Or even if shouting makes a difference.
Long and short of it, another guild split, in a guild that though I had some protection from this kind of thing. I know guilds are cyclic, and that obviously I joined another guild on the downward slope again.
This game is primarily about friendship, the gameplay really is substandard compaired to non online games. Guild splits are the worst thing in the entire gameplay experience.
No matter how it splits, there are always hard feelings. In this case, all the high levels left. They cited a change in direction, a dissatisfaction with AO, and other things. The hard part about it though is that all of that is irrelevant to the fact that we had friendships that have been stressed.
Or maybe my impression of friendship is weak. Maybe these aren't friendships, that I am having an pseudo reaction when we talk. Maybe all the hi's bys, and grats dont mean a thing. Maybe appreciation and respect is fake. Maybe the long hours spent talking ooc is just a waste. Maybe the hours we spent talking about the game is just a selfish attempt to thwart FC's attempts at enjoyign the games. Maybe the role play we did were just fat men playing cybervixens for our own personal fantisies. Maybe I should just turn my computer off leave perminantly.
FC is only mildly responsive to their customers, taking months to impliment item reinbursement, something they knew they should have had before beta. They seem incompetant to fix pet and mob pathing. They blame lag on the clients constantly. They dont seem to understand the frustration of black doors. They are pushing development into Shadowlands rather than fixing the mess that they have, and have started a new project. They happily nerf things people happily enjoy. They have used voluneeer customer support through the forums and ark programe. They have one overloaded customer service person in the forums. They don't seem to ask our opinions often, nor do they allow us the chance to make a real contribution to the story, to the geography, or even our apartments. I have reached the point with a couple of my characters where gameplay is really really boring, and I feel I could control two characters at once. I am not asking FC to be my reality substitute, but I am expecting that something new will happen to my characters every now and then. My conclusion is that they care little about their customers, and are technically inept. Why am i trusting my non work hours and frienships to these people?
I really dont think they have a responce to SWG. In some ways I am just riding the org storm until SWG is live for a couple of months to see who is left, or who has returned.
I have told myself that this is the only mmorpg for a number of years. When I uninstall AO I will wait for a significant revolution in MMORPG technology. Something that is catagorically different, not just more features that we didn't ask for that no one uses (voice commands).
I will be looking for something that allows friendships to last longer than AO does, where it seems every six weeks your org falls apart, a portion quit, and the survivers regroup, or join other groups.
Well, i am going to s.u. now, I doubt that FC will read this, I doubt that it will make an impact on anyone else, and I really dont want to spoil the enjoyment of people who are presently enamoured with the game.
Ani.
