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Star Wars Galaxies: Inviting Players Back!
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Players of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided who left the game more than 60 days ago have been invited to come back to check the game out for 10 consecutive days for free! All players need to do is log back into their accounts and start playing. Many new features and attractions have been in the past number of months, including:
- New Jedi Quests - a quest-based system that guides players through an incredibly exciting and challenging series of missions that leads to Jedi Master.
- Exciting New Quests and Missions - like the "Corellian Corvette" and the "Deathwatch Bunker" which offer true Star Wars style adventure with the promise of great rewards.
- Improved New Player Experience - Featuring Personal Helper Droids that aid new players in completing quests and advancing more quickly through the early levels of the game.
- MMORPG.COM Staff -
- MMORPG.COM Staff -
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Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
What a horrible Idea.
SOE has not gotten any smarter I see. The game is still in a shambles and they want to invite old players who left in disgust? For what purpose exactly? To see how fouled up the game STILL is?
This makes no sense at all. They havent released the JTL or done any of the proffession or combat revamps. To invite people back when essentially nothing has changed except possibly for the worse just seems like idiocy.
Not sure what they are trying to accomplish.
ROLEPLAYERS UNITE!!!!!
Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
Guess the mass exodus from the game has now got them to have to resort to bribing people
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It had its flaws, but so do they all.
And inviting subscribers to rejoin with free perks is nothing new. Anyone ever quit a gym? How about a CD or book club? They all offer you freebies if you rejoin. Doesn't necessarily mean they're in bad shape (although that would be one reason to do it), it just means they want your business back.
I actually laught out loud when I saw this in my inbox. Even though financially it may be a good idea, it reaks of desperation. Thanks SOE but I rather wait for WoW instead.
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Played: Asheron's Call 1, Dark Age of Camelot, Earth & Beyond, Star Wars Galaxies
Tested: Asheron's Call 1, Asheron's Call 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Eve Online, Lineage 2, Risk Your Life, Saga of Ryzom, World of Warcraft
Uninstalled ASAP: MU Online, Knight Online, Rubies of Eventide, Priston Tales, Star Sonata, DarkSpace
OMG this is way to FUNNY!
I guess cancelling my 4 accounts had some effect. I would'nt even consider signing back up
cause their Customer Service is lousy! CSR's have no clue on the game itself and the devs
dont even listen to its customers cry for help.
I would call 128 cancellations in one day a mass exodus... Most of my guild decided to move on to other games. We all quit we joined together and pretty much when we quit we all quit. We been together since start of EQ1 and through DaOC , AC, Ao, and few others. That was just in my guild alone.... Then all the other posts from other players that cancelled due to the stupid 10.3 patch.
Oh please dont quote Thunderhearts population are up BS... yeah what population up last year this time yeah, but when ALL of the servers say light traffic during prime time , when few months ago they had medium traffic. I would say people are leaving in droves...
I wish SoE would actually release REAL numbers of active accounts.
Yeah ... I COULD go back to SWG.
But then again ...
I could arrange to get my gonads nailed to a table.
I think I'll get the later done.
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You'll make a hole in the yard
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I am sorry I left after the Combat balance fiasco. They said in December 2004 that thye were not going to revamp certaqin classes that were broken since launch because they are working on a combat balance. They stated for the players and the player coraspondent to work out the ideas for a the revamp. SWG screwed up Creature handlers in preperation tfor the combat balance patch. In January they said they had collect great info and were pushing ahead.
Time passes
They stated that the JTL would not effect the combat bllance because they werre serperarte teams and that the combat revamp was on scheduled. They even went so far as to say they had to push back fixes to squald leader and smugglers ect.. untill after the combat balance because that would solve many issues. They even gave release info such as first the jedis revamp followed by the combat revamp (that is what they started calling it) followed by JTL. They kept stating Combat Revamp before JTL.
Time passes (6 months in total)
Then come out and state that combat balance will be pushed back until after JTL and if the player would get with the player coraspondents to gather information as to what they would like to be in the comabt revamp. huh? what happen to all the info we gave them in december and january? SOE state the never said they were workling on it blah blah blah. The the interview with Blackmen, blackhart or whatever his name, one of the lead designers siad in no certain terms that ANYONE who posted on the forums and thier opinion do not matter.
As for what they are giving - Jedi? they actually ruined the game for many. Mission they are ok but they are all the same and some are alomst imposibly hard. The droid helper has been in for some times. So as I see there realy is nothing new.
