Originally posted by battleaxe22 Well when i`l ding 60 in wow with 1 char ..i'l get teh uber gear then start another one ..I have no intention of leaving since i met a lot of nice ppl ingame ... Got Swg today ..but i didn't read that if you add ur key to ur old account you loose the fr33 30 days..well now im stuck with the game and without a working account ) uhm mebe ur wandering im damn stupid ..well its true ...i`l try to get some moneys for it soon ... so i played the game for 5 days close after release ... cought borring and buggy cought ... So now the hype is back as it once was .On what Euro server should i play ^^ ??
Hmm that's odd... I'd call customer support. They should credit your account the 30 days after all you bought the game and all... I'd be surprised if they didn't.
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Originally posted by haxxjoo SWG forums are not healthy. Post levels are at an all time low. Interest in the game is low as far as I can tell. I do not know a single swg player out here n the real world. Saying the swg devs are doing good work? Are you a raging maschist? These guys communication and development skills are the worst I have ever seen. Blizzard mass exodus? There numbers are up not down. Someone needs to like stop the swg love fest and get these folks back to reality. Is there any plan to release some content for swg? Guild wars is the cats meow. The swg crafting experience never was for me. To much pointless work.
Oh lord Haxx do you just make this up as you go? Everytime I see you post negatively about SWG you use different information that contradicts everything else available out there:
Content? Go read the official site you goof. There has been ALL KINDS of content added to the game. Not even counting the expansions there was tons of content added. Not to mention the whole entire rage of the wookies expansion itself and JTL last year. And now they're working on adding in capitol ship adventures like the Avatar Space Platform. Not too long ago I posted a list of what's been added. I think it was something like 30 or 40 lines long in the past 15 months.
Crafting system? So what if you don't like crafting. Considering Guild Wars has NO crafting obviously you just don't like crafting, period. I don't much care for it either but others do. And SWG has a fantastic crafting and player merchant system that is unparallelled thus far.
Also, if interest in the game is so low then please explain why it's listed as a best seller at every online gaming site? And every retail gaming site? Oh... and the fact that server populations are at all time highs?
It's ok, we know you don't like SWG... every time you post here you just make up something new to try to back up your claim that the game is dying. I guess it pumps up your ego or something.
No offense guy, but as much as you accuse everyone of being anti-SWG, you are the complete opposite. Your total refusal to accept the fact that the game is buggy and incomplete, plagued by bad dev-community relations, and has major profession changes pretty much every week are a testament to your blind allegiance to SWG.
Server populations are up, WHY? Because there is an influx of people because of the film. These people all think they are going to be a Jedi in 2 weeks, this population "explosion" will be very short lived. SWG is, as much as you may not want to accept it, on a doomed path. It will not die tomorrow but I wouldn't give it more than a year before you see server consolidation.
How the hell can you invest time and money to reach a certain level/profession and then have the template you learned totally changed because of whiners who can't deal with the complexity of the game. I will agree with you that this game WAS great. At one point it was the best and most unique MMO out there.
Today, it is a sad shadow of its former self. Destroyed by inept developers who don't have a F**king clue. There insistence on pushing out flawed, incomplete patches and retail addons will bury the game. I know the players will try to live with it, I did for 2 years plus but at the rate things are going now, even the most stubborn SOE/SWG apologists will eventually jump ship!
SWG is living by Station Access and a new movie. Soon it will live by Station Access alone. Which is a good deal, really and i am on my way to get it too. Get three games that are not worth much by themselves but worth tons together.
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"
Originally posted by Sharkypal Server populations are up, WHY? Because there is an influx of people because of the film. These people all think they are going to be a Jedi in 2 weeks, this population "explosion" will be very short lived. SWG is, as much as you may not want to accept it, on a doomed path. It will not die tomorrow but I wouldn't give it more than a year before you see server consolidation.
wow..i remember when people were saying that about EQ 6 years ago....5 years ago...4 years ago...3 years ago...
they also said it about UO, AC, AC2, DAoC...every one of them has been wrong. and still people don't learn.
as long as a game is profitable (which it only needa bout 80,000 players or so to be), it will get support from it's producers. SWG is over 250k players, more then enough to warrant continued development and support from SOE for some time to come.
