And without much suspense attached to the act itself, I canceled my subscription to Star Wars Galaxies. It was quite simple: Sunday I was a paid subscriber. Yesterday, I wasn’t anymore. My Account -> Subscriptions -> Cancel. I think it was about 3 months ago that I had become entirely bored with the game that I no longer even wanted to log in. I had already knocked back my diet of lightsaber swinging fantasy time to around 3 hours a week, and my appetite was shrinking further and further.
I think my dissent started here – the acknowledgment of the developers inability to incorporate code that worked, their continued incompetence in regards to the basic understanding of what key game-play issues had gone so long un-noticed and unfixed, and the issues that were so long ignored that it seemed they were all but forgotten.
Let’s get one thing straight – I don’t pay $15 a month to log in to a game that is broken, and filled with evidence that its own creators don’t even give a damn about it anymore – that’s just not my style. Hell, it’s own community is filled with whiners, exploiters, thieves, and cry-babies; a group of social rejects so unable to deal with anything on a grander scale that they resort to stroking each other off at the drop of a hat in regards to their ability to press buttons faster than the other.
And I’m just so… unimpressed.
For the problem lies not in the fact that claiming perfection in a game that is just so FUBAR is like claiming the gold at the Special Olympics – a round of golf clapping may be in order, but anything beyond that and you may as just be masturbating.
The game is beyond broken, and I’m beyond the point of giving a shit enough to deal with it. ToR, hopefully, will not disappoint, and I will be migrating my former SWG subscription fee there when it is released. Until then, I’ll just make do with console gaming – my long forgotten entertainment venue.
So long SWG – I’d say parting is such sweet sorrow, but then again – I don’t want to be a complete liar.
Sorry to see you go. I just came back into the game after a 3 month hiatus. So it looks like I left shortly after you did. On that note, I have followed your site for years and you used to have the following 2 pages on your site that I loved!
http://scarform.com/blog/star-wars-galaxies-quests-forgotten-part-1/
and
http://scarform.com/blog/star-wars-galaxies-quests-forgotten-part-2/
I have looked and looked, and can no longer find these. Will these be making a return? And if not is there any chance you could email me the quest info that used to be on those pages?
Thanks
Karthoris
You know how the best laid plans are. I found myself back in the game not 2 months later. Seems like whenever I try to get out, I find myself back in.
As to the posts you mentioned, the database on which those posts were is no longer active (deleted). I vaguely remember the content tho.
It was mostly about certain items that were being touted as extinct while they were actually parts to quests that were still active.
Have you tried my items thread? This thread should have most of those items along with waypoints and NPCs that you need to talk to in order to take part in the simple quests (most are simple delivery quests, shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes.)