SOE Still Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

Rant 9 Responses »
Jun 042008

I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but…(long)

You gotta love our heroes over at Sony Online Entertainment.  Even when they have a good idea, one of their other ideas comes along and screws it up for them.  The latest example is that of the Station Launcher.  One day long ago, SOE said to itself; “Self, wouldn’t it be cool if we had one launcher for all of our games?  That way not only could the customer launch any SOE game they owned from it, but we could use it to market all of the games that they DON’T have every time they launch a game.”  Solid thinking, that.  Hard to argue that the Station Launcher is a great idea.  Hell, it even got me to subscribe to Station Pass not too long ago.  But that is all changing now.

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Posted by Genda at 9:41 AM Tagged with: ,

John Smedley, I'm Counting on You

Opinion, What I'm Playing 3 Responses »
Apr 152008

This past weekend, Tarkheena and I started playing Star Wars Galaxies again.  Yes, you read that right.  Before you get too mad at me, I know that in the past I’ve pointed at SWG as an example of everything that is wrong at SOE.  I’m not taking that back.  SOE most assuredly DID screw up with SWG.  The NGE (New Game Experience) was a horrible miscalculation, and their timing (2 days after an expansion) couldn’t have possibly been worse.  I won’t go into all the reasons why it was a bad idea here, as it’s all been hashed and rehashed before.

The thing is, now I’m having fun.

Since I now am the (slightly ashamed) owner of a Station Pass, I resolved to try it out.  Tark and I ended up getting our old accounts out and giving all our houses and stuff to the new guys. So they are slightly advantaged (we had resources, but not a ton of cash, er, credits) vs. someone starting fresh.  Let’s be honest; no one is really starting fresh.  I haven’t seen the game in a box on a shelf anywhere, so unless you happen to be using the Station Launcher and see it, you really can’t buy it.

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Posted by Genda at 11:14 AM Tagged with: , ,

Sony Station Pass - The Shame

Gaming 11 Responses »
Apr 082008

Desperate times call for desperate measures. This past weekend I actually did sign up for the Station Pass. Now, I’m not going to be spending a lot of time in Matrix online. I do own Everquest, EQ2, SWG, and Vanguard. And I played, or tried to play all of them this weekend at least a little bit. For some reason, I can’t get past the character select screen in SWG. I’ll leave it to the fine folks at SOE tech support to get that straightened out, and I’ll let you all know how that goes.

I can’t believe I have even gotten to this place. You all know I don’t love Sony, but I’m just so bored with MMO at this moment that I feel the need to have access to more than one. Since I recently canceled my WoW subscription I had that $15 in my monthly budget just burning a hole in my pocket. So I figured what the hell. The impetus behind this is really Tarkeena. She gave me one of her guilty looks and asked me “so guess what I did.” Usually that involves a surprise purchase or the introduction of a decadent dessert into the house. I didn’t smell chocolate, so it had to be a purchase. In this case, she had upgraded her account to Station Pass. So of course I immediately did the same.

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Posted by Genda at 9:36 AM Tagged with: ,
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