Aled

G'day

Wow...owned.

omg. Hi.

Most hated eh? How'd you manage that? :P Not turning Hakan-style on us, are we Astrus?

A lot of people do, apparently 0_o

Who might those A-holes be? The game's not starting to get full of pretentious idiots, I hope :o

'sup guys? I'm sure (hoping) at least some of you remember me from a while back on Wanderhome. Haven't visited many forums in a while so I figured I'd drop by my favourite dirty rebel community and see how everyone's doing? You guys enjoying the NGE? Gimme some info if you can. After all, I've missed a lot. I also realise that I left rather abruptly, on a not-so-good note; Apologies for that. Decided to go back to my first-person shooter roots, so I've been playing various FPS games over the past couple of months though, PlanetSide (SOE's MMOFPS) being the most notable. But I've finally got rather bored of it and the constant balance issues concerning weapons and armor, so I'm sort of skipping around trying to find a game to settle with. Right now it's Unreal Tournament 2004, although I'm thinking of getting back into SWG casually, though I won't have too much time. Reason why? Well, games pretty much screwed up a lot of my school life in the past, and I realised just as I was quitting SWG that I was living alone, no job, dropped out of med school and no direction. So, I took charge. Went through my days without the use of a PC for a while, just to get control of my life. So now I'm back taking another shot at medical school, i'm fit and healthy once again, my issues with stress (that some of you witnessed in-game first hand, sorry :P) are non-existent. So now I'm back on track, life is excellent, although most of my time right now is being spent on my schoolwork and my girlfriend. So how are you guys in SancT doing? I hope to hear that the guild and city are still thriving after the NGE (though I think it's a shame that SOE are willing to spend a load of cash shipping donuts to someone who made fun of them, rather than improving their games.) Hopefully I'll talk to some of you soon, I'm missing the community madly (some people and guild more than others), that's the main reason I regret quitting the game. Anyway yeah, hope you guys are having a nice time. If I don't get in-game, I'll definitely be hanging around the forums just to keep in touch. <3 you all. -Aled (pre-NGE Dark Powers Jedi) P.S- Viva la Astrus! :P ;) EDIT: I just remembered, if you wanna get in touch with me outside of the forums, there are several ways of contacting me: E-Mail: admin@plebweb.com MSN: as above Xfire: Aledther0x0r AIM: Aledther0x0r (i'm hardly on though...)

Today I officially cancelled my subscription and my character died its last death and was put to rest in its original in-game home. It's kind of fitting that SOE gave us a blue glowy feature...seeing as pre-NGE Jedi are now officially dead. Convenience, right there. I'm sick of the idiotic crap that SWG throws at us day after day. I'm sick of the devs' elitist attitudes. They do not know what is right for the game, they never have and never will. They seem to treat their own staff with the same disrespect as they treat their customers with. I'm sure you all know that Tiggs "left SOE". I have my contacts, and I'm not going to tell you who they are, but I know for a fact that Tiggs didn't "leave". She stood up for the players, backed us on our opposition to the NGE and she got fired for it. FIRED BEFORE CHRISTMAS nonetheless. I'm keeping in touch with Tiggs and I know for a fact that she's finding it hard right now to find a job that doesn't require moving home. I know a lot of people hate Tiggs because she didn't give us enough info about new game updates etc, but honestly, she regrets it and she regrets ever signing SOE's own "secrecy act" which restricted her from ever saying anything. I'm honestly hoping she finds a job before Christmas, just for her kids...and I know for a fact that I won't be contributing to SWG devs' monopoly. My TWO YEARS of playing this game, I have never experienced anything this bad. No update, not even the CU, disgusted me this badly. I despise the NGE, I absolutely hate it. I hate the fact that my two years of play are now worth nothing. My achievements are worth nothing. My once amazing weapons, guess what? They're worth nothing. My profession is worthless, and so is my character. And y'know what? The game is worthless to me. The only thing of any worth left in that game for me is the community. It's so hard to leave a community as close, kind and fun as Wanderhome's...but I can no longer continue to play a game that utterly disgusts me. And it's not just the gameplay that disgusts me, it's the whole way the SWG team operates, as stated above. It's made the game a complete pile of *crap* to me. So, as I close the door on this amazing era of gaming, I'd like to thank you, the citizens and members of SancTuarY, for making this game experience so much better for me. Thank you for the good times, the GCW battles, the Reign war, the uber grinding, and the not-so-uber afk grinding ;). I'm going to miss you all very much. Christ...it's so hard to do this. I don't want to leave but I feel I'm being forced to, and I need to make a stand as a member of Tiggs' tiny army ;). I will no longer give money to SWG's devs. I wouldn't give money to SOE, period, if I could do that...but unfortunately the best MMOs are developed by Sony. I logged out for the last official time today, but my account is open for a long time...since I made the mistake of purchasing a year's subscription to what is now a worthless, boring, tedious game. Don't expect to see me on much, I'll be on PlanetSide most of my time from now on. I'll log on once in a while for maybe 10 mins at a time just to talk to a few people who can't contact me out of game. For those of you who wish to stay in touch with me out of game, you can contact me on the following: Email: admin@plebweb.com MSN: admin@plebweb.com AIM: Aledther0x0r Xfire: Aledther0x0r YIM: Aledther0x0rz So...I guess that's it. I bid you farewell SancT, and I wish you all the best in the future. I'll always remember you guys, stay in touch. Now it's time for my ghost to lay to rest and fade away into the ruins of this beautiful old republic. /salute SancT. Farewell, Aled Fallen Jedi Assassin (broken and battered by the NGE).

