Star Wars Galaxies

Anyone remember the Galactic Civil War?

I quit SWG when it became clear that Star Wars Galaxies:  An Empire Divided meant Light Jedi versus Dark Jedi.  By spending more than a year developing one character class that made all other classes useless, SOE left SWG to bleed to death while they spent way too long making really big band-aids.  The rest of the galaxy was rendered obsolete.

Separate Jedi into a mini-game.  They don't belong in the game at all.  The best any Star Wars-loving MMORPG enthusiast can hope for is a friendly divorse of Jedi into their own reality within SWG.  The GCW depends on balance and there can be no balance with Jedi on the field of battle with non-Jedi.  Just the opportunity to be Jedi with non-Jedi on the field is too tempting and prevents non-Jedi character development and play.

Next, find ways to give Rebels and Imperials different, but balanced ways to fight for control of the galaxy.  Boost faction perks and make Rebels fight like Rebels and Imperials fight like Imperials.

If you're a normal character and you enter a PvP battle, you are likely to die with the ever-increasing Jedi of the opposing faction show up.

Since the time I wrote my original post, I started playing SWG again.  I decided to stay out of the Jedi-dominated PvP and try to ignore them by focusing on PvE.  In PvP, the number (and relative power) of Jedi on each side determines who wins.  Any non-Jedi character was foolish (assuming you care about getting killed or winning) to fight in a GCW PvP battle involving Jedi with the possible exception of the best PvP templates. 

Now we'll see what the CU makes of this.  I'm hearing that Jedi have been taken down a notch.  Developers said their goal was to make Jedi 20% stronger than non-Jedi.  That pretty much lays out the future of the game right there.  What percentage of players in future GCW PvP battles do you think will be Jedi? ...and who will most likely be left standing when it's over?

Also, the Combat Upgrade nor GCW Revamp that have taken place since my original post have done anything to make Rebels fight like Rebels, nor Imperials fight like Imperials.  New armor differentiation is the best we've gotten on that count.  Imperials still have the (gimped?) AT-ST for show and the Rebels have no "faction pet" to bring to any battle (even PvE) that's not dead in 10 seconds or less.