Originally posted by Distiler

Originally posted by Enigma

I don't want to sound like a nag or a game hater; but dear God in heaven; are these developers mentally retarded?

This is the first and ONLY mmo that I have ever played that actually gets WORSE as the years progress. If the gameplay gets any dumbed down I minus well be playing Sonic the Hedgehog with the infinite life cheat on.

Im really trying to be open about SWG since its been a couple of years of playing it but good lord, how do people play this for 5 straight years like a couple people here have been doing? What in the world do you guys do to like this game? I would like to know your secrets because Im trying my damndest to like it and it's just not clicking.

 

I understand you feelings I also got them and felt the rush to bash right and left at every forum I could, but saying it's worse than the first NGE we have got makes me think you're not being objective. I liked your review here in mmorpg.com, it was fair and objective, done with the head and not with the heart (damn, this was hard to acomplish in november 2005, at that time I had my eyes injected with blood XD).

Perhaps playing more than a few hours, or reading a bit into the friday features and chapters note will you discover that in this last year devs have put into the game more quantity and quality than in the previous 4 years. I literally went from bashing to subscriving in a matter of weeks.

Well I can definitely vouch for your bashing of the game in the past , I'm glad you were able to be objective rather than Biased as most were in the past few years. /cheers

Might have to try giving an honest go myself while on this trial., AOC needs work and won't be truly playable until then . SO I'm thinking about holding off and playing something else.And I hate High fantasy it's up to SWG or EVE I guess.Eve is just so dang time consuming to start out in .

Originally posted by ArcAngel3

I thought this thread was about someone's experience with the current version of SWG...  Are people way off on a tangent, or is the subject of the thread too uncomfortable?

SWG forums are NOTORIOUS for thread hijacks.

Originally posted by Enigma

I don't want to sound like a nag or a game hater; but dear God in heaven; are these developers mentally retarded?

This is the first and ONLY mmo that I have ever played that actually gets WORSE as the years progress. If the gameplay gets any dumbed down I minus well be playing Sonic the Hedgehog with the infinite life cheat on.

Im really trying to be open about SWG since its been a couple of years of playing it but good lord, how do people play this for 5 straight years like a couple people here have been doing? What in the world do you guys do to like this game? I would like to know your secrets because Im trying my damndest to like it and it's just not clicking.

Why I play it? It's because it's Star Wars. If it wasn't I'd have quit about the 3rd day of the trial.

Having met Darth Vader during the anniversary celebration was awesome, having my little silly R5 droid following me around is great, hanging out in Jaba's Palace just for the sake of it is awesome, protecting your outpost in Corellia from the Rebel scum is awesome, watching Jedi battles (as improbable as it would be in the time the game is settled) is awesome, adventuring in dangerous Dathomir is awesome and so on.

Wanting to be a Bounty Hunter helped too, as SWG is the only game I know where you can hunt players down.

The space battles added something to it, as I was a fan of the X-Win/Tie Fighter series (though the controls are not that good).

And the upcoming Collectible Card Game will surely add to the fun (I like CCGs a lot) - specially because the other online CCG from SOE, Legends of Norrath, is fun and great good looking.

One thing: there's no game to buy these days: you just buy a month ("subscribe") and start having all access to the game (depending on the subscription offers, you might get all expansions).

It's great to know someone that TRIES MMOGs, not just plays for 5 minutes and spends the rest of his life ranting bout how stupid game 'X' is, without having even read a newbie guide or game manual.

If you like sci-fi, perhaps you'd like to try EVE or Anarchy Online - AO is really interesting, and although the graphics are outdated, the ladscapes are awesome.

Originally posted by Enigma

Originally posted by ArcAngel3

I thought this thread was about someone's experience with the current version of SWG...  Are people way off on a tangent, or is the subject of the thread too uncomfortable?

 

SWG forums are NOTORIOUS for thread hijacks.

Evidently lol