GET RID OF JEDI CLASSFollow

The funny thing with the unlocking of Jedi. You are either force user or not. Its not a hard concept.

lol, dont be too hard on the guy, after all, it took him 17 months to think up a response!!! maybe he's a really slow typist ?

I have a horrible feeling TOR will be a success because of the Star Wars name but outside that I think it looks rather disappointing, that being said I expect TOR to be most damaging to WoW and not SWG.

All this has happened before and will happen again!

I sware I been here before!

Hold on wheres the Jedi hate?

I'll never forgive them for removing Teras Kasi.

I've got a lot of fond memories of back in the days (way back, btw) when I used to play SWG. Ah, those were some good times. I could spend all day just sitting on Dantooine, buffing people who were about to go out and exploit-group for fat xp gains.

I knew this girl who was an Image Designer, or whatever the name of that class was. She chose it because of the fun factor. I remember seeing a Jedi take on groups of people on Dantooine and thinking "Wow! I'd love to be able to do that!" seeing the Jedi class as the imbalanced fighter it was in the movies (no doubt about it, the class was supposed to be way overpowered).

The many months of grinding professions only to have it all be replaced by the Village thing. The many months of grinding in the Village only to be shafted so immensely by this sudden urge to make all MMO's look just like World of Warcraft.

I've played the game once in a while since then, but it just doesn't stick anymore. There's no social chit-chatting on Dantooine while people stand in line to get buffs, because buffs are a hollow shell of what they used to be. If I walk into a cantina, there's no troupé of Entertainers and those Image Designers, or w/e their names are, waiting to chat with you and have some fun.

And yes, of course I had to try out a Jedi. I quite before reaching level 20 or so.

This game takes place during a time in the story where Jedi and Sith are extremely rare and Jedi are hunted without mercy throughout the galaxy. It just doesn't feel like that anymore. At all.

Which is why the game lost its appeal to me. It's a WoW clone with a Star Wars facade and very outdated graphics. I don't see why I should play it anymore.

Heard they're making a new Star Wars MMO, though. Might have to check that one out.

I am still hoping for good things from Bioware but I have to admit the more I see of the game the less hopeful I am that it will be game of great depth and the more resigned I become to the idea of an instanced hack and slash single player game masquerading as an MMO.

I don't know it seems odd to me that players left SWG in droves when they tried to remove the depth and make it more WOW like and here Bioware are making a Star Wars game with even less depth.

I agree however I think that game developers are confused over the idea of "new and better", seems to that game developers see this as meaning more like WoW while players see it as games with depth.

It has always amazed me that ever since the days of EQ1 I have heard all the hype from game companies about how their MMO is the "Next Generation MMO" when in reality it is just a dumbed down clone of the current most popular MMO, in all this time only SWG has come close to creating the level of depth in gameplay that the first big MMO had (Ultima Online) and even they then lost the nerve and went off on a WOW tangent.

if your looking for immersion and continuity you should just watch the movies. a MMO based on a movie is garunteed to butcher the story line of the movie. if you just take SWG for what it is- a game- and forget about the movie its actually more fun, because the contradictions and continuity failures are endless, with tons of jedi being only one of them. its a dead horse anyway, besides theres all kinds of ways now u can make your jedi stand out from the crowd of robe wearing glow stickers. if u can't stand seeing all kinds of jedi don't play one yourself, and stay out of high traffic areas. and i'm no jedi i'm a spy since dec. 05. -IMO

I always thought it was kind of a no win situation if you take it from one extreme to the other (as far as the jedi are concerned). If you make it too hard to aquire one then people who want that class and nothing else lose interest. All though making too easy then the game becomes Star Wars: Jedi instead of Galaxies... hehe.

I much prefer a more inbetween approach where it's difficult to "discover" the jedi class and much more difficult to level but not so difficult as to make everyone lose interest.

That being said I'm guessing nothing will change... lol.

On a slightly different way of thinking I wonder if SOE (in regards to SWG) has maybe made the game too easy to play... that has been the death of other games imo.

Well anyway ... good gaming all.