Star Wars Galaxies

ElliorR · 2 May 2011 at 12:36

When I played EVE Online a couple of people in my corp were network engineers for SOE and they worked on the SWG servers, in the US, and they said it was a purely a decision by Lucas Arts to do the NGE.

Didn't make it any easier to swallow.

Why oh why did they ruin SWG? I loved crafting, I loved searching for resources and I loved being a BH hunting player Jedi

Marky · 2 May 2011 at 12:37

I won't give them anymore of my money after they ruined it...

Yep... Still bitter

Pookie Bear · 2 May 2011 at 12:40

I used to love the tradeskills and resource-gathering in this game. My medpacks were worth an absolute fortune

I also enjoyed a good session in the cantina

Utnac · 2 May 2011 at 12:50

ElliorR said:
When I played EVE Online a couple of people in my corp were network engineers for SOE and they worked on the SWG servers, in the US, and they said it was a purely a decision by Lucas Arts to do the NGE.

Didn't make it any easier to swallow.

Why oh why did they ruin SWG? I loved crafting, I loved searching for resources and I loved being a BH hunting player Jedi

I've said this dozens of time on this board and elsewhere, but still you get people like those above who admit they werent involved and don't really know what happened, but still just really hate SOE because of it, thank heavens real life isn't the same.

'Wes · 2 May 2011 at 12:52

ElliorR said:
Why oh why did they ruin SWG? I loved crafting, I loved searching for resources and I loved being a BH hunting player Jedi

You can still do that, the Space Update allows BH's to hunt players in space as well.

NeoReloaded · 2 May 2011 at 14:00

Cheers guys downloaded the 30 day trial for Fallen Earth instead lol!

ElliorR · 2 May 2011 at 16:55

'Wes said:
You can still do that, the Space Update allows BH's to hunt players in space as well.

I wouldn't play that abortion if it was the only game in existence.

Tombstone · 2 May 2011 at 17:20

NeoReloaded said:
Cheers guys downloaded the 30 day trial for Fallen Earth instead lol!

Hehehe , generally when it comes to MMOs I always make a point of saying not to listen to people on forums and the best thing to do is to try the MMO and see for yourself as its the only way to see if an MMO is good for you.

On this particular case though, I am inclined to break with my tradition and agree with the forum mass

greywolf · 2 May 2011 at 17:26

Started playing this again a few days ago after years off.

Third day of playing and I can't login due to them shutting it down temporarily due to the Sony security breach.

'Wes · 2 May 2011 at 17:59

ElliorR said:
I wouldn't play that abortion if it was the only game in existence.

Good for you, but other people still play it and enjoy it.

Sleepery · 2 May 2011 at 20:41

'Wes said:
Good for you, but other people still play it and enjoy it.

Yeah, but they generally have the sense not to admit it in public

Bodom · 3 May 2011 at 01:27

SWG was epic in it's day before they ruined it, I miss it so much /cry

Xire · 3 May 2011 at 09:58

Sleepery said:
Anyone who's 'holding out for Old Republic' in the hopes that it's going to be another classic SWG clearly hasn't read a single thing about TOR. It's got WoW with lightsabers written all over it in big ugly letters.

Wow is basically the beheamoth of mmos, and if you look at what there doing with swtor thats a bit ludicrous to suggest. Fair enough there are a lot of similarities but good ones. All the good aspects from wow, just take alook at some of the screenplays and character interaction, its nothing like wow (oh look a quest, SPAM ACCEPT NEXT NEXT) and to suggest its going to be just like wow with lightsabers is daft and deluded. Anyone that has played KOTOR will realise this, not to mention its BIOWARE!

Not to mention wow has been going down hill since wotlk.

'Wes · 3 May 2011 at 10:03

Xire01 said:
not to mention its BIOWARE!

Iirc, EA bought Bioware, so they have a say in the development of a Star Wars game for the first time, and Bioware haven't delivered thrilling news of late with phrases along the lines referring to future game developments relating to CoD, so it will be interesting to see what this game is like on release.

Xire · 3 May 2011 at 10:14

'Wes said:
Iirc, EA bought Bioware, so they have a say in the development of a Star Wars game for the first time

That makes no difference. EA bought bioware in 2008, its not like they have gone downhill have they..Mass effect 2, bioshock 2, dragon age. Im definetly going to be giving SWTOR a bash. I just hate pessimistic people that are afraid of something beating wow (not refering to you btw).

BunnyKillBot · 3 May 2011 at 10:32

Xire01 said:
That makes no difference. EA bought bioware in 2008, its not like they have gone downhill have they..Mass effect 2, bioshock 2, dragon age(.....2). Im definetly going to be giving SWTOR a bash. I just hate pessimistic people that are afraid of something beating wow (not refering to you btw).

Dragon Age 2 sort of breaks your list of intractable awesomeness

Xire · 3 May 2011 at 10:37

BunnyKillBot said:
Dragon Age 2 sort of breaks your list of intractable awesomeness

So they have gone downhill have they because Dragon Age 2 wasnt quite as good as other game sequels. Lets ignore other masterclass games they have released since 2008.

I forgot about ultima online (Albeit 1997) still was another benchmark for mmos.

Tombstone · 3 May 2011 at 10:39

Xire01 said:
its nothing like wow (oh look a quest, SPAM ACCEPT NEXT NEXT)

To be fair though the "spam accept next next" type thing will happen in SWTOR too. The cutscene talky quest bits will be watched the first time, then people will complain on the forums that there is no way to click to skip them when you've watched them on your first 3 characters, then they will include a way to click or press a key to skip them, then people will just not watch them and click to skip them straight away in an effort to level faster. If there is one thing I have learned about MMOs and the masses, its that people generally want to level as fast as possible and if they can click to skip cutscenes to speed things up, they will do. It may be more clicks involved to accept next next, but it wont be long before clicked past.

Tombstone · 3 May 2011 at 10:40

Xire01 said:
I forgot about ultima online (Albeit 1997) still was another benchmark for mmos.

IMO, UO was THE benchmark for MMOs, sadly one which latter developers havent reached.

Xire · 3 May 2011 at 10:45

Tombstone said:
To be fair though the "spam accept next next" type thing will happen in SWTOR too. The cutscene talky quest bits will be watched the first time, then people will complain on the forums that there is no way to click to skip them when you've watched them on your first 3 characters, then they will include a way to click or press a key to skip them, then people will just not watch them and click to skip them straight away in an effort to level faster. If there is one thing I have learned about MMOs and the masses, its that people generally want to level as fast as possible and if they can click to skip cutscenes to speed things up, they will do. It may be more clicks involved to accept next next, but it wont be long before clicked past.

Real star wars fans will disagree