Bleeding subs? not as far as i can tell from playing the game. Gaining subs? yes definately, have seen it myself, many new and old faces are subscribing, it gets better every day
Another "NGE" nooblet to SWG who is making up crap-tastic facts from thin air.
Haha, i love this, how am i "nooblet", played since the beggining of CU. Crap-tastic facts? I know this may be a little hard for you to comprehend, but *I*, playing the game am much more likely to have accurate facts than someone whos not, understand that? I havent claimed any numbers, im telling you what i have witnessed, cant you accept that some people have gotten over it and learn they to like it?
-Fact: Only 1 server is hitting heavy for 1hr maybe two to three times a week. Only on saturday for 3hrs. Great, there used to be a lot more players, queues for getting into the server, its all relative.
-Fact: They removed the population counters when CU hit to remove woe&wim posts about the game dying. Because lets face it, when you actually see how many players are playing on your server it can change your mood for the entire gaming day. Yup, it cheers me up when i see a ful cantina, and a packed restuss/mos eisley. Good times.
-Fact: Only NGE "fanbois" are supporting SWG now after all the crap-spiffy-do they have done to the game to return shit they stole from us with the NGE. I dont know how you exactly define an NGE Fanbois, but this is really not true, i support SWG and im not are fanbois, neither are the 30-40 in my guild.
+Point #1: They removed BM only to return it to us in a chopped up shit riddled mannerwithout any "real" customizability. Wow, I can color my pet and "maybe" change how my pet does dmg by a couple of worthless for-show percentages. "OH EM GEE, MY BANTHA DOES 4% MORE DMG THAN YOURS". Dmg, is one of about 15 different stats, im not an avid BM my self but its a very diverse and complex process and set of stats. Worthless shit, SWG EMU ftw and I hope all of you support a server if your an SWG vet. Ah and what customizations would you like to see? i doubt you'll find much you cant customize.
+Point #2: They got rid of Bio-Engineering only to return it to us in a worthless shit riddled manner mixed in with "Beast Mastery Expertise", or BME, AKA: Big Mistake Express. BE can ONLY make pets now and nothing like they could before.
+Point #3: They returned the village for a Pseudo-Quest system revolving around "Epic Encounters" that can be done with a fullgroup of JedidiahEasyPleasyThanx. lol wrong again, i havent tried it with all jedi, since its not often you get a full group of jedi together, but i would say it is unadvisable. But even if it is easy with all jedi, firstly you gotta take into consideration the tactics and phases you must complete and the different elementals required in some instances, and the fact that a lot of players arent jedi and prefer to play other profs.
+Point #4: They completely stripped away customizability of jedi with the NGE via making robes the ONLY form of protection for them. There have been rumors that Chapter 9 will be giving jedi "innate" defences so they can, once again, wear their own customizable clothing. Ok.. you just attempted to address your own point
-Fact: The game is NO LONGER a SandBox Enviroment. You can't just drop a box, criss cross your specialization, and become anything you want anymore (ie: Swordsman, Pikeman, Pistoleer "if you wanted"). The old SandBox system rewarded intelligence and understanding of complex combinations and how they worked together. Now the game is so dumbed down I could shit myself and they would come clean me for free in order to reduce any "downtime" in my gameplay.Expertise still requires intelligence and ccustomization, not as much as pre-nge, thats true, but there still is a sandbox element to most parts of the game
I hope the KOTOR MMO coming out in '09 will absolutely kill the CRAPtasticness out of SWG so the SWG emulator (emu? just lol)and KOTOR MMO (since not everyone will like it comparative to SWG obviously) will be kings.
Death to Suits behind games they don't even FREAKING play making decisions!Il think you'll find this is the case with most game companies, its life, companies are out there to make a profit, thats their ultimate purpose.
Before the NGE, the communities on Lowca and Tarquinas were great, lots of activities around the galaxy and plenty of PvP but now both servers are a mess. There was a "thinking of transferring from Bloodfin" thread in the Tarquinas forums recently and almost everyone replied "this place isn't good, stay where you are" with statements like people being assholes and tumbleweed everywhere- Not even the current players are too happy with the servers they play on most of the time. Chilastra is the only server I hear positive things about, but then again that's mostly Obraik.
Im from chilastra, its going good there. I also play Euro-Chimaera, population and community is similarly strong there, and i regualrly hear good things about Bria and a couple of other servers. Yes, there are servers with low populations, and they are working on a solution, at the moment they've just got too many servers for the game size, its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs anyway.
Thing is, prior to the NGE, all 25 servers had viable communities... Now only maybe 3 or 4 do. Right there is your proof, no one needs to cite any numbers, the server populations speak for themselves.
umm i canceled without commenting 2 - 3 weeks after NGE. I am worry about if this will be acknowledged as cancellation "Due to NGE" or something else .... have to mail them to make it known LOL
lol good idea, you really should...
hey I got it !
lets all write to SOE that when we canceled a few weeks after the NGE it was because of the NGE !
maybe they ackknowledge us in their statistics afterwards
If they had a lick of sense they would just conclude that all cancellations post and prior to NGE were the result of NGE.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
I'm playing the trial now with a level 37 on Bria. The game's population is really sparse compared to precu SWG. I played on Lowca back in the precu days and that server had more peeps than Bria does now by far.
