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The game was just out of beta and 40 of my guild started playing. I was one of my group’s “Planet Side” testers/players, having beta tested it. We are 200 strong spread out now over 8-10 different games.
I would tune in the SWG channel on TS and listen, it was amazing to here the accounts of things across the galaxy as seen through the eyes of noobs. Everyone was a noob. I had to be a part of this.
I got the game and away I went. There were people everywhere. Cantinas were jammed, star ports as well. People running across Dath, no speeders yet. Fighting rancors and nightsisters. Squills and Tuskin Raiders were things to avoid on our home planet. The Corellian plains ands the swamps of Talus, filled with big cats and their babies was a great place for the CH, but a dangerous one as well.
The crafting was amazing as well, folks dedicated themselves to mining, harvesting or buying the best resources, looting or buying skill tapes, and the items they made were top shelf. We knew who they were and we haggled for the best price. Weapons, armor, BE clothing, foods, drinks, etc…
The fighting classes would hire out to protect crafters as they tended their harvesters, or just paid us to bring home the best meat or bone, when ever it would be located that month at various places across the galaxy.
The player cites became sophisticated and well thought out. We would hunt in groups to fund the treasury. Recruit top crafters to place their vendors so traffic in town would increase.
Entertainers formed troupes that would travel around and perform at events for hire. Towns would have celebrations, music, fireworks, dancing. The socialization was at its peak.
Bases became focal points for the GCW, defending and attacking, when one went “hot” hundreds of players would be on hand. Theed was a kill zone as was the Bestine-Anchorhead corridor.
Jedi were rare and as the game progressed, more found their way to the Force. But through perma-death, saber TEF and eventually visibility and the BH, showing off with a LS was a bad thing. Removing the BH gank squad made us Jedi more brazen and may have been the first sign of the down hill slide. Jedi should have remained in the shadows.
I remember traveling across many planets and stopping off in a camps on a regular basis. Players just out and about were never hard to stumble across. The Master Ranger camp was a sight to see. If they had a dancer, it was a chance to heal up a bit and move on. Before leaving you could often barter for a new pet or some food or drink. Few new I was a Jedi, it was much safer that way. Regular clothes, carrying a rifle or carbine, with my LS in the tool bar just in case I was not as careful as I thought I was.
Back to a big city, get your speeder, armor and weapon repaired. It was always nice to find a smuggler and get those new items sliced. Stop by the local cantina and enjoy some music and get a mind buff, hit a star port and have a doctor buff you up. Then back out to the open spaces, never far from action.
Player run night clubs sprang up, rented juke boxes, exotic dancers, beauty pageants and just a place to hang out, waiting for the next assault on the enemy or hunting party. At one pageant, with about two hundred in attendance, a beautiful young Jedi was competing, when a BH attacked, the fight spilled out into the street and raged on for 20 minutes before she managed to escape. I cannot imagine a more “Star Warsy” scene then a fight breaking out in a Star Wars bar.
You didn’t have to run around to find PvP, it would always find you if you were not alert. NPC’s could unmask you as well, and many times you would have to fight your way out of town. For a Jedi, that meant visibility for sure. Time o be extra careful. But if laying low was your thing for the moment, there were 100 places to go and things to do. Tend to your factors, restock, shop, socialize, hunt, the Vette, Theme Parks, The Warren, Black Sun Bunker, etc… The server forums served as After Action Reports that made the slow times at work more enjoyable.
New players would seek help, and many did help. Taking them under their wing, showing them the ropes, forging bonds, weaken by the tears of this dying game, and friend’s lists evaporated as gamers left for greener pastures.
You really carved out your own existence, the greatest Star Wars saga ever told, yours… and if you ran the course and wanted a change, you could start over, 31 more times if it suited you.
Many of us have moved on, others stay and pray that the greatness of this game will return. Still others, like me, pay for a month here and there just to check in and see for ourselves.
For me, there is a soothing, surreal feeling when I hear the opening music. I stand above my home on Tatooine, in Storm’s End, a town we forged from the sands in a place called The Valley of the Wind. I watch the twin suns set over the mountains and remember what the game was like. It truly breaks my heart to think of the friends lost and the good times we had, gone forever, like the sands in a storm. I wait a bit longer, check my empty friend’s list and log off.

Yes, we were adventurers, explorers and soldiers, and it was the best of times.
 

Cant say it any better then this.

Originally posted by kb056

We were also five years younger.

Originally posted by mrroboto40

Originally posted by kb056

 

We were also five years younger.

Weep for what has been lost.

Jesus I could do a post graduate study on the melancholy remembrance disorder this group displays on a almost hourly basis.

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Originally posted by todeswulf

Jesus I could do a post graduate study on the melancholy remembrance disorder this group displays on a almost hourly basis.

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

Originally posted by kb056

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

I think the point here is the abnormality of a game garnering that type of emotion.  And standing in a video game?  This is pretty much why Bioware has basically told you guys not to come anywhere near their game.

Honestly climb down from the cross use the wood to build a bridge and get over it.

Originally posted by todeswulf

Jesus I could do a post graduate study on the melancholy remembrance disorder this group displays on a almost hourly basis.

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ROFL!

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by kb056

 

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

 

I think the point here is the abnormality of a game garnering that type of emotion.  And standing in a video game?  This is pretty much why Bioware has basically told you guys not to come anywhere near their game.

 

Honestly climb down from the cross use the wood to build a bridge and get over it.

and so what is so wrong about having memories about a game? perhaps it is you who needs to get over something if you need to go into a forum called veterans refuge and attack vets.

 Ya know the funny thing is that it seems todes really isn't an idiot, but he is a bit of bit of a cynic, and probably a misanthrope considering his negative opinion was in no way desired here.

And yes, it takes one to know one.

