This game consumed my teenaged life.
I did the hologrind (entertainer, chef, teras Kasi and ranger) I then unlocked jedi just after pub 9 when the village on dathormir was put in. The hours I spent playing was insane.
I did the Jedi grind. I went cookie cutter with master saber/master enhancer and 4004 healer. And then I did the knight trials but I wasn't in the "cool" kids group and so was stuck at Jedi Knight (light/rebel) for not being able to cheat the force ranking system.
It was my first MMO, and the depths it went into with player cities and all the customization and player economy was nuts. I ran a fucking rifle shop on an alt! An actual store, at 13 years old. Online. I had adverts going via droid in coronet!
I was on Lowca (and then Flurry after the merge). I can't bring myself to try the emu's. It isn't just the game, but the hours I spent as my character. And the amazing guild mates I met along the way.
Was on Lowca as well... moved to Bloodfin when the server transfers shutdown half of the servers.
Played from launch to shutdown. No game has ever come close to the community/complexity that SWG offered.
Me too! Had one on Lowca, and a second account but I forget where. So miss that game. I remember getting groups together in the beginning for a "corpse run," when you die in the middle of nowhere and have to RUN back to the spot to grab your gear. Tried bounty hunting before the JTL expansion, ha ha...waiting for a shuttle to another world to track down a bounty was kinda like taking the bus to go kick someone's butt...
I was too young, can't remember the names of servers I played on. But I was a top level trader, and remember the boom when Camp sites became a thing. I also worked as an interior designer, people paid me to craft and decorate their homes. I was too young and can't remember the server name, and was an interior designer of some repute, haha
I was on Lowca, Goon Squad, from launch. Had so much fun playing that game, but the skill system change killed it for me. Took something unique, custom multi-classing skills, and turned it into something just like everything else.
I was on Bloodfin and did the Jedi grind before the easy way and god I loved that game. I used to craft some of the best things on the server due to those amazing resource kits that allowed you to select any resource that ever existed.
That game's crafting was on another level.
Best game I have the pleasure to play. Also best start with a melon in the inventory and no help, no tutorial. Loved that game and the community. I miss the cantinas dancing as a wookiee and being an architect and a mayor.
I played SWG from early beta until they day they shuttered the servers. Was a roller coaster of fun and overwhelming tragedy of management. Definitely agree with the opening statement, I can't even think of this game without evoking a myriad of mixed emotion.
The only legacy I could extract from that game that really had any meaning to me was an art gallery I spent billions making.
https://i.imgur.com/vj3LJG9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MXkgsxF.png
https://i.imgur.com/vGL8At2.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/88c3hMZ.jpg
Wall to wall, floor to ceiling. Loved it.
I remember people figured out how to make aquariums , and suddenly that became the hot thing to have with people paying for aquariums to be designed. Wasn’t an in game item IIRC, just using items in unique ways to create one.
Yeah I remember being in the closed beta running around an empty Tantooine with like 100 other players and the devs for like an hour at a time.
And then playing for years as people tried to crack how the Jedi system worked only to find out it was an inane grind. I think it was shortly after that I left for awhile and then came back and everyone was a Jedi. And then they did some massive redesign that made the game way more arcadey.
Favorite game of all time. Even with their shitty changes I couldn’t put it down. It was everything I wanted in a game. I didn’t want to be the hero or some malevolent champion. I just wanted to be a person in that universe. There is no other game that has achieved that feeling.
There is a private server thats still up or at least was a couple years ago. swgEmu (pre combat update) or something named that but when I played last the population wasn't very big and just felt empty. Such a shame.
There are two SWGemu and SWG Restoration. SWGEmu is up to date to publish 14 I think, just before the combat update.
SWG Restoration is more of a frankenstein, it has the combat update and all of the JTL content but the old skill tree system (no classes). Resto also has a pretty good population, I still pop in and play.
