Why SWG was (is) one of my favorite MMOs ever

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[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

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[@ZodiusXx]

My two experiences that have never been topped in an MMO came from this game: 1. Myself, and 2 other bounty hunters were after a Jedi Kight hiding in Mos Cantina. We set up our ambush by first scouting his position and finding his speeder parked outside. I was a sniper specialist, the other 2 were explosive experts and an automatic rifle specialist with a flamethrower. The explosive guy set up hidden mines near the speeder and got in position with a rocket launcher, I set up prone with my sniper on a rooftop aimed at the speeder and door, the rifle guy ran in and flushed out the Jedi with grenades. The Jedi ran to the speeder, was hit by all the explosives and shot by my sniper, then hit with the flamethrower. He died practically instantly and we all split the paycheck. 2. In a spaceship running PVP missions, the captain is flying, one person is a gunner, another is repair work, and I was navigating and keeping track of enemies. We were doing well until we got hit hard and I ran to the escape pod and left (the others died but I took their gear so it wouldn't be damaged). I crash-landed in the middle of what was essentially a Rancor-infested jungle. Thankfully I was a scout specialist so I masked my scent and avoided their movements while carefully stalking through from bush to bush (I was only half their level). I came across a group of roleplaying clone troopers on patrol who were astonished I was not only there, but alive. They escorted me back to the city by giving me a ride and I returned my gear to everyone. Bonus story: My friend had a 1v1 against a guy who was acting like an ass and boasting because he had super a rare Mando helmet. My friend won and the guy begged him to revive him because his helmet was at 1/100 for durability and would have been destroyed if he respawned, as he foolishly didn't insure himself at a cloning station. My friend was a master doctor and so could drag player bodies. He slowly dragged him outside the city and left him in a dirty stream surrounded by trees so no one would see him (as he would not apologize for his behavior). Damn, I think I need to try this EMU. Is it stable and updated with everything yet?

[@SWGRestoration]

Damn, these are some good ol' classic SWG tales.

[@planescaped]

I remember spending weeks killing Ancient Bull Rancor to get an ancient bull rancor tooth so I could have it forged into a rancor sword... only to find out it sucked and my gaffi stick was way better. /feelsbadman.

[@DoctorEviloply]

No it is not. It doesn't have JTL. There are other servers like Restoration 3 for CU that do. But SWGEMU are still dragging their feet on using "stolen" code for a two decade old game that has multiple servers that use "stolen code" and are perfectly fine.

[@Ayysuhh]

The Legends server is the way for me right now. It’s NGE but I love the community and the things they’ve added to the game.

[@memekingk373]

If you want pre cu without space yet SWGEmu just started another server pretty recently and if you want NGE than SWGLegends is running

[@natecw4164]

"People want to play as Luke Skywalker and be a Jedi. Nobody wants to be Uncle Owen the moisture farmer." Me at my moisture farm: "Wait, what???"

[@SWGRestoration]

We need to add /forage to the game so you can find black melon under the dune sea.

[@planescaped]

I had more fun playting as an image designer than I ever would've as a jedi. If I want to play a Jedi I'll fire up Jedi Outcast, what made SWG so special was the sheer number of viable and useful non-combat roles that gave so much gameplay other than right clicking on wompas.

[@jackbpace]

My droid engineer / creature handle could barely handle a weapon. If I failed sampling a creature I would run away while my droid got beat to a pulp.

[@Noctillia]

I missed out on galaxies hay day, started playing in post NGE around 2009 closer to the end of the games lifespan. To this day its player housing and customization are still unmatched. I built a criminal base in a large house way out in the tatooine desert. Had it decked out with a gambling den, a trophy room that had various guns, animal trophies and a collection of glitterdust, a main entertainment room with an area for a band, a meeting with holo screens, a bathroom with an xyz toliet made from various scrap. a generator room with plumes of smoke and even a jail cell. The whole thing was decked out in such a great RP friendly way with npcs. I'd drive around the desert in my XJ-6 speeder or fly around in space in my belbullab listing to electronic music or on my sorrosub yacht. Met some great friends on there, we all gathered together near the sarrlacc pit on sunset day. Still sad that all that cool stuff is gone, lot of hard work put into just making a cool house someone might have stumbled upon while cruising the backwoods of tat.

[@Kokorisu]

As an avid roleplayer with almost two decades of MMO experience by now, what I really find missing from any MMO these days is simply the pleasure of a game wanting to immerse you in its world; to play for the sheer joy of inhabiting that realm and having shared experiences with players. The concept of non-combat classes is such pure genius, and I miss the days of putting up shows as my Entertainer, trying to choreograph dances, play songs or simply gossipping with people, trading in information about people I had met on the job while never firing a single blaster bolt.

[@vittekantilles4178]

When you see the title of a video and instantly shed a tear of nostalgic memories. God how I miss peak SWG pre CU/NGE. Those were by a longshot the best times I had in a MMO. God damnit.

[@Lowaver]

Same. I used to play on SWGEmu but it started to become so populated with towns in a lot of my favorite farm spots that it turned me off to the game.

[@skyirwin1445]

Agreed 💯%.

[@TwentyFortySeven]

You do realize there's an emulation up, right? SWGEMU

[@TwentyFortySeven]

@@Lowaver New server released last week on SWGEMU.

[@skyirwin1445]

@@TwentyFortySeven You're missing half the point of the video. The community is, also, what made the game. I'm not so sure we'd get the same community today. Especially, considering how impatient and antisocial people are now.

[@stahlseuche]

SWG was my first ever MMO and first game I was ever heavily invested in as a kid. It was nice being able to feel like I was a part of the Galaxy I feel in love with.

[@SWGRestoration]

Every corner of the Galaxy truly has something for everyone.

[@ZenfulGoose]

SWG and WoW were both my first. I started them both around the same time end of 2004 or early 2005 as a kid. But man, SWG blew everything still today out of the water. My favorite game of all time.

[@Parathion2246]

The best way I could describe Galaxies is a "slice of life" mmo. When you logged in you were quite literally living an alternate life. You had a role in a much larger society and almost every interaction within it was with other players to some degree, who were also experiencing their own personal stories and adventures. It was magical, and that magic hasn't really been captured by anything since. I do believe a glimmer of hope exists for this style of game to make a resurgence though. VR technology seems like the perfect platform to bring a world like Galaxies back to the mainstream, and it has already to an extent seen some success with games like VRChat.

