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So, we don't have a community manager....

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Celwinn
05.23.2012 , 08:36 AM | #51
Quote: Originally Posted by TUXs View Post
THANK YOU for proving my point!

Unless you followed his super secret twitter page and pretended to give a rats **edit** about his daily routine and witty comments, you didn't get the updates for the game you should have HERE...you know, HERE, the Bioware forums, where only PAYING customers of this product can post.

Any twit can twitter, only Biowares customers can post.

Those updates you received should have been information posted HERE! Not on twitter. THESE were the customers. THESE are who pay the bills. THESE are the people who were deprived of the information that MAY have saved accounts.
Quote: Originally Posted by Yamirashi View Post
Yeah, seeing as how he RARELY posted ANYTHING personal on his twitter. In fact the ONLY REASON I HAVE A TWITTER is so I could follow him and keep up with things going on in the game. Get a clue, you cannot take twitter and Facebook out of anything in today's world. And if you'd ever even looked at his twitter you would know it was 95% or more devoted to nothing but SWTOR. Also if you'd looked he'd already explained his recent silence in that he was tied up in trying to get the Group Finder in game. Thanks for your support, now why do you pay money to be here again?

Rockjaw gave us all the information he could whenever he could.
Think you missed this point.

Thanks for trying but better luck next time.
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islander
05.23.2012 , 08:36 AM | #52
Quote: Originally Posted by Alkiii View Post
I am not confident at all in the direction the game is now going in. This is yet another example of EA not thinking about their customer base and only about money.

Again, this was my last EA purchase. I don't care if they make a game that compares to the second coming of Christ ... I won't buy it.

Stephen Reid was our only portal to what was going on ... and you let HIM go? Seriously?

I'm glad I dumped your craptastic stock in November. After checking today's lines, EA is at/near their 52 week low and holding. All you had to do is allow Bioware to do the things they needed to do in order to make the player base happy (Cross Server LFG for PvE/PvP ... Server mergers ... Server Transfers (free) ... Ranked Warzones ... Nightmare Modes). Instead, you listened to some executive twit that only cares about money and allowed him to make the decisions.

I will enjoy watching this company continue to go down in flames. Poor Bioware ...
I agree with everything but the last sentence. I don't want this game to go down into flames, but it appears to be :/
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RolyartNala
05.23.2012 , 08:41 AM | #53
Sad news, but there's no way to know whether Stephen was part of the problem or not. I will say that I was disappointed that he handed off everyday forum interaction with the fans to Gonzalez, who we didn't know from Adam. Who can say, though, whether that was Reid's idea or not?

I'll say this: I liked Reid, he was a positive presence, and I'm sorry to see him go. I hope he lands on his feet.
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StDogbert
05.23.2012 , 08:45 AM | #54
This isn't a surprise, there is a total lack of communication from bioware to the players. Whether it can be all put on stephen reid for the lack of info dont know. Out of all the mmos i have played this one is by far the least interaction i have ever seen from a company to its players

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TUXs
05.23.2012 , 08:50 AM | #55
Quote: Originally Posted by Celwinn View Post
Think you missed this point.

Thanks for trying but better luck next time.
I didn't miss anything. I pay to be a part of this community and I expect any updates that answer questions ABOUT this community to be, at the very least, linked here. They can break and post them where they like, but I, as a paying customer, would like the courtesy of a link to anything that helps me keep my friends playing.

You admit to following his twitter JUST to get those updates. That's silly.
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Dratten
05.23.2012 , 08:52 AM | #56
Dear Stephen Reid and Bioware

I dont know if you are reading this but hey here goes.

You (Steven) have done a very good job in communicating with the community. I m guessing you have been very frustrated for a very long time since you have been on the recieving end of all feedback and flaming from the community.

You are now paying with your employment for the mistakes of the lead developers of this game.

The game was released prematurely and the real problem is not the amount of resources poured into this project, but on who those resources where spent.

Bioware,

The people in charge of the development is largely lacking the experience of creating an mmo. If you want this game to continue to exist as an mmo you need to recruit game developers not fire community managers.

your developers lack the understanding of the fundamentals of what an mmo needs to consist of.

1. A living world
2. Reasons to visit and coexist and travel in that living world. Such as gathering and open world pvp events/goals and rewards.
3. If you have factions, make sure there is a natural reason for those two to clash in the world.
4. Competitive PvP
5. Challangeing PvE

By sacking Steven Reid you have only dug the whole you stand in even deeper.

I feel really sorry for you Bioware! You had the best possible oppurtunity to create something really great, but you have utterly blown it!

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Yamirashi
05.23.2012 , 08:53 AM | #57
Quote: Originally Posted by TUXs View Post
I didn't miss anything. I pay to be a part of this community and I expect any updates that answer questions ABOUT this community to be, at the very least, linked here. They can break and post them where they like, but I, as a paying customer, would like the courtesy of a link to anything that helps me keep my friends playing.

You admit to following his twitter JUST to get those updates. That's silly.
Lol are you from the 60's? You cannot take twitter out of the picture in today's world. Sorry. And any big announcements on SWTOR were made public here, the things you get from his twitter were hints that something was coming and him answering questions that many people had.

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Celwinn
05.23.2012 , 08:54 AM | #58
Quote: Originally Posted by TUXs View Post
I didn't miss anything. I pay to be a part of this community and I expect any updates that answer questions ABOUT this community to be, at the very least, linked here. They can break and post them where they like, but I, as a paying customer, would like the courtesy of a link to anything that helps me keep my friends playing.

You admit to following his twitter JUST to get those updates. That's silly.
I started following him Pre Launch Era where information was scarce (officially anyways).

So yes I did follow him to get INFORMATION on this game.
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Celwinn
05.23.2012 , 08:55 AM | #59
Quote: Originally Posted by Dratten View Post
Dear Stephen Reid and Bioware

I dont know if you are reading this but hey here goes.

You (Steven) have done a very good job in communicating with the community. I m guessing you have been very frustrated for a very long time since you have been on the recieving end of all feedback and flaming from the community.

You are now paying with your employment for the mistakes of the lead developers of this game.

The game was released prematurely and the real problem is not the amount of resources poured into this project, but on who those resources where spent.

Bioware,

The people in charge of the development is largely lacking the experience of creating an mmo. If you want this game to continue to exist as an mmo you need to recruit game developers not fire community managers.

your developers lack the understanding of the fundamentals of what an mmo needs to consist of.

1. A living world
2. Reasons to visit and coexist and travel in that living world. Such as gathering and open world pvp events/goals and rewards.
3. If you have factions, make sure there is a natural reason for those two to clash in the world.
4. Competitive PvP
5. Challangeing PvE

By sacking Steven Reid you have only dug the whole you stand in even deeper.

I feel really sorry for you Bioware! You had the best possible oppurtunity to create something really great, but you have utterly blown it!
Well said.

But I don't think alot of this is Bioware's choice.

It seems like EA is trying to rush out things before they are ready so that they can make profit.
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GamewizX
05.23.2012 , 08:57 AM | #60
It's sad to see Stephen go. The next CM has big shoes to fill.
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