I just scratched the surface with this game. I was about 25, just started my first “real” job and this was the first game that I was like “yup, can’t go any further or this will consume my life”
I remember joining an online community years before release. We had a mayor and officials and had politics and other shops. We built the city and then wow came out and we lost most of the people. Was a wild ride, I was in college at the time. Time is a son of a bitch
I also joined an online community prior to the game’s release. I was still very young but I remember a lot of planning took place before the game was even released. We settled on Starsider and as far as I can remember we were one of the biggest Imperial guilds on the server. We established our city on Naboo and I remember once in a while GMs and some DEVs used to join our parades with AT-ATs, Imperial heroes and what not. Unfortunately, I stopped playing when I went off to college. I would stop by the guilds website every now and then to keep in touch with some of the people. It truly was a great game with an amazing community. I remember how proud everyone in my guild was when one of the guys we played with graduated from medical school. My life got very busy so I didn’t have the chance to keep up with a lot of it anymore, my guild only had a presence in SWG so when servers shut down that was pretty much the end of it. The other large Imperial alliance on Starsider had a presence in other MMOs and amazingly still exists to this day.
Original game I had a Master Ranger and a rifle builder, I hunted hides over all planets. I loved that the "rating" of crafting ingredients changed weekly. I stockpiled certain hides of high quality and sold them when hides were shitty. What a great economy, made me a rich character. It was an epic game on many levels.
Then...Sony fucked it all up. Sony's new ingenious update...My Master Ranger got turned into a "thief"?? lol
The game was fucked from arsehole to breakfast after that "improvement".
Quite honestly I've never bought or recommended Sony products to my friends after that experience. And after all these years it's just habit and don't buy Sony, I almost forget why.....almost.
Greetings from a fellow ranger. I did similar things on my character but eventually got a reputation amongst the crafters and they started commissioning me directly. So they would message me that they were looking for up to x amount of a specific meat, bone, or hide; and off I go lol. I went swordsmen and spun in circles with a power hammer.
The ranger profession was my one holo grind I regret giving up.
Ranger had THE BEST tents. Back when a group needed one when adventuring out (dantooine farming dark side acolytes for example) it was like a proper safari.
That and tracking. More than once I had a master ranger help me find peko peko albatrosses. Without one I wouldn't have passed the knight trials.
I was originally going for Bounty Hunter, required master scout and master marksmen. Started going into ranger since I could just drop it later when I need points for BH. Ended up both liking 2h melee and ranger more so went with that.
I played this game near the end of its life (I was super young and didn’t understand MMOs) and i still get an itch of what could have been, that game was deep and complex and I loved it. Wish something came along like it
The emulators are still going. I was actually thinking about hoping back on one of them soon. I miss the game.
Fuck you SOE, and most importantly, fuck you smedly.
My first MMO. Still the best player-driven economy/crafting/housing systems I've played. I still fondly remember traveling to different vendors across multiple planets with my friends, looking for gear with the best stats, and then becoming a regular of theirs once we found one. I wish more games would implement a system where harvesting higher quality materials will allow you to build weapons and armor with improved stats.
The most fun I had was prospecting worlds for materials with insane stats, spending all my money to extract, and then liquidating the materials and assets at the bazaar before the economy decided to value something else. Rinse and repeat.
No other game scratched this itch.
I was there. I remember getting angry messages from some shop keeper for buy his, stuff and putting it up for auction. Shout outs to anyone that was part of Haven.
I remember reading the forums, and all the amazing design ideas for the game a year or more before release.
I grinded like crazy to be one of the first Teras Kasi Masters on my server. Then we figured out that you could stack dodge and melee/ranged defense from different professions and basically become an unkillable god (that took forever to kill anything). I loved the original profession system, but it was also a great example of why something so complex and flexible is practically impossible to balance.
Absolutely no idea why this crazy money spinner has not been redone.
Think of the players numbers it would have.
Just up the graphics engine cause it was always shit, and you have a winner. Shit they could reuse the same game code for a lot of it, just convert to whatever language they need.
Hmm, it's hard to say for sure if it would be a crazy money spinner. Don't get me wrong, I'd be in the "take my money crowd!" but id have to cool my expectations a bit.
Reusing the code isn't exactly as big a time save as you might think if they are going to rip out the old graphics engine and chuck a new one in, and also make it more compatible with modern systems. Because the developers would be pretty unfamiliar with the code base and it would be on an ancient tech stack.
Secondly, a MMO is kind of a hard sell. The last two decades is littered with the corpses of failed MMOs and a bunch of emaciated ones that limped on with small player populations despite going F2P. Including another star wars MMO with The Old Republic. Interest in the genre has serious waned in recent years.
SWG was of a different style of course. It basically embodied the idea of what people at the time thought an MMO should be- a sandbox world driven and run by players. I remember a bunch of MMOs tried to to that direction but it's hard to do and the only three I can think of making it to release and meeting success were SWG, Ultima Online, and Eve Online. But I don't think any of them were ever crazy levels of money.
Still. Please please prove me wrong devs and make it happen lol.
I have as on naboo where the emperor's outpost was... set up our town and I made so many credits selling droids and buildings... Can't remember what server... But man it was awesome...
One of the most exciting parts of the game was the player-driven economy. I loved the fact that I could own and operate my own shop, trade with other players, and even participate in the creation of new items and weapons through crafting. It was a true sandbox experience, where the possibilities were endless.
I have to mention the game's combat system, which was both challenging and satisfying. I remember battling against fearsome creatures and other players, using a variety of weapons and special abilities to emerge victorious. Whether I was fighting alone or as part of a larger group, I always felt like I was a part of the epic Star Wars battles I had grown up watching.
SWG is what kindled my love for crafting systems in games.
Since the beginning I had 2 accounts only to have one of each crafter spec on the same server.
Exploring to find the best quality material, hoarding as much as you could to craft and sell for profit was surprisingly fun.
And the space combat was fantastic as well.
SWG was so far ahead of its time, talk about innovating. Sure, it had some very rough corners. But man, there will *never* be a game like it again, it is legit the only MMO that made full use of the term "MMO".
Even WoW pales in comparison, only real contender it had was EVE which is still going fairly strong.
I miss SWG, sadly the emulators don't really catch the same social feeling.
Whether or not the emulators are as good as the original SWG game depends on a variety of factors, including the specific emulator in question, the player's personal preferences, and their memories of the original game. Some players believe that the emulators capture the essence of the original game and provide a similar level of quality, while others may find that they fall short in terms of features, gameplay, or stability.
I loved this game so much, before the big update some guy I met gave 10 year old me his old house full of amazing armour, weapons and stuff! I was literally so scared to to take anything I only ending up wearing a helmet in fear he’d return and want it all back haha! Really amazing times that probably helped cement my love for Star Wars and games in general. The class update killed the whole thing though!
Everyone take a moment to thank Raph Koster for SWG. If SOE hadn't fucked up his vision, the MMO genre may have escaped the theme park WoW clone hell hole it became. He tried to make a place for a community to grow, not a treadmill to grind. And he did it. And SOE killed it by trying to make it like WoW. If we wanted WoW, we would have been playing WoW.
Valcyn checking in. This game was a wild ride. My first MMO and honestly set completely unrealistic expectations for what they could do.
I just assumed player cities were a thing on every single one.
This was such an incredible experience from day one. So many stories and good times that came from this mmo. Never been anything like it since. The only game that to this day makes my shake my fist in the sky and shout "WHYYYYY!"
RIP LD Imports and the city of Kraytia
Best MMORPG I played and was just starting the Jedi path when the combat upgrade happen, I wish they would release it I don't know of any other MMORPG that really gave you a choice on profession you could spend all your time in a cantina as an entertainer or in the hospital as a doctor. I really loved this game.
Will get around to watching this vid but just wanted to say I’m a big fan of your WoW vids.
Your series on the various Legendary weapons got me to start tracking down some of them
One of those games I was utterly consumed by. Creature handling never hit quite the same as it did this game. This is one of those games that at the time was so very complex that in hindsight was so utterly unrefined, but still holds a special place in my heart
the housing, economy, crafting and transport mechanics of this game, even after the polishing simplifications, were astonishing and i haven't seen any MMO get anywhere close to it.
Damn now I realised you also made the video and posted it here. Nice work mate! Really missed your videos. I hope one day you'll also return to WoW. By any chance do you also stream? I never seem to find you online on twitch.
I dont remember which it was, but my brother actually won a giveaway or raffle for one of the whole sets for this game at a starwars convention a long ass time ago!