[@dannystalford5029]

I remember back in 2003. I asked for a different game for my birthday, and the guy in the shop recommended SWG to my dad. I logged in, not knowing what to expect. My experience with SWG was so much that to this day I treasure every minute that i spent in the game as an unforgettable memory. What an astoundingly beautiful game. No game will ever hold a place in my heart like SWG does because no game will capture the magic you felt logging in. The simple feeling of being just a small but productive member of an infinitely diverse & bustling universe. Of carving out a tiny corner of it to call your own. I'll do my best to capture it in prose. You exit your humble tatooine repair house. You just paid your monthly rent to the town, and topped up your shop with droid & speeder parts (your specialty). The twin tatooine suns hang low in the afternoon sky as the star wars music fades in. You jump on your dewback and wave to a friendly face passing by, tending to his harvesters. You embark on the 25 minute long trek to town, hoping you don't encounter anything too dangerous on the way. You see the sprawling cityscape of Mos Espa fade in as you approach the city. You go through the main spaceport, past the hundreds of people advertising their shop locations & selling things. You pop into the med centre and say hi to your favourite doctor, and pass through the cantina to throw a few credits to the entertainers. You take in the conversation & atmosphere, before heading to the bazaar to buy some supplies. I have COUNTLESS stories from SWG that i will never forget. From a bounty hunter infiltrating our guild just to assassinate a jedi, to angering the largest energy tychoons on the server (some servers ended up with one player owning thousands of miles of harvesters worth Hundreds of thousands of £ in real life, lol). Seeing my first Jedi back when the first players unlocked was INSANE. The huge vicious PVP battles between anchorhead and bestine. Walking for 30-40 minutes to the krayt graveyard just to be slaughtered in seconds. Just exploring this VAST universe with your friends. It was magic!!!!!! Guys, please. It's been a tough week. Cheer me up by posting your favourite SWG stories here.

[@hedicha]

i used to play swg back when jedi/sith was rare and i will never forget when standing at a shuttle waiting and then hearing a lightsaber go off and i knew that shit was about to go down. The crafting system was truly ahead of its time with quality resources and more, i used to play a combat medic/marksman (ranged deathblow yep! haha) and remember i used to search for the best crafted poisons on the server and the difference was massive and people always knew i had the best poisons so i was known for it. game developers should take a look at pre cu and take notes, not everything in a game needs to be even playfield if you spent more money (in game currency of course) and time on things you should get out ahead of others, nowdays everything is the same every pvp game out there you know exactly what you are facing in SWG you had no clue. The social aspect of the game was great and i had an amazing group of people that i used to play with. I will never forget this game RIP.

[@SWGRestoration]

RIP!

[@stringer2295]

Man I remember when seeing a jedi was soooo rare

[@Fumblez.retro.hunter]

The best story I had was when I first started the game and me my friend and a random group of ppl made the run from the Mos Isley to the next town which took a 1 hour cause we got lost then got into fights with creatures its was amazing time when we got their we all parted ways but I would never forgot how much fun that was

[@wadedewell]

Awesome memory. Great game. Wish I would have spent more time in it

[@SWGRestoration]

Hilarious.

[@Eluxor]

I feel like the setting was the most important thing, I only played SWG for like five months until it shut down, due being from latin america, the connection was ass, my computer at the time was so bad yet it barely ran the game. It was the best RP that I have ever felt and participated. Nowdays, most of people roleplaying are in SWTOR and its not that bad, but it doesnt scratches the same itch of building your own things. Such a shame that playing the game nowdays is a bit complicated.

[@deathminder9206]

I get that. I had dial up when it launched, I had to get dsl to play it.

[@Marinealver]

I was overseas during the "Golden Age" of MMOs so I know the feeling.

[@SWGRestoration]

It's not that complicated :) Everything you need to play is included in the download of our launcher, if you're interested in a Combat Upgrade experience!

[@planescaped]

I have never had more fun in an MMO than I did playing a freaking Image Designer on Shadowfire in SWG. I barely ever fought, and it was spectacular. I worked hard to grind for an At-st, and used it for everything in the 'good old days' so I could still contribute and do things. I wish more MMO's would have the foundation for such things to be possible. I just wish I had a PC back then that could run the damn game at more than 9 FPS the moment anything big happened. I was even planning to drop fencer and take up tailor and focus on pure-non combat, as I stumbled upon an obscure clothing combination that looked really awesome and I constantly got pm's from people wanting to know what it was. Of course I couldn't spill the beans. Back in the day one couldn't just go look at a list on a wiki, that is if they even thought to do that. So keeping it a secret worked and ensured my place in fashion -souls- galaxies. Some people got super salty that I wouldn't tell them, even if they offered to pay. But when you play a non combat class ya gotta find your fun in other places. :P I really wanted to go tailor and see if there were other overlooked outfits or obscure combinations that I could hoard and sell my old outfit off, but then the game died. :( Still think of all my buds in 7th Imp Battalion this many years later. Truly no other MMO ever hit that sweet spot like SWG did, and such a shame SOE had no clue how to manage or take advantage of it. Jesto, Oskozz Alarra, Aryeth, Witjay, Blunai, Rynn, Rendar, Davke, Scoriss, Baxe, Ayane, Kecir, Zapher, Innosk,Kifia,Omif,Krazy, Aecir, Kanar I can still remember almost everyone's name ;P

[@planescaped]

Also half the time when people would be coming to be for ID servives I felt like Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes in the panel where he's cutting Calvin's hair. "Don't you think it should be short? Like real short.... right here specifically. Actually, you know what's all the rage? Hats!" Or rather, closed combat helmets. >__> That there was no undo button made every makeover a potential situation to get shot dead. XD The outfit combo for those who still play on SWG emu and are curious, was the Dress Uniform jacket paired with a refined skirt, and they need to have matching colors, I went green. They went very well together, and looked great even on a dude. Though these days since people can just looks stuff up, having a unique outfit never lasts forever. Oh and it Aecio not Aecir, I'd edit it but it'd remove the heart. :P

[@inurabera]

I really miss this game, and would love to see something like it again. My two favourite memories from the game, running a small wind power farm using my land slots, but due to their location in dangerous territory and my combat skills being low, I'd have to hire a player to help me get to them safely each time. Sounds dull maybe, but honestly really cool to me and forever sticks in my mind. My second is running around exploring the swamps of Naboo and seeing a light in the distance, chancing upon a player camping out there, and just chilling and chatting with them as the night closes in around us, sitting on the camp chairs as the fire crackles - never met them before, never knowingly again, but was a fantastic moment as well. I truly miss this kind of game.

