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SWG Vets: My return to swg.
EricJLeach
Member Posts: 53
Hello all, I left right after the NGE, it disgusted me. SOE had alienated the players 2 times now. I left in total anger. But after joining the emu etc. i started missing swg.I came back ch5, it was ok. But then CH6 i was like wow.... The devs are listening and going all out.I thought the difficulty could of been amped up a bit. But it was good. The BM system was better then CH and BE put together. New quest lines, RP props things like that. Plus the housing purge. I was like wow. Still not as good as pre-cu or CU. But its alot better. I mean im pleased. I honestly think you guys should give it a chance. Treat it like a new game. You should give it a try. CH7 they are fixing group xp, adding grp size to around 12-20. They are adding a TON of new heoric instances with elite mobs and loots and schematics. Its going to be awesome. Also in July we all get googles lol. Well give it a go.
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Being serious, I don't think a lot of us want "heroic instances with elite mobs" If we wanted that, we'd be playing WoW. We're glad you like Ch6. Honestly, we are. Just no more of these come back to give it a try. We've given it a try time and time again, and we weren't satisfied.
Granted, I'm speaking for myself here, but I tend to think a good portion of the vets are gonna agree with me on this.
Honestly, if they want to listen to the wowers on thier swg boards thats fine, but if they truely want to listen to thier players, they would bring back pre-cu.
Or if they want a safe opinion, do a poll, and see how many people actually want pre cu back.
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Logical? Please... think about it.... the number of people on the servers back in the days of pre-cu far outnumber todays. So how isn't it logical not to roll it back if it was a failure, as they state?
The real reason they wont do it is that it will be the final form of admittance that they were in the wrong. And yet, they would gain so many numbers back from changing back in my opinion. What an ironic situation.
Im not flaming you, i'm simply asking you to think about it a bit.
"Do not fret! Your captain is about to enter Valhalla!" - General Beatrix of Alexandria
"The acquisition of knowledge is of use to the intellect, for nothing can be loved or hated without first being known." - Leo da Vinci
You have any quote for it?
None of the Devs can read code - I am not suprised. Speaking of nightmares from SOE , you should get a load of me.
Then he said " It isn't possible to roll back with SWG's current state of financial downfall"
Boo hoo! Have Sony Pictures Spiderman revenue pay for it.
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amen.
they give away googles? great, the only thing that made me feel really special, which was only for collectors edition customers are given away:
I got an idea, why not give away to everyone jetpacks, mando armor and ns biceps as well ?
free googles for everyone, another reason not to come back for me, I don't even visit the SOE forums anymore, I currently play lord of the rings online which is very linear and none complex in comparision to pre-cu but it keeps me entertaining and Im havin fun
I use lord of the rings online as a time cut until age of conan gets released
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amen.
they give away googles? great, the only thing that made me feel really special, which was only for collectors edition customers are given away:
I got an idea, why not give away to everyone jetpacks, mando armor and ns biceps as well ?
free googles for everyone, another reason not to come back for me, I don't even visit the SOE forums anymore, I currently play lord of the rings online which is very linear and none complex in comparision to pre-cu but it keeps me entertaining and Im havin fun
I use lord of the rings online as a time cut until age of conan gets released
LotR is not that good, i played during closed beta. It wasn't that fun, PVP is a joke and the only thing I liked was cooking. That game wont last 2years. Also the googles are differnt from the collectors ones. A whole diff look to it.
Eric,
I wasn't being serious. It is just that a lot of times all one sees is "come back, its great" when a lot of us don't wanna come back. As I said in my post on the "vet animus" its not really a matter of coming back. I really didn't need to know where you work lol. but maybe one day I'll give a call and we can discuss gaming trends.
Me I'm against the EMU just as much if not more than the NGE, but that is really another story.
I don't buy this fora second. What I do think is there are compelling business reasons that would make it borderline suicide to revert to pre-cu. Not to mention it would do to the NGE fans what happened to those who played pre-cu or the cu. it would destroy now 18 months of work they did acquiring items to attempt to draw non-paying people into a game. now some will have a case of schadenfreude and laugh about how the NGE'ers would've been blind to the warning we gave them, but I don't wish that on them.
To MAINTAIN Pre-Cu would also require a lot more money than is probably currently going into the game. They can barely keep the NGE alive with a skeleton crew dev team. To have a skeleton crew dev team deal with a sandbox the size of SWG pre-cu, that is going to cost more than a company is willing to pay for a 4 year old game that has under 100k subscribers already.
So tell me they won't do it for financial reasons (i.e. the hiring of more devs to give maintenence). Tell me they won't do it for business reasons. (i.e. they do not want to do another massive flip flop.) But don't tell me that it would be a technical nightmare, and that they are somehow "unable" to do it. It is strictly speaking can be done within the realm of logic. Prudence dictates otherwise. Just say that.
Never again will i ever try a product with SOE even printed on it, unless i hear its REALLLLY good. Its kinda sad how they are ONLY adding stuff they took away so its not really new its just brought back. They dont deserve to make money and Smedley or whatever his name is deserves to be fired. Altho that will prolly never happen...its a dream but oh well ill never revisit SWG not only because it wont ever be the same but because SOE makes money off of it and my only hope is the EMU but until then ill stick with my Xbox 360.
-Zech
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Sorry its a bad habbit. Well from what I know you still need to pay the monthly subscriptions.
SOE forgot that most 16 year olds do not have credit cards when they imposed the NGE. I hear that Chapter 6 is the NEW CU, This whole process with theses chapter updates is like a breaking and resetting bones of a severly injured patient. I reccomend cloning but unfortunately the smarter doctors have been fired by the SOE hospital
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