› ›

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Quick Links

Earth and Beyond

wyzwunwyzwun Member Posts: 328
in Star Wars Galaxies

To think a fun game like that died because of EA's fear of the mighty Star Wars...

to all that could have been... cheers.

Rites of the Four Horsemen
http://www.rotfh.com

Comments

  • InspGadgtInspGadgt Member Posts: 146
    It died because it's content past lvl 30 was poor...it died because people leveled up way too quickly and ran out of things to do.
  • JediGeekJediGeek Member Posts: 446

    Originally posted by InspGadgt
    It died because it's content past lvl 30 was poor...it died because people leveled up way too quickly and ran out of things to do.
    I'm confused.  Are you talking about Earth and Beyond or the NGE?

    SWG Tempest: Cardo Dycen RIP
    Eve: Cardoh Dycen
    I support random drug testing for all SOE employees

  • InspGadgtInspGadgt Member Posts: 146

    Earth and Beyond

    Though now that I think about it I see the irony in your statement as the exact same things could be said about the NGE

  • iskareotiskareot Member Posts: 2,143

    I did play it though, it was fun while it lasted.

    Space was pretty fun and running into people out there was pretty cool, kind of ahead of its time I think.

    ______________________________
    I usually picture the Career builder commercial with the room full of monkeys and upside down sales chart when thinking about the SOE/SWG decision making process.....
    SOE's John Blakely and Todd Fiala issued a warning: "Don't make our mistakes." Ref NGE
    Winner of the worst MMOS goes to.... the NGE and SWG..!!! http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadFeature=1034&bhcp=1

  • InspGadgtInspGadgt Member Posts: 146
    EVE takes the same concept to a whole new level.
  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Erm... E&B was a boring game past about level 50... excruciatingly boring.  FAR worse than EVE ever was.

    Why are we talking about E&B in a SWG forum anyway?

    Oh... and EA didn't cancel E&B because of SWG.... they canned it because it never got more than 37k players.  It was losing money and they didn't have the patience to let it grow slowly the way EVE did.




    Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
    Sig image Pending
    Still in: A couple Betas

  • wyzwunwyzwun Member Posts: 328

    Originally posted by Elnator
    Erm... E&B was a boring game past about level 50... excruciatingly boring.  FAR worse than EVE ever was.

    Why are we talking about E&B in a SWG forum anyway?

    Oh... and EA didn't cancel E&B because of SWG.... they canned it because it never got more than 37k players.  It was losing money and they didn't have the patience to let it grow slowly the way EVE did.


    There is two stories, thats one of them but the other is the fact that they indeed did not wish to compete with SWG... SWG was a factor in EnB dying... make no mistake...

    Why i bring this up? idk, im bored... was thinking about how cool a game it was ... and was thinking how bad of a game this is (pre-cu... NGE or WHAT EVER)

    Rites of the Four Horsemen
    http://www.rotfh.com

  • ShaydeShayde Member Posts: 4,529
    E&B died because Westwood Studios was disbanded by EA.

    If you would even believe the amount of content and improvements that Westwood had in store for E&B, you would drop dead. They had such plans, all cut short by EA's slashing.

    Then when EA grew tired of it... they pulled the plug.

    I'd say it had as much unrealized potential that SWG had... just SWG is more tragic because it is a printing-money property to use.


    Shayde - SWG (dead)
    Proud member of the Cabal.
    image

    imageimage
    It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled :( - Some deluded SWG fanboi who pities me.
    I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
    09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

  • myrrdinirlmyrrdinirl Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 314

    Wow... Earth and Beyond and Motor City online, I wouldn't be very happy if I were a UO player.

Sign In or Register to comment.