[@grafpavian3724]

I play on SWG Legends (NGE), as always a Wookiee in an ARC-170 looking for credits :) Was a hard time playing Dark Age of Camelot and find time for Star Wars Galaxies... good old MMO days

[@TheGravytrain]

On Flurry I was Asran Kast a pistoleer/combat medic and my best friend was a rodian bounty hunter named Nakoo. There was an imperial named aralee (can’t remember the spelling) and she would solo raid us rebels at anchorhead with her 2 rancors and then later on with at-sts. I still remember the shouts “aralee is coming aralee is coming” lol and everyone running away in a panic. And then when she got to town her yells of “get them my lemmings!” would induce a panic attack in the most hardened of rebel soldiers. I have a thousand fond memories of SWG. Best MMO ever made.

[@planescaped]

I remember raids on Anchorhead. Specifically the great lag-fest of Shadowfire where every big Imperial guild planned 1 massive invasion on the town, and how I arrived sadly late to the party and my computer got like 2 fps. I think I killed someone with my At-st before crashing...

[@Nyxnik]

Just another example on why we're currently living in the dark ages of the MMOs. How the hell is it even possible that systems such as player customization, housing, etc., were already present and offered more options 15-20 years ago than nowadays. It's not just "nostalgia" like many people argue, most elements aside of convenience / performance were objectively better during the early 2000s (and especially things not directly tied to gameplay such as monetization).

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

I know the fact that you could land your spaceship while looking out a window and see everything that was going on before you got out of it just shows how limited the new wow clones are.

[@Paeronhierta]

You know why. The great corruptor: World of Warcraft. WoW simply redefined what an MMO could be, in terms of accessability and ease of use. This quickly attracted a vastly larger population than any other MMO at the time could ever dream of. I'm in total agreement with you however; the MMO:s of old were actually heaps more innovative.

[@pixleyes]

@@Paeronhierta And WOW's setting of that population expectation meant that if your game could not approach those numbers, investors were not interested. Thanks Blizzard...

[@IvanRogersII]

I was a beta player and I pretty much logged in daily till it shut down. Now I frequent the emulators such as Legends and so forth. It is nice that I can still play it on modern hardware, but I also still feel I never really found a sense of "home" that I did with the original live version. I am happy that I was able to experience it while it lasted.

[@Psysalis]

This was the first mmo I've ever played and got into also. I think I've mentioned this in your last video about this game but my favorite thing about SWG pre CU was the amount of character variety and class choices. Most mmo's now days you have 10 or 15 other players in social areas running close to the same exact build you do and roughly looking the same. My character in SWG actually felt unique to me. Also as mentioned the community is what really brought the game to life, and I really liked the small touches in SWG like the language barriers. When I first started playing the game I had another player as a Wookie walk up to me and start talking and I had no idea what he was saying, but then he taught me how to speak wookie and we started chatting for a while. This mmo was something special.

[@bronzesun21]

I really wish they would bring this back. This was also my first mmo. Swg was the only game that i had no clue about most of it's mechanics, but i was fully immersed. I spent hours driving around in my swoop, and run into a grand krayt dragon which killed me and my swoop lol. I miss those days

[@SWGRestoration]

If it makes you feel any better, Boba Fett also gets two shoted on his swoop.

[@adamkatt]

bring it back? its always been here with the player run servers.

[@hugmonger]

I remember playing SWG and accidentally becoming part of an in game band for a day cuz I was playing my entertainer and I walked into the bar started playing, people came in for buffs, and as more players gathered around me... specifically me playing my music other entertainers came in because there was more opportunities for tips and they'd play and one dude had this keyboard thing that he regaled me with the tale of him getting... it was apparently really hard since he was also an entertainer and that thing was rare. I... in real life and in video games have a really hard time talking to people... i get scared really easily even now as a full adult with a job and bills and stuff. So just... having that opportunity for people to come around BECAUSE OF ME felt so great. Wanting that feeling again has really been a big part of my drive irl and in games. I can't really play most MMORPGs because they dont have entertainers or anything like that.

[@mattt5970]

Man I loved just homesteading around the galaxy. I'd get a small house, a bunch of harvesters, find a neat area, and just pop in and out making small time cash and decorating the place. Wasn't about optimization, just enjoying my own little corner and heading into the popular towns when I needed stuff. Admittedly not a super social way to play, but hey SWG made room for us hermits too!

[@julestiberiusroosevelt]

I have a lot of good memories from SWG. From bounty hunting jedi, mass server pvp'ing, setting up my own little shop as a side hustle, challenging people do duels attempting to become notorious, or just meeting people and hanging out. It felt like there was always something to do in the game, you just had to go out and find it and you usually did.

[@deth2munkies]

I have fond memories of being a Squad Leader/Ranger/Creature Handler that was essential for party support while everyone else went Rancor/Grual/Endor hunting. I got a cut of all of the materials and made enough money to buy composite armor and a double-sliced krayt pearl Light Lightning Cannon to end up as a BH/CH that could solo pretty much anything the game had to offer. I loved it, but even with Truegalaxies and other pre-CU servers, I just can't get back to those days. It was just a once in a lifetime confluence of events.

[@Sasaroly]

You made me feel nostalgic for a game that I never played. Well done!

[@nathanmagro1]

I remember starting the game on day one aboard the space station for the tutorial and then choosing Coronet on Corellia as my first city. To this day I consider this game to have some of the best crafting systems ever made. Having rotating materials with different stat ranges was amazing. I especially loved when SOE made a statement about how their hardware was having trouble handling all the data because they never expected players to become hoarders for all the different resources and random items.

[@planescaped]

I was never able to go to Coronet, my computer couldn't handle it. XD Spent almost all my time on Tattooine, Bespin specifically.

[@MAJICHATE]

I played SWG religiously from launch. I loved the weirdness and randomness. I loved the cantinas back when people relied on entertainers and docs and how the system made it impossible to not be social.

[@Oppetsismiimsitsitc]

When I first started playing I was so enamoured that I walked all the way from Mos Eisley to Fort Tusken, only to get deathblown by some angry Tusken as soon as I got there. Then I revived back at Eisley and had some chill doctor dude cure me for free and he showed me how to use the shuttles and gave me a free speederbike. I basically spent the first few days in SWG just killing Rills, Scyks and Womp Rats and exploring all the POIs. Had no fuckin idea what I was doing and I loved it.

