Starting todays news with the biggest issue. LoN! SOE slated to remove ALL Oathbound (set 1) cards from the store and gameplay. I will no longer be able to complete scenarios on my alt's account for one thing. Plus my main deck is hosed. All my most important cards will be gone, Forge Ahead, Divine Aura, Intercession, Journey Boots, Flowing Black Silk Sash, Severed Paw of Opalla, Sunder, Disable, the list goes on and on. It'd be unheard of to remove Divine Aura from priests in EQ1 or EQ2 don't see why they think it's ok here!
Plus there's this new AFK nonsense. I had won round 1 today against silver ranked player. Was all excited. Lost round 2 horribly. But then missed round 3 due to rl stuff that came up. I cam rushing back for round 4 to discover I had been removed from the tourney. So what, I'm supposed to just ignore real life completely or else I'm screwed? I understand there's been a problem with afk'rs in the past but this is not a fix, this is breaking the game for the rest of us.
The worst part is probably that they refuse to respond. Pages of posts, tons of threads, maybe 1 in 50 people agree with them if that. NONE of the players that have been playing for years like or agree with the Oathbound ban. Hundreds of dollars of cards gone, useless, money out the window. Lots of players only really have Oathbound cards. This change is right up there in SOE's hall of monument failures like the sWG "new game experience" or Vanguard going 4 months from release with zones that still had NO MOBS. I dont' know what to think or say but everyone just getting more and more upset as time goes by without any info.
Speaking from past experiences they won't change it or pay any attention to the player base. They never do. They think they know what's right for us and that we're all wrong and will just come around to their point of view. This is not gonna happen. What they are about to do is alienate the large majority of players from tourneys and events.
This change will even make Santug Clugg and other holiday and special event cards banned. Why did we go out of our way to play on holidays to get these cards? And they're giving us no info or warning. They announce all this crap like 2 weeks before release when the next set is obviously already done and ready for release. Nothing we say is gonna stop them or make them change their minds now.
I for one may keep playing but I won't buy any new cards and I have no intention of buying cards or continuing to play the SWG-TCG as everyone knows this same thing will end up happening there. SOE really pushing their luck with pissing people off this time around.
