Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
SOE - Star Wars Galaxies & Planetside?
Evelknievel
Member UncommonPosts: 2,964
Ok, I currently playing SWG and Planetside as well. Is SOE finally pumping new life into their old titles? I noticed more people coming aboard on both games and I did'nt want to be bias in anyway since I played both and say I am enjoying it.
Every since chapter 6 was released in SWG, the population has been increasing, at least on my server of Chilastra and also I recently signed back onto Planetside since SOE has a promo going out to vets that used to play Planetside and I see more people online.
Did I miss something or did SOE just hire new developers for both games, cause whatever they are doing, keep it up, then again, it is summertime 
The reason for this post was -- I was trying to hunt down a possible SOE thread on their future and current products and what we can expect from SOE since they are known not to have the best rep when it comes to mmorpgs.
Comments
The starsider server seems to be getting new players every day on SWG.
I do not play planetside, though.
EQ 2 is also surging in population.
Boycott EA Games. RIP Sim City.
IDK about galaxies.... but I think PS is the one game they didnt cripple entirely with their 'kindness'
BFRs messed that game up BAD.... but theyve cracked down on it now... reducing them to one or two a fight before its over, allowing the infantry and armor to do what they were originally intended to do.
All the other games are dead to me.
The ultimate solution to every problem: more space marines.
a few people have returned but not many, i recently resubscribed, but its not much of an improvement. i remeber on my 'light' server the first year you would regularly start up a 2nd or 3rd group for either pvp/pve, this was when groups were 20, so few people now they had to get rid of 20 man groups.
i decided to go to a heavy server and transferred, for a supposedly heavy server there is very little action going round the galaxy in terms of pvp. where are the massive 100 man base busts, pvp battles around all the different starports simultaneously, or 50 man krayt hunts...all gone with the population. in terms of pvp its been reduced to sitting in restuss with usually 10-20 people fighting same people over and over, pvp zone..thats a laugh they stuffed it full of npcs and its just a big lag fest, and your lucky to get 15 mins real pvp out of every hour you sit in restuss as you wait for the enemy to attack. theres no meaning to pvp most are out for themselves and their uber gcw buffs, screw your teamate who needs a heal if you want to gain your pvp better start spamming any red dot you can to gain gcw rank, or go 'base bsuting' exploiting a system so flawed you can gank pvp rank through pveing.
i resub every 6 months thinking they will fix it, same old though. if your coming from game afresh you migth get some enjoyment out of it for a while, but for people who use to play i say stay away, the population really isnt moving for every new face that arrives 1 leaves.
There was barely any development for PlanetSide in 2005 and 2006. Come 2007 we have new combat engineering deployables, new sunderer, and new guns to play with. Nice to see stuff coming in but its too late at this point. This should have been happening years ago not just starting now. Though things are looking good again. The Reserves are going to be starting up again along with a server merger (Markov and Emerald). That should give the game 2 pop locks when the server merges. It will be quite fun!
Dunno about Planetside, haven't played that since beta.
But I for one am downloading SWG trial as we type. I can't stand anything else out there right now, and figure I'll give SWG a try again (quit after NGE) only this time, I'll look at it as a totally new game. We'll see if it's worth re-sub'ing.
i just wish SWG would put back the Pre-NGE class system and I would be in love with the game again. As it stands right now i am so sick of the whole "holy trinity" thing. thinking back about how it use to be(pre-nge) just makes me shudder when i think about logging in to the present game.
thats the only thing i would want back from pre-nge everything else can stay the same.
Planetside is pretty much a dead game, played on emerald last night at around 8pm Central time and found only one fight and 47 spots left on the continent on the VS side. Oh and they had double the population advantage on that continent as the other 2 sides.