I've got to admit, it kinda makes me sad 
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How.... Maradon!.... uughhhhhh:
SWG taking a dive?I've got to admit, it kinda makes me sad
Is that Brian Orr guy RIG?
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Malbi said:
I must say whoever okayed The NGE has probably been fired at this point.
This all came about when the new LucasArts director and Smedley came together to discuss SWG.
The thing I missed the most from Pre-NGE were the lightsaber animations - all gone, changed to the current poke-frenzy, as I call it.
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Mightion Defensor said:
The thing I missed the most from Pre-NGE were the lightsaber animations - all gone, changed to the current poke-frenzy, as I call it.
The lightsaber animations are fucking stupid now. Poke-o-rama until whatever you're fighting dies.
Yeah, not such a good idea to abuse it THAT much in one shot.
I left because while I did still kinda like the community, it was like playing a Star Wars version of Quake 2, with a really shitty framerate, and player housing.
When Mort left the game for Eve Online.. the folks at SWG shoulda started crying, and packing up thier desks.
On the other hand, if SOE can ge the blame put on Lucasarts, migth come off fairly clean, Lucasarts has soon some really bad moves lately, like Canning Full Throttle 2 and Sam and Max 2, nearly done, to make shitty Star Wars based games.
wait.. what?
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KaLourin thought about the meaning of life:
"In the previous version of the game, only a precious few dedicated, lucky players could hope to attain the use of the Force."wait.. what?
Well, it's only half wrong....
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KaLourin impressed everyone with:
"In the previous version of the game, only a precious few dedicated, lucky players could hope to attain the use of the Force."wait.. what?
Before holocrons, you had to guess which professions to master.
Right?
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Gadani painfully thought these words up:
Before holocrons, you had to guess which professions to master.Right?
Pre holocrons, Guess all professions, After holocrons, only had to guess 1 profession, After Jedi village, Gain certain badges and complete village Quests. All prior ways to get Jedi were Massive Time sinks, Which were already killing the game.
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Peter said:
Pre holocrons, Guess all professions, After holocrons, only had to guess 1 profession, After Jedi village, Gain certain badges and complete village Quests. All prior ways to get Jedi were Massive Time sinks, Which were already killing the game.
Actually those time sinks were the only things keeping people playing the game.
Now that they're gone, it's tanking.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Cuba:
And yet there were still way too many Jedi
Well, after they put the village in, It became easy for powergamers to make Jedi. The put the village in because holo grinding was killing the game--Most Players were spending their time mastering professions, kinda kills the game when people brake down and formulate how to macro master a profession in a day, also plays havoc on the economy when all the resources were being consumed and nothing put back in.-- Hell, when you get down to it, Jedi were broken to start with, and should have never been put in.
--Prior to the village I think the Only Jedi in AV was Crisby, with Kavol or Scoricco coming in second, And I think Mort might have made it sooner if he didnÂ’t hold onto DE so long.
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Peter said:
--Prior to the village I think the Only Jedi in AV was Crisby, with Kavol or Scoricco coming in second, And I think Mort might have made it sooner if he didnÂ’t hold onto DE so long.
Uh excuse me? I was the first Jedi in AV.
Crisby never even unlocked. Are you off your meds again? 
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Mortious had this to say about Tron:
Actually those time sinks were the only things keeping people playing the game.Now that they're gone, it's tanking.
Yeah, but when your game desgin is to place some massive timesinks in rather than devolpe and add content, what else do you think will happen? I joined what about a half a year or a full year after release I think, and they only recently added Vehicals, and only 3 of them? out of the metric fuckload you could find in any Starwars book or the movies?
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Mortious obviously shouldn't have said:
Uh excuse me? I was the first Jedi in AV.Crisby never even unlocked. Are you off your meds again?
Possibly, I could have sworn he made it.
Powergaming leads to Jedi, Jedi lead to Hunters, Hunters...lead to suffering.
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I don't understand how SOE could mess up a success handed on a silver platter like SWG. That's just kooky.
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There was much rejoicing when Mightion Defensor said this:
I think I was the second last AV Jedi. I remember the last (what was his name?) asking me "Where do I get a lightsaber?" when he was on the ninth Padawan trial.
Bans?
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It has been ordained by Primus, that there will be a Chosen One who will use the Matrix to "light our darkest hour." That darkest hour may come sooner if Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael keeps posting things like this:
Bans?
How could anyone forget his name? No, I think it was Waffen.
FYI: The ninth Padawan trial was/is to construct a lightsaber.
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Bent over the coffee table, Y.O.T.C squealed:
Lucas arts needs to die a horrible flameing death. That is all.
