SWG to be cancelled... FINALLY

[username17]

On 12/15/2011 Sony will be shutting down Star Wars: Galaxies the MMO and their Trading card game.

I played it up until the NGE and LOVED it. My entire team of coworkers (10 ppl) played in our own City on the Plateau outside of Tatooine.

I forget what server I played on, but I had my first PvP experience on SWG.
My co-workers and I did stuff for fun like giving up our bikes and riding Banthas instea, etc.
Then the NGE came out and it all turned to shit.

Well, Sony has finally bit the bullet and cancelled the game.
This is the first (second? Tanarus?) MMO Sony has cancelled to my knowledge. I have a feeling they would've continued to Milk the cow until it was bringing in no profit.
But with Bioware's SW:ToR on the horizon, I think Lucas pressured SOE and forced them to shut it down prior to Bioware's launch.

Did anyone else play SWG pre-NGE (aka. when it wasn't crap)?
What are your thoughts on this?
If Sony did choose to shut down SWG, do you think this will lead to other shutdowns as well?

[jarshale]

I never played. What was NGE and why was it so shitty?

[Nocte]

Played from launch, quit before NGE. One of my favortite MMOs out there. There's a pre-NGE EMU for it, too, but it's still in development.

http://www.swgemu.com/

[username17]

NGE stands for 'New game enhancements'.
The dev's decided to make catastrophic changes to the entire game and actually turned it into a FPS. Instead of targeting and attacking, you had to aim and shoot.
It was a very bad idea was NOT well received.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by username17 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On 12/15/2011 Sony will be shutting down Star Wars: Galaxies the MMO and their Trading card game.

I played it up until the NGE and LOVED it. My entire team of coworkers (10 ppl) played in our own City on the Plateau outside of Tatooine.

I forget what server I played on, but I had my first PvP experience on SWG.
My co-workers and I did stuff for fun like giving up our bikes and riding Banthas instea, etc.
Then the NGE came out and it all turned to shit.

Well, Sony has finally bit the bullet and cancelled the game.
This is the first (second? Tanarus?) MMO Sony has cancelled to my knowledge. I have a feeling they would've continued to Milk the cow until it was bringing in no profit.
But with Bioware's SW:ToR on the horizon, I think Lucas pressured SOE and forced them to shut it down prior to Bioware's launch.

Did anyone else play SWG pre-NGE (aka. when it wasn't crap)?
What are your thoughts on this?
If Sony did choose to shut down SWG, do you think this will lead to other shutdowns as well?

MxO comes to mind as well, as far as cancelled sony mmo's. They've got quite a few on life support as well--if the new EQ isn't worth a shit then they really just need to close that whole studio down <_<

[Gustahn]

The shutdown is what i have heard, near the same time the new mmo is going to launch.

Considering LucasArts has final say on the direction it makes sense.

As far as SoE i think the only mmo they scrapped was Matrix?

They have so many titles on skeleton crews i would honestly say Planetside would be next.

[Goofier]

Saw this coming during the beta. Still have the discs somewhere, think some Star Wars nerd will buy 'em as collector items?

[Zadrian]

I play on the EMU.. it's got a lot of bugs since its in pre-development, but it's still fun.

[hdawg06]

Originally Posted by Zadrian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I play on the EMU.. it's got a lot of bugs since its in pre-development, but it's still fun.

Too bad not much has changed in over a year. They have been working on that for 3-4 years and they are still years off until they develop a finished product. I have little faith that it will actually be playable on a regular basis in the next 2 years.

[Zadrian]

Actually there has been a good amount that has been changed.. the list of what's broke and what's unimplemented is out of date, i think..

Either way, it's still fun.. Can do resource collection and work my way up the skill trees.