General Discussion

A dead issue in a dead game.

RIP SWG, you were my first love.

I didn't last long on this game and I am a huge SW fan.

I am still waiting for KOTOR online, but I will NEVER go back to SWG, even if they paid me $15 a month to play it. It just lacks. Id go into detial, but does it really matter?

Sounds like typical SWG.

I'm really surprised that George Lucas has allowed such a poor shadow of his incredible universe to exist.

Makes one wonder if he has ever seen it.

Nuke SWG and start over.

S*D

Originally posted by Destroyeron

People still play SWG? Wouldn't runescape be a good upgrade?

Shooting oneself in the face would be a good upgrade.

Originally posted by Tazdax

They definitely need to do something like this or its just a matter of time before SWG shuts down and there wont be anything to whine about.

 

Oh!  You promise?!? 

I agree with the OP on the failings of a decent representation of a galactic war in SWG and how there seems to be a crippling lack of PvP in SWG. What we have beaten into the ground numerous times is what king of players really like SWG for it's sandbox qualities verses other MMO's.

I have been playing Team Fortress 2 alot lately. There is a system in this first person shooter that enables new equipment. For those who haven't played TF2 yet, it is called achievements. It's a comical and creative way of describing you killed x number of opponents in certain conditions. Earn enough of them you unlock a weapon.

Lately, the Heavy weapons guy achievement unlocks were something of a joke, so even this system is flawed to some extent the same way the Valve Developers seem to have misunderstood what their forum troll fans requested as much as SOE Developers and their subscribing fans have had something lost in translation in years past.

Now, an odd thought, if you really want to promote SWG as a PVP paradise and somehow increase the number of subscribers of the game which is sound business sense, then maybe SOE should take a look at TF2's combat model for a moment. It's rock-paper-scissors balance. Each combat class can trump the other in a variety of ways. Rank, it would seem, would be useless in combat, as the goal in TF2 is simply to take objectives from the other team.  The reward system should be easy for casual players. Make it combat points and a special store they can spend their points in, it's no different from WOW.

Adapting the TF2 combat model to SWG would be a change. But is change in SWG really wanted by it's subscribers?

The problem with SWG PvP is that it barely exists. I went back after the free month thing and ended up canceling my 3 accounts before the first paid month was up. I canceled because I was falling a sleep at my keyboard because the game is sooooooo boring. You spend 20 mintues getting buffed then an hour by the time to get to restuss and see some one to kill....then thats it .....night over.

They NEED to fix the gcw if they ever hope to increase their sub numbers....plain and simple.

Ruwin

I think that SWG had some of the BEST PvP in any game pre-cu.  The ability to gain skills in multiple trees to make your character how ever you wanted was great.  You could dable in the ranged trees and be a super skilled marksman or you could dable in melee and have super stacked defenses.  But to address the current state of the game I could car eless if it goes under.  I want the pre-cu back.

Greetings,

Hopefully they will nuke SWG and have a KOTOR era MMO, then revisit GCW era when Sony is overthrown by the few remaining True Jedi.

Here is to hoping.

S*D