Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

Why would you want to come back anyways?

I'm surprised they haven't shut down what servers are left and called it quits.

I think once KOTOR 3 comes out they probably will.

Define "near future." So far we have NOT received 100% official confirmation (i.e. an LA/Bioware press release), and  any speculation on a release date is exactly that  -- speculation. Plus, we don't know what SOE is going to do with the SWG servers whenever this game goes beta or live.

Frankly, we don't KNOW if it's being "replaced."

EDIT: That's like saying "why should I buy a goldfish when I know, in an indeterminate amount of time, I'm going to have to flush it down the toilet?"

you do know that the near future you refer to is 12 if not 18 months away at least?

hmm why should i play fifa2009 if they are going to make fifa 2010 next year ?

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

the real question is why would you want to invest time, money, and energy into a game that has twice changed its core game mechanics ?

Regardless if SWG is shut down (it will be), twice before SOE threw out the players work without a second thought.

Because FIFA is not a MMO.

I miss Galaxies. I am sure the PVE is stil fine, even though they blow up PVP every two months, and I mean, EVERY two months.

Why should you go back? No reason. Unless you want screens of your dead guild city, or screens of the amazing sites the game launched with, there really is no reason.

Go outside developers. Hopefully I won't have to pay for those screens. it was a beautiful galaxy once, wasn't it?

I would be more concerned with the horrible gameplay, the dead servers, the large list of bugs and glitches, the lack of collision detection, the fact that SWG will never see another expansion, the amateur development team, and the aweful customer service before I worried about when the game is going to be put out of its misery.

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

Whether the game is about to be replaced or not (IMO, I'm not yet sold on this current "news"), if you're paying monthly and you're having fun, does it matter?

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

 

Whether the game is about to be replaced or not (IMO, I'm not yet sold on this current "news"), if you're paying monthly and you're having fun, does it matter?

Because I'm paying - yes it matters greatly.

It depends on if you buy into the myth that games are meant to be anything beyond the fun you have while playing them. If it's fun enough to be worth the money, play. If not, don't. For heaven's sake don't invest yourself in a game thinking you're accumulating posessions that have permanence or mean anything.

OMG they shutz it down! I losed all my toonz and  phat lootz!    

Originally posted by Suvroc

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

 

Whether the game is about to be replaced or not (IMO, I'm not yet sold on this current "news"), if you're paying monthly and you're having fun, does it matter?

 

Because I'm paying - yes it matters greatly.

But if you're having fun for each month that you pay for, then wouldn't you be getting your money's worth? 

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Suvroc

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

 

Whether the game is about to be replaced or not (IMO, I'm not yet sold on this current "news"), if you're paying monthly and you're having fun, does it matter?

 

Because I'm paying - yes it matters greatly.

 

But if you're having fun for each month that you pay for, then wouldn't you be getting your money's worth? 

Absolutely!

But for me it's more then that. In an MMO the community is the game. If I'm looking at a dwindling community then I'm looking at a withering game.

So, my "money's worth" comes from playing a game at it's peak and not it's demise.

Originally posted by Suvroc

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Suvroc

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Force_Fire

Why should I come back to SWG if it's being Replaced in the near future? Why should I make the investment of time, money, and energy only to see the game get shutdown? What's the point?

 

Whether the game is about to be replaced or not (IMO, I'm not yet sold on this current "news"), if you're paying monthly and you're having fun, does it matter?

 

Because I'm paying - yes it matters greatly.

 

But if you're having fun for each month that you pay for, then wouldn't you be getting your money's worth? 

 

Absolutely!

But for me it's more then that. In an MMO the community is the game. If I'm looking at a dwindling community then I'm looking at a withering game.

So, my "money's worth" comes from playing a game at it's peak and not it's demise.

Absolutly!

It takes almost a year to "trick" out a toon, in SWG, just to get to the "end-game" content.  With the situation now, a new player would just "get there" and hit the "swan song" if the new MMO goes as planned.

I think as it gets closer, we'll all probably see this type of mind-set get more prevelant.  This is probably the entire reasoning for not announcing the new MMO in the 1st place.