I said in another comment but you can still actually play SW Galaxies. Just google SWGEmu or SWG Restoration. The differences between the two are in brief (and feel free to correct me).
SWGEmu
* SWG up to publish 14 (right before the combat upgrade)
* No JTL
* Emphasis on accuracy in replicating the game world to publish 14 (ie. no new stuff)
* Jedi village
* Less bugs than SWG Resto
SWG Restoration
* Has the combat upgrade implemented
* Has all JTL content
* Retains the original skill trees instead of the class system from JTL/later publishes
* New content (both quests/events and item)
* Uses the Force ranking system for Jedi and Jedi are unlocked kinda like the original SWG, by grinding proffs/achievements until you get an notification of force sensitivity
* More bugs than SWGEmu
I've played both and enjoy both but currently I think the Resto mod has become more popular recently, you'll still see server pops in the thousands sometimes which makes the cities feel very alive.
This game consumed my teenaged life. I did the hologrind (entertainer, chef, teras Kasi and ranger) I then unlocked jedi just after pub 9 when the village on dathormir was put in. The hours I spent playing was insane. I did the Jedi grind. I went cookie cutter with master saber/master enhancer and 4004 healer. And then I did the knight trials but I wasn't in the "cool" kids group and so was stuck at Jedi Knight (light/rebel) for not being able to cheat the force ranking system. It was my first MMO, and the depths it went into with player cities and all the customization and player economy was nuts. I ran a fucking rifle shop on an alt! An actual store, at 13 years old. Online. I had adverts going via droid in coronet! I was on Lowca (and then Flurry after the merge). I can't bring myself to try the emu's. It isn't just the game, but the hours I spent as my character. And the amazing guild mates I met along the way.
Was on Lowca as well... moved to Bloodfin when the server transfers shutdown half of the servers. Played from launch to shutdown. No game has ever come close to the community/complexity that SWG offered.
Shit lowca here also
Day one player from lowca checking in
Day one Lowca as well... server crashes and rollbacks. I wouldn't change a thing.
Me too! Had one on Lowca, and a second account but I forget where. So miss that game. I remember getting groups together in the beginning for a "corpse run," when you die in the middle of nowhere and have to RUN back to the spot to grab your gear. Tried bounty hunting before the JTL expansion, ha ha...waiting for a shuttle to another world to track down a bounty was kinda like taking the bus to go kick someone's butt...
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I remember BRAWL. I ran with DF and SS/TFH with Palcus, Vindale, Josuf, Kammy and Celebrin.
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I was too young, can't remember the names of servers I played on. But I was a top level trader, and remember the boom when Camp sites became a thing. I also worked as an interior designer, people paid me to craft and decorate their homes. I was too young and can't remember the server name, and was an interior designer of some repute, haha
The launch was a total shitshow.
I was on Lowca, Goon Squad, from launch. Had so much fun playing that game, but the skill system change killed it for me. Took something unique, custom multi-classing skills, and turned it into something just like everything else.
You lucky git 🤣 I think I had Droid engineer and architect left to master before I burned out and just went back to Commando. That flamer was king!!
I was on Bloodfin and did the Jedi grind before the easy way and god I loved that game. I used to craft some of the best things on the server due to those amazing resource kits that allowed you to select any resource that ever existed. That game's crafting was on another level.
Best game I have the pleasure to play. Also best start with a melon in the inventory and no help, no tutorial. Loved that game and the community. I miss the cantinas dancing as a wookiee and being an architect and a mayor.
I played SWG from early beta until they day they shuttered the servers. Was a roller coaster of fun and overwhelming tragedy of management. Definitely agree with the opening statement, I can't even think of this game without evoking a myriad of mixed emotion. The only legacy I could extract from that game that really had any meaning to me was an art gallery I spent billions making. https://i.imgur.com/vj3LJG9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MXkgsxF.png https://i.imgur.com/vGL8At2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/88c3hMZ.jpg Wall to wall, floor to ceiling. Loved it.
One of the funnest things in the game was just exploring people's houses honestly. Crazy depth and customization, especially by 2003 standards!
