Is been almost a year and half since I touched Galaxies. I've heard that the expantion now includes Jedis??? I thought that whole idea was to keep the force wielders out of the game. And lately I've seen TV ads claiming that millions of fans keep joining??? Some info please...
Edit note-Ohh, and please tell me they fixed the glitches.
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Well, although my subscription recently ran out, I can say that SWG is finally finding its feet.
Remember the horrible feeling you got when you first began playing, seeing that the whole SW universe had been chucked into a mediocre MMORPG, its not there anymore.
Combat has been revamped so that it actually requires a teeny bit of skill when playing, now you can beat mobs up to 5 Combat Levels above you with a teeny bit of skill.
I always found it annoying with the increasing amount of Jedi ingame however after the NGE when Jedi became an easy profession to take up, I also joined the bandwagon and became Forse Sensitive. It's great and i don't even care about the amount of jedi ingame anymore.
Not too sure about TV ads, you don't get too many MMORPG ads on the TV in the UK.
And many glitches have been fixed, of course the game still has many flaws and bugs, but because the Dev team were able to cut down the amount of professions in the game, many annoyying glitches have disappeared and server downtime seems non exhistent on the european servers.
Now I might be biased because I've never enjoyed the whole Warcraft tthing, but if SWG continues to improve it could seriously become a rival of WoW by this years fall (Dec/06)
It's a shame that they had to fall into the trap of the whole "becoming a jedi"scenario in the first place, but it was unavoidable; its star wars.
I too, wanted to just explore the galaxy as a smuggler, I was Master Smuggler before NGE, but there wasn't much of a galaxy to explore. Now instead of your usual 'grind' spots the XP system is goverened by Quests, which can get tedious at times, but it has opened the game up alot.
Jabba's Palace is nice though, but a lot of the quests do go on and on, sometimes i forget what my initial reasoning was accepting the quest was...
Yeah, many of my friends left the game, although my former guild survived and now thrives, managing to induct all those whose guilds had not survived the NGE into there ranks. It was the drastic change that they just couldn't get used to.
I've noticed, or before my account expired yesterday, that lots of new players were about, general Star Wars fans and also accomplished MMORPG'ers. I met (and helped of course!) about 6 new players in my last day.
I'm not familiar with that channel and as I said, MMORPG adverts are rare on UK TV, however there's hundreds of digital channels that they could be on.
So it said millions were joining or something along those lines?
Pre-cu was the best time in the game, while there were tons of bugs, it was still damn fun to play.
The CU wrecked the game, and the NGE went even further, if it went back to pre-cu you'd be amazed at how many people would come back.
Instead they are running the game into the ground, I can't see it lasting the year, it's garbage compared to what it once was.
Nope, your wrong, bugs are disappearing and getting fixed. The combat is better than it ever was at pre CU time, which i have to say was dire, although better than post-CU.
When SWG came out it really has a horrid disappointment, but now its finally found some form. If more bugs get fixed and a lot of the old content is slowly added back to the game, unbugged andc lean, then WoW could well have a rival. It's a shame that its taken SOE 3 years to get it right though.
Originally posted by Boris
Hahaha, Nge is better than pre-cu?And Swg will never rival WoW.
Though I prefer pre-cu to WoW.
Indeed it is. Play for yourself if you want. However, your not really needed as players are on the increase after the big big drop out.
And how can it never rival WoW? If things conintue to improve only more people can join up. I'm serious when i say SWG has a chance of nearing the numbers (although WoW's could be comrpimised because of it) of WoW.
I have no idea why you can prefer Pre-Cu. It was horrible. It was like playing Everquest beta, with that many bugs and one of the most dull and repetitive combat systems ever.