It would still be going, and profitable, if they didn't ruin it.

Good fucking riddance, butchers.

SWG died a long time ago at the hands of Sony.

This is just a mercy kill at this point.

it was still running?

I played the restoration....

It was awful. Was this what it was initially like?

The most boring thing I've ever played in my life.

swgemu was here, nge is a loser

>play this
>have lots of fun
>creature handler
>whycan'tiholdallthesepets
>most fun ever
sigh...

>>100063966
Are they done yet? They've been at it for years...

Even though it's nowhere near the experience of post-launch SWG, at least I can use the SMGEmu to relive the feeling of hanging in the cantina, or going off and exploring the wilderness.

There will never be another MMO that even comes close to being what SWG was in te beginning though. Everything now is just a WOW clone, and retarded devs/pubs don't understand that people that want a wow style game will just play wow. Trying to copy it will just guarantee that your game fails, just like when SWG failed after they changed it from a completely new, innovative, and freeform game into yet another clone. Herp derp'n on the highest level.

It's still painful to think about because SWG was so much fun, and something so new

>never went F2P
>now just ending

Son of a bitch.

>>100064367

I know that feel bro. SWG was the first MMO I ever got "into", and will always be my favorite. I still have all my old screens on a disc somewhere.

>That feel when you took all that time to decorate a house and soon all you'll have left is image files of it.

I played it back in the day and it was truly an amazing experience.

The devs fucked up by giving too much power to melee classes, which in turn made the entire game really awkwardly balanced.
The end game was teraskasi/fencer/pikemen beating the shit out of cavemen and nightsisters while buffed and invulnerable.
It was ridiculous.

But the actual world and items and everything related to that was amazing.

>That feel when SWG made me fall in love with crafting, but in all MMOs everything I can craft looks and has the exact same stats as something made by somebody else.

>>100063966
>>100064256

even if they finish it completely, it still won't be the same as 2003 SWG because there won't be nearly as many people playing meaning that like 3/4 of the galaxy will be a ghost town as opposed to having bustling towns all over the place.

Never again will you experience

>Rebel and Imperial clashes between Anchorhead and Bestine
>Hanging at the cantina, listening to music, watching the dancers as explores come and go, telling about their adventures
>join a group of 20 fortune seekers as they traverse miles of desert searching for the Kryat graveyard
>join a gathering to watch a fireworks display in the middle of the city
>run into another lone explorer at his small campsite out in the middle of nowhere wilderness, have a seat and chat with him a while before going your separate ways
>hunt down a smuggler to slice your weapon, only to be caught with it by Storm Troopers and have it confiscated
>Be a capitalist pig and go from hawking crafted goods on the side of the street, to having a huge business empire complete with multiple stores, NPC employees, harvesters around the galaxy, and a huge wind farm for power.

There are no games that allow you to do any of this now. Now you have one choice.

>grind
>grind
>grind
>grind
>grind
>grind
>grind
>level up
>repeat forever

oh boy....

Fuck you SOE, fuck you so hard..

>Going down on the "estimated" date for the Old Republic release

Fuck you, Lucasarts. That's why they're doing this.

SWG is probably going to be better than SWTOR.

>that feel when you just start playing as a complete noob, and you meet this awesome person
>He gives you a pet dewback which you cherish for ages, it eventually becomes your battle mount and though you'll get other pets, you'll never replace him
>mfw sony fucking obliterates him and turns him into some shitty vehicle for a profession fucked up 5 ways from friday
Seriously, what the hell was up with that shittastic side profession they announced? You needed so much goddamn money just to produce one pet that took days just to be available and even then was likely shit itself

>That feel when you skilled Dancer just to poplock at campfires.

>>100065382
>>Be a capitalist pig and go from hawking crafted goods on the side of the street, to having a huge business empire complete with multiple stores, NPC employees, harvesters around the galaxy, and a huge wind farm for power.

>>100065468
So a closed game is better than SWTOR?

>>100065627

Yes.

>>100065627

>So a closed game is better than SWTOR?

Since TOR is just going to be WoW with a Star Wars mod, yes. I'd rather play nothing.

>>100065382
>mfw you're right

>>100064724

fucking find those things and post 'em. I still have a number of screens too, but I don't know where the hell they are anymore. I think they are on my old computer that is packed away at my parents house.

I really want to find them, I always enjoyed trying to take "actual" pictures, ie taking a picture of my character at his campsite on a forest ridge looking over a plain as the sun set behind him. Things that had a real aesthetic to them. I really need to find them again. ;_;

FUCK YOU SMEDLEY, FUCK YOU SOE.
I HOPE YOU FUCKING BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY

Played this from Alpha up until shortly before NGE when I couldn't take their bullshit anymore.
Never in my life have I been this mad at a company before. My limited English is too poor to describe the ultimate hatred I have for Smedley and all the dumbfucks on his team.
Holy shit just thinking about it again makes my blood boil.

How they just give you the most awesome sandbox MMO experience ever and then just shit right on it, smearing the brown mass right into your face.
FUCK YOU SMEDLEY.

After what SOE did to it.... I quit playing a long time ago, but yet it saddens me to hear this

I played Gorath Pre-CU and CU

The NGE was atrocious. They took out all customization from the most amazing class system ever, took an epic truly hard to attain alpha class and made it so everyone and their grandmother could start out as a jedi. Not to mention how much content they cut out by screwing everyone over.

I had hopes for SWGEMU and ANH but those are taking incredibly long. I think archage online will fulfill that sandbox dream but we will see.

I'm upset.
I feel like subscribing so i can take part in the final event.

If only SoE was not run by chimps.

Wish i got to see it in its glory days.

>bunch of people looking for more for a gorax hunt
>decide what the hell
>we take the guys yacht there, that feel when we're just chillin and chattin in this guys nicely decorated yacht
>about 20 of us drive off into the woods of endor
>I'm in this one guys massive 5 seater speeder
>we come across the desert, and eventually, over the horizon, spot the gargantuan gorax
>take him down in an epic fight (and being under leveled, my pet died several times, so I just shot at it)
>after a battle well fought we head back and find another
AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE IT AGAIN

If you've never seen this video before, prepare to rage hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UXM_BLAQg

because after all, SWG sucked at first, and SOE needed to fix it by making it more "iconic" and Star Wars"

fuck you faggot, so hard

If SoE never shot themselves in the foot this could have been way more successful than WoW.

