SWG

[Phienyx]

LMAO!

[Subb]

"Don't undermine me boy or I'm gonna creep inside ya and wear you like a leather glove!"

[Tecknik]

Any game that has a dev team that works hard enough to do something like this....



Deserves credit in my book.

I didn't even try SWG until after NGE, not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't have an interest in MMOs when SWG came out.  After playing, and becoming bored with MxO, I decided to branch out and did the 14-day free trial for SWG.  After playing for a few hours, I decided SWG was well worth my money.  I guess I don't know (and never will know) the world that was pre-CU/pre-NGE, but I don't really give a damn.  I enjoy the game.  I love that you not only have your ground PvE/PvP, but you can also switch it up with space PvE/PvP.  I love that there is actually an ongoing story you can follow, as well as tons of quests you can perform to be well rewarded with both XP and in-game items.  The fact that the SWG dev team works hard to please the SWG player community speaks volumes.

But I guess they can't please everyone.

[Phienyx]

The problem is that when you go from an excellent system with the original release to a watered down, dumbed down shadow of its original self, you are going to disappoint most, if not all of your original hardcore player-base.  The current incarnation has none of the depth and character of the original.  Unless you experienced the original, it is difficult to explain why we hate the changes that SOE brought to it.

Imagine they took the Matrix movies, recast it and dumbed down its ideas and philosophies so that an elementry child would "get it"  and you might get an idea of the scope of the changes that were visited upon what I still believe to be one of the best MMOs that could have been.

I don't think any of us are trying to make you dis-like SWG, but those of us who were there and experienced the original (I was there from release day 1) know that is is not the same game at all.

[Anonymous]

Yeah it's not the same game that used to be amazing. But on the topic of that update it's cool, seems like they may finally be advancing the story/time line of SWG, about time too but it's a pity it's really no longer a competitive MMO anymore imo.