Comments on: Death of SWG

By: May The DPS Be With You | Critical Hits

May The DPS Be With You | Critical Hits — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:35:50 +0000

[...] potential moral grays. (”For the Sith!”) Yes, there was a previous Star Wars MMO that didn’t work out so well (despite some fun touches), but if they can learn from the mistakes of the other company and make [...]

By: Critical Hits » In the Grim Darkness of the Ninjal3wt There is only Pwnage

Critical Hits » In the Grim Darkness of the Ninjal3wt There is only Pwnage — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:47:50 +0000

[...] $15 a month.) But a 40k MMORPG… now that’s a Rhino I can hop into! Science fiction is, while not entirely unrepresented, markedly different than WoW, with only some races doing double duty by replacing C’s with [...]

By: Scarform.com

Scarform.com — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:19:18 +0000

[...] What the players thought of the NGE didn’t really matter much in the long run - and in the end, everybody just kind of agreed to disagree that it was all in all a good thing, and whether or not the move to a console (of course the PS3 is going to be that console.) [...]

By: The Main Event

The Main Event — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:07:39 +0000

Danny kinda made my point, my point was just that the mechanics of the game did not inspire a die-hard passion like WoW and some others. It very well may have been the best MMORPG in your opinion, but it failed to “keep your ass in the seat” for more then a few months.

By: The Game

The Game — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:13:40 +0000

To me, the issue was mismanagement on the original around the things that Josh doesn’t list. I think his point is that you could tweak the game to keep all those things that he enjoyed (and indeed, I heard many other people enjoyed) but overhaul the stuff that really wasn’t working.

The market is heavily impacted already with the sort of game it sounds like they’re changing it to, and I for one would be more interested in playing a game that doesn’t play like everything else AND has a really awesome license that just another quest-fight-repeat game.

Then again, my tastes may not be where the market is at, but the viewpoint of making interesting gameplay is _A_ market.

By: Bartoneus

Bartoneus — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:52:15 +0000

The point remains that you did not, in fact, play for a very extended period of time. The goal of any company is not to get the people who don’t normally play MMORPG’s to play for a short amount of time, their ultimate goal is to get everyone who plays it to play it for as long as humanly possible.

I understand your entire point, that it was so innovative and fun that it got even -you- to play for a decent amount of time, but in the end they still failed to get a large market of loyal subscribers to play their game.

By: DarthCthulhu

DarthCthulhu — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:14:20 +0000

The fact that I only played for around two months has more to do with me than the system. While I never progressed very far, I progessed FURTHER than any other MMORPG. It kept my intrest the longest out of all of them. While all other MMORPGs have only been good for a few hours at best of my time, SWG managed to capture months worth. From someone who is actively hostile to MMORPGs in the first place, that’s a very telling statement.

You’re quoting me out of context here.

By: The Main Event

The Main Event — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:59:03 +0000

“I never really progressed very far, honestly…”

Sadly, I think that says it all. It’s a neat dynamic, very nifty, and one I certainly appreciate as an idea, but does it keep people playing and subscribing? I doubt it, and while Sony might not be my favorite company right now you have to figure they want to make some money. If they can’t make money on a freaking Star Wars MMORPG maybe they need massive overhaul. I tend to agree that PS3 is a rather poor venue for the product though…

By: The O

The O — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:41:13 +0000

There is an exception to your argument and that is the uber-failure: Shadowbane. Guilds in that game could create cities, but the game ended up being awful as a single guild would just dominate an entire server completely ending all warfare. WoW does do a good job in it’s questing system by alleviating at least some of the grinding boredom with an oppurtunity to do certain missions in order to get cool gear. MMORPG’s are a real acquired taste though. I’ve only really seen people who either love them or hate them.