Canceled and staying

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July 21st, 2006, 11:47 PM
Svayvti

Canceled and staying

Like many others I canceled my billing today.

But I'm not saying goodbye because I'm not leaving.

I made the mistake with Saga of Ryzom once of not cancelling and paid for a whole month after their disaster of Patch 1.

I don't know what is going on, things might get worse and they might get better. I do know I don't want automatic payment until I find out. So I'll take it month by month until we see how things work out.

To all the Tulga team, thanks for the great game and I wish you good luck in the future. Hopefully the popularity of Horizons with its players will give you the best reference for a future job that you can get.
July 22nd, 2006, 01:21 AM
Khosadan

Aw, I'm playing Ryzom now, it's pretty good. What about it blew up after Chapter 1?
July 22nd, 2006, 01:28 AM
Landowyn

I cancelled yesterday as well, with an eye toward looking at what they do over the next couple of months. The sudden move gave me an uneasy feeling, so I'm taking a "prove it to me" before I re-sub attitude. Was currently take a short break anyway, signing in about once or twice a week.

Also have a password issue I can't get resolved (can't log in to the account from launcher or web site), and can't cancel that account and will not renew my other two until that's solved.
July 22nd, 2006, 01:59 AM
Hal`cyon Sskyler

I cancelled today. Without the Tulga team I am absolutely certain there is no possible way the game can be run. I'm basing this off my own experience and knowledge of the internals of the game as well as the knowledge that many of the functions associated with the game cannot be accomplished without the people that helped implement those functions.

I have poured too much effort into this game to pay people to ruin it.

However, as soon as I see more than "we're going to build a team to run this game" in the form of ACTUAL PEOPLE I am certain this game is in for a long and painful death.
July 22nd, 2006, 02:13 AM
Tantalyr

And you're not "basing this" at all off the fact that you're an intern with Tulga who is now out of a job, right Hal?
July 22nd, 2006, 02:16 AM
Hal`cyon Sskyler

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tantalyr

And you're not "basing this" at all off the fact that you're an intern with Tulga who is now out of a job, right Hal?

I was never paid. I took out a student loan and came out here to learn about the industry and help improve the experience for everyone. It's a disappointment to not be able to finish my work (confectioner data entry), but I've learned FAR more about the industry from all this mess than I could from just working with the developers I've known for the past year or so.
July 22nd, 2006, 02:35 AM
Bulgrim StoneCleaver

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hal`cyon Sskyler

I was never paid. I took out a student loan and came out here to learn about the industry and help improve the experience for everyone. It's a disappointment to not be able to finish my work (confectioner data entry), but I've learned FAR more about the industry from all this mess than I could from just working with the developers I've known for the past year or so.

I swear, its a curse.... gotta be a curse.
July 22nd, 2006, 04:52 AM
zayin

yep same here i am paid up on all 3 subs till sept 5 but i went ahead and cancelled my auto-rebill today dunno if the new owners have what it takes to pull me back .I used to do a 6-month sub at a time, at the very least it will be month to month come September.
July 22nd, 2006, 03:04 PM
AA0

I've cancelled both accounts. I've learned enough of the years in IRC and being able to read back on all the technical bits while I was afk that it takes a whole lot of expertise to run hz. These guys don't have that.
Their plans scare me quite a bit, and I'd rather I remember this game for how great it was then how horrible someone made it. We'll see what happens when my time runs out.
July 22nd, 2006, 03:38 PM
Dragoniade

I've cancelled my account too.
The recent dragon issues (Silo, Helians bashing and drop out from the DEV) drove nearly to the point of cancelling, but this, it's the drop of water that made the vase overflow.

AE started a great game, Tulga messed it up. Maybe the new owner can fix that up, but I'm not taking any risk. I'll see what that can do, and hopefully, will return if things finally get better.
July 22nd, 2006, 04:33 PM
Senkeleron Fell

Quote:

Originally Posted by AA0

I've cancelled both accounts. I've learned enough of the years in IRC and being able to read back on all the technical bits while I was afk that it takes a whole lot of expertise to run hz. These guys don't have that.
Their plans scare me quite a bit, and I'd rather I remember this game for how great it was then how horrible someone made it. We'll see what happens when my time runs out.

If software engineers were unable to take someone else's software and maintaing and improve it, we wouldn't have any software. I don't know what kind of talent EI has behind it but I will wait and see. Seems like the original devs from AE got their share of complaints, Tulga devs got their complaints, and EI will get theirs. It will be interesting to see where their expertise lies. Personally, I have hoped that Tulga would be able to hire a database guru at some point. Maybe EI has one.