The NGE was the laughing stock of the entire MMO industry at launch and for years after. It was basicly completely unplayable. It had nothing!

At NGE launch only your combat level mattered, you did just as much damage with a 50 DPS rusty knife than a 900DPS saber.

NPC AI was completely messed up and they ran around like Benny Hill on speed. And clumping up on top of each other.

NGE at launch is honestly the worst piece of software EVER released, and releasing something that unfinished and unplayable while charging money should give LIFE IN PRISON for massive Fraud.

And as for the potential. They had to do massive server merges a while after NGE coz servers were empty. And I checked the forum just days ago and people are saying it needs another run of server merges coz most servers are ghost towns.

Yeah, great potential. No, the original game was far from perfect, but it was fixable.
NGE was just plain hopeless, a dead horse, but you kept beating it.

Good Job!

P.S. Including Jedi was the biggest mistake on the part of the developers.

Another small bone to pick is that the factional armor was crap and useless to use besides decoration.

I dont understand you people the game is in its 6 yrs.
what is your problem ok the game changed. how many of you played it in the last yr. none of you. do u work for bioware or wow.

Do you work for SOE sir? Your assumption that because I hate this dev and what he and his cast of bastards did is only because I must work for the competition is dubious at best.

I have logged into that piece of crap NGE many times since and despite going in with blinders on I come out screaming NO!! Just a simple glance at the animations tells a novice gamer something is up here. The very fact this dev gloats about rewritting a major game in 2-3 months with no testing tells me what his intelligence level is and right as home with SOE might I add. It rivals that of John Smedleys intelligence. His coming out and telling us how well loved the new enhancements were was akin to baghdad bob telling us the infidels wern’t in baghdad as they walked behind his back.

I can still remember the day they dumped that giant pile of a rectal abortion they called the NGE on us. But its not ready we said? OH its bug free and tested very well they replied. But we don’t want this we said. Oh its approval rating is monstrous they replied. Why does it look like my character is on crack? Oh we sped up the combat to be more star warsy they said. To bad by speeding up they meant the game clock to give everything an unnatural apperance.

Im glad your guild has 230 people. From what I can tell that is the population of most the servers combined now days. How many of those 230 people consit of alts? I know the answer.

Sorry you’re not inteligent enough to know your just padding SOE’s pockets on a dying game. A game they dont even devote but a skelton dev staff to. I’ve watched the forums. How many times do they say no to adding something in. How many times do they say we dont have the development time for that. how many times do they say this isn’t in the scope of this project. How many times do they plan on updating 2 professions at a time so that by the time they come back to the first they are so out of date and underpowered to the others? I would need many hands and feet to count on. Just look at the CWG update people want and they cant even do a simple task like that. No thanks I dont want to play a game where I have to have one of every professions so that I rotate my game play bases on profession development cycles.

But hey its your money so if you like feeding Smeds addiction then so be it. The nuremburg trials would be too light a sentence for Smed, Julio Torres, and Nancy Mcintyre. for the bait and switch they pulled on us. I for one will never forget their names and who they are.

SOE is by far the perfect example of “what NOT to do” for years to come. Then a dev comes on here saying oh im sorry we fucked up… but we had to. BULL FRICKEN DOO DOO. You didnt have to. SOE saw the dollar signs WOW was doing and look at you now? NO players. BLOODFIN Is a deserted landfill. what use to be one of the most populated servers next to BRIA. Bloodfin is nothing but a ghost town. I log backed in not too long ago. Thanks to SOE only to find that 1 server is pretty much packed. the rest are a waste of bandwidth.

9 classes compared to the 32+ we had… sorry doesnt cut it. You can obviously deal with that garbage but the game is horribly done. still filled with some of the bugs we had in PRE CU. I just laughed.

took balls to come on here dev to speak like this and do a half assed apology…but i want my 250 dollars from my 5 accounts and my 3 years of time you took from me before i even think of forgiving. And if i had quit because it was on my own accord… this would of not been an issue… but you changed the game and left me no choice but to leave because its not what i had paid for.

so @william…. stop trying to shovel that piece of crap NGE down our throats… SOE already did that. glad you have a huge guild there and all but the game is horrible.

thats it.. just HORRIBLE.

For me, the writing on the wall has the horrific customer service. By far the worst I have ever encountered. I saw the bans of people that were just asking for help. I saw the GMs punishing people who asked the ‘wrong’ question. I saw that the development community did not care about the players at all. So I left, vowing to never knowingly play another SoE game ever. And to this day I haven’t.

I can only imagine the bitterness of those who tried to grin and bear it through the CU changes only to be faced with NGE. But I could have predicted it years before it happened. To paraphrase Kanye, “SoE doesn’t care about it’s customers”. It never has and, as far as I can tell, it never will.

I have played many mmos before and since, including WoW twice. I have been back at WoW for a little over 2 years now and 2 weeks ago I stumbled across SWGEmu. I haven’t played WoW once since and have lost a lot of sleep play testing. I would love to help the dev team but I am a Java guy, not a C++ guy, so all I can do is test.

If SoE brought back a classic server, I would not play on it unless it were free. And maybe not even then. SoE was the biggest problem with SWG and I have no faith in them ever doing anything that is helpful for the players.

The NGE was mistake, the controls works, the simplification killed the experience. The trouble is you guys would have been under pressure to do something radical. Why? WoW, it worked far better than anything else, Blizzard generally release very polished products and their MMORPG was no exception. The number of subscribers WoW was getting and the value of your PI meant you should have been able to get more.

Personally, I would have added an alternative control method instead of dumping the old one.

Made more worthwhile things do-able in a thirty minute play-slot, and sorted out all the bugs and glitches and imbalances in professions.

You’d have had a winner then.

Seems like everything you SOE morons(and some lucas #¤%) touches get turned to crap.