Star Wars Mailbag: The Sequel

Former Star Wars Galaxies Players Are Still Crying Foul

(CBS) 

Hello, I am a 16 year old American Male, I have been playing SWG for two years, and I have loved ever moment of the first 1 ½ years of playing. Now I realize you have many e-mails from people about SWG, I noticed you didn't show any from SWG's new target subscription base.. the teenage males.

I was FASCINATED by star wars when my dad and me stayed up late watching the first three whilst eating macaroni n' cheese with hotdogs. I was so in love with the Idea of being that one rebel in the third row, second to the left after the Battle of Yavin that I started wearing orange jumpsuits and carrying a homemade Iron Hanger Blaster at my side. I blasted so many lamps and other imperial scum that my mom started making a tab on how much I owed her. I am still paying her back.

When I was introduced to SWG on my 14th B-Day I couldn't believe it, not only could I be that random rebel, I could be that random rebel Meatlump WOOKIEE. Now back then wookiees were slightly disadvantaged because we couldn't wear armor. but the Idea of Being a wookiee more than made up for that. Not to mention a wookiee that crafted his very own bowcaster! I joined up with my cousin, a fellow Rebel wookiee who was a Scout/Rifleman/Pistoleer/Carbineer/Teris Kasi. He was the ultimate Wookiee jack of all trades. The planet adventures kept me spell bound and failing school for 2 years, even thru the "combat upgrade"(more like downgrade. it promised new armor, attacks,balanced proffessions) what it delivered was new armor few to noone could wear due to faction needs( standing in the rebel or imperial army) exact same attacks only with COLOR, like we needed that. and now Being melee which was really good as it should be, you had to be standing next to the guy! got hit with the Nerf( that means to be downsized, un powered. made weaker) bat and couldn't wear armor !! We were promised new armor and received NO armor as melee. Then.. the NGE hits out of nowhere. Now all my high school buddies have quit because they already own Battlefront 2 and don't need a buggy laggy (slow) junk game that the servers go down for hours on end and get SECRET!!!!! changes to the game. Recently a quest was changed and SOE/LA still denies it!! When I posted a question about it my post was..DELETED. Also they rollback (edit the data so it shows what it was at an earlier time) the servers anytime one of their bugs needs to be fixed so no one gets any credit for the hours spent working to do it.

12-28 year olds DON'T want a twitch based FPS that is so massive.. IT LAGS (slow) and then you can't hit ANYTHING. its like playing paint ball with metal chains wrapped around you , its hard to move and when you do you jerk so hard you can't hit anything.

Heres another HUGE issue. SOE/LA claims they made it more "Star Warsy"(man I am so sick of that word, Julio uses it in EVERY post of his) when there is now a 90:1 Jedi ratio. thats right You see 90! jedi for every 1 non jedi. WHERE Were all the jedi in Ep. 4-6?(this is the time period of SWG, actually its 4-5 but I added 6 for a broader view)? You cannot enter Mos Eisley without seeing 30 lightsabers flashing. People spent 2 years earning their Lightsabers just to have to be hidden and jedi like with it in the fun old system, now you click "Jedi Proffession" and you instantly get a robe. Do 2 days worth of quest and you have the Lightsabers people spent 2 years to earn.
Bounty hunters got hit with the Nerf(to make lesser) bat and can no longer hunt people! Thats right bounty hunters cannot Hunt for their Bounties!?!?! how Iconic is it to be Boba Fett and not be able to go hunt down that Han Solo wanna bee that just killed 20 of Jabba's Thugs?

Smugglers. the name alone implies you will smuggle right? Your Han freaking Solo of course your gonna smuggle.. WRONG AINT You LOSE. Smugglers can no longer even make spice let alone smuggle it past imperial patrols. now smugglers basically kill hundreds of thousands of creates, get lvl 90 and run around killing other smugglers, yea real iconic..

Officer was a good idea, but we already had officers, they were called SQUAD LEADERS, now however officers(Squad leader wannabee) are so bugged that 90% of the time when they use their group buff(bonuses) it doesn't work! The only thing officers can truly do is call in an air strike( pretty cool looking) and attack with the basic zap zap click click stuff.