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• • looking for the opinion of SWG vets on another game

  • I have played EVE for about two years.  Right now I am on a break from it.  It is good with community.  However since I broke from my last corp. I was playing solo for a while.  I like Zero Puncutation have a slight problem continuing to have a second job that I pay for.  As a result I don't stay with corps long as it usually ends up my efforts just support the corp owners and their goals and I see very little reward.

    So after a while I ignore them and I get kicked out and I just grind for a while.  Right now it is just taking a break.  Don't get me wrong I still find the game fun as well as the idea of corps.  I just wish they had stock options and dividends and an in game mechanic to enforce them.  I wish there was a listed stock market where the corps could sell shares to gain capital for investment.  Not just rely on the noob to give them money from ratting to pay for the corp owners new faction battleship.  Plus since EVE is one server there are 1000s of corps to join.  This makes it tricky to pick the right one where goals don't change at the lower level.  If someone has a good link for corps that I be missing from the above writting, please share.

    I am really hoping ambulation comes soon.  It will hasten my return.

  • Posted: 11/09/08 3:32 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Lucas Arts' marketting, not helping Bioware

  • Originally posted by salvaje
    

    Originally posted by Obee
    

    LEC in the late 80's to early 90's was pretty much where BioWare is today.  They had a great track record of making excellent games.  It makes you wonder what happened behind the scenes to change that.  Even more, it make you realize that just because a company has a history of making great games, it doesn't mean they always will.  Let's hope that BioWare doesn't take LEC's path, and if they do, let's hope they wait until after TOR to take it. 

     

    Laziness happened.  That and the idiot Jim Ward.  When the prequel movies started coming out, LEC completely abandoned their non Star Wars franchises and just started releasing pieces of crap to go along with the movies.  Quality didn't matter, only release dates.  A lot of that filtered over to SWG.

    
     

    You know...From my perspective it even started before the prequals.  I remember in 96 or 97 when the "enhanced" versions came out here in the U.S.A.

    There was a local theater that played all three back to back.  I sat there hearing changed dialogue.  Speciffically with ESB and Darth Vader.  I sat and watched as Jabba was thrown into ANH.

    It was in the mid 90's that things started to change as far as the franchise is concerned.  It is then (at least for me) that GL started selling out the SW brand beyond simple merchandise.

    Something special I only saw again in CU (where I started) and has been lost to bad planning in almost all it's forms in the mid 90's.

    In the prequals the main dialogue that I thought was good...  If not awsome was in the Coruscent theater where Palpatine really started to plant the seed of the Sith in the mind of Vader.  It all came from the actor that played Palpatine.  Not from Haden.  From the best of my knowledge he was the original from the RoTJ.  He did an awsome job.  To bad GL interfered beyond the original SW.  I wish he had remembered lessons learned from then and let somone else direct like ESB.  If he had done that,  I would have held those movies as something more than just emperical canon.  They just don't have the magic except for palpatine in the theater.

    Also I really dislike how at the end seen of the "enhanced" RoTJ they decided to stick in Haden as a young Glowie.  Especially when Obi is old and so is Yoda.  More LA/GL ham-hazardness.  Unecessary and stupid.  Fully leaving me to believe GL has lost touch with what he created.

    P.S. Darth Mull and Quigon were actually also cool.  I give that cradit to the actors.  Everything else look out.

    IMO only =)

  • Posted: 11/05/08 3:47 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Just got this email

  • Originally posted by nakuma
    

    i went into the game to see what the low down was and my god its painful, not one person online active, and rest i did see where afk. i maybe saw half a dozen people if that. god let this game die already and let SW:TOR come. ill be going tot hat game so when it closes in, lets try to meet on a server.

     

    for those who played SW:G i was on naritus, i was kylerlan McCloud a bounty hunter turned commando, and had a driod engineer treshgoro :) ill miss SWG. truly i will.

    off topic i know...
     

    I ask you to refresh my memory of the movie that your Icon where gopher chucks live.   As I remember the whole Taco Bell sequence was cool.  What is the name of the movie?

    I never played on nartius, but I hope memories treat you well.

  • Posted: 11/03/08 3:37 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Question about beast handling

  • I tried the last vet trial.  In this new vet trial BM functions the same.   Sure they now let you create a pet to be used as a house dec.  But the actual animal is limited to the life on only ground.  As a house decorator I whant the animal to sit where I want it to.  Not just on the ground.  As of now only its control plate moves.

    If Obraik or others know of a work around.... please let me know.

    I don't want "heroic" or "star warsy."  I just want to live in the SW universe.  An Uncle Owen type is fine with me.  Even desired.

  • Posted: 11/03/08 1:42 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Just got this email

  • Originally posted by Warmaker
    

    The idea of platoons of Jedi sabreblocking AT-AT blasts just turns the bowels.

    /flush

    
     

    I agree overall.

    I wish canon was an issue to the current powers that be.

    I do look forward to your perspective on the last few days of this "vet" trial and all that it has to offer is percieved.  I myself do see what they have done as easy and convienient so far.  It is in these last days that people that use the trial will be allowed to see what it has to offer in practice.

    Please, keep us posted.

  • Posted: 11/03/08 1:29 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies