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heiromancerdrackus posted:
JaredKorry posted:
I never played SWG so what does NGE stand for?
'new game experience'. Basically they took a skill based MMO and turned it into a class based one. They axed several skill systems, such as Entertainer and Creature Handler (that were both VERY popular and integral to the game world) and made Jedi a common class. They also removed the more traditional MMO style combat and tried, miserably, to replicate an action game within the MMO space by giving you crosshairs and spam fire like a third person shooter instead of what the community had played for years.
In essence, they fundamentally gutted the game. It was a day that will live in infamy for many of us. As noted above, they had just done a full combat pass a few weeks prior to this as well. It was completely out of nowhere.
Good summary. I played the game from release, quit a couple of months after NGE, unsub'd all 5 of my accounts.
'Twas the worst thing they could have done to the game. It never recovered since.
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Foojo  Posts: 147
Registered: 2008-8-18 16:16:47
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A report on yahoo said that it's getting axed because the contract expires, and not getting renewed from Lucas Arts due to the new game.
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sarnsereg Title: I HAS A TITLE?
Posts: 117
Registered: 2001-6-17 21:19:51
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To be honest though i think there are enough SWG fans out there that even with the "official" shut down, the game will still be around in private servers, it's seemed to happen with a lot of mmo's that are "dead"
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Lithium_Power  Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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I would imagine this is to pave the way for the KOTRO MMO.
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Cawlin  Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Dang... I guess I waited too long to e-bay my unopened SW:G collector's edition.
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Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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Cawlin posted:
Dang... I guess I waited too long to e-bay my unopened SW:G collector's edition.
It's never too late to take a fool's money.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Arcilite_I posted:
Cawlin posted:
Dang... I guess I waited too long to e-bay my unopened SW:G collector's edition.
It's never too late to take a fool's money.
Hmm... I bought it in like 2003 or something, right after the game came out and for whatever reason, never got around to playing it. I then started to hear from other friends playing it and just decided against it... hmm... wonder what it's worth.
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Date Posted:
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-Peo- posted:
Actually, if you have ever worked with programmers/developers, you will know that they just don't care. What they program/develop is their baby and everyone else in the universe is wrong and they are right. In order to prove them wrong, you have to pain them into a corner and not give them any possible way out. Even then, they are still right and everyone else is stupid.
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Peo, had to comment on your sig, it's driving me nuts. The first two lines are attributed to Victor Stenger; and while the last two are from Nietzsche, you could at least spell the man's name correctly, 'ie' not 'ei'.
As far as you comments about programmers/developers, maybe you're talking about self-labelled amateur hobbyists, because as an IT professional for 15+ years in both large and small shops, I've never had that experience, because anyone with that kind of attitude/behavior would be quickly unemployed.
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-Peo- Title: Caveat Lector
Posts: 408
Registered: 2005-2-2 08:38:42
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darren_cameron posted:
Peo, had to comment on your sig, it's driving me nuts. The first two lines are attributed to Victor Stenger; and while the last two are from Nietzsche, you could at least spell the man's name correctly, 'ie' not 'ei'.
As far as you comments about programmers/developers, maybe you're talking about self-labelled amateur hobbyists, because as an IT professional for 15+ years in both large and small shops, I've never had that experience, because anyone with that kind of attitude/behavior would be quickly unemployed.
1st, it's a sig, get laid and get over it. I am sorry it bothers you that I didn't attribute the 1st two lines to whoever, and as far as spelling, seriously, it isn't like I misspelled Smith. The next time you live your life perfectly without making a mistake, get back to me, I will pat you on the back.
2nd, I have 15+ years being a software tester and what I posted is absolutely the norm. Both in the corporate world of key card access, security and revenue control field, and as a game tester for Activision.
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Ugh_Lancelot  Title: Ooo...bouncy!
Posts: 766
Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
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-Peo- posted:
2nd, I have 15+ years being a software tester and what I posted is absolutely the norm. Both in the corporate world of key card access, security and revenue control field, and as a game tester for Activision.
I've only had 13ish years in software QA but I submit that if you've had to work with devs like that, you've had some seriously sad experiences. I can count the devs I've known on one hand who have had attitudes like that. If they did, they'd quickly get a rep as a prima donna and shortly thereafter be shown what it's like to be unemployed. I suppose if you're in a huge multinational corporation, you can bury a few devs like that in the masses but even then it's still rare.
A possible partial exception is when talking about Microsoft. Arguably, that's a matter of perception on the part of the customer because if they spent dev resources on everyone's pet-peeve low-severity (with a workaround) bugs they'd never ship product.
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