Star Wars Galaxies

http://www.massively.com/2008/10/27/soe-responds-to-the-announcement-of-star-wars-the-old-republic/

Positive, but realistic...

I was in shock at Smeds apparent honesty and class until I read this response....

"John: I think that it is fair to say we have proven ourselves in the last year or so. We've listened, after making the mistake of doing the NGE, and I think we now have a game that we're all really proud of. We have the game now that I wish we'd launched with. I wish we'd been given the time to make this game. Star Wars Galaxies is an incredible game and I think having a game with ground and space, inside the sandbox experience, it's something we're excited by.

Ask the playerbase and I think you'd get a lot of different answers, but mostly I get emails saying that the game is a lot of fun now. I'd say that while things were intense for a little while –and I definitely understand there are still some upset players - I think there are a lot more happy players."

The game now is the game you wish you would have launched with? Good god. The game still sucks and is emptier than ever, and it's barely a sandbox anymore. There are a lot more happy players now? If he is disregarding the players that the NGE so elegantly disregarded, then he could be right, otherwise the players he has now couldn't fill a server to pre-NGE capacity if they wanted to.

Surprisingly candid, maybe he has learned a lesson or three. Quite interesting that he even mentions sunsetting as an option though, I guess he's looking at that as a decision that's out of his hands though, seeing as MxO runs on 3 barren servers, SOE have proved they can keep dead games running as long as they like. This is probably an indication that he himself believes LA could pull the plug on SWG, if (I say when personally) SWTOR takes substantial numbers from SWG and/or makes SWG's subscriber base look ridiculously low.

First off let me say that I'm sure Bioware will make a decent game.

I'm also sure that *I* won't want to play it.  I've only been happy with two MMO's to be honest and I don't see BioWare make a UO or Pre-CU type of game.  Which isn't a bad thing and many people will love it.  I just won't be one of them.

I say this simply because.. in the interview he talks about:

1)  We'll look into the possibility of sunsetting the game when the time comes

2) We would be happy to co-exist in the online space with their game

3) Will we have enough subs after their game launches.

Oddly enough if Pre-CU was the version of SWG on the market I'm sure they would have "enough" subs.  As the games would be VERY different.  As it is... SWG is going to be the game that wasn't fully converted to WoW with Star Wars textures.  So it will be to similar to BioWares game.. but not as good.

So pretty much 1 and 3 are.. obvious conclusions with the current form of SWG.

This is just my opinion ... obviously.

Then again I'd have 9 accounts still running in SWG if it was still Pre-CU... and wouldn't have wasted money on various MMO's that I played for 2 to 3 weeks after launched and hit.. cancel.

I was going to list them but then realized it would be another two paragraphs.. odd.

Thanks for that Obraik, a realistic and humble look at the future of galaxies from the man himself.

I was one of the so called vets but I was never one of these people who wanted it to be crushed and wiped off the mmo map, I know a lot of people who still play it and have fun and I have no desire to see all there work and time just gone. I believe galaxies will continue for a long time to come.

"Star Wars Galaxies is an incredible game and I think having a game with ground and space, inside the sandbox experience, it's something we're excited by."

If there was still any doubt, NGE original concept is dead (and transferred to Bioware). Long live SWG!

About time :p

Originally posted by Distiler

"Star Wars Galaxies is an incredible game and I think having a game with ground and space, inside the sandbox experience, it's something we're excited by."

If there was still any doubt, NGE original concept is dead (and transferred to Bioware). Long live SWG!

About time :p

lol, so cos smed merely mentioned the word "sandbox" the NGE concept is dead? So there's 32 profs in a skill system in the game again? Whole, free roam planets are being introduced instead of WoW-esque instances? 

No? The NGE is here to stay

It's a metaphor jezzuz

I'm talking about the concept, the idea, etc that made LA bring the original NGE to SWG. The word sandbox or "world simulation" was banned and accused since then, until today.

I think one of the things that terrifed the drones of LEC was that SWG in its sandbox/virtual world mode attracted a lot of people who are more creative than George Lucas.

The problem with SWG now is it's still at its core the NGE: a rancor heinie sucking POS with classes and levels, with WoW style combat without the depth, with toons and mobs on crystal meth, with a boring loot based economy predicated on endless grinding, and vacant servers created by the NGE core itself.