Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

So I was wondering, is there anything close to SWG that I could enjoy?

EvE, Age of Conan and Secret World

no more SWTOR for me except the occasional F2P warzone

waiting for: 

Star Citizen

Black Desert

Elite

World of Darkness

HOPING for Disney saving us and giving SOE a licence for SWG2

Decided to play with myself.

Every other game I play reminds me of communism. Nothing but centralized government telling me how to live, when to smile, when to secure the happyness, and when to log in MMORPG forums and fabricate lies about having a blast whenever they use the words Iconic and  expansion in the same sentence. 

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

If a fraction of the people who talk (endlessly) about the greatness and inherent superiority of SWG had been playing it, it'd still be around instead of a long distant memory of something that survived (barely) for half a decade on near literal life support after two desperate, albeit reviled and laughably unsuccessful, attempts to make the game relevant.

But, hey, rose coloured glasses are remarkably resistant to even the strongest headlong impact with a reality wall.

Originally posted by Myria

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

If a fraction of the people who talk (endlessly) about the greatness and inherent superiority of SWG had been playing it, it'd still be around instead of a long distant memory of something that survived (barely) for half a decade on near literal life support after two desperate, albeit reviled and laughably unsuccessful, attempts to make the game relevant.

But, hey, rose coloured glasses are remarkably resistant to even the strongest headlong impact with a reality wall.

The SWG that people left had been WoW'ified, if they had spent the effort improving the Pre-CU it may have retained more players.  The NGE was an attempt to chase WoW numbers rather than attempt to save an un-relevant game.

Originally posted by RefMinor

Originally posted by Myria

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

If a fraction of the people who talk (endlessly) about the greatness and inherent superiority of SWG had been playing it, it'd still be around instead of a long distant memory of something that survived (barely) for half a decade on near literal life support after two desperate, albeit reviled and laughably unsuccessful, attempts to make the game relevant.

But, hey, rose coloured glasses are remarkably resistant to even the strongest headlong impact with a reality wall.

The SWG that people left had been WoW'ified, if they had spent the effort improving the Pre-CU it may have retained more players.  The NGE was an attempt to chase WoW numbers rather than attempt to save an un-relevant game.

This.

SWG a.k.a The Jedi Grind Fest

Originally posted by Arezon
For a while I wasn't playing any MMOs. But couple weeks ago I subbed to WoW again.

Strange,

I expected to hear a single gunshot coupled with screaming after I read that...

I am playing EQ2, yes I know it is an soe game but nobody else has anything that is as indepth.   I tried to play swtor and well that was just a mess, see my previous post history. 

Playing War Thunder

while waiting for ArcheAge and Black Desert

The Secret World (love that create-your-own "class" setup)

EverQuest (mostly the old-school EQ Mac server)

EverQuest II rarely

Vanguard Saga of Heroes

City of Heroes from Dec.'05 to the end

Originally posted by RefMinor

Originally posted by Myria

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

If a fraction of the people who talk (endlessly) about the greatness and inherent superiority of SWG had been playing it, it'd still be around instead of a long distant memory of something that survived (barely) for half a decade on near literal life support after two desperate, albeit reviled and laughably unsuccessful, attempts to make the game relevant.

But, hey, rose coloured glasses are remarkably resistant to even the strongest headlong impact with a reality wall.

The SWG that people left had been WoW'ified, if they had spent the effort improving the Pre-CU it may have retained more players.  The NGE was an attempt to chase WoW numbers rather than attempt to save an un-relevant game.

This. SOE and LA got greedy, changed the game to attract another fanbase and it blew up in their faces. Case closed. 

Originally posted by Myria

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

If a fraction of the people who talk (endlessly) about the greatness and inherent superiority of SWG had been playing it, it'd still be around instead of a long distant memory of something that survived (barely) for half a decade on near literal life support after two desperate, albeit reviled and laughably unsuccessful, attempts to make the game relevant.

But, hey, rose coloured glasses are remarkably resistant to even the strongest headlong impact with a reality wall.

No rose coloured glasses, as I have played other MMOs and none have come close to what SWG had. The NGE despite being an inferior version of SWG was still better than everything else, I just regret now not playing it more in 2006, all beause I hated the NGE at that time.

Originally posted by cybersrs

So I was wondering, is there anything close to SWG that I could enjoy?

What are you SWG Veteran playing?

Nope. The closest to SWG to enjoy is SWG ;)

I am just mainly playing my console games now, and playing SimCity reminded me of SWG with the player buildings and cities. I only got Dead Space 3 due to its weapons crafting, which is cool, but still no where near as awesome as SWGs crafting, and no other MMO or any game has crafting like SWG (I am hoping EQ next will do) 

Planetside 2 on and off, haven't really played any games for a while now, I was playing Guild Wars 2 and a bit of the *other* SWG. I also got SimCity 2013 and can't even bother to launch it anymore, I actually uninstalled it, it's so blatantly broken.

I think my interest in playing video games is falling to 0 pretty rapidly due to the direction many new games are going in.

Originally posted by cybersrs

Well, I did not play SWG... But in many forums I only read good things about it.

So I was wondering, is there anything close to SWG that I could enjoy?

Check out the development of The Repopulation. That's the closest I've seen so far to any company trying to make a game similiar to SWG without the IP. It's still early in development and the game could wind up being a complete mess, but there isn't anything out right now that comes close to replicating PRE-NGE SWG . If they are able to make a true player driven world without the annoying problems that SWG had they could be on to something.

Far as what I'm playing right now it's TOR.