Are any fellows from Bria following this thread?

Why dd they close it. i used to like the game.

Well.. They're probably not gonna challange SWTOR.
However EA published much better James Bond 007 games than Activition, so I will give them a chance

Edited by: CaptainRegor on May 8, 2013 3:37 PM

The only emulator that really matters is SWGemu, and it often has so many people at login a que has developed. Yet despite the population, there has been no action from LA. On the other hand, maybe Disney will have a more flexible approach. The indefatigable subsequent point of an emulator is no new content will ever truly exist, and you're just picking over the bones of a once great MMORPG -- which is why I would like SWG to action make an actual comeback with Disney / SOE. Disney shouldn't have all of the hangups and pet peeves that LA had, which ended up damaging the MMO for LA / SOE. LA's hangups and pet peeves are why we have a multi-milllion dollar failure in SW:TOR -- a dull, static, sterile "MMO" themepark.

Edited by: NagilumSadow on May 6, 2013 7:51 AM

I am all for SWG to come back somehow. However, the MMORPG market is starting to dry up. At the very least SOE is trying to make a stab at the sandbox type MMO with Everquest Next, as they say. But it is very disheartening to see games close and or companies go under as of late. With what happened with LucasArts, I tend to fear the worse for gaming.

I hope someday our wish could be fulfilled.

Can someone please build a website with literature that we can provide to Disney in which a Star Wars game that encompasses many of the Star Wars Galaxies game play models. I.E player housing, open world, space travel and combat, many professions to choose from, player and world driven crafting to enforce economy. And please, keep the Jedi as to being a secret profession with evolving ways to obtain the profession. Starting a MMO as a Jedi is nonsense.

I will be honest, I miss SWG for what it was, and I dislike SWGEMU for what it is not.

All of us obviously are true Star Wars fans so I believe that we should all make an effort to let it seriously be known to Disney. Sandbox MMO games are some of the most exciting. Lets keep it that way.

Regards,

Phike/Truth - Radiant Server
Master Bounty Hunter / Combat Medic
Master Fencer / Master Doctor

SWTOR should have shown that yet another copy product of the same type MMO is also no success. It is interesting that people often call the sandbox MMOs games without a future. I think that if someone were to finally bring something new to the MMO market the best chance is to re-visit the sandbox idea and build something new.

Well, guess it won't be LA, but to be honest, LA value add to the recent games was unfortunately low. Lets see what the future holds.

I still miss the game! I can't believe they closed it after saying it would remain open as long as people were playing. Has anyone emailed Disney about bringing it back? I did, but have not gotten any response.

A SWG 2 designed based on SWG with the many choices the game had for character development, crafted items and great space combat + some of the later added deatures from just before SWG closed would be a great game (if done right).

Star Wars Galaxies was a game that I had dreamed of long before it was ever made a reality and I have to say that the early Development team seemed to have Star Wars fans in mind when they were building the game. You could do about anything and we all had dreams of more and more things being available.

Unfortunately, for some people, this was not what they wanted and they complained early and often. From my understanding, the SWG forums were some of the most active forums ever. I bet there are few that rival what we saw on the SWG forums. There were a faction of us (me included) that spent almost as much time posting about the game as actually playing the game, and actually continued to pay for the right to do so. In short, people cared about this game.

I even knew of people that played SWG that had never even seen the movies. They just thought that it was the best science fiction based game they had ever played.

Well, IMHO, I think that someone decided to listen way too much to the negative posts and not nearly enough to the positive posts and things went quickly awry after launch. It seemed to me that the DEVs worked way too hard on things that the real fans of the game didn't care much about. When the things they had worked on didn't seem to stop the complaints... The first major game change came about - with disasterous results... though I think most of us got used to it and started to even like it. Well, again, they abandoned this game change and went to the amazingly absurd NGE - which just wasn't ready for prime time, so to speak. Many say that it got really good after a couple years of development went into it but it was too little, too late and then bang - our dreams were blasted into space dust.

Space was another problem, I think primarily because it wasn't available at launch. There are people out there that would still pay just to keep playing the space part of the game TBH.

If SWG would have stuck to its original vision and just changed the things slowly, over time, it very well could have been great. Both major game changes caused major exoduses and bad will that the game couldn't afford.

In the early days, even if you didn't have fun in the quest system, or the PvP, or the world combat, or crafting... you could go and hang out with old and new friends at MANY cantinas and hospitals. There were times I looked forward to waiting on shuttles (something that was removed due to complaints) because of the insanity that people came up with while being cued up.

Player interaction had to be the best thing in SWG, by far. It seemed that a lot of the "improvements" kept putting up hurdles to that interaction. Role playing was also taken to new heights for an MMORPG by SWG. There were innovations in role playing tools right up until the end that were amazing.

I'd simply love to see SWG2. If they would go from the original game's goals and expand on it with some changes made, hopefully by learning from all the years in between then and now and all the games that have come and gone, it could be a truly amazing game.

I certainly do not see this kind of excitment for the revival of any other "dead" games. At least not at this level.