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maybe a more appropriate title to give away would be "BentOver"

Rather be a founding father at bed bath and beyond then this "production ready game."

What do you suggest then? That the game should be the exact same from inception to , oh, 12 years from now so that Every person can receive a founders title?

If you were lucky enough to be of the first crew on a ship (I was prior Military) and be labeled a "Plank Owner" would that be right to give a New Sailor 35 years later the same title when he comes aboard?

Of course not. The title is there for those who were here in the beginning.

the title should have been given on DAY ONE of release as a reward and went for the first month afterward.

However I am not complaining about how they are doing it. I agree with These titles. I was here at the beginning, no matter what or how you think of the game, I was here (or you were) and no one can take that away from you.

The game needs time to be fixed. It went live only a month ago. Believe me, It is not THAT bad. Sure there are some fixes needed but Not bad enough to break the game.

I know this was planned ahead of the fiasco, due to PTR datamining, but the timing on this announcement looks really bad.

Since my own thread was closed and I was directed here:

"Founder" feature Reaks of Weakness, Greed, and is just plain Lame

I'm going to preface this by saying that my subscription is already setup, I'm not canceling it nor do I have plans to cancel it.

With the game only being a month old, considering the plethora of complaints and claims of cancellation that have been steadily increasing leading up to and with the 1.1 release yesterday, enough to garner newsworthy attention. With most players non-subscribed 30 days just ending. With your emergency patching and weekly inconsistency with maintenance and patching. Bringing the website up today with the top feature being, "Pay us and get some novelty crap," is not only lame, but projects Weakness and Greed for Bioware/EA. Not only are people laughing their face off at this, but it's putting a bad taste in people's mouth and confirming to many the negative impressions they have held or considered.

I want to think that some marketing bimbo thought this up. I know they probably thought this was a nice gesture, but the message it sends is that you need to give people something extra so they subscribe. The game itself isn't good enough. The timing of the feature sends a message of greed and even retribution for people who have voiced complaints. Like you are trying to entice them into subscribing anyway with little trinkets, and punish those who try to prove their point with their wallets.

I see a lot of good communication from developers of this game. Statements conveying confidence that plans are in place, you know what you are doing, you are working on improvements that show you are listening to the customer. I think I have always felt good about this game after reading most of the official statements from every BW poster but Stephen Reid (sorry man, you're just bad at this). Those statements just need to be more timely and more frequent (remember we're in the information age). If BW will just focus on fixing things that are broken and keeping everybody in the loop about it with a tone of confidence, this game can be great.

Nice overly used response that is completely irrelevant to releasing MMOs. Does your baby get 6 years of developers to code its actions before its plopped out? Go do something useful. No MMO should be released without a UI that allows draggable windows or a completely missing graphics setting that was used to lure us into playing. Have anything else useful to say?

Not as stupid as you are, for coming here with a lame comment about a game that you clearly don't like.

I can get why people don't like a game. I've got no problems with something not to a person's tastes.

But what I cannot figure out is why these idiots feel the burning need to insult or convince others that they are 'oh so right.'

Clearly they care a lot about the game because it's causing them stress and they are unable to deal with it in a proper, mature manner.

oooooooh 'founder'....

Reminds me of the "Elder" title from DAOC days.

To the OP.

Why do you care so much if you will not be playing the game?

^ I LoL'd.

I'm really trying to like where this game is going, we all have a right to have our doubts right? I seriously can't say if I will re-sub.. and though it seems to be bad timing with this semi-unfitting "title". I really has no sway for me to re-sub at all and like many it brings forth questions for me on their focus. I guess it would be nice if BW would give us all some reassurance on these fixes... even if it were to be 3-4 months, heck.. something solid.

Good Luck BW.