Star Wars Galaxies, Free MMORPG

posted on April 7th, 2012, 2:21 am

Hi guys, I have just popped on to tell you about the most amazing MMORPG every created, SWGemu is an entirely free to play MMORPG that will be launching its ALPHA server in the coming weeks.

Star wars galaxies is a sandbox game that has open worlds with no level restrictions. Featuring the most in-depth crafting system of all games, player housing and cities, fantastic PVE, PVP and roll playing.  Full player run economy and so on…

There is no specific character class and levels like so many WOW clones, you have 250 skill points to spend over 7 basic professions ( Artisan, Brawler, entertainer, marksman, medic, politician, scout)  and 26 elite and hybrid professions (architect,  armorsmith , Bio- engineer, bounty hunter, combat medic, carbineer, chef, creature handler, commando , dancer, doctor, droid engineer, image designer, merchant, musician, pikeman, pistoleer, ranger, rifleman, smuggler, squad leader, swordsman, tailor, teras kasi artist, weaponsmith)

This means you can master a few professions or dabble in many. There has never been a game that has ever come close to the rich content that SWG has offered.

If you are interested you can always youtube some videos, and the main site for signing up is swgemu.com

posted on April 7th, 2012, 4:09 pm

Ehm... no!  >:(
The same promises made perfect world and it turned out to be a disaster. Crafting is complex as they promised it, but its a disaster of boredom. So was the gameplay. Everything turnet out be a variation of a few types of monsters, just making them look meaner and bigger and nothing else.

And here we have another WoW clone, trying to impress us with their fancy options and flashy gimmicks and in order to get the full effect you have to pay through the nose!

Might as well go playing mu online. At least they don't try wiggle some elaborate deception of fancy crafting and stuff to sucker you into playing. There you just step in a mob spawnpoint and slash your weesly guts out. No nonesence!

posted on April 7th, 2012, 7:55 pm

Ehm... no!  >:(
The same promises made perfect world and it turned out to be a disaster. Crafting is complex as they promised it, but its a disaster of boredom. So was the gameplay. Everything turnet out be a variation of a few types of monsters, just making them look meaner and bigger and nothing else.

And here we have another WoW clone, trying to impress us with their fancy options and flashy gimmicks and in order to get the full effect you have to pay through the nose!

Might as well go playing mu online. At least they don't try wiggle some elaborate deception of fancy crafting and stuff to sucker you into playing. There you just step in a mob spawnpoint and slash your weesly guts out. No nonesence!

... you do know that Galaxies is older that WoW and this is a fan-driven relaunch after the official servers were shut down, right?

posted on April 7th, 2012, 9:02 pm

Who was first was irrelevant, what is relevant is the predictable pattern of all free MMOG. Lets face it, there is so much stuff out there that you just can't produce something new without investing massive resources into the development.

Speaking metaforically - if you give the olg hag a facelift that doesn't mean she's not 80 years old anymore!

posted on April 11th, 2012, 1:50 pm

@beef, What point are you trying to make here?

SWG is the most content Rich MMO ever, it is the sandbox.

posted on April 11th, 2012, 6:58 pm

I haven't played SWGemu, but assuming it is what it tries to be (SWG pre-NGE) it isn't similar to WoW at all (except they're both MMOs).

It's a sandbox.

posted on April 11th, 2012, 9:48 pm

The most amazing MMORPG ever .... I think thats EVE Online.

posted on April 11th, 2012, 10:03 pm

thankfully Its nothing like WoW, and yes EVE is good but SWG has manythings over it.

posted on April 12th, 2012, 9:27 am

The most amazing MMORPG ever .... I think thats EVE Online.

Totale agree! And still, but I dont play any more, I dont have time
Now I play back Tibia

posted on April 12th, 2012, 1:57 pm

Sounds interesting.  I will have to look into it since I don't want to pay for TOR.

posted on April 12th, 2012, 11:10 pm

yes TOR was one massive disapointment, considering the time and money they spent on it.

they should have just released it as KOTOR 3 as a single player game, that would have been much better.

posted on April 14th, 2012, 1:36 am

I just read the FAO on the site for swgemu and all I have to say is WOW I can't believe they're reverse engineering and re-creating the server-side software for an MMORPG from scratch! That must be taking an insane amount of work!

posted on April 14th, 2012, 2:59 am

It's not the first time it's been done, either. There were a couple of EverQuest emulation projects back in the day. No idea what happened to them, and the entire category rests on murky legal ground.

posted on April 14th, 2012, 12:36 pm

Sounds awesome. the only reason I didn't play it 1st time round was the cost vs how much chance i had to play it. Thats why i prefer f2p so I pik it up when i want and iqnore it for months without worrying about money disappearing from me bank.

posted on April 14th, 2012, 3:40 pm

SWG was way ahead of its time and I was a Master Bounty Hunter (MBH) pre-cu and pre the other thing, nge or whatever the heck it was.. They had a great thing going because adults could play along sidee their kids, but the little brats complained and all wanted to be instant jedi with light sabres just like wow and have the game centered around pvp, while sacrificing economy, trade, crafting and all around general exploration of a HUGE and spectacular online environment .. It took 4000 hours roughly to become a jedi pre-cu and after the two major bungled "upgrades" a person could just become a jedi out of the gate and that seriously compromised the integrity of the game.

The space upgrade was actually pretty good and they did a good job on the ships and pvp combat in space, but wookie world upgrade was what really jumped the shark. It was a tiny maze (comparitively speaking) that forced you through a stupid concieved plot line in conjunction with the combat "upgrade" and made the game utterly unbearable. That's when I quit..