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07.26.2012 , 04:56 AM | #41
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07.26.2012 , 05:01 AM | #42
The truth will come out next week as on July 31st will be EA's investor call. Everyone left playing will find out (hopefully) what IS going on. Either way, it's a joke that a company like EA yet again leave their player base in limbo. Typical.

I suggest to those left working, start looking for another place to work, somewhere they look after you.

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07.26.2012 , 05:15 AM | #43
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The truth will come out today. July 26th is EA's investor call. Everyone left playing will find out (hopefully) what IS going on. Either way, it's a joke that a company like EA yet again leave their player base in limbo. Typical.

I suggest to those left working, start looking for another place to work, somewhere they look after you.
Stockowners meeting is 26 th, the earnings conference call (4 times a year) is 31th. I am not sure which one should show the plans for future, possibly both? Anyway last time (may) it was the earnings call when they gave the player amounts.

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07.26.2012 , 05:18 AM | #44
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The truth will come out today. July 26th is EA's investor call. Everyone left playing will find out (hopefully) what IS going on. Either way, it's a joke that a company like EA yet again leave their player base in limbo. Typical.

I suggest to those left working, start looking for another place to work, somewhere they look after you.
EA is the reason why I almost stopped buying Bioware games at all. as for the layoffs, EA has always had mass layoffs after a game , especially big name big dollar ones, in order to try and maximize they profits. this doesn't work in an MMO format as we as paying subscribers expect and deserve a continued feeding of new content. EA needs to smarten up. I hate to use it but WoW didn't get to the size it was by slashing staff. they added. brought in new ideas and even hired the artists who submitted some of the best fan art to work in their design dept. EA really needs to take a look at Blizzards business practices and see how to keep subscribers subscribed and add new customers. I love this game and I think it has made decent progress thus far but cutting jobs and going F2P is going to hurt that progress big time.
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07.26.2012 , 05:43 AM | #45
Population is still dropping. The company is going to have to change their plans if they want to continue to make money. I know we have a lot of people who won't believe it until Bioware comes right out and makes an announcement but lets be honest here, the way things are heading is to free to play. Swtor was supposed to be the next big mmo and they have utterly failed at that. They can still condense it down and make it a decent game but it's not going to be like everyone thought it would be.

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07.26.2012 , 05:44 AM | #46
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07.26.2012 , 06:04 AM | #47
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Reported OP post for harassment and slanderous towards bioware
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Threads like these should be deleted or closed on sight.. They are not constructive and serve no purpose..
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07.26.2012 , 06:33 AM | #48
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2 months ago people were really missing the 500 thousand people who took your advice. Do you really want to keep going down that road until there are 300 people left? I dont agree with the OP's rants in various threads, but everything we are seeing across the forums and in-game general chats is a result of a complete and utter lack of a community team, worthless Q and A, lack of substantial updates with repeatable non-grinding content. Constructive criticism you say? Guild ships you earn by leveling up a guild and gathering resources and high level crafters, mini-games like Sabaac, Pazaak and swoop racing with customizable swoops and pazaak decks, a true Open World PVP experience with benefits for victory and defense, like a form of castle conquering/defending gameplay that doesnt lag like Launch ilum, and more social activities.

Those items should be a PRIORITY for bioware because they offer repeatable content that is genuinly replayable and can hold over people for longer periods and even form the basis for communities that keep people in this game for YEARS. Continuing the treadmill of raids and "story content" is a path for failure, and should only be done AFTER and in ADDITION to the repeatable and social content. Customer service is also severely lacking in this game.

Until bioware gets its act together, COMMUNICATES with its players and releases some better repeatable content in order to retain players, it is going to continue rapidly bleeding subs.
Very true. Nothing worse for letting these type of rumors continue than for BioWare to do nothing to refute them. Just a simple post on what thier furture plans are in requards to FTP rumors and it would atleast let the player base feel more at ease. Never seen a MMO company with such horrible communication skills with it's player base.
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07.26.2012 , 06:44 AM | #49
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Very true. Nothing worse for letting these type of rumors continue than for BioWare to do nothing to refute them. Just a simple post on what thier furture plans are in requards to FTP rumors and it would atleast let the player base feel more at ease. Never seen a MMO company with such horrible communication skills with it's player base.
This! Why the hell can't you come out and just bloody say what the plan is. geez! makes it look like your going to go the usual EA way of milking it out, with your silence on the issue. Bioware really needs to preserve their integrity by standing up to EA. but I guess most of those that did have been laid off.
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07.26.2012 , 06:46 AM | #50
Why is it if you talk about anything about gameplay it will be consolidated in to a thread with 200 pages but they can make 10+ F2P the game is ending the sky is falling posts a day and no one does a thing about them?
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