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A new addiction...
rkabyrne
Member Posts: 72
For those who are interested (and yes I know it does not belong here):
I finally broke down and bought WoW. I am playing the Warsong (PVP) server, on Alliance side.
If anyone else is starting out in WoW, or wants to, give me a shout in game.
Character name is Mojave.
So far I am having a blast. Maybe you will too. I know most of the ex-SWG players left a while ago, but I was trying other games. I am now in WoW and loving it.
The server performance, game performance, and content is really fantastic. I figure I should be pretty far along by the time the expansion comes out. Maybe you will be as well.
I enjoy working in groups and power leveling, perhaps we can help each other out.
DM: Let me get this right: The dragons breath knocks you over the 300' cliff onto the jagged rocks below and you want a saving throw?
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SWG is a grind as well. Pretty soon SWG will look so much like WoW it will be scary. Han's new sidekick will be a Tauren. Vader will be a Paladin. Tatooine will be renamed Durotar.
KAi
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SWG pre cu - never forgotten.
SWG is a grind as well. Pretty soon SWG will look so much like WoW it will be scary. Han's new sidekick will be a Tauren. Vader will be a Paladin. Tatooine will be renamed Durotar.
KAi
Well, the thing is, I "afk-ed" most of SWG grind. Not in the true away from keyboard sense, but macros. Was it wrong? Who cares, the ammount of grind was insane. I tried leveling up under the new system, couldn't stand it. Being forced to run one mission after another. It's same thing as before, but now you are forced to do the meaningless tasks without any way of skipping them.
Everyone will say: "Sploiter, afk-grinder, yadda-yadda". I always though SWG was casual player friendly. For me, it was. Considerably more-so than WoW. I, for one, see no honor in grinding. You do it to get highest level/full template. Why? Because it's the only way to participate in all aspects of the game without limitations.
For me, the content of SWG (despite insane ammounts of grind) was never in grinding. That was just a small deterrant. It would be about equiping your character. Searching for resources either for trade or crafting. Gathering collectables. Prepping for PvP. Base wars. Scouring the galaxy (before vendor search) for best deals. Duelling.
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I now play GuildWars. It has no persistent world, forced, fixed group pvp, no "real" economy. But it's just about the only game out there, where you can level up in 1-3 days, and spend the rest of the time playing the game.
And despite that, there are people who come on forums, and say: "Hey, I made level 20. What do I do now?" Fortunately, those people quit the game soon after. They often whine and moan about how the game sucks. That everyone is level 20. That there is no epic gear to make them uber. How the grind sucks since they bought the game, got powerleveled in under a day, and then realized they know how to do nothing else.
The times of grinding games are coming to an end. Selling timesinks as content is no longer effective. WoW is probably one of the last games, to truly employ this model as sole content, and can do so only because of the polish.
That's my personal view. It's biased by the fact that I cannot devote 8 hours a day for 1 month just to grind some fictional xp so that I can enter a high level dungeon. I have no problem with levels, I just refuse to grind. If a game is not accesible to me, I won't even look at it. In WoW, there are ranks. You need to play hours every day just to maintain it (or so I understand). You need to farm battlefields to get better gear to not get two-hit killed. You need to run instances just to ressuply and get the gear to keep you on par with others. Not my kind of game.
But if you like it, do enjoy it.
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Good luck with it....i tried it right after nge, and was imediately bored. i log in now about once a month just to keep track of my old swg buddies. hopefully u will have better luck
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
I was not either until I really started playing and finding out for myself how fun the game really is. The world is so colorful and full of life...the game is great...sooo many things to do...even past 60....PvP...raiding...its fantastic.