SWG.... sigh.

It could have been so much better. I was enthralled when the original news came out that it was being developed. The screenshots and details looked good, it sounded good.

Beta came out and I kept watching it (got into beta 3). I didnt play it silly amounts during beta, but I did play a bit, mostly exploring planets rather than grinding. Seemed really good.

Then SOE being utter cocks delayed the european launch six months. You simply couldnt frigging get SWG over here. So in protest I forgot about for 6 months ish.

I got SWG, installed it and after alot of fun grinded my first character. The old character system was fun in some ways. You could make your own profession out of the trees. Looking back the player cities, modified jedi grind and vehicles made it more fun. BUT

Thats where the game started going wrong. Sure jedi had been there from the start, but now the way to do it was clear. So almost everyone started it. I personally didnt bother and though I did get village access I didnt do much quest wise bar helping some friends. I did do (I think) 5 of the 6 unlocks just before the system got owned.

But everyone 90% of the time was jedi grinding..

No one around for events, pvp or content. Just pure grinding. And because almost everyone was doing jedi the devs focused on that. Eventually we did get the Combat Upgrade (which WAS needed and did make it better) but still it was jedi focused.

They should have focused it on the Galactic Civil War using the many battlefields they put in the game. Those pretty much never worked and were never touched again.

So now we're stuck with the NGE. When SOE destroyed the old system and made jedi a starting profession. So sure now theres not much problem with players grinding. There ARE more quests and content than before but frankly the shite SOE community team, lack of focus and jedi focus has lead to an awful lot of hate against jedi.

And worse alot less players. I'll admit new SOE stuff has made it alot better. But I cant bring myself to play it because there were times you wished Star Wars didnt exist because of how crap the game was.

If The Force Unleashed sucks that'll be it for SW Gaming.