STAR WARS GALAXIES HAS ARRIVED (in the UK)

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by Trickle
MMORPG's have different servers [Ultima online called them 'shards'] usually catering for 1000-2000 players at a time.

Hence why you have to pay and cant run one from home

They should design a "distributed" server, where they can run lots of little servers, but together like a WAN-Baewolf (sp??) server kinda thing.

[Butuz]

Youll find that most of the newer games such as everquest, planetside, SWG, DAOC etc run on a cluster of powerful servers hidden beind one front end server. Its very complicated, and costly, hence why these games have subscription fees.

Ultima online on the other hand can run on a normal PC/server, it just uses a hellish amount of bandwidth for a large server/community.

I have been playing Planetside for the last few months, another Sony game. I canceled my subscription tonight. The game underdelivered. Sony's attitude to the game was bad, buggy beta test of a game, every patch supposed to fix stuff broke other stuff and just wasnt tested properly, every patch made the game slower, more laggy, and less playable, untill finally with the core combat expension pack (£20), sony made the game unplayable for me and many others. under 5fps is not good, especially as i aint exactly got a p200mmx and cirrus logic in my lianli PC70!

So , whilst i have been waiting for SWG to come out (i love these games, i still play ultima online!) im worried about how sony will behave to the game. Expect an unfinished game to be deliverd to your door, expect many huge patches, expect expansion packs which don't expand very much.

The question is, do i buy SWG? Planetside cost me £25 to buy, i played for about 5 months, thats another £50, core combat expansion was £20, i upgraded my PC to cope with planetsides FPS issues. Alot of wasted money. Will SWG be the same?

Butuz

[Trash Man]

Going slightly off topic here, what's the min spec for SWG?v Will it play fine on my laptop?

[Trickle]

Originally posted by Butuz
The question is, do i buy SWG? Planetside cost me £25 to buy, i played for about 5 months, thats another £50, core combat expansion was £20, i upgraded my PC to cope with planetsides FPS issues. Alot of wasted money. Will SWG be the same?

If SWG is like Everquest, then you will probably end up having to fork out for an expansion ever 9 or so months and they will raise the bar on the min required spec for many of the expansions. But having said that I played Everquest for 18 months and made it through the significant first Kunark expansion just fine on a lowly AMD K62500 /w sli Voodoo2.

Lots of peeps bitched about game balence with Everquest and occasionally you got some buggy quests, but generally speaking I had no complaints about it stability wise of game engine wise compaired with some other mmorpgs that were still released in their Beta clothes [Anarchy online and Eve online].

I'm not sure what min spec is - but GForce3 level and 1.5Ghz AMD should be ok I'ed of thought. Not sure if I'ed want to run it on a laptop, though.

Edit: Just want to add that I never felt that the monthly charge or the Expansion prices for Everquest were a rip off - you got your monies worth imho compaired with other mmorpgs with far less content.

[azrael1]

Hello

Im looking for a new online MMORG

Im tempted to buy XI online from strategic plus or gameplay !
What to do what to do ?

[Cesium]

Butuz : THE GAME IS OUT NOW!!!!!! (mine comes tommorow)

Trash Man(minimum spec):

Windows 98 SE, Millennium, 2000, and XP
Intel PIII 933 MHz or AMD Athlon 900 MHz processor (Intel P4 1.5 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ recommended)
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
32 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting (T & L) Capability (64 MB 3D Graphics card with Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader (VS/PS) Capability recommended)
Supported chipsets at release: ATI Radeon 7200/7500, ATI Radeon 8500/9000, ATI Radeon 9500/9700, Matrox Parhelia, NVIDIA GeForce 256, NVIDIA GeForce 2 family, NVIDIA GeForce 3 family, NVIDIA GeForce 4 family, NVIDIA GeForceFX family
2 GB free hard disk space
Quad Speed CD-ROM drive; sound card; keyboard; mouse


.....and on another note there is a expansion pack coming out some time next year.
if you read back through the thread you will see i've said loads about it.........

[Rory]

Hey cesium when ya get show us some screenies and feedback

[Cesium]

sure absalutely, should get it tommorow morning.
might not get it set up till friday....but heres hopin

edit: ok guys, should av some stuff for u tommorow evening then.

[Surgeon]

Ive been playing it for a while now. On the american server Bloodfin.

Currently a Master Weaponsmith and Almost master commando (cant get master becasue i dont have enuf skill points)

I was thinking about starting on a EU server but its just too much time and money wasted on this character now.

I might do in the future, become master ws etc

But oh well

And BTW - The game is defo worth it.

[azrael1]

Im scared if i buy it i will sink back to EQ and DAOC and UO addictiveness !

[Lord Kordir]

Just thought I'd quickly say I've been playing SWG for a littlw while now after getting it imported. My character's called Kordir on the Chilastra server. Add me to your friends list if you like.

[steve-o]

Ordered my copy of SWG from Play and it was posted out on wednesday. Still no game. Probably still backlogged or something :/

[Rory]

I just went to the shops, but had to pay a tenner extra :/

[steve-o]

Thats what I wished I did now lol :/

[Rory]

Well I've now got online but I'm not to sure where I am...

[furbs]

Originally posted by Surgeon
Ive been playing it for a while now. On the american server Bloodfin.

Currently a Master Weaponsmith and Almost master commando (cant get master becasue i dont have enuf skill points)

I was thinking about starting on a EU server but its just too much time and money wasted on this character now.

I might do in the future, become master ws etc

But oh well

And BTW - The game is defo worth it.

Just having a read through some old posts, me and some uk lads are also playing on bloodfin, atm im a expert bounty hunter and just working on my last block of carbine and LLC. Whats your in game name (could do with a new gun )