Hardcore_gamer said:
Wasn't Star Wars Galaxies a horrid game anyways that only a handful of super dedicated players played? How does this even matter?
Uh, no. Thousands played the game, even casuals, and even after NGE still had a blast with some of the wacky things added into the game, such as the Death Troopers, planetary PvP grounds, etc. Get your facts straight next time before bashing a game and its players, please?
As for the thread: I will miss the game. I actually loved the poor thing more than I ever liked World of Warcraft, and I have played both for years. Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) actually didn't try to take itself seriously at times and just wanted to have some fun. Did they screw up? Damn straight they did, and people were rightfully pissed. But the amount of hatred SWG gets is just
pathetic. If there's one thing I hate about the gaming culture, it's how down right horrible the players can get if a game rubs someone the wrong way in the slightest. Little kid kills you on Black Ops? The game must be crap and only little kids play it (even though you just played it yourself)!
Gaming as a culture needs to stop bashing things because of their poor experience with it, or hell, half the time the gaming culture never even tried it but still wants to voice their two cents. Why are we doing this? It's just counterproductive, and shows us off as snobbish jerks. If the medium will stop acting like this, we can start effectively helping the industry better by giving out actual complaints rather than what they heard from their friends at the lunch table and spreading it around like some smear campaign.
"I have a PS3."
"EW. I never touched one, or even so much as really seen one being played, but I heard from Bill that they were crap. You have
HORRIBLE sense of gaming *picks up the tray and moves seats*."
Seriously, that's how people view gamer's these days, because of attitudes like this, and the ones in this thread bashing SWG. So I kindly ask all of you to
knock it off, and maybe we can have a better day, and by extension, a better gaming future?
PS: Of course this post is going to be flamed for "defending" SWG or "crap games," so I'm not really going to bother reading any replies to this thread. Apologies if I don't respond.
