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Returned to play after almost 3 years..
EoghanH
Member Posts: 4
I today decided to return to SWG.. and am both frightened and confused. Here is the game I remembered playing for about 6months, starting in summer 2003..
Day 1; I am so so lost. This world is huge. I had to run away screaming because a mob just handed me my ass. I am so poor. I dont know where the nearest city is. My friends have had the game for about 4 days now, and have been 20minutes running towards me. Maybe they're lost. I have no idea what this gunk is that I got from some mob, but its probably useful for something.
10 minutes later; This is fantastic. Im still hopelessly confused, but my friend has a campfire going, and his girlfriend is cooking something. I think. Oh hey, she made me something to drink!
2 hours later; Cantina. This place is bustling with life, singers, dancers, and everyone's social! And apparently we're all going to some god unknown planet together to blow things up, get skill points, and talk about how much we want to be a jedi someday.
Day 7; I can make fireworks! And the whole damn planet know it. The whole sky is alight, and Im poor, but at least the company is great.
Week 3; I've finally got the money to afford wind farms, and some oil drills. Bring on the money!
Week 4; Get rich scheme didnt really work out too well - still flat broke. But the weaponsmithing career seems to be going fairly well.
Month 2; Alright, becoming a weaponsmith is the longest thing in the world to do, but damn, it'll be worth it when I reach the top. And I can actually hurt things now that I have stormtroopers following me around. And I've a house! Its in the middle of nowhere, but still, Im actually making some money for custom-order weapons
Month 3; When I was told "we're raiding a rebel city", I in no way thought this meant "You better not be planning on sleeping tonight buddy." I think we spent about 3 hours in a massive group, taking on another massive group. I was half expecting to see some jedi walk through the crowd and throw us all apart, but I still havent seen one of those yet. Oh, and my friends are blind stinking rich from having one of the first and best armoursmith/clothier places on the planet.
Month 5; Im a proper weaponsmith, and am actually making money! Very handy, as my holosphere thing said that weaponsmithing was one of my force-sensitive slots. Only 3 more to go! Still havent seen any jedi yet, mind. And I'd probably be a weaponsmith a lot quicker if I didnt spend half my time being a socialite. Oh well. And the groups I travel with are fantastic now - huge 5-star campsites, great meals, music and dancing throughout the night. Fantastic.
Month 5.5; Wow. I am failing every subject in school ever. I better stop playing for a while. Shame I never saw a jedi.
I returned recently, and..well, to sum up;
Day 1; Ok, here we go again... Jedi? Sure, why not.. Ok... that died quickly..and..so did that...
2 Hours later; This city is deserted. And I am rich. Why?
Day 2; Why have I so much money? And where is there nobody around at all? Why havent I seen music and dancing yet?
Day 2.5; I have died so many times. Why am I not in a sick bay, talking with the medics? Why am I not wounded at all?
Day 3; Hey, a pvp battle. And its...oh look...everyones a Jedi...and..are.. all.. 12years old..
Day 3.5 Lets see, time to choose professions..wait, what? Alright, Im done.
..What in the hell happened?
Day 1; I am so so lost. This world is huge. I had to run away screaming because a mob just handed me my ass. I am so poor. I dont know where the nearest city is. My friends have had the game for about 4 days now, and have been 20minutes running towards me. Maybe they're lost. I have no idea what this gunk is that I got from some mob, but its probably useful for something.
10 minutes later; This is fantastic. Im still hopelessly confused, but my friend has a campfire going, and his girlfriend is cooking something. I think. Oh hey, she made me something to drink!
2 hours later; Cantina. This place is bustling with life, singers, dancers, and everyone's social! And apparently we're all going to some god unknown planet together to blow things up, get skill points, and talk about how much we want to be a jedi someday.
Day 7; I can make fireworks! And the whole damn planet know it. The whole sky is alight, and Im poor, but at least the company is great.
Week 3; I've finally got the money to afford wind farms, and some oil drills. Bring on the money!
Week 4; Get rich scheme didnt really work out too well - still flat broke. But the weaponsmithing career seems to be going fairly well.
Month 2; Alright, becoming a weaponsmith is the longest thing in the world to do, but damn, it'll be worth it when I reach the top. And I can actually hurt things now that I have stormtroopers following me around. And I've a house! Its in the middle of nowhere, but still, Im actually making some money for custom-order weapons
Month 3; When I was told "we're raiding a rebel city", I in no way thought this meant "You better not be planning on sleeping tonight buddy." I think we spent about 3 hours in a massive group, taking on another massive group. I was half expecting to see some jedi walk through the crowd and throw us all apart, but I still havent seen one of those yet. Oh, and my friends are blind stinking rich from having one of the first and best armoursmith/clothier places on the planet.
Month 5; Im a proper weaponsmith, and am actually making money! Very handy, as my holosphere thing said that weaponsmithing was one of my force-sensitive slots. Only 3 more to go! Still havent seen any jedi yet, mind. And I'd probably be a weaponsmith a lot quicker if I didnt spend half my time being a socialite. Oh well. And the groups I travel with are fantastic now - huge 5-star campsites, great meals, music and dancing throughout the night. Fantastic.
