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Star Wars Galaxies: New Developer Profile
GFulls
Member Posts: 478
Star Wars Galaxies gives players a new developer profile.
Want to know a little bit more about the SWG Team? Remember - they don't just work on the game...they also enjoy playing it! Get an inside look at how the folks behind-the-scenes enjoy Star Wars: Galaxies.
Click here to read this week's Profile that features Head GM - Sharon Morris!
Read more about Star Wars Galaxies here.
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Since when is a "GM" a developer. Yeah, she works for $OE, but she doesn't have any input into what is or is not in game.
Along with her total lack of perspective of what the game was vs what it is.
Whatever...
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Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
yea. maybe after you open an prenge server.
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yayyy the craptastic world of the nge, it suxxxxxx
playing eq2 and two worlds
I used to enjoy SWG. I still hold out hope for it. Like a deranged crack-head, I find myself surfing their website, looking for reasons to come back.
What do I always find? This is what were going to fix? This is what we're planning on doing?
No
It's "Get to know the team!", "Player spotlight!", "Housing Show!"
Seriously, when did SOE start acting like a a Yuppie Realtor?
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
I have played SWG from Day 1 and I am So tired of all the crap that SOE has done to this Poor Jedi Game ...in the Pre-NGC days we use to have fun and buy and sell . Fight together and even againest each other.....But its is So hard to believe that Lucus Arts hasn't did something about the Screw up that the ( TEAM ) has made ...and whats really bad is that Lucus Arts hasn't did Jack about it....
This is for you ( George ) ..Its hard for me to believe that you havn't stood up and did something about this Mess..there is alot of people that Believe in this game and WANT TO PLAY IT !! without NGC...put it Back like it was ...So we may all give you our $15.00 dollars a month and play the characters that we the players Have spent so much time developing and spent so many hours Negetting our wives and family for ....I have a Pre-NGC Jedi that I have been wanting and would love to play ...But there is no challange..in the game any more...We need the Old days when it was hard to kill a Rancor and we had to look out for our Butts On Endor..and Travel in Groups to keep from getting killed ...WE the Players ...Need this George...Thank you...
P.S.
I have 3 Boys that Have played this game and a Brother . Plus myself from Day 1
that have quit playing because of the Great Mess up in your game
Please..Fix it...again thank you
SWG Veteran and Refugee, Intrepid server
NGE free as of Nov. 22, 2005
Now Playing: World of Warcrack
Forum Terrorist
The devs should stop playing and start developing
No new quests since Trials of Obi Wan
,only GCW,so what if u dont like pvp??
Anyway i have cancelled my account ,$OE will not see a dollar from me anymore.
HUh......
oh.
Is that game still going? pffft.
<yawn>
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?"
From the Classic Tag Lines collection.
It is but I think they are just letting it die
A note to Sharon,
This quote really struck me from your profile:
"I love quests, missions and the story line! I can remember being 7 years old when the original Star Wars came out (I know, I’m showing my age)… and my mum took me to see it at the crotchety old movie theatre in our town of Bedford, England. I thought it was the most amazing movie ever, and I still don’t tire of watching it. So, interacting with those characters in the game is really fun for me and makes me feel like a kid again."
A lot of us who played SWG since it's beginning, or shortly thereafter in my case, can identify with these feelings. I was soo amazed to log into Tatooine and make my way into the infamous cantina. What a rush. It was busy with entertainers playing instruments and dancing. Hunters, smugglers and other rough looking characters were enjoying the shows. Some were getting inspired for an upcoming mission or hunt (via a mind buff), others were easing their minds in the aftermath of a battle (reducing their battle fatique). The "joint was jumpin" and I loved it.
I met the coolest looking Zabrak woman and was invited to join a guild. In this guild I learned about hunting parties, and how hunters could get important resources for the guild's crafters. We had people making armour and clothing, furniture, housing, swoops and weapons. This was too much. I had read about swoops in Star Wars novels, and now I had my very own ^_^. The shops in the guild city were amazing. I became a pistoleer and loved shopping for the sweetest pistol.
After I was all "geared up" we went dewback hunting. The chefs needed the meat for food buffs that would give us a boost in combat, and the tailor's needed the hides. It was exciting! We all had different abilities that worked together beautifully on the hunt. People with rifles would fire the opening shot and draw some dewbacks close to us. Then pistoleers and melee fighters would jump in. We'd get heals and buffs from our doctor. If someone was getting hurt, someone else would draw the attacking creature away with a taunt and the doctor would go to work. When we were tired we'd throw up a camp and chat and get renewed mind buffs from those of us who could dance or play an instrument.