Artist vs Scientist round 2 go!

Romance vs Logic works too ;)

Now i'm just indulging myself. Ignore me.

Originally posted by kb056

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

Everquest

Originally posted by viralz

and so what is so wrong about having memories about a game? perhaps it is you who needs to get over something if you need to go into a forum called veterans refuge and attack vets.

Vets? Did these guys serve in some military? I beta tested  SWG played the game for a couple years and moved on...would that make me a Vet? Guess not I don't hold this obsessive grudge.

Anyway it's ironic that a guy who created a fan site whose entire reason for being is to bash a developer who broke his wookiee is telling me to get over...anything.

       What hes really pissed about is all that effort and thought he put into that loljoke of a write up and he gets ridiculed for it,and rightly so...

IM GOING to seek therapy if I hear one more OHNOESMAHGAMEISALLGONE/CRY thread rant....For fks sake,its over,move on for the love of god...Im begging you....

For you to sit down and writer something this long and detailed about a dead game is scary...On alot of different levels....Its truly socially retarded to do what you did OP...

Now,either move on and find a diff game,or dont...But dont for the love of god,post anymore drivel...WE HAVE HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT IT.....And no,your write up was no better then a crymoar thread....Now that your hopes about being the next ERNEST HEMINGWAY OF THE GALAXY ERA are dashed,please stop posting....

And remember,have a nice day...............

A lot of people found their perfect MMO in SWG, they changed the whole nature of the game and after that, for them nothing has ever replaced it or come close.

I can understand their ongoing frustration and wanting to regain the experience.

They're just crying out for the right peson to read this kind of thing and think, 'hey you know they did something right with that game to make it have such a lasting impression'.

Originally posted by Jumper2k

 Ya know the funny thing is that it seems todes really isn't an idiot, but he is a bit of bit of a cynic, and probably a misanthrope considering his negative opinion was in no way desired here.

And yes, it takes one to know one.

Artist vs Scientist round 2 go!

Romance vs Logic works too ;)

Now i'm just indulging myself. Ignore me.

A Cynic? Yes

A Misanthrope?  Nope...I think Humankind is just dandy as a genral rule, I just don't truck much with the walking wounded.

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by Jumper2k

 Ya know the funny thing is that it seems todes really isn't an idiot, but he is a bit of bit of a cynic, and probably a misanthrope considering his negative opinion was in no way desired here.

And yes, it takes one to know one.

Artist vs Scientist round 2 go!

Romance vs Logic works too ;)

Now i'm just indulging myself. Ignore me.

 

 I just don't truck much with the walking wounded.

Your posting in this thread speaks otherwise.

 There's different levels on misanthropy. I'm not going to argue with you because if you say you aren't then there's no arguing point for me. I don't really know you. It's even hard to say I am since I'm so open to meeting new people and giving them a chance. :) It just depends how you look at it. If I could just apply the word to certain large groups of people with certain opinions ... but thats another story.

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Oh, and I was there from beta in Feb/Mar 2003 until last month when I finally canceled my account.  And the 'adventurers, soldiers, explorers, and blah blah blah' lasted about as long as it took that first retard to figure out the Jedi grind.  

Anyhow, carry on, this forum is good for passing the time and a few chuckles.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane OP.  It brought back some good memories. 

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by viralz

and so what is so wrong about having memories about a game? perhaps it is you who needs to get over something if you need to go into a forum called veterans refuge and attack vets.

 

Vets? Did these guys serve in some military? I beta tested  SWG played the game for a couple years and moved on...would that make me a Vet? Guess not I don't hold this obsessive grudge.

Anyway it's ironic that a guy who created a fan site whose entire reason for being is to bash a developer who broke his wookiee is telling me to get over...anything.

The forum is called SWG Veteran Refuge by MMORPG.com.  Also, there is more than one definition for the word veteran; maybe you should brush up with a dictionary.

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by kb056

 

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

 

I think the point here is the abnormality of a game garnering that type of emotion.  And standing in a video game?  This is pretty much why Bioware has basically told you guys not to come anywhere near their game.

 

Honestly climb down from the cross use the wood to build a bridge and get over it.

Amen. 
 

Originally posted by kb056

Originally posted by todeswulf

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

EQ1 ...

You know, I've have joked about the longing and extensive posts made about SWG,,,,but it  IS a shame that SOE..and whoever was involved from Lucas Arts..had to fuck with the game that seemed to have an impressive player base..but apparently not enough cha-ching for the powers that be....  The sad thing is...even today..the game is better and more involved than 99% of the mmo's  on the market...but has now become  a well...forever poisoned. Only the few who have grown tolerant..can play it now. I liked it when I played..off and on for the last 3 years....I have other preferences now..so I do not play it at all.

i would like blizzard to make their game old SWG like with Death Knights as the jedi and see what happens :D

Originally posted by Snob

Originally posted by kb056

Originally posted by todeswulf

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Name me a game that can garner that type of emotion and I will listen, otherwise, you are nothing to me.

EQ1 ...

UO too and to an extent AC2.

Originally posted by Terranah

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by viralz

and so what is so wrong about having memories about a game? perhaps it is you who needs to get over something if you need to go into a forum called veterans refuge and attack vets.

 

Vets? Did these guys serve in some military? I beta tested  SWG played the game for a couple years and moved on...would that make me a Vet? Guess not I don't hold this obsessive grudge.

Anyway it's ironic that a guy who created a fan site whose entire reason for being is to bash a developer who broke his wookiee is telling me to get over...anything.

 

The forum is called SWG Veteran Refuge by MMORPG.com.  Also, there is more than one definition for the word veteran; maybe you should brush up with a dictionary.

These forums are what is called an enabler. They are obviously helping you in your belief that it is not insane to mope around an internet forum and lament the patching of an insignificant internet game.

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