All I can say is from my point of view.I am a vet of the game. I also took a year off then came back. I think it was a mixture of both. he leveling system. how you can't pick and choose your abilities. How each time you level. your new skill was given to you,that and how the graphics seem to dumb down. I a not going to rant or bitch,I will say I was a memeber of a city that had 1500 members. We were a hardcore rp guild you never talked out of charcter . when you shuttled into our city we had a droid that gave you the rules of our city etc. when the nge hit.. (b/c the nge was getting rid of a huge portion of content to allow you to role play etc) My entire city and its populace leftt the game. just like that a ghost town. I came back and only lasted a month. I think that also is a main topic b/c now most mmo's are just that .. their is no rp anymore.,or deves aren't putting content into games to allow that charcters to grow. its more about grinding or pvp and thats pretty much it..
It was both. The NGE made a bunch of players leave, that's true, but the game was far from perfect before the NGE.
I remember this: We're going to have a new an innovative way for people to become Jedi, because Jedi should be rare in the game to be faithful to the IP of Star Wars. How do you become Jedi? Well, we're not going to tell you, but it's going to be cooler than when your girlfriend brings over her hot friend, and she tells you they want to have a threesome!
Then we find out the truth. To be Jedi, you grind through all the professions! Isn't that awesome? Uh, no, it's not.
It sure as hell is alot better then being a starting profession.
I actually liked the idea of the Force villiage CU brought. It was rough but atleast it was better then just grinding professions.
Not to mention people like me get totally screwed who worked our asses off grinding jedi to only break them and everything you own to turn it into a cheesy kiddie starting profession.
As for the bugs. There are STILL bugs in SWG from LAUNCH!
If SOE would have just bug fixed/polished and added content to pre cu, SWG would be THRIVING.
SOE's pathetic scam KNOWINGLY making a change THEY KNEW would make their player base leave in discust in hopes to draw some WoW kiddies. They even admitted to taking the cheaper route of just patching and changing the current code instead of making a new code for NGE.
Turning a RPG style combat system into the sad excuse it is now by just patching some changes is like strapping wings to a bus to make an airplane instead of designing a plane from the start.
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All I can say is from my point of view.I am a vet of the game. I also took a year off then came back. I think it was a mixture of both. he leveling system. how you can't pick and choose your abilities. How each time you level. your new skill was given to you,that and how the graphics seem to dumb down. I a not going to rant or bitch,I will say I was a memeber of a city that had 1500 members. We were a hardcore rp guild you never talked out of charcter . when you shuttled into our city we had a droid that gave you the rules of our city etc. when the nge hit.. (b/c the nge was getting rid of a huge portion of content to allow you to role play etc) My entire city and its populace leftt the game. just like that a ghost town. I came back and only lasted a month. I think that also is a main topic b/c now most mmo's are just that .. their is no rp anymore.,or deves aren't putting content into games to allow that charcters to grow. its more about grinding or pvp and thats pretty much it..
It sure as hell is alot better then being a starting profession.
I actually liked the idea of the Force villiage CU brought. It was rough but atleast it was better then just grinding professions.
Not to mention people like me get totally screwed who worked our asses off grinding jedi to only break them and everything you own to turn it into a cheesy kiddie starting profession.
As for the bugs. There are STILL bugs in SWG from LAUNCH!
If SOE would have just bug fixed/polished and added content to pre cu, SWG would be THRIVING.
SOE's pathetic scam KNOWINGLY making a change THEY KNEW would make their player base leave in discust in hopes to draw some WoW kiddies. They even admitted to taking the cheaper route of just patching and changing the current code instead of making a new code for NGE.
Turning a RPG style combat system into the sad excuse it is now by just patching some changes is like strapping wings to a bus to make an airplane instead of designing a plane from the start.
Fail with a capital F U SOE.
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