[@simonhampton1304]

I loved SWG when I first started to play it and I was lucky enough to play pre CU/NGE,ide never played an mmo with such a great community that seemed to know their place in the universe and always seemed to really want to help eachother. I remember just how rare it was to see Jedi at that point when I was playing and I remember the first time seeing a Jedi running through town with about 5 bounty hunters in chase it was awesome and everyone's speach bubbles started to light up the screen. I remember when CU came out and could see the direction was bad,people spending month after month doing missions to become force sensitive and grinding like hell to rank up to high level Jedi,all the work and effort to be initially destroyed by CU,Jedi went from being the strongest character types to being weak as hell,bounty hunters were shafted also. Then even after the community expressed their frustrations and anger over CU , the community was further destroyed with NGE making the whole game a cheap child's game where anyone could be Jedi from day one,there was no end game anymore really,nothing to work towards and I really feel for the veterans who not only worked so hard to become high ranking Jedi but also made the whole community feel apart of something big,and what was their reward for such dedication,a nice blue glow force effect on their bodies and now a cheap nasty weak as hell Jedi character. I remember feeling the sadness after NGE and server after server losing players,trouble was pre CU and NGE there was alot if roleplay especially for new players but once these changes were made we lost a great community. The economy in-game was destroyed aswell as I remember bakers and entertainers buffing people every day and people queuing like in a supermarket all in line with the macros running waiting for their turn to be buffed before going out to combat. It was such a shame this happened and the community were ignored and I can honestly say I have played more than 20 popular MMO's in my time and never have I met a community like pre CU/NGE . RIP SWG

[@SWGRestoration]

Rare Jedi are such an important part of this game.

[@MakotoKamui]

SWG was one of the few games I played for quite a while. I played a Wookiee musician, partnered with a friend who played a Twi'lek dancer. He and I found it hilarious that in the entire time we played, I was tipped once for about 10 credits, while his female dancer character was apparently given multiple houses...

[@TheLaGangjShow]

During its original release, I started playing during the Combat Upgrade and really enjoyed my time with SWG. I understand the issues that arose with with the Combat Upgrade but as a kid/teenager it never became apparent until I met players who explained it all to me. Eventually after the servers were shut down I tried Pre-CPU and enjoyed it but wasn’t the game I fell in love with but understand why people loved it. Star Wars Galaxies is my favorite MMO of all time and possibly one of my favorite games. It’s a shame that there was never a MMO like it, it’s unique and a wonderful experience!

[@SWGRestoration]

Not too late to come on back :)

[@adamkatt]

@@SWGRestoration yup , i came back for finalizer, dont know what this restoration crap is.. must be that cu and nge nosense.

[@miclam00]

@@adamkatt CU is objectively better unless you really enjoy buff wars and flopping around like a fish out of water

[@ItsEpicWesley]

As someone who started MMOing with UO, when this game came out, as a Star Wars fan, it was so incredible and social elements being almost entirely missing in MMOs today. These games pushed me on a career path that found me working on World of Warcraft in the early 2010s and I would love to see more MMOs that take the sandbox approach. Combat shouldn't be the only answer, skill based systems have always been much better in my opinion. Thank you for sharing!

[@rilok919]

SWG was my 1st mmo. I currently play Black Desert but loved SWG for everything mentioned in the vid. I think being a spy and living in rustuss, was my favorite past time. Just having a game that felt like a world where they was always something to do and even doign things that was fun but new is something i'll never forget.

[@RedFlameZero]

Watching this video reminded me of my incredible time in SWG, especially your note about unique shopfronts. I can't for the life of me recall the server I was on, but I made my millions in the game working as a interior designer, selling my services to guilds and businesses to make interesting and flashy shops, homes, and guild halls. The hours spent building faux ceiling fans from droid heads, vibro-knives, and spent bacta tanks were some of the best I'd spent in any game.

[@RagPlaysGames]

Modern MMOs are such a massive decline to what came before in the 1999-2005 window. Even if you got jank at least it was rarely cookie-cutter.

[@oopomopoo]

While I can agree, it's also far from that. Any mmo released nowadays is spammed "what's endgame? How many raids? How's the pvp?" so even if a game comes out that's not cookie cutter, it still needs to have a lot of raids, good pvp and so forth or else the community just spams the forum dead on arrival. We, the playerbase, caused this outcome. Once an mmo tried to break the mold and do something different, we complain it's bad compared to (mmo) which leads to the playerbase slowly falling due to perception alone.

[@DocDelray]

Man, I loved this game so much. I remember spending hours playing it when I got home from school. I was one of the top pilots for the Rebel Alliance on my server. I had like three shipwrights working for me at the time, I'd farm them parts and drop the bags off at their shops and they'd mail me any new top of the line gear they built from them. One of my favorite moments had to be whenever a newby pilot would come looking for me. See rookie pilots used to have to come looking for us vets to get assigned their Z95 Headhunter. If they were Alliance we'd help them out free of charge of course. I remember one guy who thought he was going to get fast leveling in one of my turrets. I laughed and handed him the authorization for his new ship. I told him he had a half hour to get his components installed and the coordinates he could meet me at. I was going to be flying wing for him in the thick of pirate space, and if he was lucky, he might just live long enough to make a few credits off the salvage.

[@shamanic_nostalgia]

I'm 32 and this game has still left a strong impression on me. Also because I was pretty young when it came out and didn't have the ability to play as much as I would have liked to so I really never got that far in the game ironically. I was a lonely ADD kid that loved Star Wars and I just took so much immersive joy in roaming around Naboo while it was raining, or watching big battles pop off in the cities on Tattooine or creeping around Dathomir... Just in general exploring and seeing all the people socializing, it was all so cool. I could go on and on but I really don't have time, just wanted to say something. Thanks for the video of respect for this game

[@stryke-jn3kv]

I'm really glad you loved it... man, I did not feel the same way. It was my second mmo attempt and it almost put me off the genre after how badly this and Dark age of Camelot went. Mates would not shut up about how amazing it was and it seemed the moment I joined they all ditched it. I did have some fun, okay literally one night of fun doing a rancor hunt, the rest though yikes. It felt crazy empty at times as everyone would sit in their own player housing grinding crafting stuff all day and all night. Least I bailed before the first revamp which man did I hear at the time went over like a lead balloon. Then my favourite MMO of all time was Warhammer, and believe me I could be on here listing all the flaws and mismagement of that one way, way, waaaaay longer than I could for Galaxies.

[@planescaped]

Sounds like you needed a better Player Association. Also that you came in at the worst possible time.

[@jasondavito6385]

Swgemu just released a new server called Finalizer. It's currently got over 850 Single IP online players. Making it probably the largest Star Wars Galaxies Server by single online IP right now.

[@michaelh370]

Just started yesterday, love it

[@DasUnbekannte]

I played as a droid engineer. Didn't care about combat. Just about building a merchant emporium. Had a lot of fun creating my shop, getting quality inputs from around the universe, chasing good deals in other stores, promoting my own goods, and improving my chips. Ah, such a great time! Thank you for reminding me of them. Best to you!

