Lets look at a few examples of things I have received and why it is not going to be easy for disgruntled vets to get thier side heard.

1) I keep seeing SOE/LA. Who is this some imaginative design of hatred or is it in fact L33T Sp33k for SOE/LEC?

2) Most of the mails I get are talking about SOE/LEC either performing some criminal act of Rape, Murder, Killings, or even better such as medical proceedures such as Heart Transplants??? I hope they got blue cross!!! and will admit that Julio Torres dood looks like a real hardcore serial killer I fell bad for the next ant he steps on :P

3) Most of the players that send me mail are now in fact X-Players and have given up thier rights to thier account access as provided by SOE/LEC for the monthy cost of 14.99 USD and are now playing WoW and are trying so hard to get every little bit of FREE WoW publicity they can so sure I'll give Blizzard some free advertising WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!! Happy?

4) I am seeing the same old great writing going absolutly nowhere and not in one responce have I seen anything that acually details what the haness crimes were. A company decided to revamp thier game, umm... yea it is thier game we pay them to give us the access to use thier servers and thier software.

5) I am seeing the rehash of how SOE/LEC could provide resources to design 2 different game styles but do not have the resources of manpower to constantly run 2 different styles of game. If memory serves me correctly SOE/LEC are companies that have massive amounts of employees but if they have 30+ Glaxies and with rotating staff the time cost in training staff in 2 different game systems so they are able to work these game systems is just not cost efficient for any company, when in fact, they only need to train them in one style. It takes way less people to code and design a game than it does to actually keep it running live on servers.

6) I constantly see refereals to World of Warcraft. I would like for someone to tell me exacly where this is a fact that SOE/LEC tried to make this game more like WoW not just assumptions but the actual statement that was released by SOE/LEC that reads we are trying to keep and capture the WoW clients or anything related to them following that model. When I look at the new system I see them using thier own technology that they rightfully own SWG /EQ /EQ2 /Matrix etc. I cannot just go out and say false statements that I have no backing in and absolutly nothing to support it.

7) Some people come to me with some awesome knowledge of the game but for some reason cannot even comprehend the opening Service Agreement or the box cover that states that "Gameplay Experience May Change During Online Play" that was right off the box if you had read it before you pruchased it. "Here's Your Sign"

8) I also see alot of claims that Veteran players got nothing. Now if I am not mistaken vet players got elder titles never to be seen again, access to ride pets CL 10 and below that can never be trained again, I got an Elder Jedi and I get to turn blue Smurf blue when I want as long as I am not in combat, Elder Robes tht will never be able to be gotten again, 10 respectes to try all 9 iconic professions that actually got reset to 11 respects after I had most of mine used, The option to use your old armour that still has slots in them for armour attachemnts if you have not noticed the new stuff is sort of missing these new slots, any vet player that had not yet purchased Jump to Lighspeed was given a complimentary copy to assit them in getting XP now that Space XP counts towards Combat XP plus many other items never to be looted in teh game again. Can I get Jam on that?

9) I keep geting this I hide behind my words or comments. If I was an actual hider why would I infact even want to cover a game of any magnitude and put my namesake on the line to cover for anyone. I am very blunt, straight forward and in many cases I have been warned by the WarCry Managers for crossing the line and for harassing SOE/LEC staff members for answers to why this was done, how it was done, who lost what job and many other instances including quoting Grant "Rogue_5" McDanial from a press release that the CURB would not be finsihed when it was released to live servers (Wow I got it for that but dam it was fun). I hate unanswered questions I love answers and I hate the we have no comment at this time as I know someone has to be covering for something.

After all is said and done, the trolling is over and the words of great conspiracy are throw out I still have only received a couple of actual questions that I will be submitting to SOE/LEC to get answers too and I will be looking for answers to questions like "When Bio-Engineer was removed from the game was it intent to cripple the foods in the game to a lower stat set", "When Bio-Engineer was removed from the game was it intentional to cripple crafters from crafting post-NGE clothing with mods in them?"."If the intent was to make Star Wars galaxies more "Star Warsy" why is it in the movies many inconic people such as Luke Skywalker or Obi Wan Kenobi have mounts but mounts cannot be trained anymore for player use?". (questions wtih supported and valid situations that can be asked)

I will stil put it out there for anyone who would like to contact me with the actual reason for all the distress with the NGE but be forwarned, If it contains specualtion, slander, harassing comments, or totally false accusations against anyone I have a delete key in my E-Mail service and I am not afraid to use it.

Want your side heard contact me at bloodraven@warcry.com.

In closing the old game is still the best but since the gameplay has changed I managed to get used to the new system and I am standing on my words that the new system is not all that bad, don't get me wrong it is not at 100% nor do I expect any game to be at 100%, and sure, there is alot of room for imporvement but to sit and go over and over and over the same stuff rehashed continously and to keep dwelling on the past is a waste of time as the game has changed and SOE/LEC have said they WILL NO be reverting to the old system so lets try to focus on teh future and where this game is headed. You have the same rights as everyone else if you do not agree to Service Agrement or do not like the gameplay you are free to cancel your account and give up all rights to your access to the game and servers at anytime you wish. If you are a true SWG lover as many have stated you will do what most of us have done in the past tuff it out and not let SOE/LEC beat us but use the system to our advantage and keep our friends, in-game families and communities alive and booming so they will not ever have the priveledge to say they drove us out but instead stand and say I am still here and I won't leave I pay to be here and I expect quality customer service. Stand your ground.

Robert Bloodraven Greene
News Staff
SWG WarCry