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Word of mouth doesn't exist. It's just some poorly updated game sites that says about it. What it says in your merchant skillboxes in-game is exactly what you get. You get a reduction in the cost of the map advertising (which you'll only notice with a droid/terminal). Nothing more.

What does advertising IV give you exactly?

Also, any fixes in the mix for constantly having to re-program the speaking vendors?

Thanks!

Greetings-- I've been playing on a couple different servers for about a year and a half (I've taken a break now and then) and since unlocking Jedi I've had this forum bookmarked and I visit regularly as it's a good resource. And I think, for the most part, it has the most experienced players around, which is why I wanted to post up here.

Ya see, in the span of playing CounterStrike for about 3-4 hours today (little excessive I know) I heard 3 different conversations about SWG, none of them initiated by me, and in fact I only chimed in during the last one because I couldn't believe it was being talked about so much. My thoughts about the CU aside, all of the conversations were negative and the resounding theme was that people were leaving, cancelling accounts, etc. I understand the whole idea of a happy customer tells 1 or 2 friends and a customer that's had a bad experience will tell 10, but this got me to thinking...

Word of mouth was the *only* reason I bought this game. I was interested in this game when it was in beta as I had read about it on IGN or whatever gaming site, but I never picked it up when it was released, mostly because of the less than stellar reviews that it got. But about a year and a half ago a guy I go to school with was talking about how fun it was (he had been around since beta so vehicles where the greatest) and how he was holo-grinding to unlock his jedi. Roleplay a jedi in an MMPORG was about all I needed to hear, and I picked a copy up that afternoon. 1 week later I had my sister playing the game, and within a week of that my brother was into it-- to the tune of 4 accounts. He raved about it enough at work, where we all worked with total SW geeks (myself included), and shortly after that 3 different people we worked with were playing regularly, each with multiple accounts. My other brother was into it briefly and although he doesnt have much time to play anymore, his account is still active. So to total up, well over a dozen accounts (pretty sure JTL is active on all of them) were started just from that one review my friend gave me at school. And realistically more, as I know one of the girls we worked with turned her brother onto it too, so undoubtedly the ripple effect can go on and on.

So that's how I came to SWG-- What I'd like to know is if it was a word of mouth-type of review that brought you to SWG, and if so, how many people do you think you turned onto the game? And lastly, would you recommend this game to a friend now?

thanks in advance for your time and opinions!

RL friends recommended the game to me-
I've told a couple peeps about it and some started playing-
I wound NOT recommend this game now cause I dont know which blows worse- the CS, the CU
or the Jedi that cried so loud because newer Jedi *might not have to become as socially withdrawn as they are.