Sony Online "Entertainment" will undoubtly make them stop, cause thats what they do, destroy fun wherever possible.
What they did to the original SWG was grotesque and unbelievably stupid. Star Wars galaxies used to be one of the most popular MMOs out there, (The stupid patches came out a bit before WoW) but then they tried to copy WoW and Everquest which royally screwed themselves over. SWG isnt even on the charts anymore
If you play the nge now it isnt too bad with the new expertise system, however it still 1000 times worse than the original. They even removed the cool animations!
Im definately gonna give it a try
I loved the original, played it all the time. You could have your own house, your own town even, the pvp battles for bases were legendary.
50 v 50 more or less, sometimes 100s of players one side defending one side trying to take the base down, random pvp fights in cities, Bounty hunters taking down jedi in a spectacular fight...
Everything in the game pretty much used to be crafted, with unique resources that spawn every so often. Each galaxy had its own commerce pretty much, each resource the community decided how much they are willing to pay for what resource or what loot.
Every character could be custom made, so you could take skills in doctor to heal your self and skills in rifleman to defend yourself and kill stuff, or you could be a full on fighter, you could be a crafter specialising in droid crafting, weapons crafting etc and each depended on each other because items needed only things they could make
So many things i can't even explain... but its all gone now, SOE killed it and turned the combat system into a generic level progression, which killed its entire popularity