So with the lies, misleading and the lead designer stating that certain people opinions do not matter even though they ask for them I cannot recomend anyone try the game or even go back. In fact I get my JTL beta and gave it to a friend who cannot afford to buy games ATM (he has a baby now).
Take care and be at piece.
well, I cancelled quite a bit earlier than 60 days ago, and so i should apply to this offer (yes, since it's free, I'd like to try it out a bit again, good for waiting until my next mmorpg comes out), but when I log on with my account it suddenly asks me to resubscribe.. and on the official site there's no mention of this offer.. what's going on?
Had Problems????
These baztardz still have to revamp the entire combat system. SWG's main problem is this:
COMBAT IS COMPLETELY FRIGGIN BORING AND POINTLESS
Once they figure out how to make combat enjoyable I'm back;)
(BTW that will be never, they just don't have the will and resources)
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SWG=SOE=BAD
Remember that rule!!!! Oh BTW I am a JTL Beta tester;)
--When you resubscribe to SWG, an 18 yearold Stripper finds Jesus, gives up stripping, and moves with a rolex reverend to Hawaii.
--In MMORPG's l007 is the opiate of the masses.
--The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
pffft. what a joke. everyone's either leaving, or trying to get Jedi. I personally left when pub 10 hit, turning the game into Jedi Academy Online. No thanx, SOE.
A month ago I used my friend's account for a few days to see what changes have been
made to improve Star Wars Galaxies. The game has been completely deleted from my hard drive as
a result. I understand that it's a "roleplaying" game but the level of make pretend this game
requires is too much. There's not enough content and too much grind. 10 free days isn't going to
get me back, some real direction on the part of the developers toward making it fun would be a start.
Maybe they should give veteran players who haven't left yet some sort of bribe to stay. Many many players I've known in the last year have left, or no longer log in. It's way more than the Jedi visibility problem.
SOE definitely knows how to create a huge subscriber base. If only they would invest those profits into making the game be more like Star Wars.
Imperial faction still cannot wear storm trooper armor and bounty hunter armor is so rare that you'll never see a player bounty hunter wearing it. Instead everyone still wears non-Star Wars composite armor with the bicycle helmet.
Correction. Imperials can wear storm trooper armor, but its resists are inferior to compo.
Anyhow, hello all. First time poster here.
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SWG=SOE=BAD
Remember that rule!!!! Oh BTW I am a JTL Beta tester;)
--When you resubscribe to SWG, an 18 yearold Stripper finds Jesus, gives up stripping, and moves with a rolex reverend to Hawaii.
--In MMORPG's l007 is the opiate of the masses.
--The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
Where you pulling these numbers from ? 500k subscribers I highly doubt that, more like 100k. See I can make up some numbers too
Seriously, SWG has been the most bug filled game I ever had the misfortune of playing, and their CS is the worse in the industry. They just delete your CS tickets.
The visibility problem is not fixed anyhow.
The bug where Jedi's remained on the terms even after being killed by a BH is now supposedly fixed.
Player Jedis are still on BH terminals for 3 weeks, or until killed by someone with BH mission, once visible. Visibility is still triggered by pulling light saber, even if levelling in a remote spot on womp rats - rofl.
Glad I'm not a Jedi.
Eh let me think for one sec.....
NO THANKS !
Oy Vey!!!
Fion is such an optimist. I wish I could share his sunny outlook on SWG. Unfortunately theres the little issue of the game being crap that gets in the way of my optimism. The fact is SOE wouldn't know the truth if they stepped in it. They always try to spin their numbers so it looks as if the game is growing or doing well when in fact they realize that they are losing ground fast. This free 10 days is just an act of desperation.
If you want to take Fion's word that the game is good I say go for it. Go sign up and play it for 2 or 3 months and then come back here and tell me who was right. As far as the JTL expansion adding a Star Wars feel to the game......I don't think so. Adding an X-wing VS Tie fighter game to the already pathetic ground game will not make it Star Wars. It is a DIVERSION. It is something to do so that you will keep shelling out that 15 bucks a month (plus the cost of the expansion which should have been in the original release anyway). Its just sad but don't take my word for it go and see for yourself.
SOE......Gone to the dark side they have.......Lies and deceit are there ways.
ROLEPLAYERS UNITE!!!!!
Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.