yes i am a vet and yes i would love to see classic servers for this game.  however being a gamer i dont like to see my fellow gamers forced into gamelessness in the middle of a MMO winter (same old games coming out over and over).

i see the most likely situation that will arise is Lucas Arts canning SOE's SWG license as soon as this new MMO comes out.  what are your views on this?  how should SWG proceed? what games will you move to (some will even if SWG stays afloat)

i feel this community needs to have a voice in this new MMO and needs some help in dealing with this news.  ex Auto assault players would know how hard it is to suddenly (without your consent) stop playing an MMO that you have poured time into

SWG may not be the best MMO out there but it sure is different.  and in this MMO winter thats always a good thing

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there is no future unless the game is rolled back to swg pre-cu

$OE knows that i bet the game gets shut down in a month or they trash hoth and work on the rollback.

Considering LA just granted SOE a license for the upcommining "Legends of the Force" game, I think it's unlikely SOE will be losing their license to Star Wars anytime soon...

I'm really not sure how LA will handle this. My gut tells me that they may indeed have a timetable for SWG's sunset, and it may have something to do with their contract with Bioware and some kind of exclusive SW license.

But certainly SWG will take a huge hit from any kind of new SW MMO competition even if it isn't shut down by LA or SoE. As I've been warning for 3 years now if you make a game easy to jump into you're equally capable of jumping out again, and I think this will be exactly the case with SWG.

Honestly, I do not know what to expect. This will undoubtedly leave the current player base in a state of uncertainty, and the bleeding of players will likely increase in the next few months unless SoE does something drastic like lower it's subscription price or introduce classic servers. In any event SoE will be forced into some kind of crisis mode.

The next couple of months will be interesting to say the least. This will definetly be a dramatic time for SWG.

If LA doesn't pull the license from SOE (And why should they? Players that want to switch games will do so and LA earns money that way and those few who stay in SWG also earn money for LA), SOE will keep it running for as long as there's money in it like they do with all the other not so well received MMOs in their Portfolio.

It'll be interesting to see what happens IF Bioware is in fact working on a SW MMO.  I'll still believe it when I see it on the Bioware site.

I don't see any reason why multiple SW MMOs can't co-exist.  Obviously there are still people who enjoy SWG and they've invested a lot of their time in the game.  If the game is viable for SOE then why not keep it running? 

One thought that has occured to me many times is; would people still play the game if it wasn't the only SW MMO on the market.  It would be interesting to see.

Originally posted by Obraik

Considering LA just granted SOE a license for the upcommining "Legends of the Force" game, I think it's unlikely SOE will be losing their license to Star Wars anytime soon...

It would be interesting to see if that license is open ended or has an expiration date as we're looking at about 18 months before the Bioware MMO anyway.

Originally posted by swgtester1

there is no future unless the game is rolled back to swg pre-cu

$OE knows that i bet the game gets shut down in a month or they trash hoth and work on the rollback.

Hehe,

I hope they would fix all the pre-cu bugs and balancing issues.  It'd be a lot of work.  Plus the fact that most players have moved on.  Remembering past games is like remembering old girlfriends.  You always remember them as being sexier and a lot more fun.

Originally posted by Obraik

Considering LA just granted SOE a license for the upcommining "Legends of the Force" game, I think it's unlikely SOE will be losing their license to Star Wars anytime soon...

It is highly likely they will be losing their license for Star War Galaxies sometime in 2009 though...

Originally posted by xtravert

Originally posted by swgtester1

there is no future unless the game is rolled back to swg pre-cu

$OE knows that i bet the game gets shut down in a month or they trash hoth and work on the rollback.

 

Hehe,

I hope they would fix all the pre-cu bugs and balancing issues.  It'd be a lot of work.  Plus the fact that most players have moved on.  Remembering past games is like remembering old girlfriends.  You always remember them as being sexier and a lot more fun.

It would take just as long to fix the NGE bugs and glitches since there are just as many if not more.

Originally posted by swgtester1

there is no future unless the game is rolled back to swg pre-cu

$OE knows that i bet the game gets shut down in a month or they trash hoth and work on the rollback.

There will never be a roll-back or a classic server ever. The game will never be what it was so either play the game the way it is and help make it better,or go play wow or some other game ,rest assured you will never see SWG pre-cu ever again unless the emulator guys get it going in which it will never run like the old game either.

Originally posted by Obraik

Considering LA just granted SOE a license for the upcommining "Legends of the Force" game, I think it's unlikely SOE will be losing their license to Star Wars anytime soon...

SOE also run a TCG based on Stargate, they have nothing to do with the Stargate mmo though (thank goodness), TCG's and MMO's are completely disjointed, one has no bearing on the other, try again.

Considering that the SWG "card" game is only used if you are subscribed to the game and grants ingame abilitys and rewards................................

You try again.