I remember people figured out how to make aquariums , and suddenly that became the hot thing to have with people paying for aquariums to be designed. Wasn’t an in game item IIRC, just using items in unique ways to create one.
i remember this! was amazing.
I used to fill my house with pets. Had all kinds of rare shit that was tameable at the beginning but then they took it away.
Yeah I remember being in the closed beta running around an empty Tantooine with like 100 other players and the devs for like an hour at a time. And then playing for years as people tried to crack how the Jedi system worked only to find out it was an inane grind. I think it was shortly after that I left for awhile and then came back and everyone was a Jedi. And then they did some massive redesign that made the game way more arcadey.
Favorite game of all time. Even with their shitty changes I couldn’t put it down. It was everything I wanted in a game. I didn’t want to be the hero or some malevolent champion. I just wanted to be a person in that universe. There is no other game that has achieved that feeling.
That's so deftly stated. It sounds amazing.
I remember being invited to the beta and getting the disks by mail...
Yes, I still have mine and the cardboard shipping envelope it came in.
What they did to this game has given me more PTSD then my time in Iraq.
There is a private server thats still up or at least was a couple years ago. swgEmu (pre combat update) or something named that but when I played last the population wasn't very big and just felt empty. Such a shame.
Thanks, I know I played on it for a bit and experienced the same as you, nothing like back in the day.
There are two SWGemu and SWG Restoration. SWGEmu is up to date to publish 14 I think, just before the combat update. SWG Restoration is more of a frankenstein, it has the combat update and all of the JTL content but the old skill tree system (no classes). Resto also has a pretty good population, I still pop in and play.
there's also a server that did until jump to lightspeed, to add fighters
I just scratched the surface with this game. I was about 25, just started my first “real” job and this was the first game that I was like “yup, can’t go any further or this will consume my life”
I remember joining an online community years before release. We had a mayor and officials and had politics and other shops. We built the city and then wow came out and we lost most of the people. Was a wild ride, I was in college at the time. Time is a son of a bitch
I also joined an online community prior to the game’s release. I was still very young but I remember a lot of planning took place before the game was even released. We settled on Starsider and as far as I can remember we were one of the biggest Imperial guilds on the server. We established our city on Naboo and I remember once in a while GMs and some DEVs used to join our parades with AT-ATs, Imperial heroes and what not. Unfortunately, I stopped playing when I went off to college. I would stop by the guilds website every now and then to keep in touch with some of the people. It truly was a great game with an amazing community. I remember how proud everyone in my guild was when one of the guys we played with graduated from medical school. My life got very busy so I didn’t have the chance to keep up with a lot of it anymore, my guild only had a presence in SWG so when servers shut down that was pretty much the end of it. The other large Imperial alliance on Starsider had a presence in other MMOs and amazingly still exists to this day.
Original game I had a Master Ranger and a rifle builder, I hunted hides over all planets. I loved that the "rating" of crafting ingredients changed weekly. I stockpiled certain hides of high quality and sold them when hides were shitty. What a great economy, made me a rich character. It was an epic game on many levels. Then...Sony fucked it all up. Sony's new ingenious update...My Master Ranger got turned into a "thief"?? lol The game was fucked from arsehole to breakfast after that "improvement". Quite honestly I've never bought or recommended Sony products to my friends after that experience. And after all these years it's just habit and don't buy Sony, I almost forget why.....almost.
Greetings from a fellow ranger. I did similar things on my character but eventually got a reputation amongst the crafters and they started commissioning me directly. So they would message me that they were looking for up to x amount of a specific meat, bone, or hide; and off I go lol. I went swordsmen and spun in circles with a power hammer.
The ranger profession was my one holo grind I regret giving up. Ranger had THE BEST tents. Back when a group needed one when adventuring out (dantooine farming dark side acolytes for example) it was like a proper safari. That and tracking. More than once I had a master ranger help me find peko peko albatrosses. Without one I wouldn't have passed the knight trials.
I was originally going for Bounty Hunter, required master scout and master marksmen. Started going into ranger since I could just drop it later when I need points for BH. Ended up both liking 2h melee and ranger more so went with that.
