Galaxies Players Headed Towards Dark Side With Lawsuit
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sue because a company is deciding to shut down THEIR game that they've run for EIGHT YEARS...
greeaattttt idea there people, fifty people against a massive corporation and their cause is being annoyed that a game they've sunk 8 years of their life into is being shut down...
theyre going to win for sure...
I mean, in reality i think you have to look at this like business. The product is only as good as long as youre making money off of it. Sony apparently thinks its no longer worth their time and so theyre shutting it down. Not to sound like a dick but they don't care about how much everyone loves it (or hates for that matter). They're just looking to make good business decisions.
greeaattttt idea there people, fifty people against a massive corporation and their cause is being annoyed that a game they've sunk 8 years of their life into is being shut down...
theyre going to win for sure...
I mean, in reality i think you have to look at this like business. The product is only as good as long as youre making money off of it. Sony apparently thinks its no longer worth their time and so theyre shutting it down. Not to sound like a dick but they don't care about how much everyone loves it (or hates for that matter). They're just looking to make good business decisions.
because as a united states tax player, when they bring a suit that means our already overloaded and underfunded legal system has to deal with all their paperwork and nonsense and i have to pay for itdanintexas said:
its an old game, it doesn't make money, its had very little support and i don't see why I should have to pay or them to throw a temper tantrum, tbh.
Although SWG has come to it's end i can't help but think of all the people who reply with "it happens all the time get over it" will soon have a kick in their teeth when their games get shut down over time again and again and again.
I liked SWG and even though it was a long time ago in a server far far away i still harbor no hared for it even though it's life is ending, though i know games like that must draw the final curtain.
I liked SWG and even though it was a long time ago in a server far far away i still harbor no hared for it even though it's life is ending, though i know games like that must draw the final curtain.
Same generic type of classes with different names, and startup regions... oh jolly-oh that changed everything...animehermit said:
Im going to be honest and continue to say that astetic wise, it looks like WoW (graphical terms and character design-styles). The combat looks super slow-paced (but i was kinda expecting something like Jedi Academy combat style, so my bad on this one).
I do love the dialogues and its something they have going with... and the space exploration and dogfights... now that.... exploring and fighting in space... if its like the trailers... well ill love it... but if its more targeting, generic fighting, slow-paced piece of crap ill just quit everything...
Ill just wait and play the game and develope my own judgement, AFTER the teeks and bits have been solved and the trinkets and ghosts have been corrected... if it stays like it was showen in the trailers... it will suck... if they kick it up a notch... it will be good... like i saied, its the waiting game time...
its not sony, its lucasarts. The license is expiring and lucasarts is not going to renew it due to the new game being made and ran by a different company. Anyone who thinks that any company besides lucasarts has ANY control over ANYTHING star wars related is daft. Lucas is up there with steve jobs when it comes to protecting IP. SWG may suck fat rocks but, when it comes down to it, its not sony#s choice. The reason ti will never go F2P or be allowe dto be released on another company is still in the hands of lucasarts, not sony. There is no way in hell lucas is ever going to allow that.
It's all in the perspective. Some find it as self entitled BSers, I see it as a not-miniscule amount of gamers whose game that they might cherish as part of their daily entertainment being completely stopped by a large corporation, and they are desperate to do anything they can to save it, while their legitimate options (petitions etc) are being exhausted. I know that I would do whatever I could to keep a game I love alive, via any means necessary if I could. If that's they thought a lawsuit would help their cause even a fraction more than their other methods, more power to them. Nothing lost on either side, really.canadamus_prime said:
Well if Sony didn't get sued over the "NGE" which was dropped on the playerbase right after they bought an expansion pack with about 2 weeks notice then I'm sorry this has no chance.
Sure it sucks but well you could say it was pretty much inevitable and this time at least they gave their customers 5-6 months notice of what was going to happen.
With TOR going to be released the licence fee Lucasarts was going to charge was inevitably going to up and while SWG still has a playerbase it's not much of one and Sony probably looked at the numbers and relised it just wouldn't be worth it. Sorry to those who are affected by it. It sucks to lose access to something you enjoy hopefully something else comes along to take it's place.
Sure it sucks but well you could say it was pretty much inevitable and this time at least they gave their customers 5-6 months notice of what was going to happen.
With TOR going to be released the licence fee Lucasarts was going to charge was inevitably going to up and while SWG still has a playerbase it's not much of one and Sony probably looked at the numbers and relised it just wouldn't be worth it. Sorry to those who are affected by it. It sucks to lose access to something you enjoy hopefully something else comes along to take it's place.
I don't know. Based on what's written in the article, it sounds like SOE are the bigger jerks in this fight. Ignoring a petition is one thing, but actually threatening people who make petitions? That's inexcusable. And it makes no logical sense. So they threaten to ban people... for liking their game too much? If anything the petitions should make them happy. They should feel proud that they've made a game that people love to that degree, even if it does bring in a little bit too much fandom. I'm not saying they should keep the game online just because people beg for it, but they certainly shouldn't threaten to ban them just for asking.
Even if this lawsuit has no merit, I can kind of understand why the players are doing it. I don't take kindly to being threatened, personally. Especially by someone with more power than me. I know SOE are well within their rights to ban people for any reason they want, but that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Power comes from authority. Knowing when to use your power comes from morality.
Even if this lawsuit has no merit, I can kind of understand why the players are doing it. I don't take kindly to being threatened, personally. Especially by someone with more power than me. I know SOE are well within their rights to ban people for any reason they want, but that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Power comes from authority. Knowing when to use your power comes from morality.
Even if there is no legitimate grounds from which to base a lawsuit on?Roboto said:
Of course if I had my way, I get rid of that whole lawsuit nonsense so that nobody would be able to file lawsuits against anybody for anything EVER. Oh and all the fucking lawyers would be burned alive in a huge sacrificial pit. ¬_¬
Aside from that, when I refer to the "Age of self-entitled dipshits" I'm not just talking about this case. This is just one of many many examples that has led me to draw that conclusion.
Careful what you say, they may sue you.canadamus_prime said:
I think someone once said "Kill all the Lawyers"
OT: If you didn't see this coming (The shutdown) when TOR was anounced, then you have no perception whatsoever.
Again, just let the game pass quitely. Making a huge fanfare isn't going to help anyone.
Sony's response to the petitions is more than a little harsh, frankly. That it's within their rights doesn't change that. You would think they would have learned better customer care by now; I mean, after all, in a few months they're no longer going to have to deal with the petitions, one way or another. It wouldn't kill them to let the petitioners feel they're being heard, even if they're being ignored by the only people whose decision on the issue matters. "Disrupting a community" that isn't going to exist for much longer is kind of a silly charge.
As for the lawsuit, yeah, it's silly. If it went through it would create a precedent for everyone who could no longer get server support from their old software, including all of Microsoft's customers, not that part of me wouldn't enjoy that.
As for the lawsuit, yeah, it's silly. If it went through it would create a precedent for everyone who could no longer get server support from their old software, including all of Microsoft's customers, not that part of me wouldn't enjoy that.
Well just consider most of these folks have been playing and PAYING every month for the past 8 years.CommanderKirov said:
Lets just say they pay like 12$ a month, they've invested well over a grand and hundreds/thousands of invest play time hours.
I can see where they're coming from and it really sucks. Just because you think the game was bad doesn't mean some people didn't enjoy it.