Final SWG producer's letter thanks community

This feels like a eulogy...

The game will be missed. What unique things it brought to the MMO table, regardless of the NRG debate, was something that is needed in future MMOs (housing and the general sandbox elements and more).

It also had a very neat and passionate community; while you see the same overreactions in every community, SWG, had a nice, down-home tight-knit one. It was easy to know folks and this was offered and supported by a big company, SOE.

I'll miss it and even if others don't realize it, they will miss the potential influence this had on other titles. It will not be easily replaced in those game mechanics or community, even with the private emulated version(s) out there.

@Space Cobra You rock dude. Thank you

Logged in last night for my final goodbye.. This is the first mmo I've played that has closed on me (unless eve dies somewhere lol), but still.. The first one is always the hardest.

Grr.. if only I could have taken my pet razor cat and sunrider's destiny lightsaber crystal with me to TOR...

Any word on which side won the fight in the end?

So long and thanks for all the Ewoks!

The game had its problems, but this is why we can't have nice things. The game shuts down. It should go on forever.

Is anyone else a bit more leery of playing and paying for a licensed game because of this? It could be a fair to middling success numbers-wise, not a great blockbuster, but the license gets pulled because they don't want their franchise to be burdened by an also-ran game with a poor reputation.

@HiroProtagonist7 the game is closed, but the legal departments of Sony and LucasArts remain in business; and the latter makes money off of people playing another game instead of using an SWG emulator.

I will always have my best moment of the game. The final ending, sitting around a camp on endor with a jukebox playing the ROTJ victory song and watching the deathstar in the sky.

@syberghost LA can bite my shiny metal *ss. (until they remake X-Wing V. TIE for the PC -- not another crap console game)

*quietly plays "Leia's News / Light of the Force", as the pyre burns and X-wings streak through the dark skies above, laying fireworks*

I never played SWG... the graphics, and the sandbox aspects always kind of put me off.... however, I am truly sad to see this game go, and I feel for all of you who have lost so much with it's closing, friendships, time, anything really.

Truly a sad day, when such an influence fades into memory...

*sob*

It is still a sad day. I mean, it was better to end it, than leave it dying. But SWG was a MMO unlike anything else.

It will be missed.

Dragon Nest is my favorite because it is awesome. It is a top notch product that is sorely lacking from most free games. The gameplay is spot on and the characters ooze personality. Completing dungeons is immensely satisfying and combat is fastpaced and exciting. Nexon really is the leader in bringing above quality free games to the American market. Sure they get a lot of crap from people, but that is one thing you can't deny. Their games are very fun.