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• • If you are coming to this forum because you're interested in playing ...

  • TR is a big better than SWG, though also incomplete.

    MxO is actually a LOT better than SWG, few people will ever  know it though.

    Never played Dark and Light...

     

  • Posted: 7/14/08 10:33 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • I dont get it? What happened?

  • In a nutshell SOE lied, secretly developed another game (NGE) using subscription money from the original SWG, then sold an expansion for the 1st game that would be useless once the NGE went live, and used that money to carry them through the massive cancelled subscriptions from the NGE.

    SWG (original version) was a skill-based sandbox game, with 250,000 - 300,000 players.  The NGE is a class/level based copy of WoW, with about 10,000 players...

    SOE broke the law by using a virtual bait-and-switch tactic which backfired, then to alleviate a potential lawsuit they offered refunds for those who paid for the expansion ToOW, that was rendered essentially useless after the NGE went live only a week or so after the expansion was sold...

    SOE then banned anyone who spoke out about the NGE in a negative way on the official forums.  They deleted posts, banned users, and basically removed all ethics from the way they dealt with the players who had given them money for 2+ years.

    The NGE went live in Novemeber of 2005, by December of 2005 the game was dead and has not recovered.  Now the development team is tiny and untalented, there is little revenue from the game, LucasArts has given up on SWG, and SOE doesn't care about SWG.

    SWG is dead.

  • Posted: 7/13/08 11:16 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Never seen fans like this before

  • Originally posted by Dkompoze
    

    people still play swg ? :(

    
     

    Yes, somehow people even still PAY to play SWG...  It's a fascinating phenomenom...  It really defies logic.

  • Posted: 7/13/08 11:09 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • If you are coming to this forum because you're interested in playing ...

  • You can try the Free Trial but most of the time people can't download it because SOE can't get even that right.  Try it for free, DO NOT pay for this game until you have done so.  It won't take you long to realize what 99% of other people who try this game realize...

    I don't have to tell you that this is one of the worst MMO games on the market, you'll see that all by yourselves.

  • Posted: 7/13/08 8:18 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Never seen fans like this before

  • Originally posted by hosal
    

    The game is getting much better every update, so by you saying they are doing a sever dis-service is ridiculous.

    
     

    It's not gettng better at all.  If anything, the servers are getting more and more desolate.  The only reason some servers are seeing an increase in population is because everyone is rolling new toons because their servers are dead.

    This game MIGHT have 10,000 subscriptions, that is just pathetic for a Star Wars MMO.

  • Posted: 7/13/08 8:14 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies