Can't say NGE huh lol, o.k. Well, lemme see what comes to mind. Prolly the time I logged in, in my house, and there was some kinda tree spawned in front of the exit. I was stuck there. /unstick or whatever, didn't work, logging out and back in didn't work. So I petitioned. No response ever lol, yeah fun times. Loved that speedy customer service. Then there was a time when the sith commander wouldn't follow you down slopes, even if you crawled down them weaving back and forth diagonally to keep him right on your butt. A bunch of us had the same problem at the same time--bugreported it, petitioned it. No response, ever. And that trial didn't come around except every few weeks. Months later, literally, a dev posted that the were looking at it. Long after it was brought to the devs attention it was fixed, but then deleted entirely with the release of the thing I"m not supossed to talk about lol. I was on my last unlock quest when all the village disappeared for reasons I'm also not supposed to mention -_^. That really did suck though. Then just being a medic after my MasterDoc/TKM was deleted. My heals healed enemies 0_o. That was whacked. On top of that though, the group heal aggroed everything on screen causing instant death--loads of fun there. Basically all my character was good for was rezzing BUUUT, when I'd hit the rez button, the corpse wouldn't rez, and sometimes it would slide like 60 meters away, out of my rez range of course. I remember trying a PVP event during this version of the game. If you hit group rez on one team member all of your team would rez right? Well not when he slides of the screen and you're killed while standing and looking at the spot he used to be. It also totally sucked when I had multiple chat windows open, and due to a conflict with chat and movement coding, this rendered you unable to speak or move, at all. We sent mail to each other to come up with a work around. After we figured it out, and told the devs about it, we got a message from the devs in game explaining our own work around. I'm glad they let everyone know, but I thinking they might have a better idea of how to fix their own work. Then there was the time I logged in and was stuck in the original space station tutorial. I couldn't interact with the console you needed to in order to enter the main game. Couldn't fix it, petitioned, never got a response ever. I had to kill the avatar after a few days of non-response, just so I could join my friends on the same server. Then there was the time I logged in, and the keybinds had gone completely whack. All by itself, they switched themselves to some other template. Again, asked for help, none ever came, figured it out by myself, and then had the privilege of helping other players who had the same thing happen to them, and who also received no ingame support. Then after being told that "we're working on all the bugs and issues, you can expect better quality and customer service anytime now," instead of getting what we hoped for, we got that unmentionable thing. You know what really chaps my ass though? It's when people can honestly look at this kind of utterly abysmal customer service, and have the audacity to say that players complained too much about SOE's busted game.
But other than all that it was Starwarsy and Iconic right?
Seriously tho that is one long dirty laundry list. And good for a laugh /salute ArcAngel3
Lol, good one. /return salute.
Of the many things I enjoy about this forum, one is that I can still interact with the excellent community of people that I used to play SWG with
worst thing that happened to me? i had done all the templates my holocrons had asked me, and i was on the last part to get my force sensitive slot (which was basically master random profs until you found the right one) i had alrady done about 10 profs at this point, then they decided to change how it worked, and i lost all my work. way to go lucas arts and sony!
I feel for you - I did 28(?) of the 33 then they changed it and suddenly EVERYONE was pretty much at the same square I was.
And the biter here is that come to find out the number of silent classes was RAISED over time. The one turned to two turned to three and so on.
When I started my hologrind the average number of classes master to unlock was 13-15. By the time I gave up the average number of classes to unlock was 32-33.....
Nothing bad ever happened to me in the game really... I loved it. The worst things for me were the loss of people. About 3/4 of the way through the pre-cu, cantinas were empty and I felt the game was dying. Then I went to the testcenter and tried the "CU" and I knew the game was finished.
The very first three words of the thread were "BESIDES THE NGE." And yet how many answers were "The NGE?"
Talk about a bunch of one-track minds.
If the NGE is the worst thing ever to happen to you, you are leading a charmed existence. GET OVER IT.
So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys...I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers, a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things, but I tell you, Jerry, at that moment ... I was a marine biologist.
I love it. The very first three words of the thread were "BESIDES THE NGE." And yet how many answers were "The NGE?" Talk about a bunch of one-track minds. If the NGE is the worst thing ever to happen to you, you are leading a charmed existence. GET OVER IT.
The title actually states, "Worst thing to happen to you in galaxies" not in your entire life so don't go blowing it all out of proportion.
