Comments on: Why I miss Star Wars Galaxies

By: Sedryn

Sedryn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:02:11 +0000

Oh and one more thing. One more reason I will not forgive SOE is because not only did they kill SWG, they killed any chance of another sci-fi sandbox MMO. Everything coming out is pathed, small zones. the interface and commands are simple and its easy to get bored. I have great hopes for The Old Republic, but I fear that it will be so heavy on the story end, there will be no vast expanses to explore and populate. And the reason WoW is doing so well isn’t just because its smooth, it’s because its so simple a 7 year old or 80 year old can play. which is another reason why you will not see another in depth massive expanse sandbox mmo.

By: Sedryn

Sedryn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:53:42 +0000

SOE Makes a mistake, then they do the exact same thing over and over. They have no common sense and no love for their player base. Their endless pursuit of a game with WoW $$. They don’t understand that if you make something good and take care of your fan base (spend money on support and in game events etc) you will have just that. You can’t make money by pissing off those who give the money to you. You can never make everyone happy and you will always have haters. But if you do your best it will show.

By: mel

mel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:23:40 +0000

I played it late in 2004 and early 2005. Before NGE it was a wonderful experience as I played it mostly as a RPG. I had a great older brother (the joke being in real life the young man was over 10 years younger then me) and just had such great fun. I loved the way we could move, dance, laugh, hug, kiss and smile. I was given lovely gifts, dresses and fine clothes. At the start I had to go every where on foot (Tattooine at night with a storm blowing around you was just magical) and remember being chatted up while waiting at a lonely shuttle port by an Imperial faction member who became a friend.
Miss the game a lot, I have tried Eve and WOW but it still has a place in my heart. Before he left my online “brother” gave me his e-mail and after all these years I can still e-mail him and chat!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:27:01 +0000

This may sound pathetic… But seriously I want to cry when I think of SWG, I miss that game dearly :/ I started playing at launch and I remember having to chance after your corpse with all your loot on it after you died. LOL couldn’t reach it cuz of the aggro-hellhold it was in, so had to callin a couple friends to help out. But in which case they all died too lol, that game was beautiful :/ and lol that running everywhere before mounts and speeders was so much fun. I remember making laps with a couple friends just to go around and explore shit to see what all was around… At times we even ran distances just to time shit to see how far from this point to this point is… the waypoint creation system man……. the magnitude of sophistication put into that game was beyond belief :/ the social experience was AMAZING, still haven’t found anything in any way nor shape nor form to replace it :/ and WoW sucks hardcore… only reason that game is successful is because of the smoothness of gameplay and the success in their player numbers came from when the majority of the SWG community flocked over to blizzard…

And seriously I can’t ever find it in my heart to EVER forgive SOE… was complete bullshit what they did. I remember trying for 4-8hours trying to load into the test center just to try out and see what all the hype SOE had made about the “newly adored NGE (New Game Enhancements)” man……After playing that… I seriously think I would have found a toddlers ABC learning game more enjoyable. They took all sophisticated thinking and logic out of the game :/ dumbbed it down.

I think the worst part of all, is that I could go on hours on end talking about how great this game was and how much I miss it… But unlesse you’ve played before that NGE bullshit, you wouldn’t understand where I’m coming from so hard to express how i feel about it :/ it really is sad, still haven’t forgotten the game nor forgiven SOE after 5years now…. thought the resentment would have resided… but its still there :/ wish someone could relate lol

I hate NGE-SOE-game developers and refuse to play/purchase any SOE related game/merchandise even if its free and the best game ever made…

**It was just so lovely to see how dedicated they were to try and bring newcomers to an already extremely successful game, by throwing away the already loyally dedicated veterans… LOL** (no.. seriously we really did get slapped in the face; simply put)

Imagine going to really fancy high class restaurant like no other, the experience and atmosphere simply spectacular you’ve never seen such a thing and its just so GREAT and you can’t explain why… just is simply put…. AND THEN the manager comes over and throws a McDonald’s happy meal in your face and tells you that you get a free toy and to be happy with it……

By: myke

myke — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:14:57 +0000

I started playing SWG a month after launch. There has never been a game like it. SWG Pre-CU was a game that I could log into the minute I got out of bed and log out as my head was hitting the keyboard from exhaustion. And many a day I had never fired a single shot from my prized DE-10 that I farmed the mats out of the Death Watch bunker for months. It was indeed like an alternate reality, one that I had dreamed of being a part of since I was 9 years old.

Then came the dark times. The Combat upgrade ripped the guts out the entire game. It turned that DE-10 into a paper weight overnight. The graphics changed, the sounds changed, the feeling of personal depth and fulfillment was ripped away.

I hate SOE, and all things Sony because of what they did. Forgiveness is not something that can come easily after an ordeal of that magnitude. I know that some of you will say “get a life” or “grow up”, but you don’t understand. Imagine losing someone who you cared so much for, then imagine that it was someone you knew and trusted that took them from you. Would you trust that person again, even if they were fully rehabilitated and were deeply sorry for what they had done?

There will never be another Star Wars Galaxies.