Like I've said in the Open Letter to SOE/LEC in the NGE Discussion forums on the official site, I'm hoping the community kicks up enough of a fuss to turn this around. But me...over the past 2 years I've kicked up a fuss when things not-so-big as this have been proposed...and it's never made any difference. I've lost the will to fight SOE... I DO plan on sticking around to see what the new system brings to the game, if it gets implemented. But my days in this game are numbered. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to leave...like I stated above though, it's like they're forcing me to. This game is so unique in its profession structure, its economy, the ability to do almost whatever you want. With this patch, all that is changing. I don't want to see this game die...but unfortunately, for me, it's probably already dead. I don't want item decay removed, I don't want Jedi to be easy to get, I don't want NINE PROFESSIONS. I want Jedi to be difficult, I want item decay, I want 33 professions. I want MY SWG back. I want to be able to dabble in professions, to change my profession if I wish to do so. I want queued combat, not point-and-click crap. I'm absolutely fuming right now. Like I've said, my PlanetSide account is open and will remain open as long as they're screwing the game over. If this game completely changes, I'll be closing my SWG account.

In light of the new proposed changes, I can honestly say I'm disgusted at SOE. I've played this game TWO YEARS. I've gone through the first combat upgrade, which was bad enough. I've worked my GOD DAMN *butt* OFF to get Jedi Padawan...and all for it to be thrown away. I earned it. I grinded FS 3 times over because I could never make up my mind. I've EARNED my right to be a Jedi Padawan. And now, in this audace move by SOE, they're making it so that newbies can gain Jedi on entry to the new system. They're completely changing the combat system. Not to mention the fact that they're killing off dozens of interesting, fun professions. This game, come a few weeks, will not even be based LIGHTLY on the original game engine. It won't be SWG...at least not the one I know. And with the thought of that, I don't think I can carry on playing. The devs have ruined this game, they've run it into the ground. After these changes, SWG will be a WoW clone in a Star Wars universe. Nothing more. I've WASTED over two-years of my life playing this game, all for it to be thrown away. SOE says they're appreciative of their customers, so they're giving pre-nerf2 Jedi the "Jedi Elder" status and mods. WTF? I don't want a *screw*ing title, I want to earn my god damn right to be a Dark Jedi Knight. I don't WANT to be Luke Skywalker, or Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Darth Vader. I WANT MY CHARACTER, TO BE MY CHARACTER. I WANT THE SWG THAT I LOVED TO PLAY BACK, AND I WANT THESE DEVS TO EFF OFF BACK TO EQ2. To me, all these proposed changes are outrageous. I'll stay and try them out, see how I like them...but I honestly don't see me staying in-game for that much longer. And for that reason, my PlanetSide account is once again open. If worst comes to worst, those of you who either play or want to play planetside can find me on the Emerald server, New Conglomerate faction under the name "Aled". My thanks go out to all of SancT, among other people. You guys have always been friendly and helpful, and have always made this game enjoyable for me. Thank you Astrus for all those groups, the 400k Jedi xp per hour, and for allowing me to go to sleep, and wake up to 4mil Jedi XP banked. It's just a shame it's all going to be for nothing...and I'm sorry I had to cancel my account in fury like this. I don't want to leave this game, but it seems SOE is forcing me to. I cannot even begin to list the people I will miss. I'll miss the community as a whole. All the PvP battles, sticking together during the xp nerf to get SOE to roll back (i wish I could say the same will happen here...but I doubt it...), the Hakan war...everything. All of it has proven to me how great a community this is, and I'm going to miss it. Like I said, my account is open for a week or two, but after it's inactive, it's never becoming active again unless I see drastic changes in these "new concepts". As stated above, you'll be able to find me in PlanetSide if I'm not in SWG. /salute

lol well that sucks. I had fun yesterday running around citybanning people and then pardoning them to show off my uber militia skillz.

Yeeeah my guild used to own that city, it's my playground :P

ROFL

Already 0020 LS, 2002 Enhancer, 0100 powers. I'm going for MPowers/2404 Enhancer/3040 Defender/4000 Healer Just using spin attack for xp :P

Squirel BOW DOWN NOW, BEFORE HE SMITES YOU!!! /worship Shawk