>>100065850

I know that feel bro... We all do

>Never again will you experience a ranger setting down a camp in the wild after a long and exhausting hunt on a remote planet like Lok or Yavin.
>Never again will you in said camp have your wounds treated by doctors and never again will you have dancers, musicians and entertainers in general perform for you

That feel when all these people loved their professions. You were able to enter a filled-to-the-brim cantina at any time and find entertainers performing, chatting with you. You'd talk to them about what you did outside, be it raid Anchorhead or decorate that new house of yours. You'd have a cool chat and tip them. Everyone was having fun.

>>100066555

>SOE
>doing anything right

Pick one.

>>100066555

I seriously doubt that it could have been more successful than WoW. But that's what I liked about the game, it was Eve-like successful rather than WoW-like successful. It didn't have millions of players, but the players that played the game were a part of the most awesome community I ever had the pleasure to be a part of myself.

I had started playing this shortly after Jump to Lightspeed came out. First job I tried was a medic. Made so much money just healing whatever the black bars were (fatigue?)

Then I went tera kasi/bounty hunter

That shit was so awesome. pick up a mission to hunt some jedi player then dizzy knockdown him until dead.

>My face when I realize that my favorite MMO is finally dead.

>>100066999
This trips man is correct.
It certainly would have never been successful on a WoW level.

But why does it have to be?
Is making money not good enough? Does it really have to be making ridiculous amounts of money?

I wouldn't even complain if it all worked out. But nope. By trying to be more like WoW and such they practically killed themselves. Way to go.

Why has nobody at LucasArts though "Oh people really loved how SWG used to be, why don't we give them that?"
Jesus christ people are dumb.

>>100067094
>whatever the black bars were (fatigue?)
Wounds. Fatigue was healed in cantinas by watching entertainers.

Combat Medic here. Doctors can suck it.

>>100066683

I was playing SWGEmu a year ago or so, and I made a Ranger/Rifleman, and it was actually pretty awesome. I was setting up camps for experience outside of ME, and a lot of people actually stopped by to say hello, and most of the times I ended up having a nice long chat with them. God I loved that game

>Killing off SWG right as SWTOR comes out

Well then, you tricky bastards. (Not that anyone still played SWG anyway)

>>100067214
Because JewCunts like Lucas don't understand that making WoW in Space will not make a game successful.
>mstyicati butts
Exactly captcha

Damn it...now I am thinking about installing it and playing on swgemu

this thread is making me nostalgic as fuck

did anyone play galaxies after 1 year anyway ?
i remember my server dying a 3-4 months before the patch to "becoming a jedi is now even easier than before"

>>100067214

Apparently they completely deleted the code for Pre-CU / CU. I know it sounds pretty fucking dumb, but than again, these are the same people that taught NGE was a good idea

This is sad, but it's like putting down a 20 year old dog, it just has to happen.

Lets hope they can pull their heads out of their asses for PS2, which appaears to the be the last hope for a decent MMO experience.

>>100066683

>That feel when all these people loved their professions.

Yeah man, thats one thing about this game, everyone was really passionate about their profession. People took those non-combat roles for the love of them, and for the love of the social aspect of the game. You can't find this in games anymore.

In games like wow people pick classes based on "what is the best" or what will give them the biggest advantage in combat. They don't pick out for the sole joy of it, or the sole purpose of helping others.

I was a fucking chef, because I love cooking irl, and because I loved crafting my foods and selling them to others in cantinas. I was useless in a battle for the most part, but I didn't care, I was really passionate about the foods I made, and loved selling or giving them away to others.

Same with the fashion designers who did nothing but do peoples hair all day, or the tailors who sat in their shop and let people try on clothes all day, or the musicians who would just sit in the cantina and play music all day. Those people did that for the sheer love of it, and yet NO mmo these days allows them to do that again.

I played wow for a bit at the behest of my friend, and the first thing I asked was "can I craft or cook food?", and they responded with "yes, you can totally do that!"

>>100067883


Welp, anyone who has tried wow knows just what kind of "crafting" it has. the bullshit kind. I wasn't a chef, I was a combat class just like every single other person in the game, but I could click some shit sometimes and poop out a piece of meat or something. Nothing was custom, nothing was actually created, it was just, get this, click this, there ya goo.

Fuck that noise, and yet that's all crafting is in EVERY mmo these days. I need a game where I can actually be a crafter again, finding the various resources, choosing how to create the recipes, actually having a crafting process, selling the completed goods around the world, expanding my business as it gets more popular.

UGH

fuck this world, just give us want me want game industry. Obviously every wow clone fails, so just make something different, like SWG was. People WILL play it.

>>100067846

A 20 year old dog which used to be fun and playful, but recently he's just too weak, and nobody spend time with him ;_;

>>100067637

>my face when i let my pc running for 4 days straight to farm entertainment exp and ended needing to buy a new graphic card a few weeks later

>Bloodfin
>Kicking it with the top weaponsmith in the server
>Being the Pistoleer to his Merchant Weaponsmith
>Finding the best resource points in the entire galaxy
>he becomes one of the first Jedi
>Play until about three months after Jump to Lightspeed is released
>I continue to be a pistol-slinging starfighter pilot
>On the verge of the horrible update, he makes thousands of dollars selling his Jedi account on eBay
>I get back all the money I paid for the game and JTL by selling all my credits

Hell of a game man.

Everquest 2 is next.

>>100068090
>>100067883
>>100067846

>be a rifleman
>get a set of clothes that max camouflage
>spend 45 minute prone on a hill sniping a nightsister
>go back to town
>sit in the cantina and watch dancers to remove my fatigue
>wait in line at the hospital for buffs

>>100068090
Then you find a puppy and though you have fond memories of your old friend the new memories you make with your new friend will be just as good.

I'm hoping Planetside 2 does this for me.

You know what's fucked up...one of the main guys behind the CU/NGE actually went and committed suicide later on, after expressing what a terrible idea and choice the changes ended up being in the end.

In fact, I think most of the devs have since stated that the changed were a terrible idea. Too bad they won't try and recreate the old experience though.

>>100067883
>>100067986
You have inspired me to do something. I don't know what, but I'll do something. For you, the Chef.

A little story I'll always remember because it happened so soon after launch:

>run out into the desert (tatooine) with some other people, shooting and exploring.
>at the time I had a ticket up because my deed to a small house vanished
>eventually, while we were attacking some banthas and chilling in a camp afterwards, a CSM appears and casually asks "do you guys have a camping license?"
>We talk a bit and he eventually tells me that he is here cause of my ticket. He hands me a deed to a MEDIUM house and apologizes for any inconvenience
>I'm about ready to thank him and wish him a good day when he asks whether he can tag along for a bit
>We end up killing a mighty krayt dragon with his help and have another good chat

Some really cool CSM guys

>>100067883
>>100067986
fucking this.

