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One of my biggest regrets was never playing this game : (
Warjin
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Now that Swtor is coming soon I regret never playing this game, when this game first came out my PC was to weak to play this game so I just played eq1, I got a new PC a bit after that but WoW came along and I got sucked into that game for 6 years, I heard alot of mixed feeling about this game but more good then bad, the bad sadly was enough to stear me away as I had no reason to check this game out because WoW keep me content.
My question is why are they shutting this game down, why no convert it to Free to Play?
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I would feel the same, but I never played it because of all the bashing that the game endured. I steered away from a game that I was constantly told was broken.
If you are a Star Wars fan you are better off not having played it. They forgot to put the Star Wars in the game apart from the skins.
Agree with this poster, the only conditions are whether or not you like sandbox style world sims because that was the only thing this game had going for it if you were a strictly a fan of the films and some of the extended content such as comics or novels I'm not sure you would be regretting not giving this game a go.
The original game while engaging was hopelessly broken with pitiful pathfinding that was never fixed (and was quite fun for a creature handler like myself) and a multitude of bugs bad collision and lies by SOE (such as the longstanding lie that from the games inception there was some secret way to unlock Jedi) while this may on some levels seem like a good way to get the playerbase to make sure they try everything there is to do in game it's systemic of the cheap tricks used by SOE to cover up the fact that the game simply didn't deliver anything other than a strange Sims type of star wars that lacked the humor of games like that.
No other game (mmo) will match SWG for me, for the time it lasted (a year and half, give or take before the changes). Not having played it, perhaps as a star wars fan, you missed out on the greatest game that has ever been.
The idea of unlocking mysteriously a Jedi (before the hologrind), is unheard of in any mmo. Yes Jedi was ridiculously over-powered (pre-pub-9 jedi that is), but the fact that it was rare and extremely dificult to unlock and you feared every time you logged on as a leveling jedi was an experience I cannot forget.
Before I leveled my jedi fully, I witnessed a jedi guardian taking on around 25 fully buffed imperials (my guild and friends of guild), 2 large turrets that were protecting our base and a Krayt dragon that we were fighting while waiting for pvp action (city of kaitan, corbantis server) in about what seemed liked 5 minutes.... now THAT is over powered!!! And you know what.... I never said thats OP, but instead, I said.... WOW, thats amazing. And it was, truly.
The game had bugs, yes. The game had issues, yes. But was the game awesome!! YES!!
Having never played this game back then, I say you missed out on something great.
Just my opinion though, based on my ingame experience with SWG.
Youre lucky. Cant miss what you dont know.
If I hadnt played SWG I could probably enjoy one of the current games.
It was as Star Wars as TOR is going to be IMO, as they will take the same liberties with lore where needed to make a better overall game.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
It was for sure my 2 fav mmo of all time mabey 1. I love crafting, community, and housing. SWG did these things like no mmo before it or since it. I am still hoping to find another craft heavy great mmo like swg.
Like a stated I never played the game but I did play Fallen Earth and thats going free to play in Oct. the crafting in that game is really deep, if crafting is your thing might want to give it a go.
SWG was simply amazing. Im a veteran, and like the previous poster my mmo experiences will never be the same. In its golden day SWG was simply an amazing game. lining up at the cantinas for buffs, space ports for med buffs. I will never forget when all my hard work payed off and i became force sensitive, and started my journey to becoming a jedi. I will miss all my collectibles, and rare loots that i have saved up through the years, but most of all the fellow players who made the game as close to Star Wars as possible.
Best time to play it was before November 2005, before SOE decided to flush what was good down the toilet in a failed attempt to copy World of Warcraft. Back then, the economy was TRUELY player ran. If you wanted armour, weapons, furniture, clothes or whatever, you seeked out a crafter. I played a bounty hunter and was part of guild that built its own city. We had a crafter that lived in it who made all my armour. I had a fun little side game going where I'd collect skins and sell them to him. I did that whenever I got tired of bounty hunting.Combat was unique because you had three bars(health,mind,action) and if any of those three ran out you were incapped. Certain weapons did damage to certain ham bars and you never knew what you were up against. I always went for the weapons that did damage to the mind because that seemed to incap faster than going after health. Combat was slow, but it ws very tactical. That was the good parts of the game.
