SWG CU
If you know what the subject stands for, then you might be interested in [this].
(from the Allakhazam gaming site)
The post and the comments below it fairly much cover what this new CU is all about and how people are reacting to it. It's said that SOE lost over 250 *thousand* player accounts over their "upgrade" (I use the term extremely loosely)... and after going back and playing SWG for a bit? I'm not surprised.
When I log into one of what used to be one of the two biggest (and laggiest :P) servers in the game, hop on a transport to Coronet/Corellia (lag- and spam-fest central) to find I'm the ONLY person on the whole damn planet - I know something's wrong! 0_o
I kid you not. Coronet. Where you'd expect, on even the smallest servers, to find at least one doc with a line (or circle) of people waiting for buffs and at least half a dozen people hawking either their wares or waypoints to their vendors (or both). I found.... absolutely nothing other than the usual NPCs. /who. Nothing. General player search. Nothing.
An opinion that I keep hearing (and share) is that they've effectively "WoW-/EQ-ized the game". SWG is so not a compatible system with how WoW and/or EQ work. They were meant to be 'level-based' from the start. SWG wasn't. In short: SWG is now a cold, stale pile of kaadu krap. It's not even up to the standards of steaming bantha poo. I've never seen so bad an attempt at a game re-balance approach (and that's taking AC2 into account =P). It's been thrown into full swing on live servers just to get their 'Rage of the Wookiees' expansion out the door before the movie (everyone's assuming so - and is probably correct). Which leaves us with a new expansion containing lots of reasonably interesting content that's based upon an inherently flawed new game system that's got more bugs than M$Windoze and is badly designed from the get-go.
My station access pass effectively gives me SWG for free (I pay for the benefit of EQ1 and EQ2). At this point, I'm glad of that... 'cause I sure as hell wouldn't pay for this crap.
Free, player-run, unofficial SWG servers? Here I come...
(from the Allakhazam gaming site)
The post and the comments below it fairly much cover what this new CU is all about and how people are reacting to it. It's said that SOE lost over 250 *thousand* player accounts over their "upgrade" (I use the term extremely loosely)... and after going back and playing SWG for a bit? I'm not surprised.
When I log into one of what used to be one of the two biggest (and laggiest :P) servers in the game, hop on a transport to Coronet/Corellia (lag- and spam-fest central) to find I'm the ONLY person on the whole damn planet - I know something's wrong! 0_o
I kid you not. Coronet. Where you'd expect, on even the smallest servers, to find at least one doc with a line (or circle) of people waiting for buffs and at least half a dozen people hawking either their wares or waypoints to their vendors (or both). I found.... absolutely nothing other than the usual NPCs. /who. Nothing. General player search. Nothing.
An opinion that I keep hearing (and share) is that they've effectively "WoW-/EQ-ized the game". SWG is so not a compatible system with how WoW and/or EQ work. They were meant to be 'level-based' from the start. SWG wasn't. In short: SWG is now a cold, stale pile of kaadu krap. It's not even up to the standards of steaming bantha poo. I've never seen so bad an attempt at a game re-balance approach (and that's taking AC2 into account =P). It's been thrown into full swing on live servers just to get their 'Rage of the Wookiees' expansion out the door before the movie (everyone's assuming so - and is probably correct). Which leaves us with a new expansion containing lots of reasonably interesting content that's based upon an inherently flawed new game system that's got more bugs than M$Windoze and is badly designed from the get-go.
My station access pass effectively gives me SWG for free (I pay for the benefit of EQ1 and EQ2). At this point, I'm glad of that... 'cause I sure as hell wouldn't pay for this crap.
Free, player-run, unofficial SWG servers? Here I come...