Star Wars Galaxies

10k active players just maybe realistic. However, the Sation Pass Access holders DO count, so even if they haven't logged into SWG since the NGE, or log in every blue moon to peek at the NGE trainwreck, they are still SWG current 'subscribers'. SWG is on Sation Pass life support. Make no mistake....subscirber numbers for $OE continue to decline across the board. Don't forget the trial accounts and dummy accounts that fluff up subscriber numbers too, but that does little for the actual number playing.

We may nave won a battle, but winning the war? I doubt we ever will see our beloved pre-CU SWG again. I agree, LEC/LA has a hand in preventing that, but I can't blame them from distancing themselves as much as possible from $OE (especially with a possible new SW mmo in development).

Originally posted by Warmaker

Indeed.  Even if they rolled back or put a Classic Server, it's already far too late.  Not enough would come back, and in the Pre-NGE days, the community was half the reason I stayed with the game.

Imagine... if SOE / LA stuck with the Pre-NGE system, but worked on squashing the numerous bugs, giving the revamps to professions that needed it, and adding content.

It makes me wonder where we would be right now if something like that happened than the road taken by SOE / LA... the road of the NGE.

It's just too bad.  And too late.

 In all truth and honesty you all would have probably left SWG even if there wasn't a NGE. SWG was ok, not great it was indeed the cummunity that kept most there, but communities never sit still and by today most of you would have grown bored silly of SWG and moved on anyway. LA / SOE just accelerated  things a bit with the NGE. People just tend to remember the past through rose colored lenses and forget that SWG was sinking before either NGE or CU actually happened

So who is this friend who supposedly has such magical inside knowledge?

Revenaught

Originally posted by namelessbob

 

 

10k players wouldn't be enough for them to keep the game running. If that were true it would have been canceled and closed a long time ago. Hell NCsoft said their car game wasn't profitable because it stayed up 15k subscribers for 2 months and closed up within 3 months after that.

Actually, Auto Assault lasted for over a year at those levels.

Originally posted by iwantmyswg

a friend of mine told me swg is now under 10k players. i want to thank all of you for we the vets have won the war. soe is now a joke of the gaming world and in the next few months will have to bring back pre-cu in order for swg to live.

i ask that everyone who can start pushing la into seeing that a roll back is the only way to save swg. and i ask that any nge fanboi now come out and tell us vets that we are right.

If by winning you meant that your favourite game, whose mythic pre-cu, pre-nge beginnings are pined for far and wide, is going down the tubes, never to return IN ANY FORM, then you are correct.  Enjoy.

Originally posted by thepatriot

Originally posted by namelessbob

 

 

10k players wouldn't be enough for them to keep the game running. If that were true it would have been canceled and closed a long time ago. Hell NCsoft said their car game wasn't profitable because it stayed up 15k subscribers for 2 months and closed up within 3 months after that.

Actually, Auto Assault lasted for over a year at those levels.

O was it? I thought it was within 6months they closed it down after dropping bellow the original hype subscriptions. NCsoft is a trooper then for keeping it up that long then.

Originally posted by iwantmyswg

a friend of mine told me swg is now under 10k players. i want to thank all of you for we the vets have won the war. soe is now a joke of the gaming world and in the next few months will have to bring back pre-cu in order for swg to live.

i ask that everyone who can start pushing la into seeing that a roll back is the only way to save swg. and i ask that any nge fanboi now come out and tell us vets that we are right.

What have you won? If you have actively gone out to stop players playing it by telling them lies etc - then you disgust me. SOE has some of the biggest MMOs on the market apart from WoW - they are not a joke. Get over it, there will be no rollback because I and many many others have settled down and are enjoying the game, we are the people that have gotten over it, accepted the differences, accepted that many people left because the dont like it (fair enough) and learnt to like the game - We have have won.

Oh and you are WRONG.

Just imagine what it could have been. Forget the desires of the player base and the disparities over what people really wanted, and just focus on what the developers themselves promised that they never delivered on. Imagine what the SWG of today would look like compared to the SWG of promises unfulfilled of yesterday. What if the developers had adhered to integrity instead of lying to us all at every turn.

I would bet my Optimus Prime helmet that the SWG of promises would have been far more successful.

The last "rumor" about the sub numbers that graced my inbox stated that the paid sub number was 27K.  That was about 3 months ago, so it definitely is lower now. 

As for it being dangerously low, I point to the fact that the fanbois are panicking to the degree of trying to rally the troops to go fake positive reviews and "buzz" supporting the NGE.

Originally posted by mdolsen