>Spend hours, even days scouting planets for the best materials
>Pay some acquaintances to occasionally pop a surveyor and report to me if they find good spots.
>Set up harvesters on different planets
>Master Doc, selling THE BEST buffs/medpacks at the best prices.
>People used to line up at my house in my PA's town (before towns were even implemented, mind you)
>Products would always go sold out within minutes/hours
>Frequent messages for orders, on the field/private buffing requests (lol double/triple buffing)
I loved each minute of it all.

>Make a generic character face
>Months later, decide to get some facial reconstruction
>Sitting with a master Image Designer
>Pick a bunch of stuff to make it look like I don't have jowls
>Haggle down the price
>Have a friendly chat while the twenty minute Image Design countdown is going on

>>100067986
swg was the only game ever that made crafting and selling an interesting and fun experience

>>100064103
bro I did the same thing. I was a creature handler, left after sony corrupted the game.. sigh.

>>100064367
>>100065209
>>100065382
>>100065850
>>100066410
>>100066683

>mfw I will never get to experience what sounds like the MMO of my dreams.

I remember seeing this game on a store shelf once, back in the day. I loved Star Wars and tried to convince my parents to buy it for me, but considering how jewy and paranoid they were, refused due to monthly fees.

I only found out after a couple years that the entire game was essentially redesigned to become a boring piece of garbage.

Here I am once again, reading about how glorious and open this game was.

mfw it will probably be ~10 years (if ever) until we finally start seeing MMOs veer away from EQ/WoW-clone material.

Aren't there private servers for it or something? Couldn't we find a well-populated one and try to bring this game back?

This is, without a fucking doubt in my heart and mind; The best thread, ever made on /v/.

>Master TK/2h Weapon
>Wait in line for buffs on Correllia
>Put on composite armor
>Fly to Tatooine
>Run to anchorhead
>Kill all rebels with at-st and my vibroknucklers

Such was life in classic SWG

>>100068919
>image designers
Oh lawd. The memories.
>A rl gal friend of mine working on her ID levels.
>We're sitting in Theed Cantina for HOURS as she mangles my face
>everyone in the bar is freaking out as we graphically describe open-bar-surgery
Classic SWG had some stupidly amusing moments, haven't had any of the sort since.

Hey guys, remember this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa2RcwrozYY

It was made at the end of beta, just before launch. I remember watching this thing over and over (I was in beta too) and was so excited to see what the game would become when it finally launched. The potential was amazing.

Now it's so sad to see just want we lost. It's a man on his death bed, who wasted his whole life, looking back and seeing the starry eyed child he was, with such hopes for the future, but he knows that all those dreams will never come true, and he'll be a broken man with a wasted life at the end....

bout to go play some smgemu, if just to play my horn in the cantina for a bit....

$ony Online Entertainment killed this game a long time ago.

God I miss my (CU and before) Jedi.

>>100068692

>one of the main guys behind the CU/NGE actually went and committed suicide later on

Holy fuck, is this true? Do you happen to have any source?

I know that SOE openly admitted that NGE was a massive failure, but I never heard of any dev suicides

>>100068267

Everquest here.

Good riddance, swine. You bear the name, but not the soul.

>>100069079
Hell, the true focus of SWG was in prospecting, surveying, mining and crafting stuff. Creating player made cities from scratch that could very well be bigger than the cities of Naboo was equally as powerful.

A truly player-run economy and even systems of government.

The combat was tertiary.

>>100069329

Yeah, Jeff Freeman.

He bore the brunt of the hatred for the NGE/CU, and took his life because of it.

>notice jawas are low level and tusken raiders are high level
>I'm still fairly low
>farm jawas
>Become friendly with the raiders, and then get an entire set of tusken raider outfit, complete with gaffi stick and rifle
>Chill in fort tusken
>get that one point of interest in the bottom by casually strolling in like a boss
>farming players everywhere mistaking me for a tusken raider

>>100069154
I know that feel bro ;_;

Also I read somewhere there was a team trying to release the preupdate version on private servers but that work has been really slow.

doing missions on Naboo? Enjoy your 20 minute hike up the cliff to get back to town.

>mfw there will never be such an MMO like SWG that mixed that spark of mundane social interactivity that made the player really feel that he wasn't foreveralone.

>>100069154
SWGEmu and SWGANH are working on it.. it's far from done, it's taken them ages to get where they are right now.
But still.
I've never seen a game with such a loyal fanbase of veterans who long for the old times.

You always have the "it used to be better" guys.. be it WoW or TF2 now, but SWG is really another level, can't even compare the current game to what it used to be.

Jesus christ the profession system alone. The choices you had. Fucking fantastic. From architect to tailor to creature handler, doctor, musician and dancer to pistoleer, brawler and of course jedi..

Another thing I really hated was how they went about with the jedi system.

Here's the deal. ALMOST EVERYONE wants to be a jedi. I get it. It's iconic and probably THE first thing people think of when you mention Star Wars.
But do you realize how awesome it would've been for permadeath to stay and to have a limit of.. let's say.. 20-30 jedi per server?

They fucking have to play like hermits, for a good reason.
Fuck countless jedi sitting around Theed spaceport, they better hide and work on their skills and meditate and all.

Had I had the option to vote for "limit jedi even if it means I will personally never become one", I would've fucking voted for it.
This WHOLE GAME would have been fun even without the jedi.
Holocron grinding ruined it already. People who didn't care for being an entertainer macroed away those professions. People who didn't like crafting grinded through it.. etc. Why ? WHY?

ramble ramble...

I remember pre-NGE when gangs of bounty hunters would hunt down the rare and precious Jedi players...

Then Jedi became a class to pick from the start, as did bounty hunters. All the work that people had done had no meaning. Really sad.

>>100069696
>dat cliff
FUCKING GLORIOUS.

>that feel when you prone-crawled up the cliff thinking you were a mountain climber.
>that feel when you drove your speeder bike off at full speed sending you halfway to the coast.

Well, to be honest, I never played the original game and all, but I did constantly hear about how great the game was. I did try out that trial a few years ago, and I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty damn mediocre.

Sucks to be you guys. Atleast this stagnant beast will finally die, hopefully in peace and with dignity.

This ship right here was my pride and joy.

I'd take out whole squadrons of pirates, Rebels and Imperials alike. Shooting down a stations' dozens of turrets and systems and taking the things down by my lonesome. I collected so many damn good parts that I wanted to go into the Merchant Profession to sell it all.

I thought Jump to Lightspeed was pretty neat, albeit extremely repetitive with all the incessant spinning in circles while I whittle down the shields on enemy fighters.

But anyway, I totally love the Rihkxyrk.

>>100069899
The Peace and Dignity that it will be "Replaced" by TOR.

