i'm kinda late to the fourms here, so i know this is a older post, but i was a 7 year vet of SWG, loved/hated every minute of it, I started off as a wookiee bh/combat med, then the NGE hit and i went lolrespec jedi, had fun with till BM went in and jumped head first into that and loooooved every minute of it, med/bm uber awesome, making mounts, combat pets, but the highlight was MUTATIONS!!! mutation drove you nuts but when you hit you felt like you accomplished something, seeing your incubator go BOOM, getting that vader message was epic.
Now for the post i quoted, player bountys: if you were a jedi in the Pre CU, if you were grinding, the minute you pulled your saber out you went on the bounty boards, good, thats how it should be, jedi should be hunted by BH's thats how it went, if you didnt want to be hunted, pick a different class.
Player bountys after the CU and in the NGE was even better, you got hunted after you DB's someone in pvp...dont want to get hunted, dont DB, end of that problem. what i thought was great was you could have up to 3 hunters comming after you at 1 time, so you saw alot of bh's team up for the kill, great for the hunters, very bad for the hunted.
Now i'm having fun with TOR, i really like the story lines here, but in most of the post i have read in this thread about TOR being a mostly solo game i agree, i dont understand why the cut both factions off from talking to one another. the great thing about MMO's and pvping in MMOs is the trash talk, thats what makes pvp, grant it it got out of hand at times but do youknow how many friends i made while pvping thru trash talking during pvp? you took the trash talk with a grain of salt, the heat of the battle kind of thing. I was reb for most of my time in SWG and most of my friends list were Imp. we had a great time killing each other, hunting one another and talking trash back and forth. and in the end we laughed and ran instances with one another till the next battle started.
All in all you cant compare TOR to SWG to different games with totally different aproches to what star wars was, but to say SWG failed cuz of lack of player base is way off, you want to know why SWG ended? well your playing it now ( TOR). BIOwear knew from the start the couldn't stand toe to toe with swg ( even with the so called lack of player base)
there is room for only 1 SW MMO LucasArts went with the new instead of reupping SWG. big mistake IMO cuz when we get bored with TOR and it seems to happen pretty quick we all know we would of gone back to ( or if you are like me would of had both a swg and a tor account) we could flip back and forth.
I have a ton more to say but i have pretty much wrote a novel already so i'll end with this. TOR is a good game, SWG was a awesome game, give TOR some time to hammer out all the mistakes and hope the dont follow the path SOE did and listen to what us players say ( not saying do EVERYTHING we ask) cuz in the end it US who pay to play and it is us the player that makes a MMO.
SWG:Flurry- Rorrikk,Dr-feelgood-Val'
TOR:Bondar crystal- Mota-Akasha-Token