Yes, there are servers with low populations, and they are working on a solution, at the moment they've just got too many servers for the game size, its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs anyway.
I'm gonna fix part of this for you.
"its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs anyway."
should be:
"its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs that have done a merger anyway."
Overall SWG had about an average number of servers. Its just most other games (besides wow and I don't think UO has ever merged) have already merged or clustered.
It would be more honest.. to just say they need to merge the servers but can't do it due to how the game is set up. (unique resources and player cities).
To be honest this is probably why EA never merged UO servers.. same type of house system relatively.
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Ummmmm....no.
Another "NGE" nooblet to SWG who is making up crap-tastic facts from thin air.
Haha, i love this, how am i "nooblet", played since the beggining of CU. Crap-tastic facts? I know this may be a little hard for you to comprehend, but *I*, playing the game am much more likely to have accurate facts than someone whos not, understand that? I havent claimed any numbers, im telling you what i have witnessed, cant you accept that some people have gotten over it and learn they to like it?
-Fact: Only 1 server is hitting heavy for 1hr maybe two to three times a week. Only on saturday for 3hrs. Great, there used to be a lot more players, queues for getting into the server, its all relative.
-Fact: They removed the population counters when CU hit to remove woe&wim posts about the game dying. Because lets face it, when you actually see how many players are playing on your server it can change your mood for the entire gaming day. Yup, it cheers me up when i see a ful cantina, and a packed restuss/mos eisley. Good times.
-Fact: Only NGE "fanbois" are supporting SWG now after all the crap-spiffy-do they have done to the game to return shit they stole from us with the NGE. I dont know how you exactly define an NGE Fanbois, but this is really not true, i support SWG and im not are fanbois, neither are the 30-40 in my guild.
+Point #1: They removed BM only to return it to us in a chopped up shit riddled mannerwithout any "real" customizability. Wow, I can color my pet and "maybe" change how my pet does dmg by a couple of worthless for-show percentages. "OH EM GEE, MY BANTHA DOES 4% MORE DMG THAN YOURS". Dmg, is one of about 15 different stats, im not an avid BM my self but its a very diverse and complex process and set of stats. Worthless shit, SWG EMU ftw and I hope all of you support a server if your an SWG vet. Ah and what customizations would you like to see? i doubt you'll find much you cant customize.
+Point #2: They got rid of Bio-Engineering only to return it to us in a worthless shit riddled manner mixed in with "Beast Mastery Expertise", or BME, AKA: Big Mistake Express. BE can ONLY make pets now and nothing like they could before.
+Point #3: They returned the village for a Pseudo-Quest system revolving around "Epic Encounters" that can be done with a fullgroup of JedidiahEasyPleasyThanx. lol wrong again, i havent tried it with all jedi, since its not often you get a full group of jedi together, but i would say it is unadvisable. But even if it is easy with all jedi, firstly you gotta take into consideration the tactics and phases you must complete and the different elementals required in some instances, and the fact that a lot of players arent jedi and prefer to play other profs.
+Point #4: They completely stripped away customizability of jedi with the NGE via making robes the ONLY form of protection for them. There have been rumors that Chapter 9 will be giving jedi "innate" defences so they can, once again, wear their own customizable clothing. Ok.. you just attempted to address your own point
-Fact: The game is NO LONGER a SandBox Enviroment. You can't just drop a box, criss cross your specialization, and become anything you want anymore (ie: Swordsman, Pikeman, Pistoleer "if you wanted"). The old SandBox system rewarded intelligence and understanding of complex combinations and how they worked together. Now the game is so dumbed down I could shit myself and they would come clean me for free in order to reduce any "downtime" in my gameplay. Expertise still requires intelligence and ccustomization, not as much as pre-nge, thats true, but there still is a sandbox element to most parts of the game
I hope the KOTOR MMO coming out in '09 will absolutely kill the CRAPtasticness out of SWG so the SWG emulator (emu? just lol)and KOTOR MMO (since not everyone will like it comparative to SWG obviously) will be kings.
Im from chilastra, its going good there. I also play Euro-Chimaera, population and community is similarly strong there, and i regualrly hear good things about Bria and a couple of other servers. Yes, there are servers with low populations, and they are working on a solution, at the moment they've just got too many servers for the game size, its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs anyway.
Thing is, prior to the NGE, all 25 servers had viable communities... Now only maybe 3 or 4 do. Right there is your proof, no one needs to cite any numbers, the server populations speak for themselves.
lol good idea, you really should...
hey I got it !
lets all write to SOE that when we canceled a few weeks after the NGE it was because of the NGE !
maybe they ackknowledge us in their statistics afterwards
If they had a lick of sense they would just conclude that all cancellations post and prior to NGE were the result of NGE.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
I'm playing the trial now with a level 37 on Bria. The game's population is really sparse compared to precu SWG. I played on Lowca back in the precu days and that server had more peeps than Bria does now by far.
People have been saying they were going to close down SWG since 2005, and look its 2008 already.
"its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs anyway."
should be:
"its a lot of servers compared to most MMOs that have done a merger anyway."
Overall SWG had about an average number of servers. Its just most other games (besides wow and I don't think UO has ever merged) have already merged or clustered.
It would be more honest.. to just say they need to merge the servers but can't do it due to how the game is set up. (unique resources and player cities).
To be honest this is probably why EA never merged UO servers.. same type of house system relatively.