SWG offers bonus xp, new player house

NGE and CU and stuff.

Glad to see their still working on SWG though. I'm interested in seeing this new house.

Okay that screenshot is very cool, where in the game is it from? I don't remember a huge hangar with a dozen AT-ATs and AT-STs and TIEs.

I know a sure fire way to grab some additional subscribers...

I'm certain they would net a ridiculous amount of subscribers by doing that, however, they're too stubborn to go back on their "improvements to the game".

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Making me respec my entertainer to get his combat levels up incase I decide to switch. :) Gonna be a busy little weekend!

Burned out on everything else. Came back to SWG and been having a blast!
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Jef are you sure this is still going on, when I click the link to see the 16.11 hotfix there is the 16.12 hotfix that says double everything is over

"Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.12

The Empire Strikes Back 30th Year Anniversary Wrap-up

* This year's celebration has come to an end.
* The ESB 30 Week 4 publish gift has been replaced with a new gift.
o Log in each of your characters and pick one Rebel, Imperial, or Neutral themed space painting!

Bonus Everything Weekend is Over

* Thanks everyone for participating! We're looking forward to doing it again.
"

Double xp weekends...SOE's answer for everything wrong with their game.

Poor Smed will never learn...

"The long-running sandbox title......"

That makes me laugh. There is nothing "sandbox" at all about SWG anymore.

I hate when MMO's decide that "double xp weekends" are going to be their solution.

If you have to give out more than normal xp to draw players in, then your games xp curve is too strong in the first place. Making a permanent 10% decrease in required xp per level, even if it's say only for certain levels, makes a lot more sense to me as a draw to players. If it's only for a weekend, then once the week/weekend is over, it's just back to the same ridiculous amount of grinding.

Then again, I'm an end game player. Leveling can be fun, but when I finally finish and realizing there's nothing to do, I don't go back and level all over again. It's just not a good use of my time. I'm looking at you, Bioware with your SW MMO and the press information saying how people are going to want to play back through the leveling over and over. I think it's one thing to pay a monthly fee for a sandbox game that let's you interact with others, I think it's something different to pay a monthly fee so you can level all the possible classes to max in a near single player environment.
Maybe Bioware is onto something though. They're going to grab all of the WoW addicts that don't like raiding, and provide the best possible game for them with no need to raid to improve your character.