Month 5.5; Wow. I am failing every subject in school ever. I better stop playing for a while. Shame I never saw a jedi.
I returned recently, and..well, to sum up;
Day 1; Ok, here we go again... Jedi? Sure, why not.. Ok... that died quickly..and..so did that...
2 Hours later; This city is deserted. And I am rich. Why?
Day 2; Why have I so much money? And where is there nobody around at all? Why havent I seen music and dancing yet?
Day 2.5; I have died so many times. Why am I not in a sick bay, talking with the medics? Why am I not wounded at all?
Day 3; Hey, a pvp battle. And its...oh look...everyones a Jedi...and..are.. all.. 12years old..
Day 3.5 Lets see, time to choose professions..wait, what? Alright, Im done.
..What in the hell happened?
Comments
You may think it sucks now, but atleast its "starwarsy" and "iconic". Thats the main thing right?
Try telling that to $OE.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
The OP isn't disapointed, and has nothing bad to say over NGE. As it happens, the OP didn't make this thread, and this thread doesn't even exist.
As everyone knows, SWG has received incredible ammount if improvements, and the game is getting better by the day.
lol and so now another person sees the light.
This is why I am amazed that anyone is still in the game that is over the age of 12.
(But yeah man, welcome to the fold and the reason 300k people left and it's down to 10k and server merger talks)... so yeah...
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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
Every kid in the movie is jedi in the temple. SOE saw them and wanted something like that.
It's Star Warsy, but not fun.
Not everyone has to be,or wants to be a hero.
And those that do want to become a hero should damn well work for it.
I too miss those early days.Sure the game was buggy as hell but just popping into the catina was worth an hr play easy.
The game was much more then your class or been a jedi.It was a good attempt at a simulation of Star wars.
Why the game became all about jedi is something between the jedi wannabies and SoE.Many of us just loved existing in a virtual world of star wars.
I have returned to, and i feel crazy
Problem all my old SWG friends are also comming back, and they will do anything to have me staying.
I can really honest say I hate the game....but i have no other to play
So your going to play because your friends are? what kind of Logic is that?
Would you eat salted razorblades just because your friends were too?
So your going to play because your friends are? what kind of Logic is that?
Would you eat salted razorblades just because your friends were too?
Fun comes from playing with friends. I NEVER play Guild Wars unless my buddies are. I hate the damn game. Same with Titan's Quest. However, when I log on and my clan all says "Hey! We are all in Titan's Quest. Come on in." I do, and I have tons of fun.It's the people that make or break the game for me. When playing with friends, it makes it bearable :P
So yes, if eating Salted Raxer Blades was fun because of my friends, I would do it.
Its the friends that matters....in this case
My MMO situation is so bad i would begin to play Vanguard right away if my friends begun playing....
Sinse NGE I have been like a vampire looking for a prey
(LOL)....and now i play Voyage Century Online and WW2 Online.....and SWG, where i have to sit for minutes and look at the launchpad before i dare to login
A while later (unsure as to how much time has passed) I decide to reactivate my account, I read something about a new path to becoming jedi and quests to do it. I was excited. I Might finally be able to play a Jedi in SWG! Well somehow i lost interest or something and quit again.
A while later (yes, again..) I reactivated my account again, and WTF?!?! I can start as a Jedi? COOL! So i give it a try. Cities are empty, nobody plays traders, everyone that plays is either a bounty hunter or a Jedi. I quit within a day.
I have not touched it since.
The problem I have is this: When I first started grinding out to unlock my Jedi, I wanted to seriously RP a Jedi hidden (since, in this time period jedi were hunted and killed etc..) I wanted to setup a player house out on Dantooine and teach young padawans and enjoy the SWG universe. But it seemed like SOE or whoever, decided that those to become Jedi would have to be hardcore powergamers (now granted I consider myself a powergamer, but i wasnt depriving myself of sleep for weeks at a time to play).
Every once and a while I do a google search on SWG to see if something new has changed. I would reactivate in a heartbeat if it meant starting over back at how it was on release, man... i get tingles just thinking about those times.
To the Author above me and the first author, you're both so right. It sort of sums up my most awesome of leaving posts on the main forum, which got deleted, it was good, but i never copied it! i remember this bit though..
Remember the tag line for the game you bought?
The Greatest Star Wars Saga ever told. Yours.
Mine? I never wanted to be a jedi, i just wanted to live in the world, i ended up being a 12pt architect and top class pistoleer/rifleman/medic. We all had speeders and droids and banthas, we watched the 2 suns set on tatooine while it played the music i loved so much. I collected art, had one of the best/most beautiful designed cities in the game.
They they screwed it up as mentioned above and took it all away, made everyone a jedi, made it point and click, RUINED IT.
I loved the idea of the Emu, but without official servers, i'm just not sure i can trust it? What happens when the servers boss lets his mates become jedis, what if theirs so many small servers the population is nothing compared to what it used to be?
It's never coming back. :-(
The Number 1 Reason for the Success of the Internet
Some "clever" people suddenly found out that the game you describe having a blast in, was too complex for the average gamer.
Enters the NGE.
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SWG pre cu - never forgotten.