The bad parts of the game was REALLY bad. Many professions didn't work right because they were so broken. Many times when I took a mission, the npc I had to talk to was either in water or stuck inside a wall where I couldn't talk to him. This happened often. Other times my character would be stuck in a spot, couldn't move and I had to get a tech guy to free me. There was also constant lag and rubberbanding.
Adding jedi to the game was also a really stupid idea. This game was supposed to take place during "The Empire Strikes Back" era and now you have all these overpowered jedi flashing their sabers in starports. It ruined PVP because few other professions could compete with them, especially when jedi started rolling in groups. Also, since SOE catered to this base of players with every publish by nerfing what did work against jedi, players gave up and rolled a jedi themselves.
So instead of fixing the MANY things that were already wrong with the game, SOE changes everything and ends up pissing off the 200,000- 300,000 players that were actually enjoying the game, warts and all. They changed the combat to a FPS style, cut the professions from 32 to 8, got rid of wear on gear, and changed the economy to a looted one. The mayor along with the rest of my guild quit so naturally I and others followed suit. The game's player base crashed, and thus no one wanted to touch this game with a long pole. I haven't even seen a box for it in the last three years.
So like I said, if you weren't able to experience the game before November 2005, you didn't miss anything.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
Agree before SOE ruined it SWG was the greatest mmo ever made bar none. IMO where they killed it and where MANY mmos die is when they decided to cross-platform the game to run on consoles.
SOOOOOOOO sick of developers dumbing down games to make them console playable.
The 'liberties' SOE took with the lore can hardly be seen to have actually improved the game. Fairy wings and pink Ewoks, people running about combat zones in hawtpants and the like did not improve the game.
As for BW doing the same with their game, well for a start there is zero proof of that. But supposing they do, it would be far less of an issue given they are working in an era/setting which gives them far more flexibility with what they can do whilst staying true tot he SW theme.
"Come and have a look at what you could have won."
i never thought i could or would connect to a game and its community as i did with SWG: Pre-CU. It really could make you feel living in a galaxy far, far away.
Back in 2004, i had the impression that this game would revolutionise the whole gaming and virtual worlds industry with its countless possibilities... until WoW came along and brought my dreams to an end. SWG was, no doubt, ahead of its time.
I would say, (and this goes to all mmo's that you play / want to play) never listen to what someone else / a group of people thinks about a game. Play it and make up your own mind. Worst case scenario is that you have spend money on a game plus a monthly subscription and cancel your sub because you didn't like it.
However if you like it... then you didn't regret giving it a go despite what others said.
It had the best crafting/resource gathering system I have ever seen in a game. Every 6 to 10 days new minerals spawned and finding them/getting harvesters on them was awesome. A master weaponsmith that had been in the game a year could make much better weapons that a brand new master weaponsmith due to having time to stockpile the best resources. Resources mattered, there were options to add to weapons like scopes and there were some very hard to get item that would buff the components and make for some truely awesome weapons.
Sadly, once the holocrons came out, everyone abandoned their playstyle and just grinded professions. The market was flooded with cheap product due to so many people grinding out their professions to hit jedi. All the people you know who were dancers became commandos and doctors became home builders and the best fighters became hair stylists. Holocrons turned the servers upside down. No one wanted to play for fun, it was all just grind the next profession and hope to unlock jedi.
The first 2 years (2003-2004) were great, lots of pvp and the player economy was thriving with competition (since the was no hard cap) and plenty of activities and events happening. Going into 2005 things started going downhill, the combat upgrade had a pretty rough start but by October 2005 it got pretty good then was abruptly ended with the surprise NGE launch. I was very unhappy with the NGE results that I actually deleted most of my characters including my pre publish 9 Jedi but I logged in during the free veteran reactivation periods to play my remaining characters only to last less than a week each time.
SOE should never handle another MMO game, they didn't learn anything from SWG going into DCU (half of SWG's dev team went to DCU).