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• • Open Letter to NGE Apologists

  • Id never actually played an MMORPG before SWG.  I started to play in May '05 and I became totally immersed in it.

    I rarely play MMORPGs now as they dont give me the same excitement or interest. Ive tried but it just isnt there. I tried the NGE a few times but its as though SWG had an accident and has been left impaired. Poor thing.

    I am currently trying to get into Vanguard but I will soon cancel as its taken me 3 weeks to reach level 15, Im just not interested. Tried WoW, but once you tried a sandbox like SWG, WoW is just too linier.

    I mentioned in a post before about people who say let go of the old game but the problem is, as long as there are MMORPGs we will always be reminded of our first or our most favourite and for most usually  they can log back in their old favourite and still play it every now and again. This is where the problem lies - we cant simply log in like old Everquest gamers can for example. Ours isnt there anymore, and when we try the NGE we realise that we could actually play this again properly if it wasnt for the changes so we log out, frustrated.

    So, all at SOE, raise your glasses to the five year anniversary and look around at the few SWG developers you employ, the low number of subscribers you have and the broken game. Are you proud? With a imaginative team focused on great ideas and concepts it could have grown into something amazing by now. You see, what you dont realise, by focusing on these ideas rather than the $$ we would have had the greatest MMORPG to play and you would have huge profits. Great ideas for the game & fixes = happy customers = profits NOT money making ideas & sacrificing fans of SW and subscribers for a poorly thought rushed idea = fail.

    Can you imagine their board room? I bet you anything they sat around trying to figure out how to bring in more subscribers  than actually discussing improvements and new ideas. I can believe Im typing this, its SOE ffs, they are the professionals, but totally miss the glaringly obvious to this day!

    I remember reading a post on the official SWG forum shortly after the NGE:

    'It's like they discovered cake reciepe but accidently used shit instead of flour'

    It is Star Wars ffs, how could they fail? They didnt even have to think too much, the movies and literature is out there to be used.

    Meatlumps

     

     

  • Posted: 7/12/08 10:11 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • An AoC player, a WAR player, and a WoW player walk into a bar...

  •       Aoc goes to the bar, orders a drink then looks around at how great this bar looks, he notices wow who, even though he is 34, brought his mum with him who is holding his hand and pointing towards the bar showing wow which one to ask for a drink. Wow jumps in the air and runs to the bar and orders a drink, still jumping.
    Aoc cant help but laugh heartily but then suffers lockjaw, (a problem he has had since birth) and cant drink anything until it passes. "Damn my doctor", he thinks, "he told me id be fine after the expensive medical treatment". It eventually passes and he sighs, shakes his head which caused the headless animation to activate "ah fffff!!!"
    Wow, getting quite tipsy, checks his mum is still waiting by the door for him and then looks over at the headless aoc. He notices aoc wearing a retro star wars t-shirt under his manly rugged off-the-shoulder bearskin. The headless aoc is defenseless so wow pulls out his oversized glowing spoon sword thing and is about to run it through aoc when he is distracted by some rabble going on by the door.
    In walks a stunning elegant war dark elf woman, wearing beautiful looking armour, albiet not very much. Wow is taken aback for a moment, in a dream like state..wow thinks wow.....suddenly he is annoyingly snapped out of his fantasy by the two fat blokes behind the dark elf pointing at her and telling everyone in the bar who happens to look over how great she is, how they made this amazing armour for her and how awesome she is. War rolls her eyes and wishes she didnt have to be shaperoned everytime she wants to show herself in public. She looks over to both wow and aoc (who now has his head back) mouths the word 'help'. They both run over, aoc cuts off a fat bloke arm, then a leg, then another arm, another leg, then his head. Wow quickly changes his hairstyle and fears the other fat bloke and drains him of his health.
    WAR thanks them both and buys a round of drinks. Suddenly, in walks a shady looking man wearing a blood stained shirt holding a pistol. "Ah shit" He says in a heavy East European accent. "wrong fucking bar". Wow, war and Aoc look at each other and think themselves lucky the man didnt notice them.

    As the camera moves back and the sound fades out we hear:
    WOW: Whilst jumping - "Nice armour, is that new level 80 arena gear?"
    WAR': "No, wow, its my concept armour".
    AOC: "*hic* - Can i see your tits?"
    