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SWG isn't EQ! SWG was in dire straits before the movie, EQ never needed films to float it. They are nowhere near the same animal, quite frankly it's a stupid comparison. As well, the other games you mentioned do not have Dev teams that BLATANTLY ignore existing players, alienate hardcore players and generally nerf the game every 14 days.
I played EQ for 4 years, EQ at its worst was better than SWG at its best.
Originally posted by Sharkypal SWG isn't EQ! SWG was in dire straits before the movie, EQ never needed films to float it. They are nowhere near the same animal, quite frankly it's a stupid comparison. I played EQ for 4 years, EQ at its worst was better than SWG at its best.
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before the film, SWG was still over 220k..hardly dire straights. still very profitable. nope, predicting the game's end or server consolidation in spite of facts still looks silly.
i played EQ for 5 years...so since you brought up time, i guess i win?
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I'm not going to turn this into a flame war, we all have our opinions. I don't know where you get your numbers, I'm guessing you make them up unless you work for SOE since they don't disclose their sub base. I never predicted the death of the game, I simply said that it will wither. Even the SW franchise name can't save that game from the inadequacy of the dev team.
S
PS : It's not a competition, I have 3 Jedi in SWG, an MBH/MR and an MBH/MS. I spend pretty much all my spare time playing MMOs and I put a lot of time and money into SWG. I have slowly watched it torn apart in order to placate whiners.
Originally posted by Sharkypal I don't know where you get your numbers, I'm guessing you make them up unless you work for SOE since they don't disclose their sub base.
Read the analysis on SWG and SOE .... it gives more info. Numbers are based on press releases, financial reports and internal contacts of the guy running the website.
Originally posted by Sharkypal I don't know where you get your numbers, I'm guessing you make them up unless you work for SOE since they don't disclose their sub base.
Originally posted by Sharkypal As well, the other games you mentioned do not have Dev teams that BLATANTLY ignore existing players, alienate hardcore players and generally nerf the game every 14 days.
Why do I read just about the same sentence, nearly verbatim, on every official game forum I have ever been to ? :-)
Does not matter if its SWG, EQ 1 or 2, WOW, EVE, AO, FF, DAOC etc... they all say the same.
Originally posted by Sharkypal As well, the other games you mentioned do not have Dev teams that BLATANTLY ignore existing players, alienate hardcore players and generally nerf the game every 14 days.
Why do I read just about the same sentence, nearly verbatim, on every official game forum I have ever been to ? :-)
Does not matter if its SWG, EQ 1 or 2, WOW, EVE, AO, FF, DAOC etc... they all say the same.
Have fun
Erillion
Nope, don't agree! While there is always a level of it, there is no team as inept as the one that presides over SWG. Not one!
There is no complete changing of the game 2 years after release, there is no MMO that I have ever played that is a as bug ridden as SWG that I have played in any case (and I've played most of them). There is no MMO where professions drastically change every week to placate whiners.
I could go on but I won't bother. I understand that you like the game and you enjoy playing it. I have no quarrel with that. What I take issue with is the fact that most of you can't come to terms with the fact that whether you like it or not, it is very flawed!
That's unofficial ROFLMAO, --> true. And still .. its generally the most accepted website with numbers in the whole genre. Go figure. 1 . I am Carmen Electra. --> Boob job or natural ? 2. I drive a Ferrari. --> So do I. Which racing game ? 3. I can jump tall buildings in a single bound. --> What about landing ? But I guess we are not THAT lucky ! Nice backing up of those "Pesky" facts. --> Go read Sony financial report. Its online. Lets drop this now! --> Hold still :-P I wanna drop something. Do you know the "Poo Poo Hats" from Ragnarok Online ? Cheers S --> Have fun, Erillion ..... --> they call me Mr. "T" .. that outranks "S" ?
Yeah I lose to a guy who doesn't even know about capital letters. If it's such a great game I pose the ever popular question, WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING IT?
Nope, don't agree! While there is always a level of it, there is no team as inept as the one that presides over SWG. Not one!
There is no complete changing of the game 2 years after release, there is no MMO that I have ever played that is a as bug ridden as SWG that I have played in any case (and I've played most of them). There is no MMO where professions drastically change every week to placate whiners.
Nah, not as bad as SWG now. AO was VERY bad when it was released and even for the first year, but 2 years after release it was not getting worse a la SWG.
Originally posted by Sharkypal Nah, not as bad as SWG now. AO was VERY bad when it was released and even for the first year, --> you wanted a bad dev team, I mentioned a bad dev team. That was worse than the SWG team at the time a game released. Lets compare SWG quality to AO quality when SWG is 4-5 years old, shall we ? but 2 years after release it was not getting worse a la SWG. --> That its getting worse is your personal opinion. My opinion is different. Anyways, enough of this. Go play your ub3r game. --> Can't. I am at work enjoying a work break (some go for a smoke, I check posts :-) --> have fun, Erillion
Originally posted by Sharkypal Nah, not as bad as SWG now. AO was VERY bad when it was released and even for the first year, --> you wanted a bad dev team, I mentioned a bad dev team. That was worse than the SWG team at the time a game released. Lets compare SWG quality to AO quality when SWG is 4-5 years old, shall we ? but 2 years after release it was not getting worse a la SWG. --> That its getting worse is your personal opinion. My opinion is different. Anyways, enough of this. Go play your ub3r game. --> Can't. I am at work enjoying a work break (some go for a smoke, I check posts :-) --> have fun, Erillion
Everyone has their own opinion! Unfortunately, I don't happen to agree with yours. If you truly believe that the state of SWG is acceptable then I guess I just have higher standards. I'll leave it at that!
Originally posted by zoey121 Shark, need a good chuckle, go check out patch 20 ........ i made it through cu, losing of doc crafting, hate argo for docs, i made it through smuggler crap, camping high end mobs for TOOLS i won't make it through patch 20 no names on bounties and hidden pay out amounts i do not work without knowing how much pay i am going to get do you? no i didn't think so .......................
hands all the jedi the i win button
Oh I read it, yet another total prof change ... yet some people in here can't see the forest for trees. I'm glad it's not only me that finds it distressing!
Originally posted by haxxjoo SWG forums are not healthy. Post levels are at an all time low.Interest in the game is low as far as I can tell. I do not know a single swg player out here n the real world. Saying the swg devs are doing good work? Are you a raging maschist? These guys communication and development skills are the worst I have ever seen. Blizzard mass exodus? There numbers are up not down.Someone needs to like stop the swg love fest and get these folks back to reality. Is there any plan to release some content for swg? Guild wars is the cats meow. The swg crafting experience never was for me. To much pointless work.
Oh lordHaxx do you just make this up as you go? Everytime I see you post negatively about SWG you use different information that contradicts everything else available out there:
Content? Go read the official site you goof. There has been ALL KINDS of content added to the game. Not even counting the expansions there was tons of content added. Not to mention the whole entire rage of the wookies expansion itself and JTL last year. And now they're working on adding in capitol ship adventures like the Avatar Space Platform. Not too long ago I posted a list of what's been added. I think it was something like 30 or 40 lines long in the past 15 months.
Crafting system? So what if you don't like crafting. Considering Guild Wars has NO crafting obviously you just don't like crafting, period. I don't much care for it either but others do. And SWG has a fantastic crafting and player merchant system that is unparallelled thus far.
Also, if interest in the game is so low then please explain why it's listed as a best seller at every online gaming site? And every retail gaming site? Oh... and the fact that server populations are at all time highs? It's ok, we know you don't like SWG... every time you post here you just make up something new to try to back up your claim that the game is dying. I guess it pumps up your ego or something.
