Happy Birthday Star Wars Galaxies

[Mr. Natural]

1 year anniversary celebration can be found here. (http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=First%20Anniversary)

[Ojnod]

w00t for my space ship!

It is not my 1 year anniversary until friday but the game sure has grown a lot. I think part of the fun of a MMO is just watching the worlds grow and all the changes that are made.

No longer do I have to run accross treacherous lands to get my corpse, no longer do I have to travel 6000m by foot to go hunt krayt dragons, no longer do I have to stare at pink HAM bars once my group members die. Now all the stuff we used to need groups of 20-40 to kill, can be solo'ed. Many people have left the game for other games and other things. My guild, who used to be the most powerful guild on the server with 75 hardcore players in its prime is now just considered "one of the better guilds", and only 4-5 original players (including myself) still remain.

I think space will bring a lot of people back into the game if it is done right.

[0x64657200 0x6A61636B616C00]

I was amazed at how much the game changed in the few months I took off. I like it so much better now, but I'm realy wary of the recent updates really throwing the upper level balance off in the game.

I fear that there are going to be far too many Jedi running around w/o any "population" control. Add to that they've nerf'd the bounty hunter v. jedi combat, I think more people will probably leave failry soon. Either that or drop their BH tree and go somewhere else making Bounty Huter the next "Image Designer" career.

[Ojnod]

A lot of people are pissed how much attention jedi are getting. Everybody thinks that there should only be a handful on each server, however there are hundreds. I think jedi should have been hand picked by the devs. I also think the combat re-balance (publish 11) is going to make or break the game. If it goes bad, many people will quit and either never come back, or come back for the space expansion.

BTW genx, I didnt know you were an swg regular, what server do you play on? I am on Ahazi and Test Center on a regular basis.

[0x64657200 0x6A61636B616C00]

I've been on Ahazi from day one :)

I think there should only be a handful of Jedi period, not per server, but for the whole freakin' game. In this period of the mythos, the trained Jedi are pretty much all gone, there are obviously force "aware" people but nobody to train them......

Anyway, that and the fact a bounty hunter could solo a jedi adept just makes me want to avoid that whole portion of the game anyway. Much the same as the "love scenes" between Anakin and Padme in Ep2. *4x speed* *chapter skip*

:)

[DejaFu]

Yeah i don't see how there can be that many jedis. I think the game went bad a while ago and there trying to save it. Publish 11 will make or break the game. combat is weird now just so unbalanced.