>>100069642
>>100069154

>Also I read somewhere there was a team trying to release the preupdate version on private servers

Yeah, SWGEmu. It's going really slow as you said yourself, and, although it's still far from completion, it's actually playable in its current state. You probably won't like it if you never played the game before, but you can at least get a feel of what the fuss is about.

>>100069734

Do you still have to have your original CD's to play on SWGEmu?

I threw those fuckers away when the NGE came out...

Good night, sweet prince.

www.swgemu.com

If SOE had reverted the servers after they lost 80% of their playerbase from the NGE, they would have made a killing but I guess Smedley and Sony as a whole are full blown fucking retarded.

Why does Smedley get all of the hate that Lucas deserves?

KINDA FUNNY THAT GALAXIES SHUTS DOWN THE DAY EVE ERUPTS IN MASS PROTEST

http://www.justin.tv/deamosseraph
http://www.justin.tv/dnah_pmip

Just for the record, this is him.
The guy that took it all away.

Look at him, all content.

>>100063679

No, it really wouldn't be still alive.

Don't get me wrong, I fucking LOVED pre-cu. SWG pre-cu is, and will always be my favorite game that I've ever played. But there was SO much wrong with the game at the time. SWG was just bleeding subscribers, mainly to WoW. That's when they thought up the CU, which was, in their minds, supposed to bring in an influx of new players.

Obviously it just made the problem worse.

Now, the CU was still playable. It wasn't nearly as good as the last, but in some ways, I enjoyed the CU more than pre-cu, mainly because it was a time when I actually started to get money and buy good weapons/armor.

But, than the NGE came... which was the final nail in the coffin.

Oh well. We had a good run, and once the Emu finishes, we'll get to start all over again.

Pic related... battles like this were so fucking fun. Imps vs Rebel battles were just a blast to participate in. Only problem being (well, for me) was that I had a SHIT computer back then. Geforce 5300FX, 1GB of RAM, and a P4 processor. Note the 15FPS...

>>100069734
No.
This is not a pointless rant.
These are my exact feelings when it comes to Jedi.
In fact, as I was first reading about the game, this is what caught my eye the most.

It made the Jedi what they really were. Unique, special, rare, and very careful. The fact that I knew there were only a handful at any given time put a smile on my face, even though I wasn't one. When everyone is special, no one is.

To this day, I still turn Jedi off in Battlefront 2.

>>100070223

That's not George Lucas...

Yeah got the email today. It was already dead years ago from the huge patch so good bye forever SWG.

A damn shame that we won't have a GOOD Star Wars MMO.

>>100070349
>>100069734

You guys are completely right. The great thing about Jedi was how special they were - making them common makes it pointless.

>>100069964

Its such a shame that people only really used JTL for instant travel...

It was the closest thing to X-Wing/Tie-Fighter that's ever been made since. I had so much fucking fun in space... especially in multi-seater craft.

I loved hopping in a friends YT-1300, manning the gun turret with another bro, and just cruising along blowing up pirates. After which, we would park the YT-1300 in orbit around a planet, and sit around the cockpit swapping stories.

>>100070223


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/21/tech/gamecore/main1335511.shtml

Wrong guy.

Someone with some hand in the MMO market must be reading this and thinking how awesome Galaxies was. Someone must be thinking "Yes we're going to bring that back".
The main problem is, it would never again be star wars. ToR will be the star wars MMO for the next decade, maybe longer. Our best hope is the MMO they follow it with will be closer to Galaxies.

What will happen to our houses in that game? What even happened to the houses of players who left when SWG made the huge change in game play?

>>100070692
Cities became ghost towns.
Oh all those dead harvesters and houses.. I remember it all

someone should make a comic of the destruction brought onto the game. Shit would be so sad/cash.

so is the game world really big? like a planet is as big as WOW ?

>>100070531

Yeah, but they were still semi-unique even in the CU. It was the NGE that turned them to COMPLETE shit, where as before, they were just semi-shit, while being demi-gods in pre-cu.

I remember it took me from starting to play (around patch 6), till just after the CU to FINALLY unlock Jedi. I was SO disheartened when I found out the CU was coming and I hadn't unlocked Jedi yet. And I still didn't unlock it until like 5 days after the CU launched.

Pic related. What the Mining Outpost on Dantooine became a couple of months after the CU hit.

>>100071068
Multiple planets.

>>100063566
fucking bastards, that's the only way they could have sold some TOR subs.

this is bullshit marketing, killing a game the leave place for an other.

>>100070692

They stayed in place for a time.

It was like logging in after a zombie apocalypse had claimed all of the people.

Before me I saw the skeletons, shells of cities that remained behind after the players had all left. A momentary testiment to the glory of the people who lived there before. In time, these shells were swallowed by the earth. Unlike when a tree falls, new life did not spring forth on these once-fertile plains, and before my eyes I saw a barren wasteland grow, devoid of the life, culture, and personality that had once made this digital world seem, for just a moment, real.

>>100071068
It'd take way too long to bother crossing a planet.
And there were loads of them.
Not including space

A galaxy bing bang to end the game with? HORY SHET

>>100070823
>>100071219
Fuck. So my house was still there even though I made it like 6 years ago?

I wish I subscribed just to visit it once again...

I had this bit of naive hope that SOE would turn it F2P with microtransactions so they could (hopefully) make enough profit to keep working on the game, but alas, this will never happen.

I'm sad to see this go. It might not have been the perfect game, but I had more fun in this game with my friends than I did playing WoW for almost 5 years.

I'll miss Galaxies. It feels like I've been staring at this corpse in a coffin and they're going to close the lid. I'll never see it again...

I played a bounty hunter and I sucked at it. I admit. I was a newbie when it came to MMOs, and I had no fucking idea what I was doing. But the first time I did a bounty hunter mission. Holy crap. The feel was indescribable. When you finally found your target after chasing him around the galaxy for a few hours... I was literally sweating like a pig. I was so nervous like never in my life. The story ended with my ass getting kicked due to my stupidity. I got killed so many times by my marks it wasn't even funny. Fuck that, it was fun as fuck and even after 20 deaths I never gave up. Then it finally happened. I found my mark grinding on Dantooine with a group of 4-5 people. I casually approached and asked if I could join the hunt. The thing is, I did not look like a bounty hunter at all. I did not have the weapons they used, nor the armor. I looked like a novice marksman. So there we were, grinding on Dantooine, and at one point the Jedi dropped low on health 'cause he was getting buttraped by a bunch of bols / whatever the other thing were called, and that's when I decided to strike. He fell down, and I got a message that my prize was transferred to my account. I was so fucking proud of myself I wanted to cry.

That was the best feeling I felt in a game, ever. Nothing ever came even close to this.

Rest in peace you raped son of a bitch. I loved you ;_;

>>100071068

Yeah, each planet was HUGE.

It could take you 45 min to an hour just to go from 1 corner of the planet to the other, and that was only if you were piloting a Swoop; the fastest vehicle in the game.

Before vehicles, it took forever to go places, but usually those times were some of the best.

I remember when I first started playing, vehicles weren't as common. I joined up with a group in Mos Eisley, Tatooine. We were all very low skilled, mostly Marksmans, Brawlers, maybe 1 Rifleman.

We decided to trek out across the planet, hunting anything we could find along the way. If we got too wounded, we would set up camp. We had a couple musicians/dancers around, and they would play/dance, while we laughed and chatted around the fire. Then we would get back to the action, hunting Squills, Banthas, Tuskens (the ones that didn't rape us that is) and so many other critters...

I managed to get to Novice Pistoleer that day, and purchase my first Scout Blaster.

>>100071162
You don't seem to understand, running a server for like what, 2-4 people at a time? Isn't going anywhere in the first place.

>>100071162

You can't kill a game that doesn't have any life in the first place.

SWG has been dead for months. Years even.

It died the second the NGE came out.

>>100071518
Great story.

It was awesome just how complex the BH hunting jedi thing was.
Befriending them only to eventually betray them to claim your prize.. choices.
Choices I'd take over "<romance with companion" any day man...

Ever had a jedi beg you for his life? When he was weak and struck down..

>>100070692
Actually...awhile back, when I braved the horrid mess that was the new swg, sony had a reward system going...you would demolish old houses and get money or something...Yeah. That house you had? Likely torn down by some 8 year old lvl 12 jedi.
When depopulation becomes so much of a problem that you actually need to recruit the current players to help you take down the mess, you fucked up.

>>100071456

>Fuck. So my house was still there even though I made it like 6 years ago?

No, son, they are all gone now. The sun set on those day long ago. All that's left is the cold emptiess, the void.

Perhaps this void is a metaphor? Perhaps the void itself is a story? One could tell their children tales of adventure and glory, of their second life in Star Wars Galaxies, then log in and show said children what remains now. Show them the barren wasteland that is men's hearts when money is concerned. Show them what happens when you trust George Lucas.

Never again.

>>100070531
It sucks that there are so many people who just want to play as a Jedi. It may be the drawing point of the entire universe (especially nowadays), but too much of a good thing...

It is crazy. When I was a kid and all we had were the original movies and games that either followed the movies OR had something to do with X-Wings and TIE Fighters or Rebels and Stormtroopers (and not Jedi), I didn't want to be a Jedi. Neither did my friends. We wanted to be Han Solo or Stormtroopers or X-Wing pilots.

Now it's just lightsaberlightsaberlightsaber force power choreography. They aren't even like the superheroes we envisioned them to be anymore, they're Fencers except with a fancy sword.

When the Jedi first unlocked in SWG, four of my clanmates were already extremely close to getting it by chance. A huge amount of players just went grinding for holocubes or whatever. I'm left all alone being a content Pistoleer/Scout/Ranger.

Jedi make me sad.

>>100072001
X-Wing Pilot here.
Although now adays I look back and think, damn, Stormtroopers were pretty cool guys.

>>100071991
>>100071921
>Yeah. That house you had? Likely torn down by some 8 year old lvl 12 jedi.
>My. Fucking. Face.

>>100072001
SWG classic had such a good grasp on it too. Jedi weren't just some profession you went to school for, it was almost mythical. The reason jedi were so awesome was because of how hard it was to become one, and how rewarding.

>>100071518

Haha, I hear ya... although I never got had a BH myself, as a Jedi, being hunted by a BH had the exact same thrill as hunting.

I remember ALWAYS having to watch over my shoulder. Grinding out in the wilderness, far away from anyone who might see my lightsaber and report my position. That feel when you're in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly you see a blue blip on your radar... you call your swoop, only to have it blow up by the now red blip on your radar.

You activate Force Run. Trying as hard as you can to live. You manage to temporarily outrun the BH, and call a spare Swoop you had in your inventory. With adrenaline pumping, you manage to accelerate to full speed; the BH right behind you but unable to attack until he gets closer. You then lead him on a chase across the planet, trying to get to your house that's located on the other side of the planet.

That feel when you finally reach your hometown, but suddenly find out that he wasn't the only BH chasing you... you then get dizzy/KD'd by the TK/BH hybrid waiting by your house (who after learning my name, conducted research into where I lived), and soon raped by the BH who had been chasing you.

That feel when you eventually make friends with those 2 BH's, and eventually go hunting with them on your secondary character. Friends for life...

>>100071518
That feel imagining a new Bounty Hunter, nervous, sweaty, inexperienced, and prone to failure trying over and over for his whole life until he finally hunts a Jedi through trickery and deceit, starting with one little piece, the change into a heartless, efficient hunter who makes more than a respectable living.

>>100071871
Dear god, having a Jedi grovel at your feet.

These are feelings that no MMO today has the fucking balls to try and replicate.

I've decided I want to participate in the last event.

But I don't get something
"June 24, 2011

* 12, 6 and 3-month subscription packs turned off

Sept. 15, 2011

* No new or reactivated accounts accepted after this date

Oct. 15, 2011

* Billing turned off
* Free game trials begin"

What do I need to do?

>>100072001

I didn't want to be any of that bs. I just wanted to be a fucking normal guy living in the Star Wars universe.

There are far more Uncle Owens in that world than Han Solos or Luke Skywalkers.

I just wanted to live in my little house, and take trips into town to visit with friends at the cantina, and sell my wares. That's all, such a simple dream, and I wasn't even allowed to have that....

Why I picked the Swordsman class way back in the day is beyond me.

>>100072481

you can probably join as normal, but you just have to pay month to month instead of paying for a chunk at a time.

>>100072572

Dude..uh .."swordsman"?

What about that could possibly not be cool?

>>100072395

If you ask me, the players behind the bounty hunter characters in SWG were, and will always remain, the best roleplayers ever. I knew a lot of bounty hunters in the game, and they were all extremely friendly and helpful, but when it came to bounty hunting, the player would always turn into a ruthless motherfucker. He did not care that he's destroying the fruit of another players' labor, he did not care that someone might quit playing because of him, all he cared about were the god damn credits. That shit still sends shivers down my spine

>>100072520

That's what made SWG so awesome. You weren't the hero. You were the every-day person just trying to get from day to day without starving. NOTHING was handed to you. You started the game with a knife, 1000 creds, and a melon. No quests to give you weapons. No "free" handouts. Just working your way up the food chain.

