I played SWG with some friends for a good four to six months, like most MMORPG's, took up a little too much of my time. When I first bought SWG I hated it, thought I'd wasted my money. The game is not noob friendly. Takes too long to understand how the game works, whats best, what professions are useless, blah blah.
I gave it another go and eventually picked up on the game, and I was hooked. As much as I hated the grinding, incredibly boring and once you've learned of Composite Armor and decent buffs you can't really die when hunting. So getting killed by stuff that would give me 3-5k XP per kill was no longer a problem.
PVP was fun, but the devs could have made it tens time better. Faction bases are useless. Don't need em, our player city had none - all they do is draw attacks, and are a waste of faction points. More rewards should be given when killing in PVP.
After a while of playing as TK/DOC - I finally saw that you HAVE to keep grinding more professions, otherwise the game stops there. Since the quests are pathetic, PVP gets old, and all the other stuff people say you can do is a joke.
So, I started my long grind towards unlocking my Jedi - and unlock I did. Took me 27 professions to unlock. Unlocked by killing a Picket after mastering Droid Engineer. Happy? For a while. Until you play your Jedi and realize the game doesn't really change. Now you have "Jedi Initiate" above your character and basically have a glowing vibro lance. Yawn. Oh, the grinding process for Jedi's - LOL - 27 professions just to redo the whole damn thing to get my Jedi to Padawan? LOOLOL - No thanks. So off to Ebay I went, Jedi Initiate, Tempest Server - 1-1-1-1. Got $646 for him. Not bad.
I did as much as you could in that game, had over 20 Million credits, enough krayt pearls to fill a large house, every item you could imagine, member of the strongest guild on Tempest, Over 250 PVP kills, done all the quests, got all the badges. Rebel, Imperial - AT-STs, had three in my time playing. You name it, I've done it. Not enough to keep me playing.
Oh yeah, WOW - that's what this thread was about... got my key!! Waiting for the stress test to go live - considering it IS a stress test.. thinking it's going to be like Lineage 2 when it hit Open Beta... Oh Well : |