It's really sad, too; they used to make awesome games. Remember The Dig and Loom?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage spewed forth this undeniable truth:
It's really sad, too; they used to make awesome games. Remember The Dig and Loom?
You forgot, Sam and Max, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and MANIAC MANSION, and Full Throttle was alright. Now there were some great games.... Though I have some hope for that RTS. Games today just seem to disappoint me more and more even when I'm not even hyped about them.
New Age Bane fucked around with this message on 12-15-2005 at 06:15 PM.
Why can't anyone make a game that plays for more than 10 hours and a somewhat decent story? Or am I insane...
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New Age Bane had this to say about Knight Rider:
You forgot, Sam and Max, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and MANIAC MANSION, and Full Throttle was alright. Now there were some great games.... Though I have some hope for that RTS. Games today just seem to disappoint me more and more even when I'm not even hyped about them.
Why can't anyone make a game that plays for more than 10 hours and a somewhat decent story? Or am I insane...
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This one time, at New Age Bane camp:
You forgot, Sam and Max, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and MANIAC MANSION, and Full Throttle was alright. Now there were some great games.... Though I have some hope for that RTS. Games today just seem to disappoint me more and more even when I'm not even hyped about them.
Why can't anyone make a game that plays for more than 10 hours and a somewhat decent story? Or am I insane...
Play an RPG 
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Malbi said:
real slobsgamersdon't need to:
save
sleep
eat
use toilets
bath
Fixed.
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Malbi had this to say about pies:
you mean theres a differance between gamers and slobs?
Yes.
You fucking slob.
It's not something people hear about.
Added a 50% Bonus to Harvesting amounts on All Harvesters.
You must be an Owner of a Harvester/Generator to deposit money into it.
Harvesters can only be accessed and operated by the person who placed it.
All existing condemned Harvesters are now destroyed.
Harvesters no longer pull credits from the bank when the maintenance pool reaches 0.
Harvesters will now destroy themselves instead of going into condemned status. The Harvester will still take damage when it runs out of maintenance and decay to 0%. Once it hits 0%, it will destroy itself rather than pull credits from the owner's bank account.
...They removed one of the best features for crafting they had put in the game, what a fucking crock. Peter fucked around with this message on 12-15-2005 at 09:56 PM.
I HATED the damn harvesters all over the place..
Did any see the interview with Julio Torres (lead SWG designer) on G4? It was hilariously bad, the questions and answers and even the phone calls were scripted and sounded like they were reading from an auto-cue. When they fired up the game on live TV to see Obi-Wan he was bugged and wouldn't spawn for them, hahahahahaha.
The big laugh was that Julio said he plays WoW and never mentioned at all if he plays SWG or not.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mod said:
Is that Brian Orr guy RIG?
I'm surprised nobody answered this yet... I'm pretty sure it is, if it's not it's a huge coincedence. I remember his last name being different, but I remember his first name was Brian.
Oh well, another dead MMOG.
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Zaza said:
Reading SA's memorial kinda thread thingy on SWG, the original vision of the game seems to have been really really great. Too bad it never really followed that vision.Oh well, another dead MMOG.
Not just any dead MMOG, a dead MMOG based on the largest franchise in the civilised world.
If only LucasArts hadn't picked SOE where managers who know nothing about MMORPG gameplay rule.
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Mortious had this to say about Knight Rider:
Did any see the interview with Julio Torres (lead SWG designer) on G4? It was hilariously bad, the questions and answers and even the phone calls were scripted and sounded like they were reading from an auto-cue. When they fired up the game on live TV to see Obi-Wan he was bugged and wouldn't spawn for them, hahahahahaha.
Yeah I saw that...I couldn't believe how bad that interview was.
And I disagree that the (dare I say it) vision for SWG was always a little flawed. Only idiots would assume that people playing a Star Wars game wouldn't want to play a Jedi out of a gate. So the era they stuck the game in was badly flawed. They had every opportunity to tie the game in with the prequels by setting it in the "Rise of the Empire" era.
Then when they installed the Jedi, people were frustrated and they made it easier. Suddenly they're no longer remotely within continuity and they shrug and say "we never claimed we'd stick to canon"
Two red flags right there. They should have, frankly, stuck some comic geeks in command of the game. Comic geeks understand the need to be loyal. SWG never was.
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Mortious had this to say about Captain Planet:
Not just any dead MMOG, a dead MMOG based on the largest franchise in the civilised world.If only LucasArts hadn't picked SOE where managers who know nothing about MMORPG gameplay rule.
Any idea what's going to happen to it? I've heard everything from a complete licensal revoke to some other studio taking over and running a few skeleton servers.
