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I know for a fact StarSider is empty I went in on it last night with my friends toon.
I plant hopped,
Dant Outpost 2 peeps JUST 2,'
C-NET 3 peeps.
Naboo - Theed Just me empty by God it was empty!
Restuss 13 peeps,
Mosisley 11 peeps.
Lok no one there.
Total peeps found 29 in prime time yes the population seemed to increase by 6, lol !!!
SWG is dead !
Ajax
The refrain you will often hear is that 'there are lots of people - they just are all out adventuring'. But this counter-argument overlooks the simple truth that if there are lots of people adventuring on a server, then there should also be lots of people in transit on the server too.
If a server really is hopping, It doesn't matter how remote the content is, you should expect to see people in starports comming to and fro that content.
SWG Team Mtg.
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and lets play devil's advocate for a moment and say that SWG had every person on the planet playing (whats it at now like 6 billion?) the bottom line is the game feels empty and depressing to be in just like an old western town with nobody in it buy dead weeds and buildings filled with cobwebs.
*ROFL* Um, perhaps if you quoted his entire message (see below, in red) you would understand milton1970 was being sarcastic. ( ' :
i hate to say it but ur prolly right, SOE f***ed this game over so bad....... i ben playin since Pre-CU, i remember my first day in SWG, it was the funnest thing ever. To walk around mos eisley and see the city and think how many more big cities there are and to see the vastness of tatooine alone, but then to think....*theres 9 more worlds out there that i can explore*. The game was great in its day. i mainly still play just for my guild. But im waitin on the Emu..... until then i hope swg can stick it out. Btw merging servers is a pretty good idea
(Oh and just to add.... i play corbantis.... its not totally dead just hav to go to the right spots... such as theed or restuss, thats where everyone is nowadays....[i miss hangin out at MO, hehe])
November 15, 2005.......the day it all went up in flames
From what's going around, it's done. Folks all around say they've heard SOE has given up the fight and will let the License lapse.
There is ONE, ONE Dev working on Chapter 5. That's one Dev for the last 2 Iconic Professions, and it the worst Publish yet. Most of what is being "added" already existed in the game for some time, it's just being turned on.
Based on recent changes, it's clear LA is no longer involved to ensure Canon. They used to be involved in every decision. That smacks of a falling-out...
The "Lead Dev" hasn't been around for over a month now, and the last Sig he had was about"The best goodbyes going unsaid..."
GM's have been bumping players up to Masters if the ask long enough. This is not a rumor, a friend tried it when they came back for a Trial.
The Dev's know the GCW has been exploited, but said there is no plan for a fix.
LA said they had plans until January '07, but there are still not expansion/content plans. EQ get's an expansion a year or more, but we're going on 1.5 years for Galaxies.
Several Dev's have been missing for a while now, and are either gone or have been moved to another game. "Brand New" Dev's have been popping up on other SOE games, many saying they have been working for SOE for "some time"... I know I'd want a new name, lol...
The Pop's are beyond sad at this point...
There are no signs a Server cleanup will be coming...
All of the "Red Herring" content posts are long gone, with ZERO word on any of them...
Guilds are flooding out to Vanguard, as EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know that still play SWG, none of which plan on staying in Galaxies. One was a Player Spotlight only a few months ago. More games are coming...
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
John Smedley beat up my grandmother.
A few people keep saying this, but that's not at all how it happened. The hologrind pissed off a few people. The CU pissed of some people. The NGE pissed off lots of people. During the Pre-CU era, months of the development team floundering like a fish out of water: adding smelters, rugs, paintings & nerfing Melons instead fixing software defects and adding Star Wars to the game world stunted growth while the market waited to see what they did with the game. But even the President of the company posted on the forums that they could have treaded water at 250K or so under Pre-NGE (w/ expansions) had they wanted to. They changed game mechanics to go after new markets, not to keep subs from bleeding.
SWG Team Mtg.
Hasn't this doomsday post been done time and time again, and everytime it comes up short?
Look, I hate the NGE as much as anybody. But the game (in its current incarnation) will be around for the next 1.5 years or so, and maybe longer. Yes, it's bargain bin status, but hell, there are plenty of Star Wars bargain bin games out there.
The game, unfortunately, isn't going any where. Like a horse with a gimped leg, it needs to be taken out to the pasture and shot, but as long as it draws subs, it's going to stay where it's at.
well I tried the game again recently and the populations were very low, no-one on my friends list was around anymore, the lag was really bad, worst I had ever seen on SWG including pre-cu. I must of seen 10 people if that in player cities over a month and that was by shops that are still running and that is not an exageration. I played on Ahazi and Chimera, with touching my entertainer on Gorath, which had only mastered one tree, but was master entertainer when I signed backup lol. Last time I was ingame was CU, and I signed off as they made it level based.
Most people I saw in one place, now bear in mind I did not bother with Rustuss, was in Mos Eisley, about 15, and half of them were spammers buying or selling stuff or general chat about, I am the most UBER player in the world, Theed was pretty much empty, a few people around the palace, imp or reb depending on who's npc's were out, Corellia, gord in the starport I only saw 2 afk players, and I am sure they were the same people the following day lol, Bestine ghost, AH ghost, Nymm ghost, all my the usual places I used to regulary visit ghost, I think you get the point. For others that say it is increasing I do not have any reference to compare against after the NGE hit, but this was bad.
Combat haha what a joke, 4 attacks, lol and all proffs have similar attacks, combat was just so boring, there was no challange at all, if I wanted a game with no challange I would get my old doom disks out and go IDKFA mode, it is carbear country now. I tried out crafting with the 2nd char, and that is so easy now and mastered munitions in 8 days, I had so many resources left over that I did not have to put out any harvestors which was good, must say though I did enjoy that part the most for the month, as it was still the same, pointless from a selling point of veiw, but still the same, this part alone has made me want to sign backup again, but I just can't bring myself to do it lol, the rest is just so kak.
For the community I saw players telling others to go back to thier dead servers, flame wars between what I guess as kids, I did see one or two newbs, asking for help, in the old days you would most likely see a flood of responses, but the only responses I could see was, buying gold plaques, buying holopets etc, I did have some chats with vets, who were friendly but others just ignored.
Now I would come back full time for a classic server anytime, I loved PRE-CU, and for my own game play and sense of fun I had no problems with the holo grind (was not intrested in unlocking Jedi), bugs, imbalance etc, CH was so much fun. On Chimera, I had a Doc/ Swords, respecced to a few over the month but ended up with Smuggler the original master I done on this char before going doc, I played it because it was fun and because of how you could customise your char, the community were friendly and also helpded to make the game.
Will the game be shutting down anytime soon, who knows thier business sense has not been that good for the past year+ and they could be running at a loss, or breaking even, would I like to see it go, no, for the vets that are left and the others that are enjoying it right now, but I also yes, as it is the final way of $OE & LA admitting we fucked up big time and we are the biggest smegs on the planet......
Tushi
The license to make a Star Wars MMO is surely atm 'owned' or leased by SOE, so no other companies can even think about making another one yet until it is surrendered, or there would be big lawsuits. So can SOE please throw in the towel and give some professionals a crack, it's only fair. They've had their turn at pool, but potted the black off the break.
It's just retarded. Come on, the subs havent been this low during any time of the NGE.
Face the facts, It cant last much longer.
Starwars Galaxies, An Empier Diveded, That's what it says on my box anyway.