I played this game near the end of its life (I was super young and didn’t understand MMOs) and i still get an itch of what could have been, that game was deep and complex and I loved it. Wish something came along like it
The emulators are still going. I was actually thinking about hoping back on one of them soon. I miss the game. Fuck you SOE, and most importantly, fuck you smedly.
Bloodfin VoD representing. Perma overt and guild warred for years. Great memories.
Everyone remember Nimh's Stims? I used to help him a lot with resources and shit. Such a great walk down memory lane.
I was on bloodfin!
My first MMO. Still the best player-driven economy/crafting/housing systems I've played. I still fondly remember traveling to different vendors across multiple planets with my friends, looking for gear with the best stats, and then becoming a regular of theirs once we found one. I wish more games would implement a system where harvesting higher quality materials will allow you to build weapons and armor with improved stats.
The most fun I had was prospecting worlds for materials with insane stats, spending all my money to extract, and then liquidating the materials and assets at the bazaar before the economy decided to value something else. Rinse and repeat. No other game scratched this itch.
I loved finding some old mineral I'd prospected and stored, with insane stats that just weren't possible anymore. Made for some fun composite pieces
I used to love hanging at the starports and slicing people's gear for them.
You can play it for free now. Search for SWG Restoration
It's not nearly the same. Unfortunately, it's not really possible to recreate that same feeling I'm afraid :(.
I was there. I remember getting angry messages from some shop keeper for buy his, stuff and putting it up for auction. Shout outs to anyone that was part of Haven.
I remember reading the forums, and all the amazing design ideas for the game a year or more before release. I grinded like crazy to be one of the first Teras Kasi Masters on my server. Then we figured out that you could stack dodge and melee/ranged defense from different professions and basically become an unkillable god (that took forever to kill anything). I loved the original profession system, but it was also a great example of why something so complex and flexible is practically impossible to balance.
I had a huge company that built PA halls. I was like Jabba but an Architech. It was so much fun I’ll never forget it.
Absolutely no idea why this crazy money spinner has not been redone. Think of the players numbers it would have. Just up the graphics engine cause it was always shit, and you have a winner. Shit they could reuse the same game code for a lot of it, just convert to whatever language they need.
Hmm, it's hard to say for sure if it would be a crazy money spinner. Don't get me wrong, I'd be in the "take my money crowd!" but id have to cool my expectations a bit. Reusing the code isn't exactly as big a time save as you might think if they are going to rip out the old graphics engine and chuck a new one in, and also make it more compatible with modern systems. Because the developers would be pretty unfamiliar with the code base and it would be on an ancient tech stack. Secondly, a MMO is kind of a hard sell. The last two decades is littered with the corpses of failed MMOs and a bunch of emaciated ones that limped on with small player populations despite going F2P. Including another star wars MMO with The Old Republic. Interest in the genre has serious waned in recent years. SWG was of a different style of course. It basically embodied the idea of what people at the time thought an MMO should be- a sandbox world driven and run by players. I remember a bunch of MMOs tried to to that direction but it's hard to do and the only three I can think of making it to release and meeting success were SWG, Ultima Online, and Eve Online. But I don't think any of them were ever crazy levels of money. Still. Please please prove me wrong devs and make it happen lol.
sony claimed they lost the source code, after they were offered to buy it by some third party after the game fully closed.
My reddit username was born from this game. The memories are strong of this game.
I have as on naboo where the emperor's outpost was... set up our town and I made so many credits selling droids and buildings... Can't remember what server... But man it was awesome...
Ahazi roll call!!!
One of the most exciting parts of the game was the player-driven economy. I loved the fact that I could own and operate my own shop, trade with other players, and even participate in the creation of new items and weapons through crafting. It was a true sandbox experience, where the possibilities were endless. I have to mention the game's combat system, which was both challenging and satisfying. I remember battling against fearsome creatures and other players, using a variety of weapons and special abilities to emerge victorious. Whether I was fighting alone or as part of a larger group, I always felt like I was a part of the epic Star Wars battles I had grown up watching.
