SouleSurvivor wrote:
I was also there when it all started as well. I left because at the time, the game was packed and I still found it difficult to make friends. I had no trouble grouping with peeps, just the friend making.
After trying my hand at several other MMORPG's and enjoying them I returned to SWG, and as a Jedi, made tons of friends(again I believe in large part to the players left being true die-hard loyalists, or new gamers who had no concept of the game pre-cu, or pre-nge).
As for Empty servers, I'll say again, Shadowfire Server is well populated and well rounded.
Without meaning to offend I don't understand how anyone who has not been playing SWG recently could comment on the state of affairs.
It would be like someone from 1200 A.D. telling us via a time machine that the "New World" was "STILL" Unpopulated, and Savage...
"Step out of the time machine sir, grab a newspaper, and look around"...lol.
"These are called skyscrapers, people live and work in them"..lol
"This is called a television, and no..Little people don't live in it"...lol
I Personally invite any former SWG gamers to please return, Come to Shadowfire, and see how robust and alive it is.
As a static environment things change, for better and worse...like a parody of real life, only with laser carbines, galactic despots, Light and Dark Jedi...and the occasional bug..lol.
But please, Refrain from reporting what the weather is like when your home has no windows..lol
Sincerely,
Soule Survivor
Jedi Knight
Rebel Ace Pilot
(Former Sith)..lol
And Now Local Shadowfire Correspondent...rofl
my subscription ran out 3 days ago, i really do know what the state of the game is, that im not happy with it, is the reason why my subscription ran out 3 days ago. as for making friends, thats not something i've ever had a problem with, i dont know if you've tried the mmo test thing at guild cafe, but its insightful about the person themselves too, on my own test i was rated SEAK, (Social Exploration Achiever Killer) i dont remember the exact percentages, but even with the game in its current state, i still managed to make several new friends, i was originally a tarquinas player, but, as that server slid down the slippery slope of unpopulation, i became a bria player, which is one of the most populated - it achieves a medium population sometimes :D as for shadowfire being well populated and well rounded, as its not in the lists as being a medium population at least, i can only guess at your own personal views on what passes for an acceptable level of player interraction. my own main chars are either entertainers or crafters, so i tend to stick to places like mos eisley, not that i havent visited other places too, its just that mos eisley is where people tend to be. and while on bria, mos eisley cantina can be a relatively crowded environment, it is by no means as populated as it used to be, nor does it compare with the pre-nge levels of population all that favourably. i would be interested in how you score on the mmo test, as i have a feeling your something of a loner by nature. as for former swg players coming back to the game and seeing how things have changed etc, they have been, its just that very very few of them ever stay. some, like me, return with the publish releases, and then leave again. there are other, possibly better games out there now, and swg doesnt really compete that well yet, but, with any luck, in some future point it might be a playable game again.