GDC: BioWare's Walton on Adding Space Combat to Star Wars Galaxies & Customer Retenti

Ohhh Nis !!!! hehe wasn't there an unwritten rule somewhere that we didn't invoke either politics nor religion on the forums ? .

Game development is not a democracy. Your just sticking your head in the clouds if you think a single thing that you say on the forums of major game designers means anything to them.

And that is why they left a suggestion box for people to add suggestions to?

It is a posibility to support current ideas of what people got as well as adding in new ideas and some of that stuff might be taken into consideration by bioware.

Also if you vote for the president and you got some ideas and grant the suggestion the chance for that suggestion coming to life is sparse, but the posibility is there still.

Ohhh Nis !!!! hehe wasn't there an unwritten rule somewhere that we didn't invoke either politics nor religion on the forums ? .

This board is not run by democrazy, Kat... beware!

an that's preciesly why I asked Nis . Some want to secretly bleive he's an Iron fisted tyrannical hobbit that doesn't get out of Isengaurd too often .... :thumbsup:

I guess it must be his curse that Saruman likes Hobits in special ways...

No, I just don't let him out of Orthanc that often.... too much EvE PvP could result....

No, I just don't let him out of Orthanc that often.... too much EvE PvP could result....

Very true.

Ohhh Nis !!!! hehe wasn't there an unwritten rule somewhere that we didn't invoke either politics nor religion on the forums ? .

Invoking isn't the same as discussion which is what is banned.

And Q the difference between .0001% and .0002% really doesn't matter. In the end discussing it there still equates into just as much a waste of time.

I don't have to worry about Saruman by the way - Pol would kick his ass if he got any funny ideas.

I guess it must be his curse that Saruman likes Hobits in special ways...

btw I made another poll on the SWTOR suggestions forum I thought you might want to take a look, not as good as my last poll but to all EU players I think this is a must

I voted for coast servers btw

I think it's funny that a lot of players, no matter what game it is, think the dev's give 2 shits about the polls they post on the forums. They'll make the game as they like, they may, and I repeat, MAY look at the forums and take some notes down, but lets face it, most of the polls out there won't do shit.... Unless your our Pol, then you kick ass :tongue:


Also, didn't we cover this already?

Meryl and Nis... they put a suggestion board there for a reason... it is not likely that every suggestion would be added or considered to the game but if one or two is implented it mean that the devs do read the boards.

Also it is Bioware you are talking about, they are different than other game companies in many ways.... my biggest interaction though with the Bioware boards was mod building in the old days for Neverwinter Nights... alot of the patches for that game is done from feedback from players as well as different implementations that has been suggested or modded to by players and then entering official patches that does so you got more features to work with eg the modding way as well as in general use of the game as a whole as well.

If you just shutup on a suggestion board or the likes you wont be heard, that is all I got to say... even if your ideas are not good or whatever you still would be able to get some kind of influence in stuff that they might consider to actually add to the game.... even if it is 0.0001% it still count... maybe your idea just kick in rock solid.. and it by sudden gets added or whatever as well as this more you display yourself on there boards this bigger chance you also got for getting into the beta program especially if you are not one of them rampageing teens that spell you as u and whatever.

Meryl and Nis... they put a suggestion board there for a reason... it is not likely that every suggestion would be added or considered to the game but if one or two is implented it mean that the devs do read the boards.

You put suggestion boards in so people think they have a chance of having their ideas heard and to gather all said posts up so it doesn't clutter the other boards. Not because you actually care what the suggestions are.

Also it is Bioware you are talking about, they are different than other game companies in many ways.... my biggest interaction though with the Bioware boards was mod building in the old days for Neverwinter Nights... alot of the patches for that game is done from feedback from players as well as different implementations that has been suggested or modded to by players and then entering official patches that does so you got more features to work with eg the modding way as well as in general use of the game as a whole as well.

This isn't Bioware Edmonton - its Bioware Austin, which is an entirely different group of developers.

even if it is 0.0001% it still count...

No, it really doesn't. You're deluding yourself if you think so.

reading this thread is like watching a very boring episode of Sienfield that's been rerun for the 1000000 time ....

I assume they still go under the general Bioware way no matter which studio you chose.. yes different devs I agree to that but does that alter the company structure in how they do stuff?

I should hope not, if the case they would be doing a big mistake at least from a general overall bioware point of view.

Even if they decide to use none of the ideas suggested then just tough luck, but by not adding ideas and the likes does not mean that one should not make up stuff as some of it actually could enter the game.

Even SOE with Galaxies ended up with adding in player suggestions but at the point the game had died out though put did put in some sort of renewed spirit with it... but the stuff got old fast because of it due to nothing else would be added...

Just saying what I feel like... dunno how to put it... if I see something on there boards I will add my opinion or not... suggest this or that or not.. if just keeping shutup and being all big mouthed somewhere else where they cannot see what I would like to share they certainly not am going to do anything about it at all.

The entire project is being run and worked on by mostly former Galaxies devs. The ones that y'know didn't listen at all to the player base for how many years?

Even the suits are former Galaxies suits... the idea that they've learned their lessons is laughable at best.