    
    Fade out.

  • Posted: 6/14/08 6:03 AM
    General Discussion
• • Since AOC is considered bad, what are we supposed to play?

  • Ive moved away from MMORPGs for now until better comes out (Spellborn, WAR, Fallen Earth, SW Clone Wars, who knows)

    Enjoying Gears of War right now

  • Posted: 6/06/08 4:17 PM
    General Discussion
• • SWG - Get a Life?

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    I would like to post something about comments I read on SWG related forums since 2005 but before I do, Id like to briefly tell you who I am in relation to Star Wars:

    I am 35, I grew up with Star Wars movies and toys, all my friends had them too and every now and again we used to take our toys to one of our houses and play. One friend had a dog and he dropped his R2D2 in the dogs poop, he picked it up with a stick and chased us around the garden trying to touch us with it . I dipped my C3P0's head in the poop and defended myself against the attack of pooey R2D2 on a stick. (I wasnt keen on my C3P0, he was the cloud city one with the removable arms and legs which kept falling off) . We also had some SW guns, I had one that looked similar to Han Solos blaster but it wasnt official but it did the job, it didnt stop me from going into my house, putting on a white t shirt and a body warmer and parting my hair in the middle and pretending to be Han Solo. I wanted it to be authentic.

    I started playing SWG late, around may '05. This was my first MMO and to begin with, everything was so confusing to me, I couldnt work out how the armour worked, why I couldnt wear what I wanted nor use whatever gun I chose. This went on for three days but I percevered because I knew I would love it eventually - it took patience which I was willing to invest in the game because it was Star Wars (a glaringly obvious point missed by the current state of the game). My attention span can deal with this learning curve, it felt worth it. Id never much played games before - I completed DOOM and Resident Evil 3 when I borrowed an old PS once so Im not a gamer looking for a quick fix. I wanted something to replace those nights at home instead of watching TV or something to play late at night.

    After a while and help from friends I made in game, I soon got the hang of it and it felt more fun because I felt Id achieved a little something. I then went on to create an amazing set of red/maroon ris complete with every +25 I could fit in it. I wasnt indestructable but I was very hard to kill. Fights used to go on for 20 minutes or 20 seconds. I loved it all, and it felt like I was a kid back with my friends playing with SW figures again.

    I dont play anymore, the hard work I put into it was for nothing. I learnt a valuable lesson here on the time I should spend in MMO's and the fact that at the end of it all, it can easily disappear. So, now I moderate myself.

    So, my point here is when an old swg player mentions pre CU or CU in my case, and wishes for it back and someone replies with "get a life, its over" I find that a very odd statement. This is the longest Ive thought about SWG since I dont know when but if I see a post and I have a minute, I may reply in favour of the old game, adding that I too would like it as it was. This doesnt mean I dont have a life. I have a business to run, friends and enough to get on with outside. But, I can still digress, I have a memory, If I am in a pub and someone mentions an old film I really liked, I will tell him why I liked it etc, it doesnt mean I think about it all day and night does it? I think maybe the ones who reply in this fashion are not involved in an active social environment, they cant be because people talk this way in conversation all the time, about the past, and of the present. and we are here on an MMO website so this is what we all have in common and will discuss our experiences.

    I will always remember if I liked something (CU) and I will always be able to say that Id like it that way again. Nothing more, nothing less. It isnt there, I dont pine for it but somewhere in the back of my mind I would love to play it again because no game captured my imagination like that since I was a child.

    Thanks for reading my thoughts,

    Kall
     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Posted: 5/17/08 7:14 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • why do people throw away money?

  • Originally posted by CleffyII
    

    The mmo developers have a gnack at finding lazy amateurs to develop thier game and completely ignore talent.  Have you ever stepped into an mmo world thinking it took 4 years to make, playing through all the content and thinking, if I had 4 years with a fulltime job I can do the entire art in this game to a better quality?

    Developers must feel gutted after 4 or so years of developing a whole world to find out its laggy, filled with bugs or simply boring and nobody plays.

  • Posted: 5/12/08 10:01 AM
    General Discussion