The houses are packed up and placed in the bank for any returning players. It makes perfect sense to appeal to your existing customers for any game since none of us are going back to SWG including myself. Since JT and Helios are no longer with SWG it seems what the player base has been asking for is starting to appear. This is a start and I think its the right thing to do since 350,000 players are no longer there...Its the right to do- now bring a Pre CU server back!
I am going out on a limb here- I hope this game becomes a good game to play because I want more star wars.
do you know how hard it would be to bring back and maintain a pre-cu server? they would have to have a whole different set of devs bacause they changed the code so much since then. whoever thinks this is a viable idea needs to think of the implications before posting. they would either have to change all the servers to pre-cu or none at all, and we know what they will choose.
The houses are packed up and placed in the bank for any returning players. It makes perfect sense to appeal to your existing customers for any game since none of us are going back to SWG including myself. Since JT and Helios are no longer with SWG it seems what the player base has been asking for is starting to appear. This is a start and I think its the right thing to do since 350,000 players are no longer there...Its the right to do- now bring a Pre CU server back!
I am going out on a limb here- I hope this game becomes a good game to play because I want more star wars.
do you know how hard it would be to bring back and maintain a pre-cu server? they would have to have a whole different set of devs bacause they changed the code so much since then. whoever thinks this is a viable idea needs to think of the implications before posting. they would either have to change all the servers to pre-cu or none at all, and we know what they will choose.
ROFL! you blame him, you could say the same for $OE come on they changed it in not only into an epic heap of faeces but without thinking twise that players might notice that any decent parts of the game had been deleted and then want a rollback
BRING ON THE EMU!
(if they understood they players they would understand that a member of the pre-nge community is worth a 100 of the current playerbase, execpet of course the die hard vets) - BTW i dont want a pre-nge server / rolbackit would still be run by the same R-tards and with a comunity not half what it used to be)
EQ2 player Ex - EVE Online addict played - SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
By doing this, those who are in denial will finally see that there aren't that many players left. From abondoned cities you will have just masses of desert with a house here and there. Prepare yourselves for the bitter truth... once this goes live you will feast your eyes on emptiness and lonellyness.
This game is dead and this will finally prove it (once more)
I think you're exactly right. My city is one of the most populated on my server with the biggest guild. I don't play anymore but I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of everything is gone. I have been there since beta and still have an active account. Problem is, i always find something better to do in real life (laundry, homework etc).
SWG is like a store with a cool name and outside but when you go in everything they sell is broken. It astonishes me why people still play. Once I saw the holo-band for entertainers, I realized that not only do the developers have no imagination and creativity, but the lack of any business sense to give the majority of players what they want.
Whatever, I don't even care what happens to that game anymore. All my useless pre-cu crap can rot in virtual where ever along with my 8 billion stims and buffs that don't do crap. It can crash tomorrow and all of the developers can scratch their heads over what to put on their resume for what they have done for the last few years. No one will want to hire their dumb a$$es.
If you really believe SWG will bounce back under current conditions, WAKE UP! That is just ingnorance. Pull out while you can.
Once More $OE is making a big fuss.. out of a basic Idea that should have been launched with the game DAY 1.
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the holo band is a sad sad sad thing...
breaks my heart, I was on Europe-Chimaera, in guild <STAR> we had 200+ entertainers and artisans that provided items, gear, cloths, vehicles, houses, and live entatiantment, Live Bands , live dance shows with teams of 20 dancer and musicians at the keyboards hired to do live events or putting on live street dances just for fun.
breaks my heart thinking back of so many ppl with so many good ideas and advice given to $OE in very well written high detailed ways to improve the game ... and to have witnessed Sony do the oppisite. Such as....
Crafter ask for Content, they wanted quests to do crafting Items. SOE gave them Guns... and said try to make it too your harvestor.
Crafter asked for more Items to make for the players. SOE said OK we will now let mobs drop better gear then you can ever craft.
Dancers asked for more dances. SOE gave them useless buffs and no more reason to get tips.
Musicians asked for more songs. SOE said ok here you go is a holo band since the rest of your guild Left and your now alone.
Pilots wanted more ships. ........ Oh ... SOE ... where are those captiol ships operated by the Top Faction PVP players, where is the massive SPACE pvp fights to control Space stations.... where is the new space exploration you promised in JTL BETA!!!
now that I think of it there was plans in JTL beta to have fighters and ships enter planet atmosphere and used for strafing ground targets and base turrents. Crafters Getting specical Merchant ships to buy and sell resources and hire fighter pilots to escort them.
Smugglers using there ground and space skills to smuggle supplies and troops for the crimlords and rebels.
NEW 3rd faction of underground crime, Bountyhunters, spies, HUTT faction that was neither reb or im or innocent and very active in GCW just could change sides at any moment cause of better pay !!!!
and player built star ports.... parking pads... so you can park your YT 1300 at your house or on your guild hall.
Seperating the JEDI/SITH war from the imp/reb war and making them secluded and its own war !!! with FRS in place.
this was tip of the ice berg... SOE NEEDS TO STOP and just end it all .. you are the laughing stock of the MMO scene.
I WISH the Rumors were true of BIOWARE making KotOR:MMORPG so then you can see how to build a RPG and how to make the game better not worse.
SONY .... STICK TO MAKING CD PLAYERS and let real gaming companies like BIOWARE make the games.
Miataka (+many sub variation of that) ~WoW (Kael'Thas, USA) MiaTaka ~ RF On-line (Fire Server) -Mia- takahashi ~SWG (Europe-chimaera) Miataki Valeinca ~EQ 2 (everfrost) MiaTaka Soyinka ~Second Life
For all you retards that cannot read they are not making you resubscribe or anything they are simply letting you know if you want to keep the spot you currently have you need to re sub in order to keep that spot. I no longer play SWG and last time I played I packed up all my things in my datapad so other players who want to enjoy the game can have my old spot. I totally agree with Sony on this move and applaud them for it. Why make the current playerbase suffer because they cannot build cities or place a buisness where current inactive structures are. 1 day I may return and play this game it certainly seems like they have a decent dev crue on board now and maybe in the future this game will be fun again. Only thing I have against this game right now is that its a fps format which feels un confortable to play. I would have been fine with all the changes had it not been for this I like the combat style of WoW and games like it best. For all you current players in Star Wars now I wish you all the best and keep working with the devs on making the game great again but until they change it back from a fps I will never return Have fun al and I applaud Sony on this move Yay!!!
2) SWG whiners are the worst ever. Get over yourselves. Go play something else. Let me know when you find the perfect MMO.
I wonder if you know why? incase you dont here is why, SWG was one of the best MMOs around and with the tightest community, others were good but nothing in comparison, then the world was turned upside down with the CU but it wasnt too bad and so we lived with it and grew to like it, a few left but the community was strong, then a whole load of promisies came out of new ranger abilities (another revolutionary class from SWG) then BANG NGE some left straight away, some stayed to see what it was like (me) and then left and a few die hards stayed but mostly bitter and a new community came. most wx-players on forums like these tend to be the old players.
SWG whiners are the worst ever because they have suffered the most at the hands of $OE, it was a near perfect mmo yes, plenty of inbalance and variation, many will try to re-create it but most will fail (cough V:SoH).
I dont care about them packing up my houses and faction bases, and im sure many others wont either and it isnt a tactic to raise more subscribtions, they are fine sapping of station pass players. But i am vaugley interested to see what some of the planets look like bare.
EQ2 player Ex - EVE Online addict played - SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
Mentalmonkey, yes, I hear you. I've been around since right after the start of SWG. These days I tend to get cantankerous when, in every thread related to SWG, it seems, the dead-horse and spilled-milk crowd takes over.
Mentalmonkey, yes, I hear you. I've been around since right after the start of SWG. These days I tend to get cantankerous when, in every thread related to SWG, it seems, the dead-horse and spilled-milk crowd takes over.
Yeah it must be pretty bad for players who still play, and TBH i dont useually post in SWG threads anymore i am not a hard core whiner.
EQ2 player Ex - EVE Online addict played - SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
I have to laugh ... many current players will see the vast emptiness on many planets. You thought the ghost towns were bad?! Just see the truth of the void when the removal begins.
I wish the current player-base my best and hope you thrive with the current SWG.
For the Vets of Pre-CU and CU who have left and lost hope, we have our memories. No game prior to NGE has been able to match the diversity or the challenge in both space and ground, that is what many of us truly miss. However, life does go on.
BTW all thoose who want PRE-NGE head onto the emulator and support it you not going to get it from $OE.
Yeah right! The EMU is the way to go. Maybe by 2052, after the lawsuit is all over, the EMU will actually launch and we'll be able to experience all the bugs that were in the game pre-NGE. That WILL be fun on my 90th birthday.
Finally! This was very long overdue. A lot of dead cities are all over the landscape. Removing the houses will free up the game for people who actually play!
They arnt makeing you resubscribe per say. they are just reactivateing your account no money at all. I actualy RE-installed the game and loged in with my old accounts with no problem....actualy thought about sticking around too and makeing my ex comando- BH/Pistoler into a crafter and just fiddle fart around till PotBS came out. Then I rememberd that NO ONE IS PLAYING THE GAME. I saw 3 people on shadowfire and talked to a old friend and said him and maybe 5 others are playing as a group. Frankly this game is done since i remember back in the day you would have at least 200 people in EACH starport at EACH plannet.
BTW all thoose who want PRE-NGE head onto the emulator and support it you not going to get it from $OE.
Yeah right! The EMU is the way to go. Maybe by 2052, after the lawsuit is all over, the EMU will actually launch and we'll be able to experience all the bugs that were in the game pre-NGE. That WILL be fun on my 90th birthday.
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ROFL! you blame him, you could say the same for $OE come on they changed it in not only into an epic heap of faeces but without thinking twise that players might notice that any decent parts of the game had been deleted and then want a rollback
BRING ON THE EMU!
(if they understood they players they would understand that a member of the pre-nge community is worth a 100 of the current playerbase, execpet of course the die hard vets) - BTW i dont want a pre-nge server / rolbackit would still be run by the same R-tards and with a comunity not half what it used to be)
EQ2 player
Ex - EVE Online addict
played -
SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
By doing this, those who are in denial will finally see that there aren't that many players left. From abondoned cities you will have just masses of desert with a house here and there. Prepare yourselves for the bitter truth... once this goes live you will feast your eyes on emptiness and lonellyness.
This game is dead and this will finally prove it (once more)
I think you're exactly right. My city is one of the most populated on my server with the biggest guild. I don't play anymore but I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of everything is gone. I have been there since beta and still have an active account. Problem is, i always find something better to do in real life (laundry, homework etc).
SWG is like a store with a cool name and outside but when you go in everything they sell is broken. It astonishes me why people still play. Once I saw the holo-band for entertainers, I realized that not only do the developers have no imagination and creativity, but the lack of any business sense to give the majority of players what they want.
Whatever, I don't even care what happens to that game anymore. All my useless pre-cu crap can rot in virtual where ever along with my 8 billion stims and buffs that don't do crap. It can crash tomorrow and all of the developers can scratch their heads over what to put on their resume for what they have done for the last few years. No one will want to hire their dumb a$$es.
If you really believe SWG will bounce back under current conditions, WAKE UP! That is just ingnorance. Pull out while you can.
...
the holo band is a sad sad sad thing...
breaks my heart, I was on Europe-Chimaera, in guild <STAR> we had 200+ entertainers and artisans that provided items, gear, cloths, vehicles, houses, and live entatiantment, Live Bands , live dance shows with teams of 20 dancer and musicians at the keyboards hired to do live events or putting on live street dances just for fun.
breaks my heart thinking back of so many ppl with so many good ideas and advice given to $OE in very well written high detailed ways to improve the game ... and to have witnessed Sony do the oppisite. Such as....
Crafter ask for Content, they wanted quests to do crafting Items. SOE gave them Guns... and said try to make it too your harvestor.
Crafter asked for more Items to make for the players. SOE said OK we will now let mobs drop better gear then you can ever craft.
Dancers asked for more dances. SOE gave them useless buffs and no more reason to get tips.
Musicians asked for more songs. SOE said ok here you go is a holo band since the rest of your guild Left and your now alone.
Pilots wanted more ships. ........ Oh ... SOE ... where are those captiol ships operated by the Top Faction PVP players, where is the massive SPACE pvp fights to control Space stations.... where is the new space exploration you promised in JTL BETA!!!
now that I think of it there was plans in JTL beta to have fighters and ships enter planet atmosphere and used for strafing ground targets and base turrents. Crafters Getting specical Merchant ships to buy and sell resources and hire fighter pilots to escort them.
Smugglers using there ground and space skills to smuggle supplies and troops for the crimlords and rebels.
NEW 3rd faction of underground crime, Bountyhunters, spies, HUTT faction that was neither reb or im or innocent and very active in GCW just could change sides at any moment cause of better pay !!!!
and player built star ports.... parking pads... so you can park your YT 1300 at your house or on your guild hall.
Seperating the JEDI/SITH war from the imp/reb war and making them secluded and its own war !!! with FRS in place.
this was tip of the ice berg... SOE NEEDS TO STOP and just end it all .. you are the laughing stock of the MMO scene.
I WISH the Rumors were true of BIOWARE making KotOR:MMORPG so then you can see how to build a RPG and how to make the game better not worse.
SONY .... STICK TO MAKING CD PLAYERS and let real gaming companies like BIOWARE make the games.
Miataka (+many sub variation of that)
~WoW (Kael'Thas, USA)
MiaTaka
~ RF On-line (Fire Server)
-Mia- takahashi
~SWG (Europe-chimaera)
Miataki Valeinca
~EQ 2 (everfrost)
MiaTaka Soyinka
~Second Life
On the contrary - this is one thing that would bring me back to SWG. If not even for a month to see how the game has changed.
Great post Jasplun! I'm glad you took the time to pack up your stuff. Wish others would have done the same.
Thanks for not griefing those of us who still play.
I think SOE is moving in the right direction.
What a bunch of whiners!
1) Get the ghosttown garbage out of our way. This harms no one and only helps current players.
2) SWG whiners are the worst ever. Get over yourselves. Go play something else. Let me know when you find the perfect MMO.
I wonder if you know why? incase you dont here is why, SWG was one of the best MMOs around and with the tightest community, others were good but nothing in comparison, then the world was turned upside down with the CU but it wasnt too bad and so we lived with it and grew to like it, a few left but the community was strong, then a whole load of promisies came out of new ranger abilities (another revolutionary class from SWG) then BANG NGE some left straight away, some stayed to see what it was like (me) and then left and a few die hards stayed but mostly bitter and a new community came. most wx-players on forums like these tend to be the old players.
SWG whiners are the worst ever because they have suffered the most at the hands of $OE, it was a near perfect mmo yes, plenty of inbalance and variation, many will try to re-create it but most will fail (cough V:SoH).
I dont care about them packing up my houses and faction bases, and im sure many others wont either and it isnt a tactic to raise more subscribtions, they are fine sapping of station pass players. But i am vaugley interested to see what some of the planets look like bare.
EQ2 player
Ex - EVE Online addict
played -
SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
Mentalmonkey, yes, I hear you. I've been around since right after the start of SWG. These days I tend to get cantankerous when, in every thread related to SWG, it seems, the dead-horse and spilled-milk crowd takes over.
EQ2 player
Ex - EVE Online addict
played -
SWG, EQ2, Vanguard, Planetside, Second Life, EVE-O and a few randoms
I wish the current player-base my best and hope you thrive with the current SWG.
For the Vets of Pre-CU and CU who have left and lost hope, we have our memories.
No offense intended for either versions of SWG.
Take care ... and enjoy life.
Good good... so they are removing more of a crappy game. Y'know, people who actually play that game or nice, but uhh... key-words..
***! People Who Actually Play That Game !***
Aye
Yeah right! The EMU is the way to go. Maybe by 2052, after the lawsuit is all over, the EMU will actually launch and we'll be able to experience all the bugs that were in the game pre-NGE. That WILL be fun on my 90th birthday.
Yeah right! The EMU is the way to go. Maybe by 2052, after the lawsuit is all over, the EMU will actually launch and we'll be able to experience all the bugs that were in the game pre-NGE. That WILL be fun on my 90th birthday.
Sad, but I fear it is true.