Star Wars Galaxies
RIP April 27, 2005

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:48:01 +0000

I’ve been thinking of getting back into Galaxies. Why? I miss it. It’s just that simple. I know that things have changed, I’m also one of those that played when you had to run everywhere. I remember the pure joy I felt when speeders were introduced and the joyrides out to the edges of the map “just to see what was there!” I remember when my friends and I built our first city west of Moenia along the shore of this lake, BEFORE cities were available. We just put up our houses all together, with our factories and smaller houses as warehouses on the outskirts. We had to worry about high end mobs spawning within range, and i can’t tell you how many times someone’s mission was too close to my house and I had to call in someone to help me kill it so I could go inside. I remember my friends that didn’t play just didn’t understand when I was saying all the time, “I have to check my harvester!” I remember slogging away at professions that I had absolutely NO interesting in being so I could unlock Jedi on my account. And then that fateful day when the nerf happened. I didn’t just stop paying and playing. I deleted my character ,sent e-mails and made phone calls just so I was sure that they KNEW how pissed I was. It’s been years now, I’m playing EVE online, WoW before that, and I find that I miss Galaxies. I know it’ll be different, but I miss the atmosphere, and that intangible something that galaxies had that was more than just the classes that were changed, that sandbox that you were rewarded just for jumping into. I don’t know how to put it… but I think I’m going to give it another try. I only happened on this site looking for info on what’s become of the game and when I read the posts I just felt that i had to share my feelings. I don’t want to sway anyone else into joining back up, hell it could suck still, but… I think I’m going back, if just to be disappointed again.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:34:49 +0000

I hated video games till 4th grade. My brother played SWG. I had NOTHING in me that wanted to try that ” gay SW game “. I went to gamestop with my dad to try and buy counterstrke. They were out of it. On the shelf sat SWG, 3 months into the game. My dad asked me to try it out. I bought it. Downloaded it. Played for 2 weeks. My brother invited me to his guild. I didn’t enjoy it that much, but it was fun. The second week we had a guild meeting, and the corvette mission was coming out. Don’t ask why but I felt like it would be awesome to level up and master a profession. I mastered TKM, and was having more fun then I’d ever have in real life. My swg life meant more then ANYTHING. I loved the game so much. It didnt matter what the HELL happened to me in real life, when I was logged on, I was home. End of story. It might be ridiculous to say, but I don’t think I ever enjoyed anything more then swg. It was my favorite thing to happen. I developed a love for the game. Like a second home, the community, the style of play, just walking around. I loved it. A little while in….CU. I refused to play. I ended up giving it 2 months of play. I still had some kind of drive to play. The nge…. i played for about 4 months. God knows why…I don’t think I will ever be able to not forget about the game, or want to play again. If what you guys say is true, I might be coming back home to Bria. I know i might sound like a faggot…but that’s the story of my life from 4th grade summer up until my freshman year of highschool.
-jared

By: Primony

Primony — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:02:30 +0000

I started the game when there were no speeders, you had to run everywhere!! I used to hang with my FRIENDS, do guild runs and attacks, build up our bases!! Camp lord nyax or that thingy in the geo caves!! I would pay $50 bucks a month to get that game back. Please dont ask me to give a game a CHANCE again, I spent countless hours dancing in a cantena because my holo told me to be a master dancer, master doctor and another 17 profession s till i unlocked jedi, years of work gone in one sec with the stupid NGE.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:19:02 +0000

Oh I so agree… I’m currently in LOTRO too, it’s a good game, but not what Star Wars Galaxies brought me. The game lacks the “sandbox feeling” that SWG had, wich is sad and sometimes frustrating too becouse of the lack of end-game content.

I’m looking forward to Age of Conan aswell, though I’ve heard reports from beta players stating that there are so many bugs that it’s hardly playable… But I guess that’s a good thing in a way, becouse it reminds me how SWG was back in the early days

Anyway, Bioware is (hopefully) doing a Star Wars MMO as we speak. I can’t possibly imagine that it would end up bad.

By: Crysin

Crysin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:03:21 +0000

I agree with the author and he makes some very very good points, and they are true. The social interaction was huge infact I have never had the same social interaction since Ultima Online and SWG. I knew people in World of Warcraft but the bond wasn’t there. I lost so much sleep and time playing SWG just because I didn’t want to leave my friends.

YES friends I knew these people so well its like they where my family. We hung out in catinas, crafted and traded resources, we built citys togeather! SWG attracted female players by the masses. If you saw a female in a cantina there was a 90% chance it really was one being a social butterfly chatting with her dancer friends.

When I became a Jedi I really felt like one in the game and it not being a class. I had to hide out in forests and far out of the way places training my ass off so one day I could join the battle. That was the only way to stay of the BH terminals was to be alone and alone I felt but I felt like a Jedi in the game and not a class who carrys a glowy stick. People who showed of their Jedi payed for it dearly and thus kept the jedi underground like they should be.

I loved being a doc and crafting my own buffs I took pride in my crafted buffs. Then role playing a doctor in a major starport and readying people for combat and healing them. People would look for me because I gave killer buffs for a killer price. Some docs would have 5 or so people inline and id have 15 to 20. I had a spiffy little macro that would prepair my needles and prep the patient and people would get a kick out of it and end up roleplaying back with me and they never rped a day in their life.
Just a few things I think of when I read the above.