>>100072572

Dude, what? Swordsman was the best melee class in the game. It was one of the few professions that could kill Nightsister Elders. Those fucking powerhammers rocked.

>>100072284
Yes.. and they should have kept it that way.
Permadeath was good. For it stopped them from ruining the immersion (mind you this plays between ep III and IV, there aren't even SUPPOSED TO BE A TON OF JEDI RUNNING AROUND) by dueling in Theed and shit.

The elusive jedi hermit.. and the visibility system and all that..
Almost everything makes me shed a tear. Even the more basic things like the atmosphere of a cantina or just how detailed and complex the resource system was.

Or just exploring. Shit do I love exploring.. and the world was so HUGE.
Creature Handler too man. I was so passionate about it. It wasn't just "lol hurr a lvl 10 wolf I'ma tame him and name him Owl to confuse players in BG" - personally I was really making "a big deal" out of every creature I tamed. They became real buddies and I wouldn't just tame the firat one I saw either.

And then you could use so many of them as mounts, which was awesome too.

Also, I don't know who else was a loyal Tatooine guy but.. do you remember the epic battles between Bestine and Anchorhead?
That was just unreal. The planning, the gathering of fellow players. Proud rebels defending their little Anchorhead from the Imperials marching in.

>>100072520

YES, FEED ME MORE OF YOUR DELICIOUS DREAMS.

LET ME CRUSH THEM; LET ME BREAK YOU AGAINST MY WILL LIKE SO MANY BEFORE.

FEED ME MORE SOULS!!!!

I AM APOLLYON, HARVESTER OF MEN.

>>100072703
>>100072572
Vibroblades, bro.
And dat curved two handed sword.

>>100072905
>>100072905

Holy shit I just realized how the SWG melon was the first "meme" I ever came across I think.
The melon was fucking famous and holy. NEVER SELL YOUR GODDAMN MELON

>this is the first game I bought a graphics card for
>this is the game that made me love gunner classes and to stop being a mage
>this game showed me the kindness of strangers and the Bro-ness of a Jedi guild leader who regularly brought us on hunting parties despite the fact that w were severely under leveled
But the game also taught me how devs ruin a good thing for the sake of sales
>buy giant lion pet
YES TOTAL BRO TIME
>update the next day
>use the pet
>its one foot tall and useless
>My custom character was fucked to useless
>my fucking face when

COME ON GUYS WHERE ARE THE PRIVATE VANILLA SERVERS!

>>100072703
No don't get me wrong. It WAS cool. There's futuristic stuff all around and there was that guy with a regular sword. That was hilariously awesome.

I just got my shit kicked in my TK players a lot. I'm sure I did other cool stuff, but I really can't remember. It was just so long ago.

>>100072948

I will fucking kill that sack of shit if I ever meet him in real life. Making TFU cannon, midichlorians, abolishing the good parts of fluff, saying only the films are cannon... your crimes know no limits.

Teras Kasi Master / Master Pikeman / Master Medic reporting!

I eventually got nearly got to Jedi Padawan, after an infinitely long grind, but then came "Combat Upgrade 2".

Fuck you, Sony. It was such a great game, and my grind was about to pay off by becoming an awesome Jedi...

>>100072913

That feel when you finally figured out how to name your pet. I had a pet cu-pa named Angus. I loved that little fucker so much man

>>100073039

TK raped everything. It was probably the most overpowered profession in the game, next to Rifleman using a T21 with Strafe2.

I mean really, TK could inflict every single state in the game. Stun/Dizzy/Blind... it could knock you down EASILY. It had insanely high status attack resists. It had meditation, which allowed you to heal your fucking wounds. YOUR FUCKING WOUNDS when there's no doctors/entertainers around.

Fuck, it had a power that could basically revive you from the dead. If you ever got incapped, just press Force of Will, and you're up again!

TK/Swordsman/Medic was probably the best fucking template in the game.

It's ending...
It's finally ending...
I loved you SWG, fuck sony.

I was just a FOTM hopping PvPfag until JTL hit, then I was in heaven. I jumped on that shit immediately, hit master pilot on both of my accounts and started charging people 1 mil a pop to solo that corellian corvette for them (which was required for the master box) before anyone else knew how to do it.

Then I used the credits from that and from various other things over the course of a year or so of playing to start a shipwright business. I was one of the most successful on my server (Shadowfire) along with one or two other guys. Made a killing and owned 12 ludicrously kitted out ships (I saved the best stuff for myself), several suits of RIS armor for the lulz and could afford the best PvP shit but space was the most fun I had in SWG by far.

It's true that people really loved their professions in this game. Something for everyone.

This thread is great. This game sounded great.
I wish I could have played it in it's prime.
I tried it rescently. Got to level 24. Only came across one other player the whole time.

Friends, I propose that we all play SWGEMU.

>>100073382

The shipwright / pilot combo was something I always dreamed of while playing CU, so I made a new character on another server to try it out. I discovered re-engineering and stuff, it was so awesome. And then, of course, came NGE

>>100073365
TKs were so crazy, Jedis had a hard time fighting them.

JEDIS

Im going to have to re-watch the RedLetterMedia reviews again to get some of this Lucas hate off my chest.

>>100073087

KILL? HOW CAN YOU KILL THAT WHICH HAS NO LIFE? HOW CAN YOU DESTROY THAT WHICH IS DESTRUCTION!

HA, HA HA. FOOL!

I WILL MAKE STAR WARS AS I SEE FIT, REBUILD IT IN MY OWN IMAGE. I WILL CREATE AN ENTIRE TRILOGY DEDICATED TO THE EWOKS. I WILL CREATE STORIES OF JAR-JAR BINK'S ASCENTION TO JEDI MASTER. I WILL DO AS I PLEASE, HUMAN. AND YOU WILL PAY ME AGAIN AND AGAIN, AS I CONTINUALLY RE-RELEASE THE ORIGINAL TRILLOGY ON NEW FORMATS!!

>Still remember the master TK/master chef on my server named Casey Ryback

>mfw

>SOE
>Kills SWG
>Kills Planetside
>Kills Infantry online

Confirmed for bigger cancer than EA/Activision.

>>100073716

I second this proposal

>>100073692

I just realized I spent a full hour posting in this thread, and I have to say I don't even feel like I'm on /v/. What an odd feeling

When it comes to MMOs Penny Arcade has no fucking clue what it's talking about.


Gabe posts a fucking novel in the news section about how much he loves WoW and SWOTR.

But then goes on to say...