Also, I'm gonna go with the NGE as well
...The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
The worst thing that happened to me was when I logged in and realized that my master Doc was no longer able to craft her healing supplies.
I was all about crafting !!! I got so mad I raised my skirt and mooned the screen. As luck would have it my daughter walked in with one of her friends and saw me.
Support Bacteria, its the only culture some people have.
The worst thing that happened to me was when I logged in and realized that my master Doc was no longer able to craft her healing supplies. I was all about crafting !!! I got so mad I raised my skirt and mooned the screen. As luck would have it my daughter walked in with one of her friends and saw me.
LOL.
See you in the dream.. The Fires from heaven, now as cold as ice. A rapid ascension tolls a heavy price.
The worst thing that happened to me was when I logged in and realized that my master Doc was no longer able to craft her healing supplies. I was all about crafting !!! I got so mad I raised my skirt and mooned the screen. As luck would have it my daughter walked in with one of her friends and saw me.
Screenshots or it didn't.........
I went through a few keyboards, a couple of mice and a pretty nice flight stick because of various bugs/exploits, never felt the need to moon the screen though, nice work!
...The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
The first revamp. I had a pre-pub 9 Jedi. I kept him secret. I stayed in hiding. I didn't strut around/show off or any of that. Didn't duel. I didn't even let all my friends know my Jedi's name. I was really in hiding like I was supposed to be. If I had to travel via star port(10-min waits back then), I wore disguises, had my badges carefully picked to match my main disguise(newbie tka), etc. I had it down to a science. I grinded alone every night for a loooong time in places where most people didn't know the game had places. I was into the knight trees. I was finally getting to a place where I felt like the class had some power, and the class was really getting fun. It was a different game than the rest of the game. The playstyle was totally different than the regular game. It was a game within the game. The grind was hard, but I was really starting to feel the class and really starting to love it. After all the crap it took to get there it was starting to all be worth it. Then SOE flushed it all. Revamp.
Before holocrons. Back when nobody knew how to unlock Jedi, the game was frustrating beyond belief. Zero fun factor. The game launched with no content, no loot, no vehicles, 10-minutes star port waits, bugs, and no buffers. Trying literally everything in the game and every theory even remotely plausible night after night after night not knowing if any of it was getting me closer to unlocking was about the most frustrating MMO experience I've ever had, and I was a GM Tamer in UO(started before Trammel). People complained about grinding a gazillion profs, but they didn't hunt Myree's(sp?) hidden nobles, run theme parks and endure buggy etc., every night for months and months on end. I hated that so much. Visiting every location imaginable before location badges. Doing everything imaginable in a contentless world. Only to find out that the way to unlock was completely void of any imagination. The secret system had nothing to do with Jedi or Star Wars or lore or the force or anything. It was a random prof grind. What a slap in the face.
Not the NGE but the interface change in the NGE. SWG had the smoothest IMHO interface of any MMO I've ever tried. UO was my first MMO, and the interface totally worked for me. After quitting I went back to try the game before the NGE. The interface change is why I finally quit SWG. It's extremely logical but unplayable, at least for me. After all the other nerfs I was kind of neutral on the NGE, but the interface meh. Game over.
Ok, after that griping here's a fun fact. There's an NPC in the game west of Bela Vistal named Joz Jodhul. He gives a quest with a wp named "none" with nothing at the wp. No way to finish the quest. This NPC was bugged at launch, which means he was bugged in beta. I used to /bug report him about once a month and after a publish. In response the devs made it so he was no longer visible on the map. lol Not the response I was looking for. He was a white dot NPC before that. At the end of May I got an invite for 40 free days. I took some screens of my favorite places but didn't play. I checked Joz Jodhul. He's still bugged after 5+ years!!! That's SOE! I /bug reported him one last time for old times sake.
I feel the exact same way. Even after I finally quit the game last fall. It is hard to turn away from that much work. Pre-pub 9 too. You took the words out of my mouth. I spent months on endor with my map up all the time.
I lived in Japan for a few years and tracked down the japanese collectors edition. This was like in 2005ish and the japanese servers were shut down at that time. i searched for months for an unopened box to get the japanese goggles and monocle to stand out. I put in the work of tracking it down, getting a translator to talk to video game dealers. After i finally got the game (about $180). The game would not recognize my code. I had to call SOE about 3 times to finally get it to work. Not too long after that, they gave them to everyone as a vet reward. That is what finally made me quit.
Another one was on kash. There was some quest where you had to go down to the lower canopy to kill this named mini boss. He was always on the bottom of the zone where I guess he fell. I had to search forever to find the glitch in the map that would let me fall down to the bottom. So yeah, that sucked.
Basically how everything got easier for the newer players (ITV, no decay) while older players watched as their equipment and or professions became useless. This wasnt the new players fault though.
I`ve moved on. Some people still love the game and thats cool but for some it can be too much to forgive. I hope that some new mmo can take the place of the old star wars but until then I wont hold my breath.
The most frustrating thing in game for me I think was one night questing on Kashyyk. My guild was having a "Guild night" as we did every week where we would go out as a group and do stuff together. As we were going through a long chain quest, we all had to take an item out of a box. Well apparently that box wasn't programmed for 2 people to attempt to take it out at the same time. My guildie got the item, I didn't for some reason, and wasn't able to get it upon trying again. Sent in a ticket only to get the response of "We're sorry but the CSR team is not allowed to reset or help with any Rage of the Wookiees quests"... Then what are you there for?
So yeah, I couldn't get the item, everyone else did, and I was left behind on the group chain quest.
But the worst thing to happen to me in galaxies was the NGE by far.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike Loved: Star Wars Galaxies Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
I love it. The very first three words of the thread were "BESIDES THE NGE." And yet how many answers were "The NGE?" Talk about a bunch of one-track minds. If the NGE is the worst thing ever to happen to you, you are leading a charmed existence. GET OVER IT.
The title actually states, "Worst thing to happen to you in galaxies" not in your entire life so don't go blowing it all out of proportion.
Also, I'm gonna go with the NGE as well
Well it does say Besides the NGE , If you have nothing other than that to add by all means say so , It really dosen't have much to do with the discussion I tried to create . But it shows you weren't subject to player scams or a loss of possesions (stolen or due to random mysterious bugs ) .
Things I was looking for would inculde , Tricked by players , Paying outrageous entrance fees by mistake , Barc scammers , Buying already broken items by mistake etc.....
If I had not put besides the NGE it would have been the only answer .
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The Jedi grind. I never wanted to be a Jedi, never had the desire. I had fun dueling with my Fencer/Pistoleer and my TKM. Suddenly everyone was out grinding and the game felt like a game for the first time, not a world.
Nowhere in the real Star Wars world would you see 100,000 people out killing as many Durni as possible to master a new profession every week. It basically ruined the game not only for me, but for a lot of other people as well.
The Jedi grind. I never wanted to be a Jedi, never had the desire. I had fun dueling with my Fencer/Pistoleer and my TKM. Suddenly everyone was out grinding and the game felt like a game for the first time, not a world. Nowhere in the real Star Wars world would you see 100,000 people out killing as many Durni as possible to master a new profession every week. It basically ruined the game not only for me, but for a lot of other people as well.
Yep the holo grinding days were pretty much hell for those not worried about attaining Jedi .A lot of people left our guild back then and the game all together.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
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But other than all that it was Starwarsy and Iconic right?
Seriously tho that is one long dirty laundry list. And good for a laugh /salute ArcAngel3
Lol, good one. /return salute.
Of the many things I enjoy about this forum, one is that I can still interact with the excellent community of people that I used to play SWG with
I feel for you - I did 28(?) of the 33 then they changed it and suddenly EVERYONE was pretty much at the same square I was.
And the biter here is that come to find out the number of silent classes was RAISED over time. The one turned to two turned to three and so on.
When I started my hologrind the average number of classes master to unlock was 13-15. By the time I gave up the average number of classes to unlock was 32-33.....
The NGE.
The CU.
Hauken Stormchaser
I want pre-CU back
Station.com : We got your game
Yeah?, Well i want it back!!!
The NGE
NGE, nuff said.
I feel for you bro. I too grinded 28 profs before the village came along and only got 3 free unlocks
This will probably make you feel bad.
I only mastered 10 profs by the time of pub 9, and got two free unlocks.
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
This will probably make you feel bad.
I only mastered 10 profs by the time of pub 9, and got two free unlocks.
Just another of Sony's brass knuckled fists to the groin.
