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Thread: blue glowie?
From a roleplay standpoint thats awsome.
Thats part of the reason I wanna make it to master, that way if I die I can screw around as a glowy.
Maybe find someone to help out then when they make it to jedi master I can restart myself.
Message Edited by Sinkuu on 02-02-2005 09:10 AM
Message Edited by 1963explorer on 02-02-2005 08:07 PM
GnomeAd wrote:
1963explorer wrote:
For those who don't have a clue: a blue glowie is the ghost of a dead Jedi Master.
Just out of curiousity I entered the following search terms in Google:
"blue glowie"
2650 results.
"blue glowie" -swg -galaxies
235 results.
That kinda proves the fact that it' SWG jargon. I'm just curious who actually 'invented' the term. The Dev's or on of the players (or alpha/beta testers).
Message Edited by 1963explorer on 02-02-2005 08:07 PM
It is kinda a term used to describe Jedi who have "passed over" like Ben, Yoda and Anakin in RotJ. The term was first used in game terms as what was originally supposed to happen to Jedi in game after they died a certain number of times. They would turn into a "blue glowie" and have an unknown type of content. This plan was scrapped shortly before we actually got any Jedi in game, so who knows what was going to happen to them. You'd have to ask Holo what he was planning...
I've been reading these boards from april 2003 onwards (when I joined Beta) soI already knewthe term. As I stated above: "a blue glowie is the ghost of a dead Jedi Master". This statement is of course through for both the movie Jedi Masters and the ingame ones (until the Dev's changed it).
What I didn't know (until I did the google search) was were the term actually originated. The google search shows that it's a term only used on SWG related webpages.
As to when: some further investigation brought me to SWG - Jedi Character Information. Posted on 6-27-2003. This means the term predates the launch of the game.
So the chance is great that either one of the Dev's or one of the testers (Alpha or Beta) first used the term. And just out of interest, I'd like to know if it's a term the players picked up from the Dev's or vica versa. *
(*) That's the weird way of all jargon. Somewhere, someplace, somebody uses a word or phrase in a way it hasn't been used before. It's then'picked up'by peoplewith a similar interest and after a while it becomes a common word or phrase among them.
1963explorer wrote:For those who don't have a clue: a blue glowie is the ghost of a dead Jedi Master.Just out of curiousity I entered the following search terms in Google:"blue glowie"2650 results."blue glowie" -swg -galaxies235 results.That kinda proves the fact that it' SWG jargon. I'm just curious who actually 'invented' the term. The Dev's or on of the players (or alpha/beta testers).Message Edited by 1963explorer on 02-02-2005 08:07 PM
It is kinda a term used to describe Jedi who have "passed over" like Ben, Yoda and Anakin in RotJ. The term was first used in game terms as what was originally supposed to happen to Jedi in game after they died a certain number of times. They would turn into a "blue glowie" and have an unknown type of content. This plan was scrapped shortly before we actually got any Jedi in game, so who knows what was going to happen to them. You'd have to ask Holo what he was planning...
EvanAlbrecht wrote:
Have to be a former corrospondent i think