"Obviously the setting is a big draw for me but I played the last Star Wars MMO and hated it. So just setting a game in the Star Wars universe isn’t enough for me."

Yeah it has to be like WoW too huh gabe?

>>100073763

Well, there's the slight satisfaction that I pirated everything. Especially the comics, the books and the games. Oh and the films. Sometimes I really wish piracy could actually harm someone's business.

>>100073692
Yeah..
I really wouldn't advise anyone to try the game now (or anytime after the NGE).
You'll see nothing but a rotting carcass of what once used to be a proud creature standing tall.

You know, this is the first time I think that /v/ is not just a bunch of faggots. I'm really glad there are some fellow people who experienced this and long for it here.
In a way it probably wasn't too good for me to have started my MMO career with SWG, because it spoiled me. No MMO afterwards even came close to bringing me such joy and entertainment. And I dare say it's not just a case of "well your first one is always the best". I really don't think so.

>>100073716

yeah, I haven't played it in about 2 years, but even though half the shit wasn't implemented then, it was still really fun and brought back the feel of SWG, even if it was only to scratch that nostalgia itch.

I still got to play music in the cantina, or do peoples hair, and explore the wildressness, although there were no creatures or camps at that point.

I think I'm about to go check it out again and see where they are at. Threed cantina was hopping last time I was there (everywhere else in the world was a ghost town though ;_;) It was so sad crusing my old haunt, and being the only living thing within miles and miles.

>>100073922

>I just realized I spent a full hour posting in this thread, and I have to say I don't even feel like I'm on /v/. What an odd feeling

Good games tend to draw good people, in turn, good threads.

>>100073873
And yet EQ is still alive...

And they haven't just made it F2P already. I mean, come on. It's fucking EverQuest, it's been out for over a decade now, it needs to go F2P to get some new blood into it.

>>100073757
Going by the lore (which SWG did pretty damn well at first), Teras Kasi masters were capable of taking on Jedi. Balance? Fuck that, we're gonna give you an honest to goodness Teras fucking Kasi.

>>100074137
Probably because its still quite populated.

Fucking SOE

>Make mouse droid.
>Name said droid "Fag Follower"
>Send droid to follow players at random.
>Best game ever.

>>100074083

I'm actually half tempted to reactivate my old ass account just for this going out event. It would be pretty sweet if it was filled with old players reminiscing about the old days as the world comes to and end

>>100073922
>>100074086
Indeed. /v/ is truly a chaotic place in which a safe haven sometimes appears and within, the best in man is found.

>>100074137

>get some new blood into it.

I still play Everquest bro. I really, *really* don't want any new blood in it.

>>100074287

lmao

thats fucking awesome, I forgot you could have your pets follow others around

>>100074183
In the lore, did TKs have some special plate arm guards to fight off lightsabers or something?

>>100074083

>SWG, because it spoiled me. No MMO afterwards even came close to bringing me such joy and entertainment. And I dare say it's not just a case of "well your first one is always the best

Yeah, me too. SWG wasn't anywhere near my first MMO, but it was def the best, and every MMO that I've tried since I just get bored with very quickly. I don't think I'll ever enjoy a MMO again, until one comes along with the same amount of freedom and choice that SWG gave

Remember me?

>>100073873
I have my hopes for PS2.

A man can dream.

>>100074137
If it makes you feel any better, EQ2 is circling the drain.

>nothing will ever beat that feel of when you first started playing SWG; starting out on Tatooine. Running across the planet, with the music playing, camping in the wilderness and finally earning enough money to buy a landspeeder.

>>100074137

>EverQuest, it needs to go F2P to get some new blood into it.

lol, enjoy your massive influx of Brazilians and Russians

>>100074672
When I started out there were no vehicles though, but yes.

Nothing will beat that feel of you attacking a womp rat only for it to murder you.

>>100074672

>dat music playing at sunset and sunrise

such atmophere

>>100074589

That's their own fault.

They made EQ2 into a (rather strikingly beautiful) shell of the first game.

By taking out all of the things people complained about (kill stealling, power leveling, etc) they took out things they never intended. Remember this?

>You're level 6 fighting an orc in GFay
>Jesus this thing is beating the crap out of me, and I have no idea where the hell I am
>Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man in full plate armor with flaming sword
>He heals you, continues to heal you as you defeat the orc
>It's dangerous out here, young one. Let me take you back to the city...
>He takes you back to Kelethin, buys you full leather and a backpack, sends you out to kill more orcs

That kind of interaction is why Everquest works. And the removed it because some people didn't like getting KS'ed.

>>100074790

Yeah, that's the one thing that always killed me. I never got to play SWG on day 1.

I didn't join SWG until... patch 6? At that point, all the crafters had already been established, SWG had a stable economy (well, stable as can be after the credit duping) and there were already Jedi.

I feel you, SWGbros. Long time EQIIfag who played since launch, SOE fucked us in the ass too by changing it slowly but surely into another goddamn wow clone.

Why does SOE want to kill everything we love, /v/?

> you are now hearing the humming sound of the shuttle

You guys do know that most of the Star Wars Galaxy team is working on TOR now, right?

Because it's one of my biggest reasons for not wanting to play The Old Republic

>>100073763
I see it now, George. We can make millions with this. I can bring back Indiana Jones and he could have an adventure with those ewoks. Listen to this one, George: Ewoks are enslaved by the empire and one lone Ewok called Wicket Schindler stands to fight against the Empire and he will help these Ewoks escape from their captors. We can call it Wicket's List. GENIUS! Wait just a second, George. How about E.T decides to visit Endor. I'M A GENIUS!.

I played from release day to a few months before JtL (stupid economics forced me to cancel...). Shit was fan-fucking-tastic at the time. That first day of play, everything was bugged and wonky as all hell. You could shoot at a nest for a good 10m and it would die. You give up and the shit explodes. There was some stupid problem with registration page so it wouldn't work in IE. Everyone ended up getting Mozilla (before it was Firefox) just so they could register and hopefully log in (after a 3 hour patch over 56k).

I remember how I picked my main profession, Combat Medic. I was in a guild even before the game was released, The Crescent Order on Chilastra. Great bunch of guys. That first week of play we did a whole bunch of shit together like massive hunting roams, using Scout camps along the way for regeneration and stuff. I ended up picking up every starter profession (like everyone else at the time) since so many skill points were available and there was no reason not to. So the camp was full of low level people singing and dancing and running around with the shittiest of Stimpacks while trying to Forage/Prospect.

