My server will be back!

[Rogean]

You mean Jump to Lightspeed? That just gave you a starship so you could play in space and travel between any starport you wanted.

The Combat Upgrade went live in April 2005 (This year) and completely ruined the game.

[RangerDown]

I believe that once a game has been out for more than a certain amount of time, it's too late to change the fundamental core of the game. Face it, lots of people are resistant to change, even when the change just consists of minor tweaks. And they pull out the core mechanics and redo them like a whole new game.

Incidentally, the 5/11 patch that broke Emu came from a big "re envisioning" of classes that they had been doing the past several months.

You gotta wonder if SOE is deliberately making big changes instead of minor tweaks so they can get the publicity among the gaming magazines. Maybe they think that just a little tweaking and rebalancing isn't worth it, if they're gonna spend any effort at all they want some advertising out of it too.

[gottasummer]

I believe that SOE has been changing a lot to change many things.

I am a C++ programmer myself... and I started on a server emulator for SWG. (that one that people were talking about on ragezone and other sites)

I got a nasty email from someone at SOE that claims to work in legal affairs, that told me to stop making the program, (all I had was up to server list, no maps or anything.. just let you login and backended by an access database by using ADO.NET) because it could make them loose millions, and I would be held responsible.

SOE is changing EQ I believe only to stop showEQ and EQEmu.

SOE does have some evil in them, but they have to make a living, too.

[Aonelyn]

rogean and his swg..