Just sad

External Since: Oct 05, 2005 Posts: 119

On Tue, 08 May 2007 10:12:42 +0100, Palindrome
<damon-AAA-nomad.RemoveThis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 May 2007 03:59:24 GMT, bizbee <tuberoo.RemoveThis@earthlink.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On 1 May 2007 19:18:04 -0700 in
>><1178072284.367945.82590.RemoveThis@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Richard
>>Carpenter <rumbledor.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> graced the world with this thought:
>>
>>>11 of the 16 posts from April 4 through April 30 were pure spam (much
>>>of it WoW spam, no less). It's just sad to see this in a community
>>>that I enjoyed so much for so long. Sad

>
>>It used to be one of the absolutely busiest, consistent newsgroups I
>>read... times move on. I have to wonder what happened to some of the
>>old timers, Lokari, DT... StannMann surfaced for a while.
>
>Hi Biz - nice to see you - I always enjoyed your posts! Smile

Aye,
>as you say, times move on...
>
>As Richard says, the community sure has dwindled Sad

I really don't
>think the cause is people moving away from Usenet, either, so much as
>EQ is pared down to the hard-core (and sometimes paranoid, heh)
>remnants of it's once huge player base. Hopefully, I would think that
>with the Newsgroups accessible from Google now, that Usenet might be
>enjoying a slight growth. Or at least I hope so.
>
>I virtually never play EQ now, as, rather like this group in a way,
>it's just too empty of players. Entire zones are ghost towns, which
>doesn't encourage new blood. I'll give it a bit longer, but I see
>that day coming when I'll be cancelling the subscription, which makes
>me sad after almost 6 years, sigh.
>
>Come on, Sony, get your fingers out!!
>
>Palindrome

My wife used to be an avid Star Wars: Galaxies player and she says
it's the same thing there: entire planets are "ghost towns". She
loved the game when it was a sort of sandbox where you could pretty
much play as you wanted to. A while back SoE revamped SW:G to try to
make it more like WoW, and that pretty much put the nail in the
coffin.

It's really too bad, because instead of trying to make SW:G a WoW
clone SoE should have touted the differences and attracted the players
who weren't in to a WoW-style MMO.

External Since: Nov 24, 2006 Posts: 300

On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:12:43 GMT, murdocj
<temp DeleteThis @mirque.delete.this.com> wrote:

>My wife used to be an avid Star Wars: Galaxies player and she says
>it's the same thing there: entire planets are "ghost towns"....

>SNIP

>It's really too bad, because instead of trying to make SW:G a WoW
>clone SoE should have touted the differences and attracted the players
>who weren't in to a WoW-style MMO.

I was interested in starting that one myself, but it was around the
time they did the big screw-up you refer to Sad

I gave Eve Online a try and I enjoyed that as a change from the
"swords 'n sorcery" stuff. The steep learning curve and the lack of
ways to twink out and be Uber in 4 weeks really put the munchkins off,
which is a definite plus Very Happy

Palindrome