No offense guy, but as much as you accuse everyone of being anti-SWG, you are the complete opposite. Your total refusal to accept the fact that the game is buggy and incomplete, plagued by bad dev-community relations, and has major profession changes pretty much every week are a testament to your blind allegiance to SWG.
Please show me where I accused anyone of being "anti-SWG"? I merely pointed out that Hax changes his tune every time he makes a negative post that's proven wrong. Make one wrong statement and be proven wrong so he comes up with some other way of saying the SAME STATEMENT with bogus information to back it up.
And, sure I'm supportive of the game I happen to enjoy playing it. Yes, it's got issues (as does ANY MMO) and it's got its fair share of bugs as well. But they do address the issues in the game and they do fix bugs every single patch and hotfix. The game steadily improves, in my opinion. Just because *you* don't like it doesn't mean it's "dying".
Originally posted by Sharkypal Server populations are up, WHY? Because there is an influx of people because of the film. These people all think they are going to be a Jedi in 2 weeks, this population "explosion" will be very short lived. SWG is, as much as you may not want to accept it, on a doomed path. It will not die tomorrow but I wouldn't give it more than a year before you see server consolidation.
I think you're wrong. Every new member of our guild that is a new player to the game is having a ball and really enjoying themselves. Everyone that's joined DOES state they want to become a Jedi but I have yet to see anyone who thinks that they'll accomplish it in 2 weeks. Every new player to our guild is, as I said, having a blast. Our guild has now increased to 80 members (We had a total of 10 the week after CU when we formed it) so it's experienced an 800% increase in growth. The city across the river from ours has shown similar growth, they formed right around the same time and are also probably going to become a metropolis next update (as are we). The planet Talus, as a whole, has seen 5 new Cities show up on the map (Cities, by the way, require 55 players) Tatooine has had 4 or 5 new CITIES show up on the map as well. So there's some rather significant playerbase growth going on.
Will a server consolidation occur sometime down the road if numbers drop back to pre-CU levels? I dunno and, frankly, I don't care. If the game drops back to 200,000 or so players it will still be fun and enjoyable and a server merge wouldn't really bother me one way or another. Frankly, I could care less As long as the game is profitable (and the generally accepted market definition is 50k players to maintain a profitable MMO) it will exist. SOE hasn't canned PlanetSide in over 2 years and it only has 55k players. I don't see SWG going away before it goes below 50k and there is no way I see that happening within the next several years.
Originally posted by Sharkypal How the hell can you invest time and money to reach a certain level/profession and then have the template you learned totally changed because of whiners who can't deal with the complexity of the game. I will agree with you that this game WAS great. At one point it was the best and most unique MMO out there. Today, it is a sad shadow of its former self. Destroyed by inept developers who don't have a F**king clue. There insistence on pushing out flawed, incomplete patches and retail addons will bury the game. I know the players will try to live with it, I did for 2 years plus but at the rate things are going now, even the most stubborn SOE/SWG apologists will eventually jump ship! Cheers
Game still is great, imo.... matter of fact I like it BETTER now than I did before the CU. Yes, some professions got radically changed. And I chimed right in with them on the official forums (and here) that it wasn't really fair. But overall the game is BETTER now than it was before.
Doctors got the shaft, I agree, 100%. I've said so many times. Crafters got hurt a bit too, initially, but SOE has been fixing that lately. Entertainers got smacked around a tad but, again, they've been getting a little love though SOE is making some changes that I think are a mistake (and have stated so both here and on other forums)
Overall: Game better Some specific areas: Needs Work
Overall: Worth playing Overall: FUN Till that changes I'll continue to enjoy the game
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Everyone has their own opinion! Unfortunately, I don't happen to agree with yours. If you truly believe that the state of SWG is acceptable then I guess I just have higher standards. I'll leave it at that!
S
PS : Oh yeah, have fun!
Please enlighten us: What is the MMORPG game you are playing that satisfies your high standards ?
