[MMO] Starwars Galaxies - dead December 15th 2011

[Nik]

Significant enough to post a thread about it.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1220357

Goodbye, pre-CU plaque. Goodbye, pre-NGE rancor and AT-ST pets. Goodbye fully decorated YT-1300 and in-flight bar

I am stunningly heartbroken. Jump To Lightspeed, how I loved thee. You will be missed.

Those who didn't play the game can never understand the amazing community that has survived and thrived despite the CU/NGE nonsense. It is the community of pilot brothers that will be sorely missed the most.

To anybody here that I've brutally dismembered in PVP or cold-heartedly evaporated with a precise borstel shot through the melting canopy, to the rest of the pilots and PVPers who still play and love this game like I do, GFs.

I rend my garments, I rub soot on my chest, I begin 3 days of mourning

Edit: This is NOT a bitch and moan thread. If you're just going to whine and cry, don't even bother posting.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

To anybody here that I've brutally dismembered in PVP or cold-heartedly evaporated with a precise borstel shot through the melting canopy, to the rest of the pilots and PVPers who still play and love this game like I do, GFs.

WTF I didn't realize SWG had PVP depth. Too late now...

 

[Nik]

WTF I didn't realize SWG had PVP depth. Too late now...

Yeah, funny that you learn something about a game when you actually play it, eh?

 

[lupi]

damn, I bought the collection for like $3 on the steam sale and now feel cheated!

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Well, thing is when SWG was out and up until like 2 years ago I was too engrossed in EQ to even think of trying anything else.

So...tell me more about this "shot through a melting canopy"...what kind of game mechanics are that?

 

[Bacstar]

Wonder if it's because of the new Star Wars MMO coming out?

Edit: I played SWG for a couple months when it initially came out, but I could never get into it. At the time, I was playing EQ or was it EQ2.

 

[Nik]

Wonder if it's because of the new Star Wars MMO coming out?

Edit: I played SWG for a couple months when it initially came out, but I could never get into it. At the time, I was playing EQ or was it EQ2.

Lucas Arts admitted that SWG would be too much of a contender for TOR so LA called SOE and said they're pulling the licensing plug. They've been talking about it for a long, long time and now they've actually done it. :\

I'd have paid to play both.

 

[Nik]

damn, I bought the collection for like $3 on the steam sale and now feel cheated!

All accounts in good standing that have a paid membership on 9/15 will have their accounts permanently enabled for free from (whenever their paid dues run out) until SWG's death on 12/15.

 

[microAmp]

Lucas Arts admitted that SWG would be too much of a contender for TOR so LA called SOE and said they're pulling the licensing plug. They've been talking about it for a long, long time and now they've actually done it. :\

I always figured that was wishful thinking, startup rumors, by the ones who couldn't let go due to CU or NGE changes. I left before any of that, Bounty Hunter bug ticked me off; 0,0 waypoint, then when they fixed that, I could only attack my bounty less than 1/2 the time. It was my 1st MMO, had fun, even with my Doctor who went to Pistoleer, dabbled in Bio-Engineer, then to Bounty Hunter and second toon Doctor/Musician for buffing 7 of 9 stats to kill those pesky Jedi. My wookie friend, Trace, had 4 I think.

I got burned once while waiting in line for Doc buffs. Right in front of the starport in Coronet, I was standing in line and the Jedi is to the left healing his wounds and rebuffing, such a perfect time to attack but no buffs plus the person buffing could probably be dangerous.

Then there was the one who was fairly high level but caught him with buffs wearing off in a player city near the NE lake. He chased me as I got him to go away from the water then started to burn him, he got wise and hauled butt to the water. I hopped on my speeder and gave chase. He thought he was safe swimming in the water, I can't shoot from a speeder nor shoot while swimming. So I busted out my tauntaun, it swam and I auto shot, got the guy. Pissed him off too, he started sending hate /tell, wanting me to come back with him rebuffed, etc. I had my bounty and was done.

I even held onto a bounty for a week, guy knew I was after him on Endor, I tracked him down to a particular starport where he logged out from his home planet Rori, seeing if he would log back on, he did finally, ran to the starport and left to Corellia, I followed and choose the wrong city. Went to Rori, 50/50 chance on if he choose the same Rori starport as I did, 2 minutes later, there he was, loading the planet. I waited for him to figit, took him down. We later chatted about it all for some laughs.

