Shame on you for buying that game.

I played it for 2 years, it was quite immersive. Unlocked Jedi ( a mystery that took 1000 hours to solve) and did 1000+ hours of grinding on my jedi. Even had a doc/buffer alt I ran AFK in busy starports using a macro where people payed me and I could make money AFK because of my uber macro writing skills...then

Combat Upgrade 1: It sucked, put timers on stuff and -- most importantly -- changed every freaking icon on the game so now you had to look for new buttons for the same old moves. In CU1s defense, it did add interesting content between Jedi vs Bounty Hunter, whereas I rarely saw BHs before now I got quadra-ganked every time I walked into a starport or cantina. Oh, and they nerfed by faction pets so AT-STs were easy to kill. Yay for saving up all those faction points I coulda used for bases and turrets instead of a uselss pet

Combat Upgrade 2 (november 2005, 10 months after first CU): First, let me preface this by saying news of CU2 (also knows as NGE) was INTENTIONALLY WITHHELD UNTIL 3 DAYS AFTER THE TOOW EXPANSION WENT LIVE. Thats right, with all the TOOW pre-order hype, all the new equipment and new vehicle hype, all the hype about new content and somehow the game producers failed to mention even once that 25 PROFESSIONS WERE BEING ELIMINATED AND JEDI WOULD BECOME A STARTING PROFESSION AND BH VS. JEDI PVP WAS BEING KILLED.
Also, in the past, a reward for unlocking jedi was to get an extra toon slot on the server, since the only way to have more than one per server was have more than one account. They took that away too

Do you see how one could become upset about that? So you have all these people who preorder the expansion without being told the game was going to be broken 3 weeks later. then, 3 days after TOOW goes live, they announce the NGE.

Major ethics violation on the part of SOE. Major, major. In fact, they knew they FKed up becuase of all the negative feedback from magazines and the gaming business that they offered full refunds for TOOW for people who were not going to renew their accounts. Still, its obvious they were witholding info for the sake of getting people to buy TOOW before they quit, so.....

I see Julio Torres of g4 a couple weeks ago and not only is he a smug jerk who is saying that the NGE changes were "tiny", but he says he playes WOW and wanted SWG to be more like WOW, and when he tried to demo something from the game live on television it was broken LMAO they coudlnt open the container so the spirit of Obi Wan would come out and talk to you....

I still have one active account, my jedi. I try to log on and play, just for a little while. Its not even the same game. And I'm sorry, but the tutorials with sound is just ridiculous, and every time i want to bring up my skill sheet to look at it I have to see Luke staring at me. Please.

The game used to be massive. It used to be a big mystery, with 100s vs 100s Imperial vs Rebel PVP. I had 300 million credits, 100s of untuned perals and crystals, was a master pilot with a cruiser class ship and had the most unique jedi template on the server (I didnt use a saber). TXF was the largest Imperial Guild on Ahazi, SWG was one of those games that never ever got old. And then they torpedoed it. I mean, they don't even have a force ranking system anymore, where Jedis can gain ranks by killing other jedis and lose rank by getting killed by non-jedis. Whats the point of PVP now? I also heard they disabled player bases

HEres something to consider: SOE last year spent a lot of effort trying to recruit people into "focus groups" from the forums, focus groups that would obviously have a lot to do with the coming NGE. 100s of people I know signed up. 3 of them got in. All 3 were players under age 16 at the time. After checking with others on the forums, this was the case throughout. They wanted kids in the focus groups, not adults. Can you say SWG XBOX?

One thing that really tickles me is how bad this has been for SOE. They had no idea how many of us "gamers" had multiple accounts, so when u made one guy mad you actually lost 3 accounts instead of 1. I knew of people who had 6 or more accounts, all of those nerds quit for sure. theres just no point in having more than one account anymore. I also find it amusing that the original cost $50, Jump to Lightspeed cost 40, Rage of the wookies cost 40, Trials of Obu Wan cost 40, and I had to buy all those twice for both my accounts. And now you can get all of the above for 19.95. ROFLMAO....Guess it aint selling so hot is it?

I heard some rumors that when SOEs contract runs out another company is gonna buy it and combine the servers to consolidate them, then have one pre-CU, one Post CU and one NGE server. but this is just a rumor, and one that is hard to believe at that. I dont think it would happen due to the coding issues involved and the high risk of old timers not coming back.

That being said, Quit dude. Quit now. The game is dying, SOE is the worst customer service on the face of the earth, your just gonna have your heart broken. I got a level 81 elder Jedi, I'm still rich, I still have more pearls than I could ever use, I got the nicest house on the server with furniture and loot no one will EVER be able to get, my guild is still the biggest and our town the nicest, I got factional armor and loot to support an army, we got a guild vent server so you can always find people to team with ----------------all this, and i still dont want to play. Why? Because if i'm going to have to learn a new game then I'm gonna buy a new game. Now I play COV.

Sorry about the long post, I'm not done yet either lol