[@KnightLightXL]

i was very new to the world of rp/mmos but my first experience was one that ill never forget... Logging in I ran around exploring the city to my hearts content, then I came across a player getting arrested by Imperial Officer and two stormtroopers on suspicion of terrorist activities, I kept my distance not really aware that these were all players yet, then I saw people continue to file in behind a building near the scene, it was clear something was about to go down, so I messaged the officer, he was actually very kind and let me know this was all roleplay and that if I wanted to join I was welcome, having my guy run up and inform them of the ambush what went down was a amazing combat rp session, everyone on both sides was very kind and helped me get into the flow or roleplay and combat, after all was said and done I begun my career in the imperial navy and made life long friends along the way

[@MrCaptnrex]

Lowca server represent! lol So many fond memories of playing this after school, whether it was learning the way of stealth and playing with my friend django(?spelling?) in pvp against the outnumbering rebels or Running with my guild in the factory of mustafar, d/cing for the rest of the run, and then later still being given the devastator lava cannon they got from the run. Such a great game.

[@Scry60]

at 7:40 the lady dancing named Tiestee, I know her, I been playing SWG legends for a long time now and have played SWG live long ago, she is a very nice person to talk to, it's so freaking crazy how long people still play that I can even recognize players just from this video alone, the greatest MMO that has ever been made.

[@Mezcon2]

I only played SWG for one day, when I was visiting a cousin out of state. Was hanging out with him one day when he showed me the game and allowed me to play it for a few hours. Even that brief time being a human marksmen was so memorable.

[@Rowgue51]

One of the biggest reasons SWG was so unique and why there was such a real sense of community there (at least before heroics were introduced) was that every aspect of the universe was player dependent. Anything you wanted or needed to do in game required interdependency on other players with other professions. Even if you weren't a literal role player acting out character you were still always roleplaying to a certain extent. That adds a level of immersion and community that has just never been replicated in any other game. That changed significantly with the introduction of server wide vendor search. And then once heroics came in and all the best items in the game suddenly came from loot drops instead of players it was all but destroyed.

[@kessy628]

This video hits me right in the feels in so many ways... SWG was my childhood. I can't wait for the next video about GW1, it was great reminiscing about my memories of the hours (if not days that it would have added up to) that I spent on my Trandoshan split between chilling in the Mos Eisley infirmary as a doctor and out in the world as a Teras Kasi Artist. All the people I met and the memories I made... And then after the game died for me with the CU/NGE for me I moved onto GW1 - I am SO looking forward to that video from you after this!

[@kingscrump]

Man what a throwback. I remember playing the free trial on my janky PC. I remember searching the whole time for Imperial Stormtrooper armor and I finally found a level 65 person wearing it. I thought it was so cool to be able to fight for the Empire.

[@lucasmills9959]

I still remember playing this game back in the day. It was like 7 discs or something like that to download onto your computer. Took me forever and I didn't play much because it didn't run very well. But man it seemed so cool at the time

[@garethdavies2093]

I always feel Star Wars Galaxies was the MMO I missed, basically once City of Heroes hit I was "set" until WoW landed. I owned it, and had a sub for a good while - just never understood/played it. Of course I know that "NGE" is pretty much a curse word, and an easy way to nerd check a claimed player is to see if they winch when you say it :P It's annoying now, as people speak so highly of its design choice(s) and it's a huge blind spot. So thanks for even the briefest touching on it here. Excluding the IP, it feels like such a system isn't super hard to build, yet doesn't really exist currently (did it morph into another genre?).

[@sdws17]

I played SWG but City of Heroes I consider one of the ones I missed. :) maybe I'll give restoration 3 or homecoming a go

[@SWGRestoration]

It didn't really morph into another game, but the lead designer Raph Koster has set up his own studio and seems to be releasing a game inspired by SWG.

[@ivenousername]

I'll never forget being 12-13 years old and picking up this game and having my mind absolutely blown. I was very late to the party after the expansions, but it was still a blast. Travelling in a ship from planet to planet... Driving across Naboo in my speeder and seeing these giant creatures and wondering if I could incubate one and breed it... Running into other players and them taking me to their crazy houses... Building my own house in a player city on Corellia... Roleplaying in the cantina...Trying to level up a Jedi... (trying). Grinding for days in a shitty little dungeon just so I could get the identical jedi robes that Anakin and Obi-wan had from the movie... It was my first MMO and will always be one of the greatest. Nothing has given me that feeling of freedom and excitement since! Oh, I also just remembered the time I explored Kashyyyk and killed myself over and over in a dungeon area just so I could reach the General Grevious boss guy in the bottom of that cave And of course the moment I finally built my first lightsaber and it felt so earned (all those quests were not easy for a little kid all on my own, but I did it!)

[@loppefar5612]

I remember chasing potent avian meat across the galaxy on my doctor as it was required as a main ingredient in buff stims. The meat quality had 2 or 3 stats and would vary from planet to planet AND shift in quality once a week iirc. For me it was such a deep crafting experience. Being a doctor aiming at providing the best buffs, was a game in itself.

[@mitchellbecker610]

Absolutely adore this game. My first MMO, I joined right as NGE hit and I loved it. What I wouldn’t give to go back to the days when this was live and hang out with my old friends…. (Yeah I know SWGL is there. But it’s not quite the same) I still can’t believe more MMOs don’t use the Bounty Hunter system that SWG had. It was easily one of my favorite parts

[@coolasfire111]

I was once a top 3 weaponsmith on the Chilastra server for the first year of the game's release (max +EX crafting suit, first month resources, fed by 3 large guild's loot/resources). To this day I have never experienced more gratification in a video game than when I was just getting buffed outside a spaceport on Tatooine and overheard one player brag to another player about his weapon and the second player exclaimed "Oh my God, that's a Treyy Starcaste, I've heard of those" (you could sign your weapons in the game). Or the time that that I had a weeklong countdown to a new weapon line release result in over 200 player lined up outside my shop in our main guilds player city. We sold out before the line ever dissipated and our armorsmith (who was criminally underrated) also became well known as he released a new line with me. Even with the weapons completely sold out, around 25 people stuck in line stayed anyway, dancing and RP'ing, so I went to one of my factories and started up top-of-the-line laser rifle schematic and handed them out for free (~200k credits each at the time). It was truly the best MMO ever made, and people that didn't live the initial experience will literally never understand and it will never be recreated.

[@katuhtonik]

I'm still rocking on Legends, still talking to and playing with friends i made 20 years ago. This game as been the single most impactful thing in my life. I was 13 when I saw crafting for the first time and it really did make me who I am today. Spreadsheets. Crunching numbers. Everything. There is something for everyone to discover in this game. Truly one of, if not THE, greatest MMOs of all time. Also I'll say this before I watch, I hope you mention Heroes of Chilastra. That video was one of the single greatest videos of the game's history haha. Just nothing but flex.

