Star Wars Mailbag: The Sequel

Former Star Wars Galaxies Players Are Still Crying Foul

(CBS) 
I have played SWG for 2 years and never when they made a change in game did so many long time players leave. Not only did they leave but canceled accounts. If I had not bought a game card that I cannot return I would have left game by now also. I will be leaving game as soon as my paid time is up looking forward to D&D when it comes out in February can not believe that George Lucas would be behind this.

All they needed to do was make new servers for the consoles or split the servers so both games could be Systems could be played.

Thanks for reading this and taking the time.
Dirk

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Hello,

I just read some of the emails in your “mailbag: Star Wars Galaxies” article.

Just like many of those who have written to you regarding this game, I have played it since 2003 (just after it was released). I had a veteran Jedi character with MANY hours of work invested into it. A lot of that work was trivialized by the implementation of these changes.

The difference between me and those people is that I am able to suck up the losses and continue to play what still is the best MMO game out there. Most complaints are coming from people who had an extremely powerful character which is now no better or worse than any other character of the same level.

Before these changes, certain combinations of professions were so powerful that you couldn’t compete with other players without one of these “flavor of the month” templates. There were also extremely powerful items that were only accessible to Hardcore Players (those who play around 8 hours every day). The game is now balanced so that any two characters of the same level are about equally powerful. You can get items and such to help you out, but player skill is the main factor in determining who wins a fight.

If these changes do what they were designed to do, that is bring in new players and help the game last longer, then good for SOE and Lucas Arts. I want this game to last as long as possible, and whatever they have to do to make that happen is fine with me. The other thing is that George Lucas (via Lucas Arts Inc) can do whatever he wants to do with any Star Wars product.

The only issue I have against the changes is the way they were implemented. With only two weeks warning to the players we didn’t have enough time to prepare for such radical changes. This was a bad decision on the part of SOE.

Brian P