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Thread: Bottom Line......
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Skurr
Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:13 am
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When I first bought this game about a couple years ago and I read the back of the cover I was estatic. A game where a person enters a world as one of many races as one or more of many professions and actually interacts with other players in a player based world that changes constantly? Eurikaaa!!! I found my game after all this time. I had played MUDS for years before the internet was the internet and loved those and I felt this game was an evolved form. You mean to tell me I could play combat, medic, money maker, ect?? I plopped down 75$ for a collectors edition and bought a couple pre-paid cards and the big Manual of SWG for GameSpot. My intention was to leave combat to the big boys and become a crafter and pay combatants to slaughter all those that refused to bow before me (naive huh?). Good times for sure.
I log on. I'm on tatoonie in a place called Mos Entha and I marvel at other players milling around. Im an artisan and I begin to learn my trade. I meet cool people on Bria like Yargo Regal who hooked me up with his crap resources to build. Huh...whats this? Why is this process to play taking so long I have to sit in one area and craft an item over and over again to gain exp. Well....ok. In the process I pick up marks man and go up the pistols tier. One day I group up with a female creature handler and a couple other noobs and decide to go to the Krayt Graveyard for exp. We are all excited and ready so we jet over there and sure enough are these huge bettles slaughtering some other noobs. The creature handler sicks her pets on the bettles to tank as I blast away with healthshot2. People are screaming and getting mobbed by beetles and everyone is trying to help everyone else, it was so much fun. All of a sudden people start dropping and I get jumped by 3 beetles that spawn and get incapped. Awww this sucks and I am about to clone and i get a /tell "hey man /consent me". I shift my view and see a wookie wearing a white robe and a black sage hood standing over me and he has the title Master Doctor floating above his head. I follow his command. All of a sudden I am standing with just about all my health. WHAT THE HELL??!!??!! The guy does a lol /emote and says "I rezed you dude" and runs off healing others. To make along story short it was all fun and games untill some tusken raiders came and killed us all off. That was the most fun I have ever had playing this game. The only truly fun time in almost 2 years of playing. That was the day I decided I wanted to be a Doc.
Since that time I discovered the forum boards and have watched people whine and get just about every major profession nerfed one by one. People would run like cattle and become one proffession and the other group would whine. Bam, creature handler nerfed. Same thing, bam, Combat Medic nerfed, ect. I has been my belief that the game was always balanced and that if you took away all the nerfs you would find that actually all the profession were equal. If you gave Creature handlers the pets back and CM there venoms, ect you would find that everything leveled out. That the time people lacked the inicitative to learn their profession and when they got owned by those that did they cried nerf. And the devs responded.
The expression that dont mess with something that is good comes to mind. The Devs had tinkered with professions so much, that now the game HAS to have a major overhaul not just a little Combat Upgrade. Some things where good like the change of how to become a Jedi but in lui of that they left the grind intact. Weeks to master a profession, with doods on the forums claiming "dude I did it in 3 hours, but...ah I cant tell you how NOOB lol". That was the first wound for me with SWG. The Money Sink...ooops I mean the "Resource Reward" to me was a dirty trick that lied to players and voided the resources that players payed millions of credits to get. Devs KNEW the CU would negate those resources yet waited weeks after releasing resources rewards to tell people. That was wrong.
With me the final straw was the Medical Professions. They have been changed to become one and the same with combat. With SWG you CANNOT play/survive/excell without being part combat. I remember one time when I was a Master Doc/Master Combat Medic with pistols 4 I had forgotton to wear my pistol and got jumped by some spawn outside the starport of Mos Eisly. I spent the next 5 min running around players spamming "Help Me" untill I got incapped. That left a poor taste in my mouth concerning the legendary player interaction of SWG.
I my opinion this game has become nothing more than an elaboarate first person shooter and with games like Doom 3 with its new expansion, and other first person shooters, there are far better options with less headache and wait than this one. This game have evolved in the wrong direction and it is my perdiction that in about 1 and 1/2 years most these types of games will die off. I give this game another year before it bottoms up. The grief isnt worth 15 bucks.
This is the last transmission....
To all my friends on Bria that have helped me and too all my fellow Docs thanks for the good TIME lol. And for those that choose to stay and pay...you need to take the green pill doods.
Skurr signing off.....
I log on. I'm on tatoonie in a place called Mos Entha and I marvel at other players milling around. Im an artisan and I begin to learn my trade. I meet cool people on Bria like Yargo Regal who hooked me up with his crap resources to build. Huh...whats this? Why is this process to play taking so long I have to sit in one area and craft an item over and over again to gain exp. Well....ok. In the process I pick up marks man and go up the pistols tier. One day I group up with a female creature handler and a couple other noobs and decide to go to the Krayt Graveyard for exp. We are all excited and ready so we jet over there and sure enough are these huge bettles slaughtering some other noobs. The creature handler sicks her pets on the bettles to tank as I blast away with healthshot2. People are screaming and getting mobbed by beetles and everyone is trying to help everyone else, it was so much fun. All of a sudden people start dropping and I get jumped by 3 beetles that spawn and get incapped. Awww this sucks and I am about to clone and i get a /tell "hey man /consent me". I shift my view and see a wookie wearing a white robe and a black sage hood standing over me and he has the title Master Doctor floating above his head. I follow his command. All of a sudden I am standing with just about all my health. WHAT THE HELL??!!??!! The guy does a lol /emote and says "I rezed you dude" and runs off healing others. To make along story short it was all fun and games untill some tusken raiders came and killed us all off. That was the most fun I have ever had playing this game. The only truly fun time in almost 2 years of playing. That was the day I decided I wanted to be a Doc.
Since that time I discovered the forum boards and have watched people whine and get just about every major profession nerfed one by one. People would run like cattle and become one proffession and the other group would whine. Bam, creature handler nerfed. Same thing, bam, Combat Medic nerfed, ect. I has been my belief that the game was always balanced and that if you took away all the nerfs you would find that actually all the profession were equal. If you gave Creature handlers the pets back and CM there venoms, ect you would find that everything leveled out. That the time people lacked the inicitative to learn their profession and when they got owned by those that did they cried nerf. And the devs responded.
The expression that dont mess with something that is good comes to mind. The Devs had tinkered with professions so much, that now the game HAS to have a major overhaul not just a little Combat Upgrade. Some things where good like the change of how to become a Jedi but in lui of that they left the grind intact. Weeks to master a profession, with doods on the forums claiming "dude I did it in 3 hours, but...ah I cant tell you how NOOB lol". That was the first wound for me with SWG. The Money Sink...ooops I mean the "Resource Reward" to me was a dirty trick that lied to players and voided the resources that players payed millions of credits to get. Devs KNEW the CU would negate those resources yet waited weeks after releasing resources rewards to tell people. That was wrong.
With me the final straw was the Medical Professions. They have been changed to become one and the same with combat. With SWG you CANNOT play/survive/excell without being part combat. I remember one time when I was a Master Doc/Master Combat Medic with pistols 4 I had forgotton to wear my pistol and got jumped by some spawn outside the starport of Mos Eisly. I spent the next 5 min running around players spamming "Help Me" untill I got incapped. That left a poor taste in my mouth concerning the legendary player interaction of SWG.
I my opinion this game has become nothing more than an elaboarate first person shooter and with games like Doom 3 with its new expansion, and other first person shooters, there are far better options with less headache and wait than this one. This game have evolved in the wrong direction and it is my perdiction that in about 1 and 1/2 years most these types of games will die off. I give this game another year before it bottoms up. The grief isnt worth 15 bucks.
This is the last transmission....
To all my friends on Bria that have helped me and too all my fellow Docs thanks for the good TIME lol. And for those that choose to stay and pay...you need to take the green pill doods.
Skurr signing off.....
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