Star Wars Galaxies

I quit just after the NGE hit. I had an Elder Jedi on the Kauri server.  I just got an email from SOE saying I had a free month to play, so I loaded the game up to check it out.

I log in... I'm sitting down near the Warren. I look at my friends list, 0/159 people are online. Not really surprised by this. I pull out my speeder and head for the shuttle port to get my star ships and start re-visiting the galaxy. Right away I notice bugs that were in the game when the NGE went live. Clicking on my speeder made me pull out my lightsaber and try to fight it. Riding my speeder, when attempting to go in a different direction, I instantly go in that direction but the speeder graphic turns slowly, making the speeder look as though its flying backwards and sideways... nothings changed.

I fly to dantooine mining outpost, a pre-nge hub for grouping and grinding. There is one person, an Expert Armorsmith who appears to be afk. I fly to Theed, the pvp hub pre-nge. When I get there, there is one person there. He too was on the trial account, and we had actually interacted a little bit together just before we both quit after the NGE. We conversed a bit about the game and such. I fly to Mos Eisley, a hub for everyone post-NGE. There is no one in the star port, or the town for that matter, and all I find is 3 afk entertainers in the cantina. I then fly to Coronet, where I am surprised to find 2 other people, both afk. This is getting sad.

I attempt to fly to my old guild city and visit my houses, but my city lost its shuttleport(from lack of people I assume) so I must fly close by and speeder there. I get there and it is a ghost town. I revisit the guild hall, where we had meetings every week, and remember the two great battles we had at the steps of our guild hall with 2 of our biggest rival guilds(Some of them my favorite times in the game). I go by old friend's houses, long abandoned and empty. I go to the pvp command center, where my office was located, but it is condemned and I can't get in. I go into my houses. the first two are scattered with items and lockers, a side effect of the house moving operation I had going on, and was never able to finish, when the NGE hit. My  "new " house is partially decorated in a couple rooms with my prized loot items, my first lightsaber, and my first padawan robes.

I open my friends list and start scrolling down the names, all of them offline. I see and am reminded of all of the random people I met and had business with, the enemies I had, and most importantly I see the names I had forgotten, of the many great guys that I would spend hours upon ours on Teamspeak with every day, grinding, fighting, questing, but most of all, laughing, and just having an awesome time. After all of this, I quietly turn my character into a blue ghost, and log off.

This was honestly the most depressing video game related event I have ever had. It was just too sad to see and remember all the great things that once were completely destroyed, lost, or abandoned. Not only was this game about the game mechanics and the awesome systems that were in place, but it was about the community, your guild, and your friends. The NGE managed to remove all of them.

What did I find? I found nothing...

Yeah. Population issues do make lots of servers look like ghost towns. And Kauri is the worst of the lot... not saying it isn't bad on other servers, but Kauri is definitely in the most dire straights.

I liked the idea someone suggested of making Kauri a classic server. I bet it would go from smallest population to largest in 24 hours if that ever happened. But, for reasons that will always baffle me, SOE refuses to start a classic server --- for a company that is for profit --- this strikes me as a fire-able offense.

been there done that

hate going back into the game.

Originally posted by HastorHadron

Yeah. Population issues do make lots of servers look like ghost towns. And Kauri is the worst of the lot... not saying it isn't bad on other servers, but Kauri is definitely in the most dire straights.

 

I liked the idea someone suggested of making Kauri a classic server. I bet it would go from smallest population to largest in 24 hours if that ever happened. But, for reasons that will always baffle me, SOE refuses to start a classic server --- for a company that is for profit --- this strikes me as a fire-able offense.

I can guarantee that Kauri would go from least populated to most populated in the first 5 hours if it was turned into a pre-cu server. I would guarantee it would have more people on that server then the rest of the servers combined.

I can't understand why they wouldn't put up a classic server either, but I saw someone else mention that putting that up would make there be two different star wars games, and it could possibly pose license/copyright issues if they only bought the license to have one game up. Not sure how true this is, but it could be one possible reason.

Originally posted by Abrahmm

Originally posted by HastorHadron

Yeah. Population issues do make lots of servers look like ghost towns. And Kauri is the worst of the lot... not saying it isn't bad on other servers, but Kauri is definitely in the most dire straights.

 

I liked the idea someone suggested of making Kauri a classic server. I bet it would go from smallest population to largest in 24 hours if that ever happened. But, for reasons that will always baffle me, SOE refuses to start a classic server --- for a company that is for profit --- this strikes me as a fire-able offense.

 

I can guarantee that Kauri would go from least populated to most populated in the first 5 hours if it was turned into a pre-cu server. I would guarantee it would have more people on that server then the rest of the servers combined.

I can't understand why they wouldn't put up a classic server either, but I saw someone else mention that putting that up would make there be two different star wars games, and it could possibly pose license/copyright issues if they only bought the license to have one game up. Not sure how true this is, but it could be one possible reason.

If that is the case, that reason SUCKS :(

I think a classic server would add years to the life of the game. And you are right, 24 hours was too conservative--- 5 hours is all it would take. I keep hoping some number cruncher at SOE will finally click to all the potential revenue they are losing out on...

Originally posted by Abrahmm

Originally posted by HastorHadron

Yeah. Population issues do make lots of servers look like ghost towns. And Kauri is the worst of the lot... not saying it isn't bad on other servers, but Kauri is definitely in the most dire straights.

 

I liked the idea someone suggested of making Kauri a classic server. I bet it would go from smallest population to largest in 24 hours if that ever happened. But, for reasons that will always baffle me, SOE refuses to start a classic server --- for a company that is for profit --- this strikes me as a fire-able offense.

 

I can guarantee that Kauri would go from least populated to most populated in the first 5 hours if it was turned into a pre-cu server. I would guarantee it would have more people on that server then the rest of the servers combined.

I can't understand why they wouldn't put up a classic server either, but I saw someone else mention that putting that up would make there be two different star wars games, and it could possibly pose license/copyright issues if they only bought the license to have one game up. Not sure how true this is, but it could be one possible reason.

Being an Ex-Kauri Player myself (I moved to Starsider a few months ago) there was alot going on mostly due to Kauri's Player Base that ended up hurting Kauri in the long run.

If you are looking for most of the old Kauri people almost all of them have moved over to Bloodfin, as around last Summer many of the PvP crowd wanted more PvP and went over to Bloodfin. Spending a few weeks posting "Come to Bloodfin!" on the Kauri Forums after, well that along with how great Bloodfin was and how there was more PvP on Bloodfin then Kauri ever have.

Wow everyone needs to stop comparing this game to the past. If you take time to learn the system and granted that you're on a populated server (sry Kauri isnt one), I hope that people will realize it's not that bad of a game.

Many people still play (doesnt matter how big it was in the past, just give it up, it was 3 years ago), and I have tons of great relationships and my friend list (on Bria) has about 100 people who are often online. The devs in the past year have added a lot of new content and if you truly loved this game in the past, you shouldn't just give up on it.

SWG is an average game right now, but it's awesome if you love Star Wars, and it is awfully better than when the NGE was first implemented. With peoople continuing to give it a bad rep, the population will never grow. SWG is not dead by any means because I've actually been playing it for awhile now and it is quite fun. Just let the past go...

It's not even average.  It has too many bugs and horrible quests to be considered average.  The economy is broken and the combat is some of the worst in an MMO that's live.

It's well below average with a well below average amount of players who are willing to pay money for a busted game.

Originally posted by Traire

Wow everyone needs to stop comparing this game to the past.

Why? Why should we stop comparing the crappy current version of star wars galaxies to its awesome past version?

If you take time to learn the system and granted that you're on a populated server (sry Kauri isnt one), I hope that people will realize it's not that bad of a game.

Sorry, Star Wars Galaxies was once a GREAT game, I'm not going to relearn it to play a "not that bad" watered down version of it.

Many people still play (doesnt matter how big it was in the past, just give it up, it was 3 years ago)

Sad that 3 years later the NGE still isn't half the game pre-nge was.

 and I have tons of great relationships and my friend list (on Bria) has about 100 people who are often online.

Thats lucky for you, 159 of my friends aren't online ever.

The devs in the past year have added a lot of new content and if you truly loved this game in the past, you shouldn't just give up on it.

If only they would have added a lot of new content pre-NGE.

SWG is an average game right now, but it's awesome if you love Star Wars, and it is awfully better than when the NGE was first implemented. With peoople continuing to give it a bad rep, the population will never grow. SWG is not dead by any means because I've actually been playing it for awhile now and it is quite fun. Just let the past go...

 

From my experiences today, SWG barely has a pulse. I'm sorry, but I'm not going t