Have fun
Erillion
PS:
IMHO SWG is acceptable. Not perfect, but acceptable.
And still needs a lot of work. Like any MMORPG I know.
Everyone has their own opinion! Unfortunately, I don't happen to agree with yours. If you truly believe that the state of SWG is acceptable then I guess I just have higher standards. I'll leave it at that!
S
PS : Oh yeah, have fun!
Please enlighten us: What is the MMORPG game you are playing that satisfies your high standards ?
Have fun
Erillion
PS:
IMHO SWG is acceptable. Not perfect, but acceptable.
And still needs a lot of work. Like any MMORPG I know.
I'm not getting in to other games, I play several. I like the little trap you tried to set here. I mention an MMO, you slag it off. Sorry, that dog don't hunt!
As I said before, my definition of "acceptable" involves
- Not drastically changing the game/professions every 14 days.
- Listening to Community.
- Fixing bugs that have existed since the beta as opposed to introducing retail content and/or buggy fixes.
- Not pumping out broken publishes that further ruin the games functionality.
Enough Erillion, we don't agree ... we have aired our opinions. All that is left is the Pit of Flame. A Pit that I try to avoid!
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Hmm that's odd... I'd call customer support. They should credit your account the 30 days after all you bought the game and all... I'd be surprised if they didn't.
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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Still in: A couple Betas
Oh lord
Haxx do you just make this up as you go? Everytime I see you post negatively about SWG you use different information that contradicts everything else available out there:
Content? Go read the official site you goof. There has been ALL KINDS of content added to the game. Not even counting the expansions there was tons of content added. Not to mention the whole entire rage of the wookies expansion itself and JTL last year. And now they're working on adding in capitol ship adventures like the Avatar Space Platform. Not too long ago I posted a list of what's been added. I think it was something like 30 or 40 lines long in the past 15 months.
Crafting system? So what if you don't like crafting. Considering Guild Wars has NO crafting obviously you just don't like crafting, period. I don't much care for it either but others do. And SWG has a fantastic crafting and player merchant system that is unparallelled thus far.
Also, if interest in the game is so low then please explain why it's listed as a best seller at every online gaming site? And every retail gaming site? Oh... and the fact that server populations are at all time highs?
It's ok, we know you don't like SWG... every time you post here you just make up something new to try to back up your claim that the game is dying. I guess it pumps up your ego or something.
No offense guy, but as much as you accuse everyone of being anti-SWG, you are the complete opposite. Your total refusal to accept the fact that the game is buggy and incomplete, plagued by bad dev-community relations, and has major profession changes pretty much every week are a testament to your blind allegiance to SWG.
Server populations are up, WHY? Because there is an influx of people because of the film. These people all think they are going to be a Jedi in 2 weeks, this population "explosion" will be very short lived. SWG is, as much as you may not want to accept it, on a doomed path. It will not die tomorrow but I wouldn't give it more than a year before you see server consolidation.
How the hell can you invest time and money to reach a certain level/profession and then have the template you learned totally changed because of whiners who can't deal with the complexity of the game. I will agree with you that this game WAS great. At one point it was the best and most unique MMO out there.
Today, it is a sad shadow of its former self. Destroyed by inept developers who don't have a F**king clue. There insistence on pushing out flawed, incomplete patches and retail addons will bury the game. I know the players will try to live with it, I did for 2 years plus but at the rate things are going now, even the most stubborn SOE/SWG apologists will eventually jump ship!
Cheers
S
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
wow..i remember when people were saying that about EQ 6 years ago....5 years ago...4 years ago...3 years ago...
they also said it about UO, AC, AC2, DAoC...every one of them has been wrong. and still people don't learn.
as long as a game is profitable (which it only needa bout 80,000 players or so to be), it will get support from it's producers. SWG is over 250k players, more then enough to warrant continued development and support from SOE for some time to come.
