Star Wars Galaxies

For an MMO that's suppose to be dieing and not gaining any interest, SWG is one of 5 MMO's (at least I think it was 5, the other 4 I remember was WoW, EvE, EQ2 & Second Life) to get its own 2 page spread in this new book I noticed on display at Borders tonight.  First I had heard of it, and was kinda surprised it hasn't been something SOE or LA have mentioned.

Some of the records/interesting facts I noticed in the feature was:

• As of September 2007, 7.75 million items have been crafted on Bria (which is also noted as the largest server, duh)
• Intrepid was home to the very first Jedi
• SWG was the first to allow people to place their own houses to form a Player City
• The longest lasting player corpse was on Bloodfin (I think I'm remembering that right) at the Talus IO for 3ish years
• Restuss is the largest PvP zone

SWG also got a few other mentions in the book for a few other things too that I can't remember the complete details on...

Originally posted by Obraik

For an MMO that's suppose to be dieing and not gaining any interest, SWG is one of 5 MMO's (at least I think it was 5, the other 4 I remember was WoW, EvE, EQ2 & Second Life) to get its own 2 page spread in this new book I noticed on display at Borders tonight.  First I had heard of it, and was kinda surprised it hasn't been something SOE or LA have mentioned.

Some of the records/interesting facts I noticed in the feature was:

• As of September 2007, 7.75 million items have been crafted on Bria (which is also noted as the largest server, duh)
• Intrepid was home to the very first Jedi
• SWG was the first to allow people to place their own houses to form a Player City
• The longest lasting player corpse was on Bloodfin (I think I'm remembering that right) at the Talus IO for 3ish years
• Restuss is the largest PvP zone

SWG also got a few other mentions in the book for a few other things too that I can't remember the complete details on...

ok, so you do realize the first jedi was pre-cu, so was player housing, and crafting was only good pre-cu.

So lets see here, you have a corpse and a pvp zone.

Happy now?

-Jive

According to Amazon.com the book was published March 11, 2008. That explains why I haven't heard of it yet. Thanks dude. Gonna have to get a copy.

The official description reads:

Guinness World Records, the world's leading authority on record-breaking achievement, is launching the ultimate annual compendium of videogaming achievements. Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 brings you record-breaking computer- and video-game accomplishments from around the world, including high scores, biggest tournaments, largest cash prizes and most successful games.

In addition to thousands of high scores and records, the book features a round-up of the key events of the video-gaming year--including reviews of new releases, new consoles and the major tournaments--along with detailed game strategies, interviews with the professionals, tips and cheats to improve your play, tabulated information, full-color photography and illustrations, league tables, bizarre facts and amazingtrivia.

One one the writers for the Guinness World Records is Dave Hawksett. His bio reads:

Current job title: Freelance editor and writer (MMORPG's)

Dave Hawksett was science and technology editor at Guinness World Records for five years and now acts as a consultant on topics ranging from computer games to astrophysics.

His favourite games today are Star Wars Galaxies, where he fights dirty as a rebel spy, and Armed Assault.

Guinness World Records: Gamers Edition (2008)

 What about the record of lost customers? Surely it achieved that as well.

Originally posted by JestorRodo

 What about the record of lost customers? Surely it achieved that as well.

 

 

I think DnL has that all tied up.

The people who brought us records for things such as the world's longest toenails and the longest distance driven on a unicycle somehow give credence to your argument that the game is not suffering from a lack of players.  I just do not see what the records you've listed have to do with the actual state of the game or the level of dissatisfaction many players have with SOE. 

Ok so this was the first game that offered players a chance to build player cities.  Yeah, we see where that led the game.  It's been plagued with dead cities and abandoned houses all over the landscape for years.  They've done ONE (1) housing purge in 5 years to get rid of the dead or abandoned houses.  Of course they then offered folks like me free trials so we could log into the game, free of charge, reload our homes with money, and remove the abandoned status so they'll stay in the game world for another five years or until SOE does it's next purge.  So, in retrospect, I don't think I'd be bragging too much about being the only game to allow player cities since quite a few of the servers are plagued with abandoned cities and structures brought about by a flawed system that allows houses to remain in the game world long after a player has left the game.

The first player Jedi you say?  That's not exactly something I'd be bragging about in the current state of the game where everyone can be a Jedi by just clicking a button.  Bringing up the whole, Monika was the first Jedi, might make people talk about the days when there were actually accomplishments in the game and not all of this instant gratification crap they have in SWG now.

Player corpse at the IO for 3 years eh?  So what you're saying is a player died at the IO, logged out, never logged into that character again and, due to an error in coding, his corpse remained in the world for 3 years?  That's not exactly something I'd be bragging about.  In fact, it pretty much proves what many have said about SOE's inability and/or unwillingness to fix bugs in the game that have lasted for years.

Restuss in the largest PVP zone.  So SOE destroyed a city that hardly no one visited to create a PVP zone that only a small fraction of the playerbase use since, according to people like you, most people playing the game do not have an officer or engage in PVP.  Yeah, that's something I'd be bragging about if I were SOE.

Finally, as of September 2007 7.75 million items had been crafted on Bria.  Fantastic!  I wonder how many of those items were crafted prior to November 2005 when the crafting game was actually considered a premiere part of the game and decay drove those numbers to the levels currently reported in the Guiness book of records.

 Restuss in the largest PVP zone.  So SOE destroyed a city that hardly no one visited to create a PVP zone that only a small fraction of the playerbase use since, according to people like you, most people playing the game do not have an officer or engage in PVP.  Yeah, that's something I'd be bragging about if I were SOE. 

More to the point, the ENTIRE GAME WORLD used to be a PvP zone, until they NGE"d everything. On many servers, PvP no longer exists, in any meaningful way. Not even in Restuss.

People go to Restuss to kill the "Hand" NPC and that's it.

Hey that's pretty cool.  Nice to see Guiness starting to keep track of such things.

I feel bad for that guy that was laying dead in Talus.  Hard to believe no one gave him a decent burial.

Originally posted by jaxscorpio34

The people who brought us records for things such as the world's longest toenails and the longest distance driven on a unicycle somehow give credence to your argument that the game is not suffering from a lack of players.  I just do not see what the records you've listed have to do with the actual state of the game or the level of dissatisfaction many players have with SOE. 

 

Ok so this was the first game that offered players a chance to build player cities.  Yeah, we see where that led the game.  It's been plagued with dead cities and abandoned houses all over the landscape for years.  They've done ONE (1) housing purge in 5 years to get rid of the dead or abandoned houses.  Of course they then offered folks like me free trials so we could