In the local game scene, Level Up! Games and E-games have been at odds with each other ever as far as I can remember. With each game company pitting release after release after release. In the years these two game publishing giants have operated in the country the two names have earned one negative title after another.
For Level Up! Games the public stigma is that the people behind the companies have poor after market service while earning the ire of irate gamers as a corrupt company out to get ONLY it’s player’s money. On the other hand, E-games has earned the reputation of hyping it’s games up and leaving it to dry after the company has earned a killing and it’s a corrupt company out to get ONLY it’s player’s money.
So to be fair on both companies, they have it’s own faults and failures but in the end it’s still up to us if we keep on supporting the games that they release. So for this week’s Talk2Gaming, I want to hear your thoughts on the merger of these two game publishers. Do you think it would spell trouble for your beloved titles? (such as the sentiments of Ms. Anna) or would it mean better service, better games and better after market service for it’s players?
Yes, no? Want to rant? Go ahead! Indulge!
Let’s not forget E-Games also has the “suckiest” service, in this case, in marketing. I was one of the people who is supporting the Granado Espada PH community a few years back, managing player gatherings, becoming a community crew (similar to forum moderators) in the official website.
I had experienced total negligence from e-games to a point where I have to write a formal letter to IAH games (publisher of GE SEA) to complain about e-games’ sucky service to the GE community.
We spent thousands of pesos to host player gatherings without the help from e-games before and finally e-games gave a little support to us after we reported them to IAH gamesÂÂ
And during the hype of Cabal Online (close beta days), one of the e-games employees hinted that “GE is dead” (and that was 2008, GE SEA opened on 2007)
So if some thought that LUG is the only one with the worst service (either in customer service or marketing)…well think again.
 This is what I meant on this statement:
“hyping it’s games up and leaving it to dry after the company has earned a killing”
I found out about this news way before E-Game’s Domination 6:ÂÂ
https://twitter.com/#!/DotCrosse/status/169290945454542850
So yeah, it’s been that long and I have always expected E-Games to curb out of the local MMO scene. They released neat games but then kaput.
But looking at the so-called reputations of these publishers, one must wonder, aren’t all MMO devs and publishers the same as these two? — Final Fantasy XIV was a disaster at launch. EA doing shit with Star Wars: The Old Republic. En Masse crapping on TERA’s Elins before launch just to please the mass market. Everything these two ever did to local MMO players is nil compared to these giants.
What would the merger do to these two? None of course. More games, probably. Probably still awful CS and marketing. Regards to CS, there’s a rumor where E-Games didn’t really ‘hire’ CS — they just invite players to the office, offer them the job on the spot. I also heard that GMs not really having GM powers to resolve player issues and those powers are given to a handful of people, literally, making CS one hell of nightmare on both E-Games’ and players’ ends. I can’t speak for LU! but some of my sources claim they’re the same.
So yeah, MMOs are for the money, we all know that. The trend right now is that these big-budget MMOs will go free-to-play at some point in their lives and will rely on a RoK point-like system like their browser games contemporaries do, you can quote me on that. If you don’t want to spend money on an MMO, specifically the newly released ones, better play those free browser games. There’s Koihime Musou, Sword Girls, hell even your Facebook games might do it for you. If you don’t want to pay anything for an online game, you shouldn’t probably playing them and play something with near zero cash-out, like chess or apehoop, I dunno.
 Actually it’s already old news that the merger happened, it’s just that I mentioned it again just because THIS exact situation happened. Let’s see if they’d ignore this or not.
Doodedoodedoo… *whistles*