>>100075120
cont

Eventually, we decided to get everyone together for a raid on the Imperial base on our home planet, Correlia's moon Talus. Before setting out, our resident medic handed me an ass-ton of decently made stims and the order to keep people up. We made the long trek from out base (which sat on the edge of a cliff overlooking a narrow river) to the Imperial base encountering no resistance along the way. Finally we get there and of course the place is littered with Stormtroopers. Some players as well, but nothing to form an organized defense. We engage. Blasters firing everywhere, people dropping left and right, chaos incarnate. Through it all, I'm running around from player to player, picking up the incaps, trying not to draw attention to myself. We ended up taking over the base... for about 15m before the whole place respawned on us with AT-STs...... That night, I knew what I wanted to do in that game for the rest of my character's life.

going out into the wilds alone and setting up a campsite and just watching the world pass by around you, the creatures moving around, the sun setting and the stars (and planets) coming out, that was one of my favorite things in the game, and one of my favorite game experiences in general

>>100075120

FUCK YES CHILASTRA.

Chilastra will always be the best fucking server. Some of the servers wars with Bria... man those were good times

shit, SWGEMU need a physical copy? damn, thatll be hard too find

>>100075100

>Wicket Schindler

Jesus christ, I fell out of my chair

>He who saves one tree, saves Endor entire!

hahaha

>>100075100

At first I laughed.

Then I started crying while curling up into a little ball.

He could do it. He WOULD do it.

>>100075084
Where has that been stated? Most of the TOR team is made up of the original kotor team, da:o, and others like mythic for the pvp

>>100075100
>>100075305
>>100075387

Join me, the Force demands that they be fucking beheaded in the name of galactic peace. For the Republic!

>>100075500

The guy is full of shit

>>100069154
Are you me?

Seriously, this sounds like everything I've ever wanted out of a game, and I'll never get to experience it.

Don't mind me, just having a party

>>100075277

no it doesn't need an actual physical copy, just the normal game .I just torrented mine, it works fine, they just tell you not to do that to keep any potential legal heat off them.

>>100075676
Ahhhh fuck I loved all the titles they had for each "class" in swg

>>100075676

5FPS
1900m/s ping

Damn son, and I thought I had a bad computer at the time

>>100074534
Would an MMO like SWG even succeed now?
I mean, with the current trend that IF ITS NOT WOW IT SUCKS or IF ITS WOW ITS A COPY AND WILL DIE
and by WoW, I mean little personal interaction and cookie cutter gameplay and crafting

>>100075676

haha, the only thing it's missing is the obligatory, huge fat wookie dancer

ps, those kinds of scenes still go on all the time in Theed Cantina in smgemu (just nowhere else cause they are dead :/)

>Played SWG when I was 10, pre-CU
>I wanted to kill shit, so I became a swordsman
>Kept dying over and over
>"man fuck this game"
>Went to play WoW
>continued to believe that SWG was the post piece of shit MMO in existence
>suddenly, get urge to play 3 years later
>realize how shitty it's become and what a punk-ass little shit I was for hating it when it was good

God damn it, I hate myself for not being more patient with it. I want to go back. Does SWGEmu require SWG to be installed, or can I just download it?

>>100075918
Not my own screenshot to be fair.
But I recall an epic moment of having a latency of 43000ms.. during some server hiccup.

I did have ram problems though at first. My old PC took a long time to load so I had to reboot to refresh the ram (haha) every so often.

This game made it so easy to roleplay without you even noticing.
It was just natural.

>>100076006

the game needs to be installed on your comp, the version before the CU/NGE, but you can just torrent that. Don't get the current version though.

smgemu site will tell you which one you need.

This has been a wonderful thread.
I'd just like to http://chanarchive.org/request_votes
It's currently ontop of the list.

Prepare for a blast from the past with this music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_7TR-X4eFY

>>100076369
Thanks, bro. I look forward to experiencing this game the way it was meant to be played.

I am sorry to see it go. I remember being a master commando and dropping cones of niggas left and right with flame spray 2. It was instant death for anyone within 60M in front of me. I combined it with bounty hunter and just went around spanking people. The flame dot almost assured that no matter what, my mark would not escape. The wounds afterwards too, it was double punishment. First I spray you with my kryat enhanced flame thrower. then I just walk casually away. First shot drops you, then you get right back up...then the dot kicks in and drops you again. Then you get back up...then the third tick kicks in and thats it...you are dead.

I am already on my ship heading back to the bounty boards to collect my cash by then.

god I am sad to see that game go.

>>100075939

It's all about momentum and breaking certain thresholds.

WoW never intended for this, they just strived to be the market leader and managed to fill a void. Everyone else just followed without questioning, which in turn will create new voids. At some point one will become a gaping maw of desire that spoiled and lazy developers can no longer ignore or distort, and they'll be forced to innovate, lest someone beats them to it.

And right there and then, is room for another SWG to be born.

>Republic Commando will not be getting a sequel
>Jedi Knight will not be getting another sequel
>Battlefront will not be getting another sequel
>KoTOR has been turned into WoW
>SWG is shutting down
>TFU is probably going to get at least 10 more sequels

>ITT NOSTALGIC FAGGOTS CRYING OVER THEIR SECOND LIFE WITH A STAR WARS SKIN

>>100076399

No, son. All things, this thread included, must die eventually.

It's best that we treasure it ourselves now than hope for a future that will not care.

>>100076609
Kindly leave, please.

>>100076473
No shit man.. that music.
Play just 3 seconds of it and instant nostalgia ensues.

>>100076502
Oh boy yes. Was Commando for a while too.. when flamethrowers did SERIOUSLY NASTY wounds. It was hilarious to almost completely blacken an enemies' bars with wounds with it. Lots of fun to be had.

Correction: SWG is being taken off of life support.

>>100076792
Yeap I loved it. Oh sure, a smuggler might eye shot me and blow my mind out with one shot. But when I came back, and I shot first...he is gonna be down for hours.

Everyone learned that when a commando was on the field, you gave him a wide fucking birth due to that flame thrower.

This city, once one of the main hubs of the galaxy, teeming with different people, is now a ghost town, where nothing but the wind stirs, as it slowly fades into history...

>>100076473
Pffth cant be that
OH GOD ITS LIKE I'M TEN AGAIN AND MY COMPUTER CAN'T HANDLE A CITY BIGGER THAN A HOUSE!!

Just a fair warning to anyone about to start swgemu...
It's not done, nowhere close, and it's full of bugs.
The server that everyone is playing on is outdated code and about to be wiped.
Combat works though and many of the professions are mostly complete.
So if you just want to get your nostalgia on, go for it.

>>100077383

Oh hell that was the "neutral" city on my server. both sides showed up to trade and sometimes break out in fire fights. it was glorious. Going to show off what you got, buy what someone else had, and start a fight.

>>100077506

Do you still have to have the original CD's?