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  1. The Tl;DR translation If you are so angry with the game that you take it out on other players, maybe you should find a new game. /signed
  2. I use my fleet pass to travel to the fleet when I am on my ship......docked right outside the fleet. I can't be bothered with elevators.
  3. The OP seems to be your pretty standard childish response to something they do not like. "I do not like the way this is done, so everybody must not like it, and anybody who DOES like it must obviously work for EA/BW or is a fanboy" When someone is angry over something that other people are perfectly content with, they tend to fly into an unspeakable rage. "Why doesn't everyone have the same irrational outrage over this minor issue like I do?"
  4. The "worst company title" is evidence of nothing (and you call me ignorant) it is an arbitrary award that has little consensus or specific requirements of what qualifies as "bad" and there is no scale to determine the delineating variations of what different customer bases are looking for in a product. A company that makes bad video games can hardly be considered worse than a company who spills billions of gallons of oil causing near irreparable damage to the environment. If you think otherwise than I have no argument that can penetrate that skull of mush. You have no idea what I know or do not know, and based on many of the responses who either partially or totally agree with me, I would say I am not coming from way out in left field. Your empirical evidence is not that at all, it is anecdotal evidence. You pick and choose things that support your point of view while ignoring general logic (i.e. making money is always going to be good for the game and will provide more resources as a whole, this applies to all businesses) I do not guarantee that I am right. I do not guarantee that you are wrong. But I am as certain as you are that neither of us know more about the game than BW/EA - so until actual empirical evidence emerges showing the correlation between increased CM development and subscription loss/lack of development in other areas, than I will continue to take what they give me at face value and prepare myself to throw it back in their face if they say or do something to the contrary. Conspiracy theorist was an extreme and inaccurate label for those whose perception is that the content is not rolling out quick enough, I admit to that.
  5. This is a key point for sure. Perception is reality when it comes to customer satisfaction. Really good point. It hurts that you said my post was irrelevant........./tear
  6. At this point, people (including myself) are just repeating the same arguments and are only being further entrenched. All I can say is that I refuse to believe that BW/EA are really so short sighted as to just sap as much from the Cartel Market as they can before letting the game go under. It seems more probable that the success of the CM is going to be a boon to the overall development of the game (call me a glass half full guy i guess). Or.......this is all a secret conspiracy to empty our wallets with little regard for the customer or the game. Maybe the conspiracy theorists are right......but how often is that ever the case? The metallic stench of aluminum foil is burning my nostrils.
  7. I don't know where to begin with this nonsense. I'll let someone else jump all over this one.
  8. The issue is that when someone calls someone a "troll" or a "fanboy" they are trying to undermine that person's argument whether it is legitimate or not. By saying "oh you may say X but you are just a fan boy" they are trying to diminish that person's argument by attacking their credibility. The same principle applies when refering to someone as an EA/BW employee. You are trying to undermine any argument they may have by saying essentially "how can we trust anything this person says, they work for the company. It is a common logical fallacy and is called the "ad hominem" fallacy. Attacking the person rather than the argument itself. Something tells me thought that you are playing possum when you pretend to not know why saying someone works for EA is an attack. Its no different than calling someone a troll or fanboy.
  9. I am glad to see that there are a lot of intelligent people who see my point on this. I was worried I was going to be lambasted with outrageous ridiculousness. Thank (most of you) for your well thought out posts and explanations that went even further than my OP.
  10. EXACTLY - it does not make sense to anyone with a brain that the CM being successful would in anyway hurt the overall game development. Are you all really such conspiracy theorists that you believe the only thing this game cares about is making a quick penny on the CM? I would like to think EA/BW have a little better forsight than what some are giving them credit for. It is not a revelation in any way to say that if the CM becomes the primary focus of the game that people will start to leave in droves. Don't be so arrogant to believe that YOU know this and the devs do not. They are fully aware of the line and will take great pains to not cross it.
  11. I am not telling anyone what to believe. I am saying that you, me, John and Jane Doe have no ground to stand on if we say things like "the CM is sapping resources from the Devs". Of course, we can all believe whatever we want. My ultimate point was that I think a lot of people are simply choosing to believe what fits their perception rather than taking and (key point) HOLDING the devs to their word. It's not as if we are blindly following, we are simply using the available evidence to develop an informed opinion. In my opinion, there is little evidence that shows a trend that would suggest the CM is overshadowing the development of the rest of the game. I completely understand what your ultimate point is, all I am suggesting is that maybe your perception does not match exactly the reality of the situation.
  12. It is certainly a better argument than because YOU said so, and you did indeed say a lot of things that may or may not be true, so tell me why I should take your word instead of theirs? They at least are working on the game every day, are employed by the company, and have a vested interest in telling as much of the truth as possible. Whereas a poster like you or I is bound by no such thing......so yeah I am going to go with what seems like the best evidence until I see a reason not to.
  13. Why is it obvious? Is it because there are specific things in the game that you have expectations for and would like to see and since the game does not have those things "obviously" the devs are underfunded or not doing their job "If cartel market team is growing it is guaranteed that other team is going down" So by the same logic, if the cartel market weakens than the FP's, OPs, and PVP will all magically get better? The mroe the CM grows the more budget the entire game has to work with, which can only be a good thing. It does not pass the smell test to say that a successful CM = bad game every where else.
  14. Your argument is logical but is also highly speculative. Do you work for EA/bioware? if so than I defer to you because you would obviously know. If not, you have no more right to speculate on the inner workings of the business than I do. The difference is that I am not speculating, as BW has stated exactly what I said in my original post. You can either take them at their word and hold them to it or you can develop you own (IMO misguided) perception of what is going on even if it has no basis in reality. I choose the former, and the moment I perceive that indeed a disproportionate amount of resources are being allocated to the CM I will eat my words. Right now though, you cannot categorically state that this is the case because how do you really know?
  15. I am not saying they are the EXACT same, but to say they are not even similar just does not make sense to me. And yes, you can "target" a cartel pack for a specific color but you are not even guaranteed to get a crystal at all, so it is even MORE random. At least with the dyes you know you are getting some kind of dye pack. It seems that the only big difference people can come up with is that they are not reusable. I admitted to this difference but I stand by everything else and even argue that is is easier to get a color dye you want than a specific rare color crystal (especially since 2.1 has been out for a few days and the dyes are going to be popping up on the GTN like crazy)
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