The Christmas Announcement

[mijom]

Originally Posted by Stinney

I'm not really sure whats to get excited about.

1 heavily populated server with massive lag for any non US players and 10's of sparesely populated servers, that will die off rather quickly.

Monopolies are never a good idea for the consumer (end-user/us) they are always great for the people running them.
SWGEMU now have a very captive audience and will draw any new players instantly. They have effectively killed off any of the other servers, some of which are better able to host a server.
Most of you wont care because you've been blowing sunshine up SWGEMU's arse for so long, but a lot of people have put a great deal of effort into preparing a dedicated server and that work has been nulified by this announcement.

The future doesnt seem so bright.

i disagree with you.

atleast i myself, will be creating and playing characters on multiple servers at start. then decide after while which suits best for my needs / likings.

every one will be bit different in one way or other, be it location,community or certain aspects of the game/future plans. i'm sure there is plenty of players atleast for the major servers out there.

wouldn't it be better and best for all of us if the different communities could work together with EMU team instead of taking it like competition? we're all in this cause we want pre-cu back.

[EVILJUDE]

Originally Posted by Stinney

I'm not really sure whats to get excited about.

1 heavily populated server with massive lag for any non US players and 10's of sparesely populated servers, that will die off rather quickly.

Monopolies are never a good idea for the consumer (end-user/us) they are always great for the people running them.
SWGEMU now have a very captive audience and will draw any new players instantly. They have effectively killed off any of the other servers, some of which are better able to host a server.
Most of you wont care because you've been blowing sunshine up SWGEMU's arse for so long, but a lot of people have put a great deal of effort into preparing a dedicated server and that work has been nulified by this announcement.



The future doesnt seem so bright.

just like on soe's swg when there was many servers to chose from, there is multiple servers to chose from with the emu. those servers like true galaxies and the such i am sure have built tight bonds and they will not want to go to another server because they enjoy the atmosphere there. just because the emu team is going to have thier own server, does not mean every one will flock to the emu team's server. I for one will see which one is more to my liking and depending on many factors will chose a server, not necessarily this one.

[Kyrm347]

Ahhh...now THIS is the kind of christmas present a guy like me can get giddy about!

Thank you so very much for this announcement. You have shared with us your plans for SWGEmu, now I can make plans as well. You can count on me supporting SWGEmu monthly starting in January (my wallet is a little thin right now). Now is the time to make the final sprint to the finish line.

[Timbab]

Awesome, but Sun Crusher sounds soo WoW, even though it's a SW weapon.

[DingChavez]

Hold on... Am I reading this correctly? SWG Emu will be completed in Q1 2009?

[Max]

Originally Posted by DingChavez

Hold on... Am I reading this correctly? SWG Emu will be completed in Q1 2009?

No. Sun Crusher is a test centre which has no Blue Frogs, Instant-trainers, and all of the other quick-start features. It will be a test centre for all those who want to "play" properly, with XP and grinding and proper advancement and economics. By no means will it be completed. It's just a more stable and "playable" version of the TC open to the public.

[DingChavez]

And will this be wiped once the emu is completed?

[Max]

Originally Posted by DingChavez

And will this be wiped once the emu is completed?

Yes. Sun Crusher will upon launch become a fully functional Play Server just like True Galaxies or Euro Chimaera, but hosted by the SWGEmu team.

[harlequineternal]

Originally Posted by DingChavez

And will this be wiped once the emu is completed?

The server will be wiped? Whats the point of grinding in a server if you don't get to reap the rewards? If its gonna get wiped before launch then I won't bother until launch.

[Ekaika]

Originally Posted by harlequineternal

The server will be wiped? Whats the point of grinding in a server if you don't get to reap the rewards? If its gonna get wiped before launch then I won't bother until launch.

To help us? And a functional bug-free pre-cu experience is your reward. Sometimes I fail to understand people.

[corbaer]

Originally Posted by Ekaika

To help us? And a functional bug-free pre-cu experience is your reward. Sometimes I fail to understand people.

As do I.

[Link3978]

Originally Posted by harlequineternal

The server will be wiped? Whats the point of grinding in a server if you don't get to reap the rewards? If its gonna get wiped before launch then I won't bother until launch.

I am guessing you never played in another game's beta phase before. Just about every game released has a beta phase in which people play the game normally and when the game is released, everything is wiped. What we are doing is no different.

[Greenleon]

Awesome!

[KroniK]

Sweet, this is awesome news. Thanks a lot SWGEmu team.

[The V Man]

This is great news. Big thanks to the entire SWG Team!

-V