The fun didn't stop there. Soon I'd learn about hunting Rancors and the fabled Krayt Dragon.
One day I heard about Fort Tusken and decided to check it out with some friends. Wow it was full of those Tusken Raiders just like I remember from the first Star Wars (I saw it at age 9 -_^). They even made the same crazy sound lol. Man they were mean too, and our little group was getting SMOKED. That was when I saw my first jedi. WOW, the lightsaber came out and Tusken Raider's started flyin. We also got some kind of freaky force heal from the guy that kept us alive. What a sight, and what a moment; it was truly amazing.
Shortly after that I started hearing rumours about the "path of the jedi." I hooked up with some people that were dedicated to pursuing that path, and helping others along the way. Along this journey I found myself in a massive, secret Rebel base getting missions from Princess Leia! Wow this was so cool. After completing a number of quests I remember the moment that this mysterious old man came to me and gave me my force crystal. This was tooooo much. What a trip. Now I was in some kind of battle with the dark side sith.
The sith came for me shortly after I got my crystal, and I wasn't ready for them. I was getting SMOKED again, and they were going to steal my crystal! That was one of the few other times I saw a jedi. Yup they always seemed to be around just at the right moment lol. Well he toasted the sith for me. I suppose I got a few shots in, but he really saved my butt. I looted one of the sith, and was on my way to the village of Aurillia beyond the mist on the planet Dathomir. I can't tell you how excited I was. I had seen the mist of Dathomir before, but I couldn't pass through it. A voice told me I wasn't ready??? Now I was ready and into the mist I went.
A nice lady jedi in training introduced me to all the jedi trainers and mission holders, and I began the quests and missions that would unlock my Padawan learner. Soon I would have my own lightsaber, and be a jedi knight. Like you Sharon, I felt like a kid living out a movie that I had loved since 1977.
I was on my very last quest to unlock my Padawan learner when the NGE was surprisingly introduced. My storybook experience ended when the NGE was launched. All of the quests I completed to gain force enhanced combat skills and unlock my Padawan were deleted. Just gone. My force enhanced skills? Also gone. My professions that I had worked for months on and enjoyed? All of them deleted. The guild and city that was devoted completely to helping people learn the path of the jedi? Rendered useless. Loot began to drop out of everything, and nothing ever wears out anymore. Crafters couldn't sell anything. Shops closed up and hunts were no longer necessary for many things. Even if we did hunt for old time's sake, we couldn't camp together out in the wilderness anymore. Why not you may wonder? Camps were deleted. Cantina's were empty. No one needed mind inspiration or healing anymore, so they didn't bother to go. I lost most of the abilities I enjoyed, along with their eye-catching animations. The abilities I had didn't function properly. Many of them shared the exact same icon, and I didn't understand. My friend list went from dozens of people actively playing to about 5 who played less often. Our city became deserted. There were only two of us left out of dozens that were there before. Sharon, my inner child was heart-broken.
This is the player community that you have now been asked to work with. I wanted you to understand. One of the saddest group of folks I've played with are those who spent their months or years in the game finding and befriending baby animals. They made them their pets and would get attached to them just like you or I might get attached to a "real" pet. These poor folks not only lost their profession, but now log in (if they can bring themselves to) and stare at a number of their pets locked in their datapads now for over a year. They can see them, but they can't call them or interact with them anymore. That just seems cruel.
You write in your profile that you work with caring and sensitive people. O.k., I'll believe you. Would you and these people please take a good look at my story here, and see if you can find a way to heal all the hurt, and turn this nightmare back into a childhood dream?
Thank you.
ArcAngel
Yes, there was imbalance at launch. But turning the game into something else completely was not the answer. There will always be FOTM templates. The thing is to deal with it. Sandbox skillsets work, look at UO, 9 years old and still going with a new engine in the works. SOE is a bunch of cowards who didn't want to do the work to keep the game alive. Too bad I'll never know if they ever get something right again, they've lost my faith, 3 SWG accounts and my future purchases forever.
It's so... well... I was rather mis-leading going to say 'to the point' but I suppose the post is a bit too long for that... But it feels like it, though... it describes so incredibly well how I felt when the NGE hit... Not to mention, how I felt, before the NGE hit.
And without all the namecalling that seems to be inherent (and arguably deserved) in almost any post from SWG vets... Really great post!
"So I contend that the player stories will always be more powerful than the scripted stories that we try to tell the players."
- Will Wright