I cancelled my account, and here's why

SageGaspar · 03-12-2008, 03:36 AM

Everyone that's been bitching about shitty raid encounters, declining standards of quality, devs that are not listening, pointless grinds, crappy itemization, and now this latest bullshit... it is time to put your money where your mouth is and speak the only language Sony understands.

Yes, you put in a shitload of time here and you have made friends. Maybe you're competing with other guilds on your server and you don't want to let the team down. That is what allows them to think that they can keep stringing you along without paying attention to any of the crap you care about. If you keep paying, the suits have no incentive to change the way they do business. Zero. They will cut salaries, staff, and budget as far as they can while still retaining accounts. The savings get passed on to the customer as shitty content.

And let's face it, if you are reading EQ2Flames you probably don't have anything left to prove. Everyone knows you can DPS or hold aggro like a mothafucka or heal through anything... because it truly isn't that hard, and because you put in the time. All you are doing at this point is just pouring in time to defeat an RNG on loot and push DPS numbers higher and higher. You're outsmarting challenges that aren't too challenging to begin with, set by people who can flip a switch and set you back to square one on the treadmill tomorrow.

So send them a message. Let your account expire until they make changes that you want. Maybe they never will. Oh well, there are other games. You can find another way to get your fix until Warhammer or Conan or whatever. Maybe you will lose your chance at a first at Shard of Hate, but there's probably a guild out there holding the strategies already, courtesy of the management. Maybe you will come back in a couple weeks, or a month... but at least that is money that they will never get back.

If you can dig it, let's fill this thread up with cancellations and tell them why... since they no longer even have a multiple choice feedback form.

SageGaspar · 03-12-2008, 03:41 AM

I'll start it off...

CANCELLED: 3/12

REASON: The game's been played out for me recently. There is a lack of shit to do besides trying to outdo myself on a parse. Itemization is fucked. The official forums are run like the eastern bloc and the devs just dicked over the last good open source of information. And this latest bullshit that the devs pulled show that any change on the wind is probably for the worse.

Deadberry · 03-12-2008, 03:43 AM

This thread will not go well.

GoodCitizen · 03-12-2008, 04:04 AM

Can I have your plat?

Misanthrope · 03-12-2008, 06:22 AM

i feel sage gaspar. i can only imagine how pissed hardcores are. coming as a casual, even i feel theres nothing left. hitting 80/140 is retardedly easy. the necro epic quest is a fucking joke. the item is dandy, but the quest itself was not worth waiting months for and sacrificing HQs for. wow, i get my OT hammer, then i get to level alts cause i dont raid.

go to a bar. talk about eq2. people look at you like youre fucking retarded. go to a bar. talk about wow. youlll find at least 3 people with an active sub. im sorry, but playing the fisher price mmo with rl friends seems much more appealing to me than going thru VoES for the umpteenth time with a fucking PUG looting the items that they fucking ripped off from wow anyway (blank blank of the blank anyone?).

add to the fact that my wow sub is half the price of my eq2 sub.

the math isnt that complicated.

methulah · 03-12-2008, 06:29 AM

Didn't work with SWG. I might still cancel though.

Flipmode · 03-12-2008, 07:04 AM

Cancelled awhile ago. Just waiting a few more days for the acct to expire. Seriously, fuck SOE. Bad way to operate a business. Your customer service really sucks. I would wish you well but that would be a shallow lie.

JackAll · 03-12-2008, 10:36 AM

Im a bit sad that I cant quit over this last drama but too late

the_mo · 03-12-2008, 12:12 PM

this is one of my 2 accounts. the status of my remaining one lies solely in SoEs hands...

Arch0n · 03-12-2008, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by methulah

Didn't work with SWG. I might still cancel though.

Well... to be fair, SWG is widely considered a joke by 1st iteration players. Will it sunset because people think it's a joke? No... but technically Horizons and The Matrix Online are still running too, and they're the bottom of the barrel.

I bet Blizzard is laughing their asses off at this.