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  1. Did a search to see if this was listed anywhere else here or on the forums abroad and found nothing; In the additional performance recommendations it says to install DirectX 9.0 runtime alongside your updated version, however any attempt to do so simply returns a message saying a newer version is detected and no install is required. Any Ideas? Windows 7 Thanks
  2. I've actually been thinking about this since launch; you're definitely not the only one.
  3. Yeah while some people will try and tell you it's 100% one way or the other my personal opinion is anything could happen at this point. Maybe EA/BW will surprise us, there's just not enough info to know for sure yet. As for new games coming out? I think the F2P model can work, and even though we're mocked right now For rocking the boat, publishers are feeling it out and we need to be voicing what we find acceptable and what we don't. If everyone just bailed and tried another game, publishers will just do it again because dissatisfied numbers will get lost in the shuffle. On top of that they're coming out honest about their payment model. Subscribers will steer clear if they prefer not to do the f2p thing, or they won't feel burned and they'll give it a shot, and maybe become converts.
  4. Nicely put. Just curious, what happens at step 3 if people paying their sub don't feel their getting the value they deserve out of it? Back to step 1? More if the same if you don't like it shut up and leave mentality? There's certainly a time to leave, but if are expected to just sit down shut our mouths and take whatever their throwing at us should that not translate into life in general? Do you often pay expecting one thing, in some cases valid in others not so much, but receive something different and just grin and bare it? If your ISP cuts out for 2 weeks of your one month subscription do you just shrug and pay your bill like a good little consumer? Personally I call them and let them know I generally like their service, but this is unacceptable and that I expect them to make it up to me somehow. I think most companies appreciate that as opposed to just saying screw it you messed up once and I'm takin my business elsewhere. In fact I know they do, I've gotten plenty of calls from multi million dollar companies saying hey, we get you were unhappy with something we did, here's what we're fonna do to fix it.
  5. Agreed, but not solely because of the subject matter. Every second post contains some sort of dismissive insulting label to some previous poster. Troll/fanboi/hater blah blah blah bs.
  6. I think part of the problem is very few people feel they've gotten what they paid for up until this point. I tend to agree with them. It seems so simple to me that any sort of handouts would be tiered. The problem is EA/BW is trying to, I dunno exactly, save money? Anytime your giving anything to one portion of the player pop it should tier downwards. They often seem to skip that for some reason, and just arbitrarily give out gifts and rewards without any real discernible pattern aside from, they didn't really think it out.
  7. Thanks for clarifying something. On that note, maybe pass this on to the big wigs. Cut the foreplay and save the headache and ill will. Tier out the compensation. CE gets all the items and the 1000 cc DE gets all the items and half the cc SE gets some sort of item(s) and a quarter of the cc No, it won't please everyone, but it's the most common sense thing to do. And for gods sake stop selling the bloody game to people. Make the trial only require the sub to continue playing until f2p launches. Then just don't give anyone that subs after today's date, extra cc for box purchase.
  8. Yes and no. Wow released into a desolate market where not a lot of options existed. TOR has launched into a saturated market. I played a few months of wow, and there's some really fun stuff in there. It wasn't my cup of tea over all, but I think it would be assinine to suggest it was a bad game. What it was however is an anamoly. I 100% beleive we will never see another game achieve the landmarks it has, it was a perfect storm. I think I only played a few days just after launch and then came back later, from what I understand of the history, wow had some MAJOR issues with polish, performance and content at launch. But it was only one of few options, and while I've heard blizzard wasn't exactly quick on a lot of them, they did seem to listen and provide what people wanted.
  9. Can't say this isn't true. I don't like the way BW has handled some of this stuff, but I also see a lot of the completely irrational freak outs people have.
  10. Hmmm. Yep some people may have said something similar, though I think the general sentiment here is that now its about more, easier money for reduced effort and a sub par product. Being concise is great, but over simplifying and being dismissive simply to have a point serves no one, least of all you. While profit is a good thing, profit through unethical and shady business practice is not. There's a difference between ambition and greed, a line that can get blurry and is easy to cross. Am I to understand that you think the ends justify the means, profit is the only standard by which to conduct ourselves and any and all practices to obtain it are acceptable? Because if so I think there are some countries you might be more suited for. While businesses in many places may feel that way, the general public still does not. In the US as well as Canada I think the general pop still wants business to conduct themselves ethically. F2P, micro transactions and DLC can all be awesome ideas and serve both businesses and gamers, but not the way they're trying to go about it. Companies like occasionally need a smack to let them know they're out of line or getting close. They'd charge you 300 bucks for a glass of water if they knew they could get away with it. It's our responsibility to stand up for ourselves and let them know what is acceptable and what isn't, through both our wallets and our feedback. That's what's happening here. Though the fact that you think it's all good and are giving your feedback and money as such is awesome, let's not start deporting people just yet.
  11. While there's certainly some merit to the OP's argument that the MMO community by and large has created much of the landscape themselves, what's happening here and now comes down to poor management, and a flat out dishonest developer and publisher. Ten minutes browsing the forums you'll find link after link sourcing Bioware or EA Lieing to the customer base about what was going on with this game and where it's headed. On the flip side they've remained completely silent about some pretty serious issues players have been raising regarding a variety of things, with their only real response being, "Hey, we're listening to you". What makes me so sad is that I do like the game, I've supported it thoroughly, and I MAY continue, depending on how on the level EA/BW show they can be. I'm just so sick of people ripping other users apart and saying everything is just fine, attaching all sorts of labels to anyone who notices there's a problem here, and can eloquently and maturely quantify it.
  12. It's pretty common for F2P games to only offer customer service/tech support etc to paying customers. Of course it isn't f2p yet, and we are.... Paying..... Customers?
  13. I'm not lol. Look at the stuff being posted in these forums, it's anarchy compared to the stringent controls even just a few weeks ago. Welcome to the new game and the new service level of EA/BW,
  14. That actually gave me a little more insight into the benefits of the system, but reduced my hope that EA/BW can follow those practices. Glaring out is the idea that in order for the system to work properly, it's almost a requirement that it be designed for it from day one, as opposed to tacked on later as EA is about to do. Time will tell I guess.
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