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SWG isn't EQ! SWG was in dire straits before the movie, EQ never needed films to float it. They are nowhere near the same animal, quite frankly it's a stupid comparison. As well, the other games you mentioned do not have Dev teams that BLATANTLY ignore existing players, alienate hardcore players and generally nerf the game every 14 days.
I played EQ for 4 years, EQ at its worst was better than SWG at its best.
S
before the film, SWG was still over 220k..hardly dire straights. still very profitable. nope, predicting the game's end or server consolidation in spite of facts still looks silly.
i played EQ for 5 years...so since you brought up time, i guess i win?
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I'm not going to turn this into a flame war, we all have our opinions. I don't know where you get your numbers, I'm guessing you make them up unless you work for SOE since they don't disclose their sub base. I never predicted the death of the game, I simply said that it will wither. Even the SW franchise name can't save that game from the inadequacy of the dev team.
S
PS : It's not a competition, I have 3 Jedi in SWG, an MBH/MR and an MBH/MS. I spend pretty much all my spare time playing MMOs and I put a lot of time and money into SWG. I have slowly watched it torn apart in order to placate whiners.
www.mmogchart.com
been around for quite some time...pretty reliable source. it's what most people around here use as their "numbers" backup.
so, guess i'm not makig it up afterall...ooo, those pesky facts.
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http://www.mmogchart.com/
Read the analysis on SWG and SOE .... it gives more info. Numbers are based on press releases, financial reports and internal contacts of the guy running the website.
Have fun
Erillion
www.mmogchart.com
been around for quite some time...pretty reliable source. it's what most people around here use as their "numbers" backup.
so, guess i'm not makig it up afterall...ooo, those pesky facts.
That's unofficial ROFLMAO, yeah it's true because you say it is. Lets check that theory out!
1 . I am Carmen Electra.
2. I drive a Ferrari.
3. I can jump tall buildings in a single bound.
Nice backing up of those "Pesky" facts.
Lets drop this now!
Cheers
S
Why do I read just about the same sentence, nearly verbatim, on every official game forum I have ever been to ? :-)
Does not matter if its SWG, EQ 1 or 2, WOW, EVE, AO, FF, DAOC etc... they all say the same.
Have fun
Erillion
i gotta hand it to ya sharky..yer 4 for 4.
each post of yours makes you look dumber then the one before it.
yer right..we can drop it..you win, with all the evidence you've put forward, i have no case. so enjoy yer hard earned victory.
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Why do I read just about the same sentence, nearly verbatim, on every official game forum I have ever been to ? :-)
Does not matter if its SWG, EQ 1 or 2, WOW, EVE, AO, FF, DAOC etc... they all say the same.
Have fun
Erillion
Nope, don't agree! While there is always a level of it, there is no team as inept as the one that presides over SWG. Not one!
There is no complete changing of the game 2 years after release, there is no MMO that I have ever played that is a as bug ridden as SWG that I have played in any case (and I've played most of them). There is no MMO where professions drastically change every week to placate whiners.
I could go on but I won't bother. I understand that you like the game and you enjoy playing it. I have no quarrel with that. What I take issue with is the fact that most of you can't come to terms with the fact that whether you like it or not, it is very flawed!
S
Wheezal
Yeah I lose to a guy who doesn't even know about capital letters. If it's such a great game I pose the ever popular question, WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING IT?
S
There is no complete changing of the game 2 years after release, there is no MMO that I have ever played that is a as bug ridden as SWG that I have played in any case (and I've played most of them). There is no MMO where professions drastically change every week to placate whiners.
Two words : Anarchy Online.
Have fun
Erillion
Nah, not as bad as SWG now. AO was VERY bad when it was released and even for the first year, but 2 years after release it was not getting worse a la SWG.
Anyways, enough of this. Go play your ub3r game.
S
Everyone has their own opinion! Unfortunately, I don't happen to agree with yours. If you truly believe that the state of SWG is acceptable then I guess I just have higher standards. I'll leave it at that!
S
PS : Oh yeah, have fun!
