| coolbeans said: SW: G #1? It's not that bad to be the #1 disappointment UNLESS the hype revolving around it before it came out was really hype. It's a solid MMO but.....nothing to go as far to brag about. |
Imagine playing an incredibly complicated and confusing broken mess of a game where entire professions didn't work, you had to walk across planets on foot, and there wasn't a single fully functional quest with an actual reward worth earning. Then imagine a community of incredibly patient and understanding people in this game and keep playing because of them. You tough it out with these people and as the months and years roll by things actually do get fixed, some promises are finally being made good on, some fun things get added, and this game starts to finally develop on it's a fraction of it's massive potential.
Then imagine one day the people who run the game decide to completely rewrite the rules on a lot of major aspects of the games, completely invalidate a lot of people's years of work, ruin tons of their own progress, introduce tons of new bugs and glitches, and a lot of your friends give up and finally quit.
Then imagine you endure, you make new friends, you adapt to the games, learn the new rules, and start having fun again. And then imagine in six months time the people who run the game completely rewrite the rules AGAIN! Imagine the development staff decide to start over on a game you're already paying a monthly subscription to play for the second time in less then a year. Imagine going through the same frustration and confusion and disbelief you had just suffered once before half a year ago. All because some executives at SOE though the game would sell better a cheap and broken third-rate copy of World of Warcraft.
I normally don't care about these silly lists the gaming sites throw around, but this, to me, is rare occasion where one of them involved someone making a pretty thoughtful choice.
