SWG does exist to some extent, however, City of Heroes being shutdown was the biggest slap in the face by any Game Developer.
Publisher. The devs had little to do with the closing of CoH. Damn, that one still smarts. I would love to see what Tabula Rasa could have become given the time to mature.
FYI, people shorthand devs when they mean publisher. Learn that. Next time you see devs and want to inject publisher you will understand the shorthand and don't have to correct people.
Those are lazy or ignorant people who will complain when their laziness or ignorance results in them being corrected. Ignorance can be corrected by someone else's input. Laziness can only be corrected by the lazy.
That may be but it is slang. BTW, a word can mean more than one thing. Grunty, if you are going to correct people you should correct everything that is being said in many of these thread. SO go do it.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
Shout out to The Chronicles of Spellborn, and all that might have been.
It had potential for sure, but oh that tutorial was awful and you had to go through it for every character.
IIRC, they added a skip but you had to complete the tutorial just once. Then again, the few minutes you spend doing the tutorial isn't as big a deal as you make it seem. Issue 21 they removed the tutorial.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
But as I have stated SWG was and will continue to be THE most over rated game ever. Why? BECAUSE of what happened. It is the ultimate excuse. That game was a buggy cluster. And anyone that ACTUALLY played it remembers that. That game is sort of like Wilt Chamberlains 100 point game, 10 million people claimed to be there but the arena it happened at held about 7500 people and it was half empty the night he did it. Same as SWG EVERYONE gamer over the age of 25 claims to have been there at launch. Despite the fact that there were fewer people on during that games launch than ANY of the so called 'golden era' MMOs that sold hundreds of thousands of boxes i.e. Warhammer, Lotro, AoC, hell I thin k there were more people logging into Vanguard (how the hell didnt that game make the list) than there were logging in SWG. And this was ALL PRE. After that it was eevn worse, although I think more of the 'mainstream' people actually logged in then because it catered to their lowest common denominator syndrome.
I think many people believe SWG was so good because it was there first time. Like other first times it seems so much better than it actually was.
The game had a really bad launch as far as bugs go. It also had a terrible system of balance. Their form of balancing things was allowing you to no longer make those OP things. However if you had a stash of OP things, it basically gave you God Mode in PvP vs other players.
But as I have stated SWG was and will continue to be THE most over rated game ever. Why? BECAUSE of what happened. It is the ultimate excuse. That game was a buggy cluster. And anyone that ACTUALLY played it remembers that.
And let's not forget it had one of the most self-absorbed, annoying communities in any MMO. They deserved what happened to them.
But as I have stated SWG was and will continue to be THE most over rated game ever. Why? BECAUSE of what happened. It is the ultimate excuse. That game was a buggy cluster. And anyone that ACTUALLY played it remembers that.
And let's not forget it had one of the most self-absorbed, annoying communities in any MMO. They deserved what happened to them.
Yes basically. They were 'lucky' what happened when it happened because they were spared the heart ache of watching it fail. But the problem is that despite evidence of complete failure hardcore fganbois of ANY game will continue to claim its the best. That is the phenomenon that SWG enjoys. It was a semi failure (despite all the revisionist history) but it didnt out right fail on its own the evil developers did something (that when first done everyone agreed to because it was going to help the game) that 'ruined' it. The people who played and defended that game have rewritten the history around that game it is sometimes difficult even for people who were there to remember everything.
But basically it was one extreme to another, on every level. They took a chain saw to things where a scalpel would have been much better suited and after they had completely razed it to the ground they thought they might as well try to rebuild it. And like I said the game didnt end with that rebuilding it went on for years. Problem is it did fail then. And the people try to blame all that stuff as to the reason why it failed. While some of it added to it the game was already well on its way to failure before then. But like I said originally it just gave a scape goat.
I think many people believe SWG was so good because it was there first time. Like other first times it seems so much better than it actually was.
The game had a really bad launch as far as bugs go. It also had a terrible system of balance. Their form of balancing things was allowing you to no longer make those OP things. However if you had a stash of OP things, it basically gave you God Mode in PvP vs other players.
rofl. No.... I liked it because it was Star Wars and it was a full universe not a theme park on training wheels. And it wasn't my first MMO, EQ was. My favorite MMO was and still is EQ2. So nice try but stop putting words in my mouth.
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That may be but it is slang. BTW, a word can mean more than one thing. Grunty, if you are going to correct people you should correct everything that is being said in many of these thread. SO go do it.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
There's nothing more gratifying than playing an MMO for free.
Kain_Dale
IIRC, they added a skip but you had to complete the tutorial just once. Then again, the few minutes you spend doing the tutorial isn't as big a deal as you make it seem. Issue 21 they removed the tutorial.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
But as I have stated SWG was and will continue to be THE most over rated game ever. Why? BECAUSE of what happened. It is the ultimate excuse. That game was a buggy cluster. And anyone that ACTUALLY played it remembers that. That game is sort of like Wilt Chamberlains 100 point game, 10 million people claimed to be there but the arena it happened at held about 7500 people and it was half empty the night he did it. Same as SWG EVERYONE gamer over the age of 25 claims to have been there at launch. Despite the fact that there were fewer people on during that games launch than ANY of the so called 'golden era' MMOs that sold hundreds of thousands of boxes i.e. Warhammer, Lotro, AoC, hell I thin k there were more people logging into Vanguard (how the hell didnt that game make the list) than there were logging in SWG. And this was ALL PRE. After that it was eevn worse, although I think more of the 'mainstream' people actually logged in then because it catered to their lowest common denominator syndrome.
The game had a really bad launch as far as bugs go. It also had a terrible system of balance. Their form of balancing things was allowing you to no longer make those OP things. However if you had a stash of OP things, it basically gave you God Mode in PvP vs other players.
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But basically it was one extreme to another, on every level. They took a chain saw to things where a scalpel would have been much better suited and after they had completely razed it to the ground they thought they might as well try to rebuild it. And like I said the game didnt end with that rebuilding it went on for years. Problem is it did fail then. And the people try to blame all that stuff as to the reason why it failed. While some of it added to it the game was already well on its way to failure before then. But like I said originally it just gave a scape goat.
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