[@winzoln]

I still remember hanging out primarily at the Theed and Coronet Cantinas on the Ahazi server. In fact my primary surname I still use in any game I'm able to name my character to this day. I still remember travelling to the planet Rori to do so something and I eventually built a small house there. My first player home in any MMO. Those were the days.

[@planescaped]

I remember going on a pilgrimage with some friends form my guild to the Imperial Retreat on Naboo just after it had been found by players. It was surreal being some of the first people on our server to stand before Palpatine and Vader.

[@Gospelgg]

Thank you for making this video and shining a light on what is truly, in my opinion, one of the greatest MMOs ever made. I believe that SWG was ahead of it's time with it's crafting and city system and still is. Nothing has done it right like that. That said, SWGemu just launched a fresh server called "Finalizer" with some changes at launch and future changes down the line to make pre-cu better. Thanks again, man.

[@Gospelgg]

Also my vote goes towards streaming SWGemu.

[@Gospelgg]

@@arditienthusiast8384 LOL. yeah, it's sort of my thing :P

[@PaleoAnalysis]

This makes me want to start a second channel to talk about this kind of stuff. I was there from the beginning till the end. I loved SWG so much and I am seriously considering getting into Restoration. Maybe we will unknowingly run into each other!

[@CoconutJ1m]

Fond memories of all the groups that went Bol hunting on Dantooine, made a lot of friends there.

[@MrTTitanic]

Man this video is such a great trip!! I played a Scout / Commander Rodian. Making large campsite where me and my guild could craft and chill before and activity was great.

[@SeanMMoran]

My SGW journey I am (er.. was) a huge star wars fan, so I found out about and followed development of this game years before it was released. It was my first MMO, and played it from beta to the 1 free month after NGE. In the 1st week of playing I met the group of people I would end up playing with for years. I played a smuggler/pistols, which was about the least efficient combat profession in the game. Literally the only way to make money was slicing weapons, and only once you were a master, but I was "the slicer" for our group and it made me feel important. I made lots of contacts with weapon smiths outside our group. They would bring me crates of weapons to slice, just so they could sell the 2 or 3 that RNGed perfect weapons. When 1 of the top 10 weapon smiths in our server decided to quit the game, he gifted me his entire inventory of resources. I dropped pistols and became a smuggler/weapon smith. My small group never wanted for anything. In return, I would be escorted through missions that needed a slicer (after that first attempt at the corellian corvette I learned my lesson) or other new content I couldn't access on my own. I was happy, things were great, I didn't care about the jedi that started popping up, because let's face it, there was no way I would be able to kill mobs to grind holocrons (and after my free Christmas, i mean life day, holocron said bounty hunter, I just knew it would never happen. Also jedi tasted like sour grapes, true story) Then the Village appeared. A few people in my group tried it, and burned out on the grind. I tried to resist the allure. But as a non combatant, what drew me was the extra character slot. I could have both a crafter and a fighter on the same server with my group. Sweet! I crafted myself some godly weapons and more thermal detonators than a TKA / commando could ever use (as this could quickly gain the exp needed to open the 2nd slot... I mean jedi) However, this changed me as a player. After months of focusing on combat, I started to WANT to be a jedi. I was the first in my group to unlock it (the grind was real) and they were as excited about it, if not more. Now I was escorting them on raids! My resources were some of the best on the server, and my lightsaber was near perfect. I needed a way to continue making money on my 2nd dlot, but going back to crafting (and the grind involved) was not appealing, but with everyone "solo grouping" to grind xp faster, some good money could be made as a Dr. selling buffs outside a starport, and turns out my group could use another dr. At the time Rifles were the natural go to for a Dr if they wanted some combat sgrind. (Ah the master Dr/ master rifleman) Then the CU happened. Some of our group that were into PvP left from this. Apart from running from bounty hunters, I didn't do PvP. So I'm not sure what the problem was that this was suppose to be fixing. What I do know, is that it allowed you to "respec" your character to try out different classes. I'm not proud of it, but I abused this mechanic to lvl up my jedi faster than was previously possible. With my 2nd character I decided I wanted to try out the jedi vs BH from the BH perspective. So I abused the system again and dropped Dr and picked up master bounty hunter (F.U. life day holocron, I have the last laugh now) Hunting Jedi most fun ever in a game! Stalking another player, knowing they are more powerful than you, but if you get the drop on them, you can win. It was a ton of grinding still but BH by day, and jedi by night... best days of my gaming life. Then NGE... why... just why. Some 30+ professions shrunk down to what 6 or 7. All of the grinding (even with the mechanic abuse, it was still a lot of grinding) and now these character feel so mundane. What can I show for it? I can turn into a force ghost... really SWG, that's what I am now, a force ghost. I think I only played 2 weeks of the free month they gave us for NGE, and that was spent saying good bye to what few friends were left and settling my affairs. I'm still saddened by the loss. I have my disks, and I've tried playing SWGEmu, but it's not the same. it's not just that its lacking the friends I made while playing. It's the the experience of finding new things with those people, it's growing and being important to help someone else grow. (Ok and it's a little bit not having my warehouse of all the best metals, gasses, and flora on the server) SWGEmu can never give me that back.

[@nacujo]

I absolutely LOVED this mmo. This was the first MMO I ever played. I became a bounty hunter in game. I remember getting my first mission and going to kill a real player jedi. The adrenalin pumping through me was insane and I actually defeated him. It was so intense I still remember it to this day. This was a fantastic game. I personally prefer the pre-cu.

[@sdws17]

My first bounty was the biggest adrenaline rush I had in video games. Albeit, the Jedi was afk in theed, lol... so he died... but tracking him down was the thrill. It kind of made me curious in trying bounty hunting irl. Maybe one day... for now I might just try that Restoration 3 server

[@higherlearning9386]

The resource mining system was so amazing. You could get so many different variables and would have to travel around the world planting your gatherers on the newest and best stuff to make the best weapons/armor. Still waiting for an MMO to use a similar crafting/resource system

[@Ares14]

SWG and Matrix online are 2 of the most underrated MMO's of all time. The role playing in these 2 games were amazing...

[@zootonius]

Best memory for me was getting my first holocron, master merchant and I was M-pike. So much fun and friends from around the world.

[@rbennn1588]

I bought this game on launch day. I did the jedi trials and my toon became a jedi. I remember doing the dark jedi knight trails and ran into a group of jedi that was doing the trials as well. We all grouped up together and completed it. We all became friends in game and when there was pvp raids going on they would contact me. I sure miss this great game even today.

[@PKsoldier45]

My favorite thing in SWG was Jump to light speed the detail you can go into with your starships was amazing honestly it's addicting to getting better getting a new ship and having fun watching each part you put on the ship changes it's look working with your mass and power to find a great balance do you wanna move fast or stay in the fight longer? Hit harder or outlast? So many choices it was really great

[@stinkbanana2522]

I'm so butthurt I missed this. By the time word got around that it was good my friends were saying that they screwed it all up with one patch and they quit...