Maybe one day there will be another SW sandbox and bugs that won't... bug me.

 

[Craig234]

Sorry to hear this, it's an early MMO. Stinking LucasArts if they canceled the license. Time to finally install the game since I bought it years ago.

 

[Nik]

good times, good times

Remember base busts? opposing faction could run 5 or so professions into the base when they became vulnerable a week after planting them, click each computer meant for the different professions, and set the base to self destruct. The easiest 10k GCW I ever made!

I remember running out to one of these when I was running Killers for Gwaro. Found my mark (a dark loljedi) among the 80 or so players standing around waiting for their free GCW points but there were so many people that it caused so much lag that I got him down to half health before he realized he was being attacked. :ninja:

When he noticed, though, he took off like a bat out of hell with force run. Was one of my longest battles because of the lag and damn did he ran like he was running from the cops, but I got him. I managed to incap him when he ran back to the giant group of players standing around these 3 bunkers waiting to 'splode. Right in front of all his friends, walked up to his incapped ass, shot him in the face for the death blow, spouted in /say that next time he should pay his debts before he crosses another hutt, then flew off for the next mark. LOVED it.

 

[BudAshes]

I made 1000 bucks on this game. I loved it so. I honestly think it is the greatest mmorpg ever made even though I haven't played it in 5+ years.

 

[Bateluer]

They have to cancel SWG because TOR is coming down the pipeline guys.

 

[Nik]

They have to cancel SWG because TOR is coming down the pipeline guys.

That's like a 10 year old saying he can't go to school cuz there's snow on the ground.

They didn't HAVE to cancel it. Lucas Arts just wants to show their investors a great money explosion when TOR comes out and see it sustained in the short term so they can call it a success and they're willing to squeeze every last player from anything they can, realistically.

They don't HAVE to cancel it, but those freaking dumbasses did anyway. I would gladly have paid to play both.

 

[akugami]

Lucas can kiss my rear. After the episodes 1-3 fiasco and the re-editing of the original trilogy into complete crap I am largely done with Starwars.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I've never played but was always interested in the Pre NGE game. Are there any functioning emu's out there? Also I wonder if this announcement is good news or bad news for anyone running an emu. Game won't be sold anylonger so no more dvd's but existing players looking to go somewhere else.

 

[Nik]

There's one half-functioning emu but it's taken them 5 years to get combat going and get rid of a few bugs. JTL isn't even in and probably won't be in for at LEAST another five years, no joke. SOE won't help them at all and all the EMU has to build the robust server-side application is the 3-times-rebuilt SWG client. That's why it's taken them so long and that's why it'll never really be done.

It's like trying to build the space shuttle from scratch by pictures or memory.

 

[Zenoth]

I still have the retail copy of the original release (vanilla, prior to all expansions). I feel strange knowing that the game is going down for good when in fact I myself have only played it for approximately three or four months or so, with one or perhaps two pre-paid cards, I can't recall exactly. At least one came with the game when I bought it as an extra, and I don't think that I paid for it, I just bought the game itself, I believe its price was around $45 or so, but I'm not sure anymore.

Back then the game was new, I think it had just been released (I think I bought it during the first month of its release), and I myself was completely new to the MMORPG genre (was it even a known or popular genre at the time?). What I can remember the most out of it is that I could buy some apartment, I think it was on Tatooine (not sure), and I could decorate it with some furniture. I barely did any quests though, I used to just walk around wondering what the heck I could do, and what the hell I should be doing. I was completely overwhelmed by the size and scale of the game, seeing all those other players live doing their stuff around in the same game world, it was impressive, but also intimidating, I felt irrelevant overall­. I just couldn't grasp the mechanism of an MMORPG and I didn't give myself enough time to adapt to it, so I remember just "leaving" the game around two weeks or so before my second pre-paid card's duration expired, I never actually deleted my account or character myself, it just went down the drain on its own surely fast enough.

It still feels strange though, to have a retail copy of a game that basically won't be alive anymore, I could physically install it but still... would be a waste of time. Oh well, I can understand how a community of fans would feel for a game like that to go away though. I can't imagine when something along the lines of World of WarCraft will go poof, how many of the 50'ish million of unique subscribers will cope with that will be interesting to see, or even study, when it happens... although I'm not sure if I'll still be alive by the time it happens to WoW specifically, but I was just generalizing.

