Why I would not play SWG again even if..

gwbrew

I just came back to SWG after 3 years to give it a try. Here are the Pros and Cons from what I found

Pros:

1. 2 toons per account now

2. Elite extractors Ber 44

3. They added a quest line that takes you through story lines in the game, it was pretty fun until about level 15ish.

4. Space flight is still really fun.

5. If you like hanging out with friends you already have on the game, it’s a nice game to complain to each other in. If you don’t have friends playing already, I don’t recommend this game due to Cons number 4

Cons:

1. The Game Play (Combat style) is still as horrible as it was 3 years ago. I found myself attacking things I did not mean to, and therefore dying a lot. Ok maybe I was rusty, but I never got use to it.

2. The graphics are amateur at best. In today’s MMO this would rank around a 5/10. Space making up 3/10 of that

3. There is still a mount lag when you stop. When you go to stop your vehicle, you have to slow down and roam the area first to wait for everything to load. Very annoying if you just get off your vehicle and die due to something 10-15 levels higher than you spawning on top of you. Yes you die become incapped instantly.

4. The community is pretty immature. They are pretty big on flaming you. I am assuming due to all the hatred from other players in the past being upset about how the game has gone. This was probably the most disappointing aspect.

5. The mission terminals are the same they were when the game came out. You can choose your repetitive kill nest/camp quests pretty boring. There are NPCs in the game you can get quest from though, I would recommend sticking with those.

6. Loot camping is just as bad now as it use to be. People are macroing loot to sale to Reengineers to make millions of credit an hour. Shihc blows the economy.

7. Decay is gone. No real reason to craft anymore, unless you are in a guild that needs pretty looking things or maybe space flight crafting. The crafting is WAY too easy anyway. It takes 2-3 hours to craft in structures, and then you just repec to whatever crafting you want. Seems silly. You should have to work harder to gain a Pro status in any MMO.

8. 15 dollars a month is way too much for this game. There are many other MMOs to choose from if you want to spend money. 5 dollars is the max I could see paying for this game. Honestly it should be free, but we know the game is in the red already.

9. The dev seem to be randomly selecting from their customer as to what to fix. Most want new content versus old fixes. I guess it is way too hard to fix some of the major draw backs to the game from old school days. The Combat mechanics alone made me want to give it up. It was a little upsetting to see that it is basically the same game it was, and sadly seems like It took a step backwards on the things that matter. Yea there is new content, but at the risk of not fixing old mechanics. My honest opinion, I don’t think the devs no how to fix it at this point, and there really is no sense in playing a game that the devs are scratching their heads at for this long.

10. BETA game. Be prepared to feel like your still in Beta. The game still crashes. When you radial object it doesn’t pop up selections. Respawns are randomly fast. You can kill a guy and poof he is right back. Just things like this make it a game with no backbone.

In summary if SWG were to bring back PRE-CU server to try and get the SWTOR groups from buy SWTOR, they would be simply lying to get you back. Plus you would still be in "BETA BETA" It would seem more like a move to get a much people from buying SWTOR versus getting people to buy SWG for the “great game” psssh. Sounds like a lot of bad blood. I will pick the one that hasn’t failed over and over. And yea graphics matter.

 

TeknoBug

You forgot the community as a con, lots of posters registered 2006-2008 post like they know everything, spend a little time reading around the galactic career path forums and you'll see most people as old as 2003 and 2004 are very quiet while 2006-2008 are "you're wrong" kind of thing, hell I've seen some of the prof senates get flamed.

gwbrew

Actually most of the trolling is being done by 2003-2005 people. It is out of control honestly. The OPerators need to do a better job of trollers

gwbrew

By the Way, I have been given a Warning by MMORPG on my thread. It was considered Trolling/Flame Baiting. Just goes to show you even when you try to give positive (PROS) you still get slammed by people who don't agree with your Negative comments. So much for creating an outlet to discuss MMOs.

Valeran

Originally posted by gwbrew


Actually most of the trolling is being done by 2003-2005 people. It is out of control honestly. The OPerators need to do a better job of trollers

 

The operators are the players...even when they had paid moderators they have never controlled the oboards.

Valeran

Originally posted by gwbrew


By the Way, I have been given a Warning by MMORPG on my thread. It was considered Trolling/Flame Baiting. Just goes to show you even when you try to give positive (PROS) you still get slammed by people who don't agree with your Negative comments. So much for creating an outlet to discuss MMOs.

 

I would protest it.

BullseyeArc1

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by gwbrew


By the Way, I have been given a Warning by MMORPG on my thread. It was considered Trolling/Flame Baiting. Just goes to show you even when you try to give positive (PROS) you still get slammed by people who don't agree with your Negative comments. So much for creating an outlet to discuss MMOs.

 

I would protest it.

 

 So your the reason I got two warnings from the forum modds.      To the OP some of the things you say are right on.   But thiers a few that really dont have anything to do with the game.     The mission terminals, no one uses those anymore, not even the credit farmers.      The fast spawns you talk about have just been fixed, they have been nerfed with this latest publish.    I agree with the community comment, its all a bunch of clicks, but if you get into one of the guilds on a a server that solves the Im lonely part you talk about.     Its not a carebear community anymore, the kids did take over, its all pew pew and cry more newb.   

Valeran

Originally posted by BullseyeArc1

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by gwbrew


By the Way, I have been given a Warning by MMORPG on my thread. It was considered Trolling/Flame Baiting. Just goes to show you even when you try to give positive (PROS) you still get slammed by people who don't agree with your Negative comments. So much for creating an outlet to discuss MMOs.

 

I would protest it.

 

 So your the reason I got two warnings from the forum modds.      To the OP some of the things you say are right on.   But thiers a few that really dont have anything to do with the game.     The mission terminals, no one uses those anymore, not even the credit farmers.      The fast spawns you talk about have just been fixed, they have been nerfed with this latest publish.    I agree with the community comment, its all a bunch of clicks, but if you get into one of the guilds on a a server that solves the Im lonely part you talk about.     Its not a carebear community anymore, the kids did take over, its all pew pew and cry more newb.   

 

Nope...not me...warnings can be for anything here.

gwbrew

The fast respawns have NOT been fixed. Just saw it today. After all my sub is still working. And people are still using them to farm Reverse Engineering Loot gear to sale for millions of credits. Which still causes the economy to be "out of this world" <-- :P

 

If we are being truthfull its a playable game. Its just priced too high for what it is. Some will say the cost doesn't matter if your having fun your having fun.. I think that is crazy talk. Most are not going to pay full price for something that isn't complete.. or feels like an incomplete game. Your paying the same for a game that you can for one with better perks all around. Its like paying the same for a car with no motor and frame than one with one. Doesn't make sense.

If it were free or 5 bucks max. I might play it again, but I doubt that will happen.. but who knows.

LaTigre

I just simply cannot imagine any conceivable scenario, no matter what SOE/LEC did to woo me, that would get me to subscribe to SWG again.  Not even Pre-CU servers could do it, because while I still love that game, they can't give me Pre-CU with content and without glaring bugs, with a modern graphics engine.  It's a pity all the wasted effort on the CUNGE that could have been spent on a modern, stable, polished, content diverse Pre-CU game today with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and 25+ vibrant servers.

 

Trident9259

Originally posted by gwbrew


By the Way, I have been given a Warning by MMORPG on my thread. It was considered Trolling/Flame Baiting. Just goes to show you even when you try to give positive (PROS) you still get slammed by people who don't agree with your Negative comments. So much for creating an outlet to discuss MMOs.

 

i dont follow... you got a warning for the post you made on this thread? describing your swg experience?