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2012-07-15, 11:40 AM | [Ignore Me] #61 | ||
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The big thing that puzzles me is why do this in the first place?
If you mention names like Blizzard , Microsoft or Sony you sort of expect a certain degree of professionalism. Maybe not 100% of the time, but dependable nonetheless.If pro7 were just hosting servers for soe and maintenance i could go along with it to a degree. As it is, I find myself erring on the side of caution, and prefer just to not risk having them handle any details of mine from the get-go. The whole GOA/Mythic with warhammer online, Codemasters/ Turbine with lotro make me bitten twice , thrice shy about any euro company running mmo games on behalf on the main company. They have little affinity with the game other than a middleman getting a cut of the profits while filtering it, and cut costs wherever possible and charge more for a reduced service. |
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2012-07-15, 11:42 AM | [Ignore Me] #62 | ||
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These threads are kind of strange to me. Most people cry and moan about how crappy SOE is, but apparently this company that they've never used before is even worse? Also, nothing in the eq2 faq was updated, so what exactly is this thread pointing out?
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2012-07-15, 11:46 AM | [Ignore Me] #63 | ||||
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*edit* And yeah, I thought this topic had already been dealt with. Apparently not :P Last edited by etheral; 2012-07-15 at 11:49 AM. |
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2012-07-15, 11:52 AM | [Ignore Me] #64 | ||
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The soe devs are great, creating innovative game ideas and trying new stuff out. It's the higher corporate end and post launch where it gets blurry and questionable. We want soe to look after their baby, not throw it out into the world as soon as it starts growing teeth, especially not to some creepy euro pimp
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2012-07-15, 11:58 AM | [Ignore Me] #65 | ||
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Most likely because 7games (until PS2) only hosted smaller, more "casual" games and nothing even remotely close to PS2s size. So people are of course a bit afraid by the lack of experience. But I am quiet confident that SOE can provide the data and know-how necessary.
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2012-07-15, 12:01 PM | [Ignore Me] #66 | |||
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I'm familiar with the deals you mention and I can assure this is a whole different ball game. |
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2012-07-15, 12:05 PM | [Ignore Me] #67 | |||
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2012-07-15, 12:10 PM | [Ignore Me] #68 | |||
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2012-07-15, 12:51 PM | [Ignore Me] #74 | |||
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But I don't mind that they are handling that kind of stuff, but they do need to make sure we don't get delayed updates/patches. I don't mind if we get a patch a hour later or something, but not days/weeks. Also that we get into the closed beta at (almost) the same time as US people. And that the prices of the marketplace are the same as the US one. (1$=not1€) And that we also have the same items. I do hope they won't put in better weapons/items, while the US version doesn't have those things. And I know you guys said that SOE has the word on what get's in or not. So I suppose that won't happen, but I still have a bad impression from that fiasco earlier this year, and the things I read about the company. I am really curious about how the EU beta and release goes. If everything goes well, and the above stuff I mentioned gets handeled well. I am a happy person and then I will just play on the EU server Last edited by bjorntju1; 2012-07-15 at 12:53 PM. |
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2012-07-15, 01:12 PM | [Ignore Me] #75 | ||
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I still dont get why SOE think this will improve their player numbers over here. Prosieben only have any kind of presence in Germany (im assuming austria as well but it doesnt say it on their website) Romania, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Nothing in UK, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Russia, Portugal, Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Turkey, Ukraine etc etc etc. Sony on the other hand.. has a network and presence in all of those countries, thanks to the PS3. Why does a Sony owned company, need to go to a third party with a limited network in Europe to distribute it's product? How will SOE games be marketed in other European countries than the ones s71 actually has some kind of network in? I'd never heard of them in the UK, before this stuff came up. The other thing that really concerns me is that they are a German company. Now the Germans are good at many things, but they have a terrible record on video game censorship. I think it was Tera that launched recently and the German company that the devs had hired in this sort of a deal (squashed frog or something like that) had to censor the game client for all of Europe, based on draconian German censorship laws (which from what i've read over the last years in news items on tech sites and gaming sites, seems to be getting worse). Blood and a number of suggestive costumes for female avatars all had to be changed or removed to comply with German law. This meant a huge number of EU players simply bought the US client, as the devs had not tied down their systems and if you went to the main game website and bought it, it automatically set you up with the north american client. So why did they even need the german middle man in the first place!? Last edited by SergeantNubins; 2012-07-15 at 01:15 PM. |
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