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PRE CU WILL NOT WORK and why they will never bring it
SmurfMagic
Member Posts: 664
If they bring a PRE CU server on line many people will cheer.... but then as they play they will be reminded of the reasons why they gave us the combat upgrade in the first place.
of course the "upgrade" was total crap, but hey, thats old history now.
*waves hand* "this isn't the game you were looking for, move along... move along"
of course the "upgrade" was total crap, but hey, thats old history now.
*waves hand* "this isn't the game you were looking for, move along... move along"
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Right PRE CU was far from beeing perfect. The number of bug was huge, but you know what .... it was the best version of SWG ever. For SWG veterans PRE Cu Servers, either offical ones or the one from SWG EMu comming next month, are the best SWG out there. And SWG Pre Cu is a game worth playing comapred to other current MMORPGs out there. Its is a game based on freedom not based on grinding or raiding or stuff like that.
or freedom to grind out Combat Medic and Rifleman to insta kill nearly everyone.
Yes, it did have freedom once you were grinded out and got your template nice.
freedom to gank and hunt bases over and over again.
freedom to have a fashion show and hold weddings.
freedom to dance and have cybor sex.
I did enjoy entertaining with Famouse Fat wookiee and his band, I was a great musician when I got tired of the really out of balance combat and boring quests.
The only reason people enjoyed this SWG as it was is for the community that was present. WE made the game fun and we did what we could with what we had. This is why so many people want that back but its too little too late.
John Smedley beat up my grandmother.
Do you honestly like the nge. tell the truth its bloody awfull.
I agree.....
If it were up to me they would take it back to pre Doc buff pre hologrind SWG. Make the path to jedi RANDOM like it was supposed to be and reinstate the Perma death for those who did get a jedi. It has always been my opinion that doc buffs and the hologrind ruined SWG long before any CU or NGE had the chance to.
Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
They should of let us try the CURB. It was pre-cu balanced with some other tweaks, but they canned and buried it, then threw the CU at us.
CU was still better than the NGE. We've given the NGE over a year, it's not improving to where it needs to be.
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
I was with SWG since beta and I left two days after the NGE went live. I was talked into coming back by a friend and I played for to days, even went to SoE for a refund of my month. The NGE blows.
If SGW went back before the NGE, the CU2, the CU, the stupid old man and the village I’d be all over it. I loved the holo grid for one reason; I never wanted to be a jedi. I picked a Wokkiee for the attributes. That’s right, when race meant something. And SWG had the best RP, If I wanted to pretend to be a bounty hunter, I would pick up a lighting cannon and RP one.
I stood by SWG for the longest time, I called it the best MMO on the market. When they went to 9 classes I had a choice to make. Play a game that forces me to play a class alone or join the rest of the world and play a game that forces me to pick a class. I joined WoW.
If SWG gave me back the freedom of choice I would go back.
PreCU SWG had soul:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/107956
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/108494
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/110036
This is what made SWG what it was.
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
Yep -- compared to the NGE it was golden though.
So if you had a choice which one to make better which would it be?
Somthing that was already good but needed some fixes or something wrecked from the start that has no hope or playerbase to work with let alone hope or a future.
Yep... I thought so./
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I usually picture the Career builder commercial with the room full of monkeys and upside down sales chart when thinking about the SOE/SWG decision making process.....
SOE's John Blakely and Todd Fiala issued a warning: "Don't make our mistakes." Ref NGE
Winner of the worst MMOS goes to.... the NGE and SWG..!!! http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadFeature=1034&bhcp=1
At that time there was 250-300k players. Its been on a downward spiral since the launch of the CU and even more since the NGE.
SWG has about 10-20k players at the most these days.
My guess they will reach at least 100k players in 3-4 months time with classic servers. And with some dev love, fixing bugs and adding a few storylines, fixing armours, buffs. 1-2 years from the launch of classic i bet they will be back on top.
Hauken Stormchaser
I want pre-CU back
Station.com : We got your game
Yeah?, Well i want it back!!!
PreCU would bring back the people.
We would bitch but we would play.
And Pay
They should of let us try the CURB. It was pre-cu balanced with some other tweaks, but they canned and buried it, then threw the CU at us.
CU was still better than the NGE. We've given the NGE over a year, it's not improving to where it needs to be. Could be. Though I think that the CURB suffered from the same syndrome that gave us the CU: tampering with the core instead of just fixing things that are visibly wrong. A lot of pre-CU's combat problems were direct or indirect consequences of buffs being able to nullify armor encumbrance and the cost of using specials; but they spent a year on the "one swell foop" approach of overhauling combat rather than fix it directly.
Pre-CU was good enought to keep me addicted for 2 1/2 years, playing several hours per day.
I didn't ask for this kind of "upgrade".
I asked for MORE diversity, MORE complexity, MORE of everything the NGE is not.