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Star Wars Galaxies: Return of the Jedi
Szark
News ManagerMember Posts: 4,420
SOE has announced that they will be giving all former Star Wars Galaxies players with accounts that have been inactive for more than 90 days the chance to return to the game to experience recently added features.
Have you been longing to return to a galaxy far, far away? Now is the perfect time!
Former citizens of the galaxy can return for 21 days if they have been inactive for 90 days or more. Log back in to your former account now and check out the new Beast Master expertise system firsthand. Hurry, this offer is only available until 11:59PM PST September 30, 2007!
Remember, keep your account opted-in and your email address updated to find out about great offers and opportunities from Star Wars Galaxies and Sony Online Entertainment!
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Got me excited. I thought they were inviting us to test out their new servers, which would run Pre-CU ! how good would THAT be..
- Farseen
Current Game: Panzar
Fooled me too, skipped a beat there for a minute.
I guess they need people to come back to show they have lots and lots of people playing so they can keep this pile of crap going. If you were smart gamers, you would not touch this title b/c thats what its all about to them, you my friend are just a number and they need you.
Be strong, stay strong and we will get our game back soon enough.
No.
Just, no.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool the community umpteen times, shame on all of us.
I think it's time to stand up and say, "It's dead. No matter what you do or tell us, we just won't believe you anymore."
Dress it up in a tutu, put bells and whistles on it, give us flying mounts, improve the graphics; it's all just window dressing on a fatally flawed concept. A fewmet by any other name still stinks.
By putting classic servers up would mean to apologize for a done mistake.
Imho the SOE staff is really too egoistic and too commited of their idea of a good SW mmorpg that they will not listen to the majority of the community who played quite a long time and know what was fun and what not.
SOE clearly tries here to get customers back, which from my point of view is one last desperate try to keep things running...
This shall not end in flaming, so I stop here and wish everyone returning good luck with the ALL NEW SWG! Have fun. I will not.
/signed
Looking (hopefully) forward to KoTOR Online.
Im gonna try it. Comon..you get to go back to SWG for free!!! I was tempted to go back earlier but then I remembered I had to pay the ppl who ruined SWG to play it again.
To be honest SWG was one of the best MMOs out there when it came out despite the bugs and problems, maybe theyll make a similar SWGII in the future.
I love this site for the simple fact the sheer amount of SWG haters out there. I do sound so mean and evil when there's hundreds of em saying the same thing as me.
Horay! We get to go in for 3 weeks and experence an incredibly boring and broken system that costs millions of credits for absolutely no good. Horay! People once again get to make wortless mounts which are still slower than the slowest speeder bike. Horay for the lack of combat-enhancement these new "pets" give.
And I thought the CL70 pets were bad >_>
and yet still life goes on...
To err is human....to play is divine
SWG made me a SWfan. CU and NGE is to SWG what Episode 1-3 is to Star Wars the movies *sigh*
I also jumped my chair thinking they had grown a brain and givin us real SWG back.
As for this.... *pass*
Wumi of V - Bloodfin
Wumi - SWG - Bloodfin - Cancelled
Wumi - WoW - Eu-Kazzak - Cancelled
Bulldozer - Aion - Eu-Kahrun - Cancelled
Wumi - Rift - EU-Riptalon - Cancelled
I have to admit, I am tempted to try it to see if my house still stands.
Although doing so will allow $OE to say "x number of players have returned", and "Active accounts are up x%", even when the players return for only 1 day.
In the end I think I will pass.
PRE-CU please
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SWG - Killed by $OE
WOW - Retired
Playing WAR
I'm tempted to login to both of my accounts solely to make sure my houses still stand...with their "Bring back anything Pre-NGE" signs
and to keep up the illusion that people still play the game...eventually they'll realize they have no money coming in and kill it.
edit: damn....forgot I uninstalled it...that's rare considering I have 400GB free....hmmm...perhaps because I promised myself never to play an SOE game again.
let see here....
*reads article*
hmm... pre-nge? no
classic servers? no
level based wow-in-a galaxy far far away? yep
no thanks...i'll pass.
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I haven't been online in that game in so long I doubt I could find my house...
But the raids on Theed bring back such great memories....
I went to log in to see if anyone of my friends were back and to check my houses and It wont let me log in. Its been over 90 days lol.
It did all the updates,but dosent let me choose a character. Good job sony. You cant even give something away for free with out screwing the pooch.
I've given up hope that SOE will bring up classic servers. I wish they would, I liked being able to be a combination of different jobs of my choosing. Instead of their cookie cutter style, with a wanna be WoW ripoff, I think their developers are too busy playing other games so they can rip off their ideas instead of developing ones themselves.
I was tempted to log and check it out. But what you guys say makes sense, I can totally see SOE state that old accounts have been reactivated and because of it I won't even think about it twice. Don't want to give SOE any extra ammo saying the game still lives.
