Okay, you asked for people that left WoW and went to SWG. I went in reverse. I left SWG and went to WoW.
I want to quote an early coment in this thread.
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World of Warcrack has more noobs, posers, and lamers than any other game. You have boters and farmers and cheaters. You have kids, adults that act like kids, and Vets that are sick of the former. Clans that think they are great and spout crap and the ones that are good are over looked and ignored becaues of the former.
Hello ....... Every mmorph has this including SWG especially since the NGE. This is one of the reasons I left SWG, that and being an original veteran I just wasn't enthusiastic about the NGE (and I played the NGE version for nearly 12 months). On Wow I found what I had lost in SWG. A community. I got in with a small group of people and we have a lot of fun playing and questing together. Sure it doesn't have the complexity of SWG. Sure the graphics are so cartoony. But at the end of the day it is fun and in reality that's what it should be. I mean it is a game after all.
Each game has its own plus and minus. SWG has a better player economy (which was largely wiped out by the NGE, but is still a little there)and proper player crafting. SWG has player housing and cities which is great. WoW has a better skill progression than SWG. The questing areas are much better defined for those just starting and for those who have been playing for a while. I personally think that the PvP works a lot better in WoW than it does in SWG. I rarely PvP'd in SWG but I enjoy the battlegrounds in WoW.
Before the NGE and even before the CU the answer would have been hands down that SWG was the better game. The complexity and variety of it was un-matchable by any mmorph. Equally the simplicity of WoW also makes it good.
I haven't played SWG for close to twelve months now and am thinking of re-subing just to see what changes have been made. So it is very hard to make a good comparison, but at this time I would say that WoW is the better game.
I suppose a lot of you will want to flame away now. Go ahead if that makes you feel better. It won't make any difference to me or my opinion. In fact it would just go to show that the post that I quoted does apply to SWG players as well.
Agrilok