[@Kathkere]

This was my first MMO as well. I can't have been more than 13-14 years old. My proficiency in English was pretty much non-existent, and this game propelled my grades from near-failure to the best that you could get. Certain things that you could do in SWG seem almost more advanced than the mechanics we see in many modern MMOs. Speeder bikes were fast but they would break down and you would have to repair them. Animal mounts weren't as fast but they could assist you in combat (depending on what you had taught them -- or what someone else had taught them, as you could buy certain animals from creature handlers). You could also call on your animals via chat commands, and these commands were custom made. SWG was awesome. Oh, and you could colour your armor. That level of customization was something I've always missed from WoW, and I feel like the SWG approach to customizable gear was preferable over transmogging.

[@mercs7849]

It's heartwarming each time I see those old RPG videos, like Ragnarok Online, which also had a lot of going for it despite being an old and extremely technically challenged game. Meanwhile Tree of Savior can do neither code nor design, and it was viewed as a spiritual successor by many. And EVE shows complicated highly social MMOs are not even doing that bad. When did it go so bad and why?

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

Wow was what made it so bad everyone thought that copying that was a fomula for success.

[@SWGRestoration]

It's around :)

[@aaronhardwick7719]

I don't comment much on KZbin videos, but your question sparked a memory. I don't think this experience can be had in today's MMO worlds... I remember visiting a cantina on Tatooine, probably in Mos Eisley. Someone there had found a randomly spawned Imperial base nearby, and was recruiting others to go wipe it out. About a dozen of us took off in an impromptu group to see what we could do. The fighting was fierce and we were only able to take out about half of the base when the fighting became too much to handle. And this is where it gets good... The team leader called for a retreat and we all did, heading up into a nearby hill. There, a scout character set up a camp, which allowed the team to reduce permanent damaged to health and mental. Me and another player who had high levels in entertainment both broke out our instruments and started jamming together, and a dancer joined in, healing everyone's mental stress. A medic went around healing people's damage, and we spent a good hour or so just hanging out in camp, chatting, trading, and having fun. Eventually the team leader called for the second attack to begin, and we packed up, and finished the job of wiping out the Imperial base. I don't know of another game where that experience can be had.

[@deathminder9206]

Loved SWG. Was my first MMO. I was a master swordsman/doc pre nge. Only game where I enjoyed crafting. I remember helping furnish the wedding hall for my friends marriage. Loved how people would just entertain in the Cantina all day for buffing people.

[@Movie_Games]

I bought an account with a Jedi slot for $1,000 and never had so much fun with a MMO. I had a rivalry with a combat medic bounty hunter. She would poison and destroy me. I still remember the day when I was strong enough to defeat her. I got really lucky and started seeing the writing on the wall that the game was in trouble. Sold the account for $1,900 a month before the revamp was announced.

[@OnurKonuralp]

This game was one of my favourite mmo's as well. I still keep its box and the amount of detail of that box still amazes me. 3 CD's, 200 pages manual, posters and even printed version of EULA lol.

[@ZachM525]

Most people don’t remember true Vanilla SWG ….BEFORE the first Jedi…when Beast Tamers could tame certain beasts except back then they didn’t “downsize” so when they tamed a Yavin Turtle or Giant Lizard it was the size of the NPC City and they would walk through the city with a skyscraper following them. ONE OF IF NOT THE COOLEST THINGS I’ve ever witnessed in video games…and has never been replicated. When the first Jedi’s tried to convert to find they reset to level 1 so max level bounty hunters would camp their player house forcing them to stay inside and make Jedi pottery to level a BRUTAL process. The good old days.

[@planescaped]

Back when AT-ST's could easily take down 5+ people and be used in PVE. Before they were nerfed and made PVP only. I could understand the nerf as I freely admit being able to 4v1 the rebels as an Image Designer was a bit much. But making them PVP only sucked for people like me who didn't actually have a combat class and relied on our summons to contribute in fights. :( Even then, if the rebels knew to focus me down, they often could in a heartbeat. I think the best compromise would've been making them harder to summon in PVP for combat classes, as well as a small nerf to both PVE and PVP. But they went way overboard with the nerf and just ruined them, making them basically useless. (summoned stormtroopers could have used a buff too to compensate) But here I am bitching about SOE and their terrible decisions running SWG into the ground all this time later. XD They had lightning in a bottle and no idea what to do with it...

[@AM-uo2kf]

It was also my first MMORPG, I truly loved how you could be whatever you wanted to be in the Star wars universe. Then jump to lightspeed came along and I could get my own tie fighter and do space missions!

[@Zack_Wester]

4:40 question wasn´t there technically two doctor professions? one was a field medic that could heal you when damage from combat out in the wild whit just a medic bag(or the local version) but could not heal long erm damadge you would resive. so you needed to from time to time even whit a medic go back to town and visit a hospital to get rid of the long term damage and even get a few buffs?

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

Yes combat medic and doctor were two separate roles. Doctor was non combat component, sort of like droid engineering and cosmetic design were.

[@SWGRestoration]

The beauty with the medic line in the CU is it's very versatile, you can go down the Combat Medic line, Doctor, or Bio-Engineer for the crafting component. (And you could mix these with a handful of combat classes, say you want to be a tanky debuffer, CM would be the way to go.)

[@TheGravytrain]

SWG is to this day my favorite mmo. Shout out to everyone from Flurry server and the guild Star League on Lok. God I miss this game. I actually felt like I was a character in SW. I’ll never forget it.

[@mattroper4959]

Well said. Big shout out to my Flurry server. Flurry was the stuff of legend. So many wonderful good guys and bad guys. EVERYBODY role played to perfection. It's the most fun ove ever had in a video game. Nakoo and Asran Kast were roll dogs til the end. Hopefully we get another game like this one day

[@Jhunta]

i cant believe i missed this video from you! i am so excited to watch this, as i not only agree that this was one of the best mmos ever created, but your death of a game swg was how i discovered your channel and became an instant subscriber! thanks for all of your artistic and informative content. much fun!

[@OldskoolHiFi]

For those that played Pre-CU, the SWGEMU project just dropped a fresh new test server called Finalizer. As someone who played at launch on live and prefers the Pre-CU experience, Finalizer has been a wonderful bit of nostalgia. The only thing that has come close in my almost 20 years of playing MMO's to replicating my original SWG experiences. Very active server, around 1500 online at any given time. If you were like me you owe yourself to check it out.

