Yes

Would need to see some serious attention though not just one guy working part time on bug fix updates that will be released at the rate of let's say one a year. Like to see them also put a little more into marketing. I see them working on bugs that have been around for years, releasing updates, and actually advertising the game then I know SoE is serious about making money with Vanguard and I will be willing to give them a full price sub fee every month. No commitment from SoE though, no money from me. Sorry I'm not paying to play a game that gets ZERO from it's owner when I can pay the same amount to play other games that have regular updates.

Yes.

I'd also like to see them hyping their own game some more.  Advertising, anyone?

I would! As long as they keep it in the spirit of Keith Parkinsons Art Directions ;D

The game need a relaunch and some serious and well deserved LOVE!

Peace!

Anything is possible but would need to see what it was first.  I do have to wonder since supposedly the northern lands were nearly done even in beta if that is what they intend to finish.  IF they did then would come back in heartbeat.  IF its just some new quest lines and a dungeon or two with a raid then no.

Yes I would definetly play.  I beta'd this but never played at release. It was a great game.

after the way SOE's customer service treated me a couple of yeras ago when I decided to retry it there is no way I will ever return to it as long as SOE is running it. Hope they enjoyed that 20 dollars becasue it cost them a station pass subscriber and a beta player of SWG and EQII

I had to be 100% honest and vote yes.  although i loathe SOE i would hold my nose and re-sub for the new content just as i'm sure i'll hold my nose and purchase eq3 or next or whatever it's called.

soe need to support the game new content/ xpansion pack on the way things to look forward to.

and why not open the game ftp for  say 4 weeks to get people trying the game out again has they did sell alot of boxes at retail.

i would love to try the game again but like most people post lack of people playing i class vanguard has the last of the true mmorpgs.

A most emphatic NO!

HELL NO!

Probably not. It is a dated feeling game to me. As fun and innovative as it is, I can't push myself to play a game that far on life support.

I've never played vanguard, mostly because it's old and has a very low population, but one of the things I actually liked about it is the lack of updates. Any updates (bug fixes aside) will likely just make the game more like WoW, I fear. I voted no.

Originally posted by Palebane

I've never played vanguard, mostly because it's old and has a very low population, but one of the things I actually liked about it is the lack of updates. Any updates (bug fixes aside) will likely just make the game more like WoW, I fear. I voted no.

That's kind of a concern I have going forward.

I mean, look at everyone who has a favorite game. At some point the devs go to a place where players don't want the game to go to and many people say they eventualy ruined it.

UO, EQ, DAoC, EVE, Lineage 2, LOTRO and I'm sure the list goes on.

Add SWG to that list. It was made for that list, hah.

If Vanguard is 'too old' then so is city of heroes, DDO, Guild Wars, EQ2 and WoW, because they are all older than VG.

Also I am forced to wonder if people mean 'lagging' or 'hitching.' Either way Lagging isn't SoE's fault since I seriously doubt the servers are stressed, and for me I don't get any hitching because I actually play on a gaming PC. Seriously if you can't run a 5 year old game I hope you don't plan on playing SWtoR or GW2 on that machine lol.

Personally my favorite aspect of VG is that they did classes RIGHT. I'm particularly partial to how they did Rangers. Even when I made alt characters for other classes I found each one of them interesting opposed to other games that simply depend on you picking the role you like in a group for satisfaction. Loved how they balanced classes too, really quite simple. they made them all OP. If content needed certain amount of healing, defense or offense to complete, all the classes were easily capable of doing it. You didn't need a certain tank class, certain healer or certain DPS to do things, any of them would do.

The people who created VG 'on paper' were brilliant (save for drugged up Brad McQuaid), too bad it didn't get good followthrough.

All they need to do is make it f2p to get a playerbase again. But this is SOE we're talking about, logic fails them.

I'd love to come back to Vanguard as long as I could play it the way it was meant to be played by taking advantage of all the group content and dungeons rather than hopping all over the game world scouring for what few soloable quests I can find at level 35.

If there were enough people to play with I would play. It is an amazing and rich game, but like others have said, after they got their shiz together most players had split. If there was a decent population I would come back. Their dungeons throughout the levels are freaking great....but I can't do a level 20 dungeon by myself. lol.

Why would they keep long term plans for Vanguard? They'll not have this still going by the time Everquest Next is out as that will be a huge smealess world on a much more advanced engine built for huge zoneless words with physics built in.  Mark my words VG will go the way of SWG once EQN is slated for a release date. SOE will not have this game getting in the way of EQN imho. SOE want to push on with its new era of MMO's on its new MMO engine and VG will feel a bit dated to the next gen SOE seamless world MMO of EQN a thempark sandbox hybrid.

I am actually trying out Vanguard again and it seems everyone is now pretty much on the Telon server.

Seriously, I have never seen that many people on Isle of Dawn the last couple night, since it was launched!

There were over 500 people online sunday night! I hadn't seen that on a single Vanguard server for years.

So it seems the whole update announcement has triggered some people to come back and have it another go.