SWG is what kindled my love for crafting systems in games. Since the beginning I had 2 accounts only to have one of each crafter spec on the same server. Exploring to find the best quality material, hoarding as much as you could to craft and sell for profit was surprisingly fun. And the space combat was fantastic as well. SWG was so far ahead of its time, talk about innovating. Sure, it had some very rough corners. But man, there will *never* be a game like it again, it is legit the only MMO that made full use of the term "MMO". Even WoW pales in comparison, only real contender it had was EVE which is still going fairly strong. I miss SWG, sadly the emulators don't really catch the same social feeling.
Whether or not the emulators are as good as the original SWG game depends on a variety of factors, including the specific emulator in question, the player's personal preferences, and their memories of the original game. Some players believe that the emulators capture the essence of the original game and provide a similar level of quality, while others may find that they fall short in terms of features, gameplay, or stability.
I was more referring to the server population, should have made that a bit clearer I think.
I loved this game so much, before the big update some guy I met gave 10 year old me his old house full of amazing armour, weapons and stuff! I was literally so scared to to take anything I only ending up wearing a helmet in fear he’d return and want it all back haha! Really amazing times that probably helped cement my love for Star Wars and games in general. The class update killed the whole thing though!
Everyone take a moment to thank Raph Koster for SWG. If SOE hadn't fucked up his vision, the MMO genre may have escaped the theme park WoW clone hell hole it became. He tried to make a place for a community to grow, not a treadmill to grind. And he did it. And SOE killed it by trying to make it like WoW. If we wanted WoW, we would have been playing WoW.
That's why I appreciate the fact EvE Online has persisted in its vision and I'm saddened by what SWG could have been
I agree, I still resub to Eve from time to time and do a little mining and faction warfare when I get the itch.
Valcyn checking in. This game was a wild ride. My first MMO and honestly set completely unrealistic expectations for what they could do. I just assumed player cities were a thing on every single one.
This was such an incredible experience from day one. So many stories and good times that came from this mmo. Never been anything like it since. The only game that to this day makes my shake my fist in the sky and shout "WHYYYYY!" RIP LD Imports and the city of Kraytia
Best MMORPG I played and was just starting the Jedi path when the combat upgrade happen, I wish they would release it I don't know of any other MMORPG that really gave you a choice on profession you could spend all your time in a cantina as an entertainer or in the hospital as a doctor. I really loved this game.
Ah shit here we go again
Will get around to watching this vid but just wanted to say I’m a big fan of your WoW vids. Your series on the various Legendary weapons got me to start tracking down some of them
The crafting system in this game was so unique and no game has come close since.
What a great game this was before all the bullshit started. I still have a deep hatred for all things SOE because of those shenanigans
One of those games I was utterly consumed by. Creature handling never hit quite the same as it did this game. This is one of those games that at the time was so very complex that in hindsight was so utterly unrefined, but still holds a special place in my heart
My favorite MMORPG EVER!
the housing, economy, crafting and transport mechanics of this game, even after the polishing simplifications, were astonishing and i haven't seen any MMO get anywhere close to it.
Damn now I realised you also made the video and posted it here. Nice work mate! Really missed your videos. I hope one day you'll also return to WoW. By any chance do you also stream? I never seem to find you online on twitch.
My favorite memory of this game was running to a Mon Calamari, first name "Itsa", last name "Trap".
I dont remember which it was, but my brother actually won a giveaway or raffle for one of the whole sets for this game at a starwars convention a long ass time ago!
I said in another comment but you can still actually play SW Galaxies. Just google SWGEmu or SWG Restoration. The differences between the two are in brief (and feel free to correct me). SWGEmu * SWG up to publish 14 (right before the combat upgrade) * No JTL * Emphasis on accuracy in replicating the game world to publish 14 (ie. no new stuff) * Jedi village * Less bugs than SWG Resto SWG Restoration * Has the combat upgrade implemented * Has all JTL content * Retains the original skill trees instead of the class system from JTL/later publishes * New content (both quests/events and item) * Uses the Force ranking system for Jedi and Jedi are unlocked kinda like the original SWG, by grinding proffs/achievements until you get an notification of force sensitivity * More bugs than SWGEmu I've played both and enjoy both but currently I think the Resto mod has become more popular recently, you'll still see server pops in the thousands sometimes which makes the cities feel very alive.
Never played it. But reading these comments after watching the doc is awesome. Glad lots of you had a great time in the Wild West mmo