[@PiratePawsLive]

This takes me back, I loved the game and am still looking for some mmo to come close to it. I quit after the NGE because I loved mixing and matching skill trees for my playstyle. I've made so many fun memories there and learned to pay good will forward by buying noobs decent Composite Armor, a weapon and paying for their first set of buffs as well as giving them some pocket change. Then showing them around and teaching them on how and where they can make money and grind skills. I even had a Doc offering medium quality buffs aimed at noobs for low prices so they can go farming :). Or as an example, I had a booming Business selling and producing Architect items and decorations as well as rare loot. And even sometimes I was hired as an Interior Designer or craft items to order for people so they could give it a specific name :). On one character I had 3 Kimogilas as combat pets and were out and about hunting and taming creatures to sell. I got a ton of tales from my time playing SWG and miss it dearly, sadly the emu's I tried were not that great.

[@RuinedDruid897]

This was my first MMO I played. I had just beaten Morrowind for the first time and my uncle came over with his computer to show me this game! I have an endless love for SWG thanks for a nice trip down nostalgia lane!

[@Kanglar]

SWG has the best crafting system in any MMO. The resource stats, how they spawn and are harvested, and crafting experimentation system make such a unique and interesting system that SWG is the only MMO I've played where I have a ton of fun and my character has literally 0 combat skills.

[@Nevans1991]

SWG will likely remain my favorite gaming experience ever. I started playing during the CU but stayed until its death. I miss it every day.

[@PheonixUchiha]

My hopes are with Hytale. It looks like it could be an MMO like galaxies where you can simply be a farmer if you want to.

[@DetrickWard]

Then- Roam the surface of a planet, sampling minerals for the best place to put down your harvester. Now- Stand around with 12 other chuds waiting for the same damn mineral node to respawn and try to be the first to hit it so you can get the resources you need to progress through the same damn unrewarding crafting system. SWG has been the only game to get it right.

[@whoopsie321]

SWG my first mmo too shit was soo fun I played on Bria had a BH and a fencer/tka/master brawler dueling all day and fighting against Imperial players on Tatooine.

[@jes2294]

Loved being a doctor. Sitting near the spaceport on corellia. Sitting in the cantina was great as well. I envied combat medics. Alas, I was Tk master, and was never able to be a master combat medic. Miss my old guild vadr on naboo near the emperor's retreat.

[@dbrown5784]

This was an amazing mmo. The only thing to pull me away from Everquest. I loved the total freedom of customization, exploring and role-playing

[@kevindorn2508]

Back then i thought mmorpgs would be a wonder to behold in 2021. Instead its a stale almost dead genre... In swg i was happy being a stormtrooper in an empire guild. We actually did roleplay. Hi darkstalkers 😁 best memories of all mmorpgs played

[@planescaped]

Stormtrooper armor was expensive af! All about dat AT-ST!

[@Fordragon]

Best game I've ever played. I've grown old waiting for a game to come around that can match its perfect sandbox gameplay and depth. Sadly, I don't know that we'll ever experience that again.

[@charlestoefield2659]

I remember loving this game. I was on the Wanderhome Server. I still talk about this game to this day.

[@Bellomancer]

Amazing retrospective. I still remember making a character on the Bria server in the summer of 2003 when I was thirteen years old. Thank you for letting me reminisce.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

I noticed a lot of people ignorant to the magic SWG created and I wanted to remind us all really.

[@vetobandito]

damn dude i love and hate watching videos talking about this amazing game. i will never forget how great it was, i will never forget some moments in the game now 20 years later. I was too much of a young noob to fully appreciate every aspect of it, but the parts i could wrap my young noob mind around immersed me more so than any other game since then. fingers crossed for star citizen opening up the "non combat focused" mmo

[@memekingk373]

As someone who did not grow up with this game, I highly reccomend anyone who has any passing interest in mmo's to seek out a copy of this game, the SWGEMU Finalizer server just got up and running and has been a blast to play with friends and by myself, a genuinely unique experience

[@mattroper4959]

Thank you for posting this. This game was the most fun I've ever had in a game to this day.

[@yokorose]

wait your doing another one on SWG . one of the best mmos ever and the most social mmo that could ever be. i feel thats whats missing with mmos now is no one want to be social and just want to run to the end game and not care about what happens on the way there and the friends you make

[@Marinealver]

now is the worst time ever to be social

[@maxmustermann8247]

The problem with playing it today is, there are not enough ppl playing it. Empty NPC citys, empty player citys, bots everywhere for dancing and buffing. I have so many good memorys of this game, i don't want them to vanish for that kind of experience. In my eyes, SWG was the best MMORPG and the only one who deserved the title, because it was the only game which provided a way to live a life in Star Wars. Yes, it was hard for beginners, because there was a ton of information you had to learn to find the right class to play, or style to play. But isn't that just like real life? Life is complicated, so was SWG, but nowhere else you had this kind of freedom in descision making. That all was before the dark times...before the NGE. In the 7 days after NGE was released, our guild lost 80% of it's active players (and we were one of the biggest imperial guilds on chimaera)...the party was over. Our Jedi players where furious for grinding their asses off to play a rare class and then it was turned in a "unique" starter class. Trials of Obedub Benubi was a joke addon. The path SWG has taken screwed over the whole community in the end...instead of getting more players, they lost thousands of long time subscribers in just a few days. Instead of coming back, they turned to WoW, Conan or Warhammer online. These players were gone, and would never come back. I dont think, there'll be ever a game like SWG again. With player driven economy, housing, survival elements and mass pvp with hundreds of players involved (servers couldn't handle it tho^^). If SOE would just have included new content (more clothes, more armor, more speeders, more theme parks etc.), instead of ruining the content that was keeping the shit together, i think SWG would still be a thing. But no, SOE thought it was a good idea to reroll the whole game and making it into something "simple" like WoW, the most boring MMO there is to play today, because it's just too simple...you don't have to talk to anyone today. You push a button and get a group...no socialising needed anymore, no "lfg DM" in the chat needed. MEH. And, ffs, it was Star Wars like we knew it from the movies...not a single player fantasy version some 10000 years ago (SWTOR).

[@RS4KING]

As a SWG and UO player, you nailed this perfectly.

[@Jhunta]

Nerdslayer, the mmos I cut my teeth on are still some of favorites of all time: coh, swg, gw1. At the end of this video, you said you were going to make one on gw1! Ok man, I'm in! Let's get that video out there! ...and how about that DoaG series covering another favorite of mine? EXteel??

[@ChadJonesAYelpInTheDark]

Star Wars was an awesome game that was hampered by Star Wars. It was an awesome exploration mmo with an interesting crafting system: two things you don't think of when you think Star Wars. If this game had a more "sci-fi colonist" world, it would have been great.