Whatever numbers you see in your armor or qualities are fake. it just numbers. Some low level NPC's are hard to kill even with the best weapons. The damage values are wrong. They still fixing some of the bugs we had around the second year the game came out. Most people don't even bother to go to space no more, so good luck trying to get the hard mission so you can be a master pilot. Most people used to read my profile and don't even know how the game was in the past or why I'm an elder Jedi. Some don't even know what a Master Pikeman, Rifleman or Scout was. They were suppose to add more planets to add more content and more things in Space. Right now what you are going to find is a very slow leveling, and I will dare to say slower than WOW, with few broken missions, broken buffs, more broken promises and a card game to get more money out of you.

I can see them trying to do some fixes after KOTOR online come out, but I don't see them to be permanent. I think the coding in SWG is so messy, the Devs don't know what to do. All these new producers talk like politicians. They generalized their explanations but they are no saying anything new or don't give any important information. All the answers sound like the same answers other producers said in the past. May be they all go to the University were they learn what to say to the media and fans but you are not really saying anything.

is kind of sad. It was a good game but wrong company. I even enjoy been a Taylor but they never add any new clothing, armor, weapons or space ships for people to make. There are some colors added to the pallet for armor and clothing. Some new weapons and armor but you have to loot them in missions if you manage to get in a group o get some help. Most people are just standing around and some other places look like the test center server. They haven't learn the lesson yet. They even trying to enforce the PVP even in the cities thinking that will save the game. if you never play it before you may find it interesting because you didn't know how it was in the past. For you guys out there who wonder about me, I was playing the game when people were still trying to master their professions. There was no speeders, no spaceships, T21 rifle was the weapon of choice with few accuracy problems because it could by pass armor protection, master rifleman was able to kill from far away, 3 Master Pikemen with a good doctor can make it through the Tusken caves, Bounty Hunters I hate them during that time, fighting animations were more and better. Melee sounds were better and nobody knew how to become a Jedi until one guy got his unlock.

This does not bode well…

You say that you took players ideas into consideration? so what you are saying is… that the player base gave you the idea to remove everything that was ever good about the game, then leave us with an attempt at a WoW clone? that has to be the worst insult Ive heard! don’t try and blame us for your greedy mistakes, you wanted a peice of the WoW pie, and now your stuck with a hollow shell of a once good game. You we’re to stupid to release, that it is just advertised, and most game shops sell game time cards, which makes the game ALOT more easier to access.

This is dying fast and you deserve all you get to be honest. you won’t create a classic server, even though most are deserted now. After ALL these complaints, cancellations, and request for this server you still don’t. What planet are you from? Do you people actually live on earth?
Proud of this you say? What could you possibly be proud of with SWG now?
Maybe your proud of losing, 200.000 subscribers within 2 years, turning a once thriving game into a waste land. Making the once respected, Jedi the most common, hated, and feeble profession in the game. and reducing the IQ needed to play this to the minus!
If I could swear on this I would have been,,, ALOT!

I would like to say, thank you for wasting three years of my life, £800 of my money, and then not even say sorry! you a pathetic excuse for a company!

P.S can’t wait for Starwars the old republic to be released, and put six foot under, where you belong!

Unfortunately even at release $OE showed their desire for profit rather than quality. Everyone in the beta knew the game was nowhere near ready for release at the end of June 2003.

The database used for containing character and structure inventory was so bugged things would vanish for no reason (although SOE blamed this on structures built on zone boundaries). The game although desirable was not ready. SONY was not ready. But they released the game anyway. Players had to suffer daily restarts. Hours of server downtime. Unfinished professions and biggest of all. One of the reasons 75% of players picked up the box in the store JEDI were not available until 5 months after the games release.

I played the game faithfully as many people did. At one point I had 4 accounts (yes one with a Jedi.. or now known as “Elder Jedi”). I played many of the 30+ professions and even wrote tutorials. The game flourished even more with the release of JTL which was probably the pinnacle of the game. It was relatively bug free and players were allowed to beta it…making it better tested.

Since JTL.. constant nerfs were endured on every class but Jedi. Jedi was the baby of the license. Jedi could do no wrong and it made them the alpha class. PvP and PvE was dominated by Jedi. Maybe a wrong thing… Maybe not depending on your view. After the changes in publish 10 introducing the village I would say yes they were too numerous and powerful. Before publish 10 no… they were still rare and rightly deserved the strength for the effort made.

I may be “flamed” here. I’m not saying the unlock of the Jedi was difficult. It was a grind nothing more. But to level a Jedi to it its full potential pre publish 10 was a difficult feat.