 

[Nintendesert]

I played it at release, Los bugs, TEF bugs and exploits, baby DNA for one shot uber pets, eye shot spamming and fun with combat medics made for a great game for us griefers and exploiters. Not sure how anyone else had fun.

 

[Nik]

heh, Zenoth.

I still have my special edition black box with book, pewter statue, and lapel pin packed away safely.

If I were going to Fan Faire, I'd wear the pin.

 

[TechAZ]

Wow, I don't play anymore...but this is sad. I didn't start at the very beginning, but in early 2004 I finally got the game after my buddy practicly begged me to get it. His wife made him quit shortly after I started playing.

I remember thinking it was stupid for the first couple hours, but was amazed at how big the world was. When I first logged in, I didn't know if it was players shooting at me, or NPCs haha. Soon I was completely sucked in. Ground up medic/commando and spent about a month getting enough credits for composite armor. Eventually figured out my template sucked for PvP and re-ground up Fencer/Doctor. Great guilds along the way, great pvp pre-cu, pre-mass jedit grind. Eventually everyone and their droid was grinding up Jedi and I quit. Never had a desire to go Jedi, but PvP kind of sucked if you weren't one.

I've come and gone many times throughout the years. This game will go down as my favorite game of all time. Not sure if that's because it just was that damn good pre-cu in the early days, or if it was my first MMO. Either way, I have so many fond memories of SWG. I will always miss the player cities and complex crafting, the sense of community that comes with those aspects, and the non-pathed world.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I played the first 2 months (month one: buggy as hell, month two: free). I could not get into it, but I blame my profession. It was a ridiculous amount of grinding for the architect originally. Plus having to convince guild mates to run so many harvesters... keeping them maintained, and then just camping and sitting there panning for whatever resource you needed was boring.

Although, I do remember sitting in some random planet nowhere near *anything* panning for resources and a dark jedi NPC appeared. I high tailed it, told my guild about it, ~20 members showed up and I partied up. Took one pot shot at the jedi, went back to panning for resources, the rest of the party died. But because I was there the jedi did not disappear nor did he heal. So the party came back and killed him. *AND* because I participated in the battle, I got some experience and some cool dark-jedi swag.

 

[Maligx]

This is a reply I wrote taken from an old [thread=2156551]thread[/thread] about games that were ahead of their time.

Apparently SWG (first few years) was ahead of it's time because I don't really know of any current MMO with quite the depth as swg. The features I thought that stood out the most were the player built cities along with mayors you elected every once in a while and crafting was one of the best especially in any MMO if you had a lot of time on your hand.

I was an armorsmith and had 3 accounts which I used to plop harvesters down along with my cousins 2 accounts worth of land. Each week you'd have to survey for different, unique minerals. Some of the minerals that would pop up from week to week would have the best properties for that type of mineral and would be considered a super rare sought after mineral after that week because no mineral of that type would attain the same level of quality.

I would use these minerals and test them out on schematics until I came up with the best possible armor I could make, then gather up all the resources and built them in my factories.

After this I would put them in my store on vendors for customers and rake in the credits. I had little RDD2's in the main cities advertising for me. I made a fortune (tens of millions) making high quality mainstream armor for an affordable price.

I did also grind out professions unlocking my jedi character, sadly I was too afraid of dying so I never played him. Oh and I remember our city was one of the largest ones on tatooine, we would have city meetings nearly every week. My cousins and I would also kill krayts (sp?lol) for the crystals, that was a lot of fun. Damn that was an epic experience now that I think about it and I don't think there will be another mmo quite like swg, before they destroyed it that is and I don't mean this december. I quit before the jump to lightspeed came out around the time of the combat revamp.

 

[Mem]

I had very fond memories of SWG Pre-CU ,I would say best MMORPG back then,never been in another MMORPG that was as good and I've been in many ie WoW,Warhammer,EQ2 and dozens more I could name,SWG had a winning formula back then but had to change it and this was the start of its downfall, NGE was the final nail in the coffin.

I will always remember the great guild I was in and all the fun I had playing it back then,housing,guild towns etc...good things come to an end I guess.


Speaking of SWG its time about now I went back into Bioware's latest "The Old Republic" and carry on my/their beta test :biggrin:

 

[crownjules]

Isn't there a free emulation server out there now running pre-CU SWG?

edit: Here - http://www.swgemu.com/forums/content.php. Copy of SWG required of course.