Shark, need a good chuckle, go check out patch 20 ........
i made it through cu, losing of doc crafting, hate argo for docs, i made it through smuggler crap, camping high end mobs for TOOLS
i won't make it through patch 20
no names on bounties and hidden pay out amounts
i do not work without knowing how much pay i am going to get
do you? no i didn't think so .......................
hands all the jedi the i win button
Please show me where I accused anyone of being "anti-SWG"? I merely pointed out that Hax changes his tune every time he makes a negative post that's proven wrong. Make one wrong statement and be proven wrong so he comes up with some other way of saying the SAME STATEMENT with bogus information to back it up.
And, sure I'm supportive of the game I happen to enjoy playing it. Yes, it's got issues (as does ANY MMO) and it's got its fair share of bugs as well. But they do address the issues in the game and they do fix bugs every single patch and hotfix. The game steadily improves, in my opinion. Just because *you* don't like it doesn't mean it's "dying".
I think you're wrong. Every new member of our guild that is a new player to the game is having a ball and really enjoying themselves. Everyone that's joined DOES state they want to become a Jedi but I have yet to see anyone who thinks that they'll accomplish it in 2 weeks. Every new player to our guild is, as I said, having a blast. Our guild has now increased to 80 members (We had a total of 10 the week after CU when we formed it) so it's experienced an 800% increase in growth. The city across the river from ours has shown similar growth, they formed right around the same time and are also probably going to become a metropolis next update (as are we). The planet Talus, as a whole, has seen 5 new Cities show up on the map (Cities, by the way, require 55 players) Tatooine has had 4 or 5 new CITIES show up on the map as well. So there's some rather significant playerbase growth going on.
Will a server consolidation occur sometime down the road if numbers drop back to pre-CU levels? I dunno and, frankly, I don't care. If the game drops back to 200,000 or so players it will still be fun and enjoyable and a server merge wouldn't really bother me one way or another. Frankly, I could care less As long as the game is profitable (and the generally accepted market definition is 50k players to maintain a profitable MMO) it will exist. SOE hasn't canned PlanetSide in over 2 years and it only has 55k players. I don't see SWG going away before it goes below 50k and there is no way I see that happening within the next several years.
Game still is great, imo.... matter of fact I like it BETTER now than I did before the CU.
Yes, some professions got radically changed. And I chimed right in with them on the official forums (and here) that it wasn't really fair. But overall the game is BETTER now than it was before.
Doctors got the shaft, I agree, 100%. I've said so many times.
Crafters got hurt a bit too, initially, but SOE has been fixing that lately.
Entertainers got smacked around a tad but, again, they've been getting a little love though SOE is making some changes that I think are a mistake (and have stated so both here and on other forums)
Overall: Game better
Some specific areas: Needs Work
Overall: Worth playing
Overall: FUN
Till that changes I'll continue to enjoy the game
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Sig image Pending
Still in: A couple Betas
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PS : Oh yeah, have fun!
Please enlighten us: What is the MMORPG game you are playing that satisfies your high standards ?
Have fun
Erillion
PS:
IMHO SWG is acceptable. Not perfect, but acceptable.
And still needs a lot of work. Like any MMORPG I know.
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PS : Oh yeah, have fun!
Please enlighten us: What is the MMORPG game you are playing that satisfies your high standards ?
Have fun
Erillion
PS:
IMHO SWG is acceptable. Not perfect, but acceptable.
And still needs a lot of work. Like any MMORPG I know.
I'm not getting in to other games, I play several. I like the little trap you tried to set here. I mention an MMO, you slag it off. Sorry, that dog don't hunt!
As I said before, my definition of "acceptable" involves
- Not drastically changing the game/professions every 14 days.
- Listening to Community.
- Fixing bugs that have existed since the beta as opposed to introducing retail content and/or buggy fixes.
- Not pumping out broken publishes that further ruin the games functionality.
Enough Erillion, we don't agree ... we have aired our opinions. All that is left is the Pit of Flame. A Pit that I try to avoid!
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