I don't think I have ever read an article so fast. I was thinking CU/Pre-CU was back as my browser was loading only to say "ahhhh dam". Return of the Jedi, those bastages.
Lol I would like to see the game again but nah not until Pre-Cu servers re up and running!
So I might be able to play when hell freezes over and pigs fly!
Most of my guild that quit right after the NGE are happily playing again, so it might be worth another shot if you're bored with your present gaming experience. I tried playing again right after Chapter 6, and I was happy for about a week. I don't think its a bad game at all, but its growing old and feels dated, and it just can't hold my interest.
I too am curious if my houses still stand...
I stuck out the CU, and NGE as well as I could. At least in the CU I can say the Dev's were trying to fix issues, as for the NGE well
As the months passed i kept telling myself " $OE has to realize this was a mistake, they have to realize the finacial landslide from thousands upon tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of players leaving" They have to admit defeat, and return the game, while they rethink the publish.. When the class action for the Bait an Switch for ToOW $OE had to say "OK roll it back the natives are restless, we are becoming the laughing stock of the MMO world"
As time passed I became more the Ranger of old wandering the land, than the Smuggler I once was. I found myself Smuggleing into Nightsister spawn points, and remembering the hectic fights with friends long gone. I would pass Huurton lairs, and remember the times we didn't have the inventory space to cart away the hides we used to collect for tailors, B-E's, AS's whoever. The Avian meat for Doc's, and chefs... I started playing 'Guess what this abandoned vendor used to sell' in player cities long since empty. Then would return to my little collection of houses. The weapon shop where I used to build then slice my constructs to order, and my social retreat. the hours spent decorating so my friend would have a unique place to visit, and kick back as we talked and did whatever...
All the while my buddies list was empty as MO, yet plenty of lvl 4 Jedi in Mossy 'Dueling' with junk swords...
When they finally took Restus for some lame ass PVP Arena that was it, I finally cancelled. They removed my character specializaton, my uniqueness, my friends, my game, and finally my star port into my little corner of the world.
I did return once; however, when the Smugglers finally got the re-vamp. After 3 years of waiting, they finally did what was promised oh so long ago. (( Special nod to the Rangers who waited for their re-vamp as well, we all know how well that went
)) So I jumped in with a 21 day trial... explored the Smuggler stuff and left after 4
At the recent fan faire thing, Smedly ignored hecklers, as he praised the 100,000 loyal fans who endured the Roller coaster ride, and the Dev team for such high quality commitment to the company, the game, and the customer... Yeah the customer. the same customer who $OE didn't mind loosing when they admitted 6% of the playerbase wlll be affected by the NGE changes, but in 6 month time period SWG will have recovered and be higher in subscription numbers... how'd that go?
SWG, the game we once loved is like a broken toilet now. Filled with a load of crap, murky water and clumps of used toilet paper, that when you try and flush just adds a lil bit of water and swirls about, and SOE is content to let you just stand there and keep hitting the handle, and telling you the waters fine jump in, and take a swim. Just close the lid, and move on.
< Side note > Alot of us are waiting for the BIOWARE saviour MMO comming, hoping it'll be a SWG2, or KOTOR relation. The current inside peek is : Yes, Bioware is working on a space/sci-fi MMO, but it's their own creation,and has nothing to do with any 3rd party IP.
Mankind is not limited by imagination, but the courage to reach....
Trying to resurrect the dead are they? Btw, the comment "Hurry, this offer is only available until 11:59PM PST September 30, 2007!" is kind of ridiculous. I mean do you really need to stress if it's around 43 days left? Not that much of a hurry if you ask me at least...
If they launched classic servers then i would forgive SOE for what they've done and it would clear their name.
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SWG - PrePub9 Jedi mastered all professions - June 26th 2003 > Nov 15th 2005
EVE Online - 24 million SP - May 6th 2003 > Early 2005
PlanetSide - BR20 CR5 - May 23rd 2003 > Sept 2003
It's not S.O.E, it's Lucas Arts that forced S.O.E to change the game.....making "more Starwars like".
This game isnt anymore Star wars Like just because of the NGE and CU... They totally ruined the game and didnt make it more SW like..
Now When you had to do the holograms and back then everything was GREAT! I was in Star wars back then (at least I felt like that)
Now its a kids game, with lvls and crappy stuff.. Where you can choose Jedi as a start class. now WTF?!?!
Fix the game back Pre-CU and Im back in there baby!
Back then it was the finest MMORPG, in my opinion..
Tho I am gonna use my 21 days To go and spam the place about making it Pre-CU.
Classic servers with no jedi and limit vehicles for certain skills. Bring back shuttle waits. Bring back the social part of the game. I may consider then.
You people are hilarious.. what are you afraid of, that you might actually have fun in it? Wouldn't want that to happen now wouldn't we?