We all endured the “Combat Upgrade” or CU. It was a refreshing change. It still kept the same element of combat. Some didnt like it but a lot did and the servers were still busy. Especially the Jedi community. At that time the grouping for pvp and pve was probably the highest ever seen. 6 or 7 Jedi levelling together. See an incoming dot on the radar and the shouts of “INCOMING BH” went up….

Then the dark times…

The NGE..

I have played many many MMOs in the last 6 years starting with Dark Age of Camelot. DAOC and SWG have always been my “go to” games. I have kept them active although rarely played (just 1 account on each now) just so that when I had tried something new and found it lacking I had somewhere familiar and comfortabel to go.

SWG has turned into a stone in my shoe. I know its there. I want to investigate and find out whats poking my foot. But its annoying as hell.

I have cancelled my last remaining SWG account.. the Jedi account… the one account I always said I’d like to keep going. One of the longest running accounts on the Chilastra server has been cancelled to never return. My guild is still active slightly. All the names have gone and moved on. I was tempted to delete my characters to prevent my resubscription but the desire to play again has left me.

Our city Fire Haven is a shell of its former self (Fire Haven on Chilastra was the official picture used for the City Pack Up). The guild is a shell. The server has tumbleweeds blowing down all the cities and starports. You could probably merge every server into one and still be able to run it on its current hardware.

Its that quiet.

For those that have stayed in the game I wish you luck and good fortune.

T’jak Erattic – signing off..

Star Wars Galaxies is dead. There’s plenty free trials availble and one only needs to login to experiance how poor the game is.

Due to their attempts at wirefraud I no longer purchase anything with an SOE or LA affiliated lable on it. Brand recognition is a double edged sword.

To the “writter”: [Edited for foul language]

LucasArts’ Jake Neri discusses Star Wars Galaxies? history and where it is heading in the future….

I Have Tried Playing The NGE But Its Just Not The Same, Just As Many, Many Other Veterans Have. In “OUR” SWG There Were People Just About No Matter Where You Went. There Were Lots And Lots Of Entertaiers Making Credits From Buffs And Healing. Doctors Making Good Buff Kits And Charging A Fortune. Groups, Guild, Just Everything You Needed To Make The Game Fun Was “People” To Enjoy It With.

But Then SOE Came Out With The CU, Where You Were Able To Tell How Many People Just Left From That Alone. It Was Still A Pretty Fun Game After The CU. Still Alot Of People Dantooine Becoming The Main Point To Get A Group.

But Then When The NGE Hit The Game Began To Die. No More People Looking For Groups On Dantooine. Not Hundreds Of People Sitting Around On Naboo, Tat, Dant, Cor, ETC.
The Classes Were All Killed And Remade. No More Cross-Classing, No More “SWG”
What All NEw Player Consider SWG Is Not IMO. I Personaly Am Waiting For The SWG
EMU Project To Get Done To Go Back (And Start All Over Again Damnit)And Rediscover SWG As It Was.

Thanks For Reading – The Dark Half

With the FACT that there are no expansions planned and the obviously downsized dev team, there is NO F**KING way this game is growing or healthy.

Show us Jake Neri! Prove us wrong, that this game is growing and strong. You won’t because it simply is not true. You do not do your company or SOE any favors by blatantly lying about the health of the game. You just perpetuate your bad image and continue to spread the mistrust. When you folks finally come clean and find the truth, then and only then will we trust you and give you any money. Since you all seem so hell bent on lying, we will continue to counter you no matter where you go.

Usually you would be right regarding the somewhere in the middle lays the truth remark. If this Jake Neri position is a 1 and the most rabid SOE hater is a 10, then the truth in this case is a 7.

SOE has done some incredibly underhanded stuff to its player base. They are essentially down to the last subscribers that would allow them to do anything they want to the game. These are very casual gamers who don’t really hold Star Wars mythos in high regard. What the current player base is into is instant gratification and gear that is given away without community involvement.

The old subscribers enjoyed the intricacies of community involvement and this new system simply doesn’t provide what we previously enjoyed. As an instance, rangers had to track creatures, scouts collected the hides/meats/bones, provided them to weaponsmiths/doctors/armorsmiths and ultimately sold them back to the scouts and fighting classes. Those fighting classes had to visit doctors and entertainers to shrug off battle fatigue and wounds. It was a game of interdependence.

I encourage you to download the free trail, Andrew, and judge for yourself. Without a Star Wars skin and the casual references the game makes to the lore, it would have nothing to offer. The systems have lots of baggage left over from previous versions of the game, the graphics will give you seizures, and the total lack of polish will leave you wondering why anyone actually pays a fee per month to play. SWG does not stand on its own. Instead, it leans totally on Star Wars to keep it going. It is not a fun game, and is definitely not worth a monthly fee.