy? I understand that everyone has a right to be upset, and to voice their opinion, and I am totally fine with that, but when it gets to the point where a person is going from thread to thread cursing and hating on someone they don’t even know, and for reason they probably can’t even remember, and most likely aren’t even that big of a deal, it gets to be a little too much.
I have never met John Smedley, but I would love to because I am totally expecting him to have a tail and horns! I think I would probably die from shock because he is most likely a very nice guy, and does what he thinks is best when he is working. Seriously people no one who runs a company goes to work and tries to purposely screw over their customers. They do want your business, they do need a paycheck to live on, and after all we are only human and everyone makes mistakes. Lets lay off SOE and Smedley for awhile guys. Let’s give them a break and the time to show what a great company they really are.
P.S I have Sony underwear and they PWN all! 😛
A lot of people have hatred for Sony. It similar to hating Microsoft because.. there Microsoft.
It mostly because SoE is a big company, and it was most people first big MMO. And at one point they got nerfed and could never let go of it.
So no matter what SOE does, even if they make the best game ever, have the best customer service ever, and all that stuff, there will be a vocal population who can never ever let go of that nerf/bad customer support they experiance 5 or 6 years ago
OMG you total $OE fanboi (er, girl)! How much did they pay you to totally write this? You suxx0r and $OE(vil) are teh suck and I’m boycotting all your blog posts forever. In fact, to be sure I don’t encounter any of your blatant Sony-loving bias anymore I’m going to have to boycott the whole internet. Congrats, you just lost a customer. I hoep you can sleep at night knowing yore company (yeah, I know your really $me(vil)d in disguise) is about to collapse…
Ohh, I can’t continue. Seriously, these guys wear me out. Hello, people. Games? Fun? Why do internet fanboys take everything so damn personally? Are they really so fragile within their own lives they can’t handle anyone liking something remotely different from their own viewpoints? Sigh. I’ll just get on with having fun in games and leave them to their bitterness and bile. 🙂
I posted this in response to the person your talking about,
Everyone who is freaking out with the SOE merger is a flipping idiot. Does anyone relise without their support and financial backing this game would of never left the gates? FL needs there marketing and promotional backing to make this game happen. Im so sick of seeing such moronic children trolling up the boards posting the same crap over and over. Yes they are now partnered with soe, no soe is not re-building the game and screwing it up (see SWG), no FL isnt a crap company pushing a broken and lackluster product into SOE’s lap (see vanguard). They are getting involved to help market and promote the product as well as handle the billing, hell they aren’t even taking over the forums or customer service. Some day your dolts will get your head out of your asses!
While I haven’t had a lot of experience with SOE games, I have played EQ2 for about a full month and all I see outside of these games is good. EQ2 has been updated and patched dozens of times and they are attempting to revive Vanguard (who knows if it will work yet) but I have no reason to think they will ruin PotBS or any other game for that matter in the future.
The funniest part is the fact that we ALL know he’ll end up buying it.
People just need to learn to chill. There are more important issues to be pissed at in this world. Like the Taliban strapping a suicide belt onto a 10 year old boy or the genocide occuring as we speak in Darfur where an estimated 10,000 human beings are dying each month.
I actually liked working for SOE, but I’ll admit they burned me when they laid me off. It was was seemingly random, badly handled, and never explained what happened as to why I had to leave. I think someone didn’t like me, near as I could figure out.
Of course, that was four years ago, so I’m “whatever” about it, and I don’t plan to boycott their games or anything. And as far as I remember, Smedley was a decent enough guy from what little I knew him.
I do understand your frustration. As a matter of fact I too have made my own posts about it. It drives me absolutely bonkers hearing the same people day in and day out talking about SoE and their lack of ability to run a MMO. People do not read or learn facts they come to assumptions when it comes to SoE.
Now for that guys second post about not trusting Sony as a whole. That is totally understandable. The whole music CD thing with malware on it. And some of their general business practices has caused problems with some people. I personally do not like Sony as a business. I never have. Something about taking someone elses hardware and slapping their own logo onto and charging over 50% more for it causes me to question them.
But I am with you 100% on the SoE thing. There is no need for people to still get their panties in a bunch over SWG.
With or without SOE Flying Labs would have put this game out. The difference between going with SOE or not, is the ammount of shelf spacing, and advertisment the game will get in return.
FLS has said many times that they have the money and the resources to do their own advertising and marketing, the problem is.. They’ve never done it… They don’t want to make the many mistakes they are sure they would make in the process of distributing it themselves.
SOE was brought into the picture because they do VERY well at distribution and marketing. Where as Flying Labs is doing a VERY GOOD job at development and customer service.
Basically despite all the haters, SOE and Flying Labs are going to publish probably the best MMO that anyone is ever going to see. So, as far as I’m concerned, if you hate SOE enough to not play the greatest game made, then that’s all up to you. As for me, I may not like what SOE did to SWG and their customer service, but I do like Flying Labs.
I for one do actually Hate Sony and SOE but i have my reasons.
My first reason is Star Wars Galaxies i played for a years and the first year i had the time of my life (pre-CU) i helped people and generally just had a good time and made friends. as soon as the patched it to CU (combat upgrade) its was ok and livable alot of ppl such as my self put up with it. then they patched again and completely destroyed the games originality and made it into a World of Warcraft in star wars clothes it was abismal it ruined everything so i quit RIP SWG.
my second reason Planetside. i played this at the same time as galaxies it was action packed and intense. they patched it quite regulary and they wernt drastic. nice changes nothing wrong there. but then came big patches that some good some not so good but like galaxies ppl put up and shut up (except the whinners of course u can never shut scum like them up) then whey added an extra faction temp and that destroyed everything. there was no balance this new side they added where seemingly immortal. RIP Planetside.
that was the end of my SOE Era. I personnal will never understand what goes through the employees of SOE’s mind when they made these unauthordox decisions.
these are my first and last opinions on SOE, Never again (unless they get taken over by gearbox or Bethesda)
thanks for reading