Nothing bad ever happened to me in the game really... I loved it. The worst things for me were the loss of people. About 3/4 of the way through the pre-cu, cantinas were empty and I felt the game was dying. Then I went to the testcenter and tried the "CU" and I knew the game was finished.
I love it.
The very first three words of the thread were "BESIDES THE NGE." And yet how many answers were "The NGE?"
Talk about a bunch of one-track minds.
If the NGE is the worst thing ever to happen to you, you are leading a charmed existence. GET OVER IT.
So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys...I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers, a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things, but I tell you, Jerry, at that moment ... I was a marine biologist.
The title actually states, "Worst thing to happen to you in galaxies" not in your entire life so don't go blowing it all out of proportion.
Also, I'm gonna go with the NGE as well
...The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
The worst thing that happened to me was when I logged in and realized that my master Doc was no longer able to craft her healing supplies.
I was all about crafting !!! I got so mad I raised my skirt and mooned the screen. As luck would have it my daughter walked in with one of her friends and saw me.
Support Bacteria, its the only culture some people have.
LOL.
See you in the dream..
The Fires from heaven, now as cold as ice. A rapid ascension tolls a heavy price.
Screenshots or it didn't.........
I went through a few keyboards, a couple of mice and a pretty nice flight stick because of various bugs/exploits, never felt the need to moon the screen though, nice work!
...The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
I feel the exact same way. Even after I finally quit the game last fall. It is hard to turn away from that much work. Pre-pub 9 too. You took the words out of my mouth. I spent months on endor with my map up all the time.
I lived in Japan for a few years and tracked down the japanese collectors edition. This was like in 2005ish and the japanese servers were shut down at that time. i searched for months for an unopened box to get the japanese goggles and monocle to stand out. I put in the work of tracking it down, getting a translator to talk to video game dealers. After i finally got the game (about $180). The game would not recognize my code. I had to call SOE about 3 times to finally get it to work. Not too long after that, they gave them to everyone as a vet reward. That is what finally made me quit.
Another one was on kash. There was some quest where you had to go down to the lower canopy to kill this named mini boss. He was always on the bottom of the zone where I guess he fell. I had to search forever to find the glitch in the map that would let me fall down to the bottom. So yeah, that sucked.
Basically how everything got easier for the newer players (ITV, no decay) while older players watched as their equipment and or professions became useless. This wasnt the new players fault though.
I`ve moved on. Some people still love the game and thats cool but for some it can be too much to forgive. I hope that some new mmo can take the place of the old star wars but until then I wont hold my breath.
The most frustrating thing in game for me I think was one night questing on Kashyyk. My guild was having a "Guild night" as we did every week where we would go out as a group and do stuff together. As we were going through a long chain quest, we all had to take an item out of a box. Well apparently that box wasn't programmed for 2 people to attempt to take it out at the same time. My guildie got the item, I didn't for some reason, and wasn't able to get it upon trying again. Sent in a ticket only to get the response of "We're sorry but the CSR team is not allowed to reset or help with any Rage of the Wookiees quests"...
Then what are you there for?
So yeah, I couldn't get the item, everyone else did, and I was left behind on the group chain quest.
But the worst thing to happen to me in galaxies was the NGE by far.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
The title actually states, "Worst thing to happen to you in galaxies" not in your entire life so don't go blowing it all out of proportion.
Also, I'm gonna go with the NGE as well
Well it does say Besides the NGE , If you have nothing other than that to add by all means say so , It really dosen't have much to do with the discussion I tried to create . But it shows you weren't subject to player scams or a loss of possesions (stolen or due to random mysterious bugs ) .
Things I was looking for would inculde , Tricked by players , Paying outrageous entrance fees by mistake , Barc scammers , Buying already broken items by mistake etc.....
If I had not put besides the NGE it would have been the only answer .
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Other than the NGE, the CU.
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The Jedi grind. I never wanted to be a Jedi, never had the desire. I had fun dueling with my Fencer/Pistoleer and my TKM. Suddenly everyone was out grinding and the game felt like a game for the first time, not a world.
Nowhere in the real Star Wars world would you see 100,000 people out killing as many Durni as possible to master a new profession every week. It basically ruined the game not only for me, but for a lot of other people as well.
Tecmo Bowl.
Yep the holo grinding days were pretty much hell for those not worried about attaining Jedi .A lot of people left our guild back then and the game all together.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson