And so it ends....

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1220357

I guess not so much a bang, as a whimper.... 

Dang. And just as I was considering giving this a try. I guess the message here is that LucasArts has room for only one mmorpg in this world. They'll be shutting down just in time for everyone to run out and buy TOR. And I'll bet you $10 they believe that the entire SWG player base will do exactly that.

They simply realize they will lose their entire remaining player base to TOR.

edit: gah Jor preempted my exact statement 17 seconds sooner.

This has always been a talking point, would they let two SW mmo's run at the same time or would TOR be the end of SWG. I guess now we know.

Doubt many will be bothered, SWG is the shining example of how to take a brilliant mmo, release it too early, break half the classes, reduce the game to profession grind and then piss off the entire community by completely changing the game into a watered-down version of itself at which time they reaped the biggest single exodus of gamers i think we'll ever see in an mmo.

now i'm fearing for Vanguard.

RIP SWG, i never played it but i read very interesting things about it... i hope someday another company creates a game as great as SWG once was.

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This is one of those bittersweet moments.  A part of me is glad to see the abomination that is the NGE now crashing horribly to the ground.  And then again, the other part of me is sad to see the IP being shut down.  Has Sony Online Entertainment not learned from their mistakes?  Have they not learned that if it wasn't broke, they shouldn't have fixed it?  And I hope you get what I mean by that analogy.

All I have to say is god bless and god speed Star Wars Galaxies.  May you find eternal peace after such a long time enduring your pain.

"You where the Chosen One!  You were suppose to destroy the Sith, not join them!  You were suppose to bring balance to the Force!  Not leave it in darkness!" -Obi Wan Kenobi

To anyone swho actually enjoys this game you have my condolences.

I guess SOE needs more fantasy MMO's in their portfolio. There is a real shortage of those, right? So of course they have to shutdown a sci-fi MMO. Variety in the MMO genre only confuses those silly customers.

Makes me wonder if its Lucas Arts that is behind this.

It was fun while it last (Pre-NGE) as some of best memories from MMOs came from SWG, but goodbye and good riddance.

Nothing more than LA probably pushing all available players they can to help support TOR. SWG can rot ....

Originally posted by kuhronusu

now i'm fearing for Vanguard.

 

RIP SWG, i never played it but i read very interesting things about it... i hope someday another company creates a game as great as SWG once was.

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Kinda sad really, was just enjoying my 45 free days :(. Feels kinda pointless now. Hope the last few months will be free ?

SWG was a sandbox, TOR is a wow-clone themepark.

Not many SWG fans will like TOR

And I'm only like half way throught leveling my Bounty Hunter!! Meh, I seriously like this game, don't want it to go away.

And yes, I will run to store to pick up my copy of SWTOR on launch day.

But look at this - http://swg.stratics.com/#31800 and scroll down to server statistics. If sub is at 15 dollars, this game is generating around 1 million dollars a month still. PLUS trading card game, have no idea how much they are making on this. But I'm going to check this card game tomorrow, hope is good :) Anyway - Is this amount of money NOT enought to run a game this days ?????????

How come games with 2 or 3 servers are still around ? WTF just happened anyway I just started playing lol :)

Originally posted by monarc333

Originally posted by kuhronusu

now i'm fearing for Vanguard.

 

RIP SWG, i never played it but i read very interesting things about it... i hope someday another company creates a game as great as SWG once was.

(mod edit)

 

I fear for Vanguard also. Hopefully they have enough sense to see the profit in a FTP model or at least realize the love ppl have for it and sell it off.

 I wouldnt, it's probably LA pushing as many SW fans as possible to TOR and SONY probably loves gettign rid of what has become a perma black eye fpor them.

If they take away the price, I think most of the vets should come back for the end. A lot of us were there at the beginning and it would be nice to get together again and talk to some old friend who have not seen in the game since they made the change. It might not be our game that we paid for those many years ago, but it would be nice to get that old community together again, one last time.

yeah make the last 6 months free. So all the old players can come back to the game one last time to relive some of the memories before they say goodbye to SWG one last time.

yeah this sucks.

good riddance!!