| Earth and Beyond I know nothing about, but SWG I can comment on. I led, alongside my wife, a HUGE multi server player organization on the order of thousands of members (toward the begining... if you were there you remember).
It's absolutely correct to say the game just "ends." I had some folks who took over the PA (PA = guild, though really this was a little different... hard to explain) when I left, but about two months after that pretty much everyone else was gone, and it shut down.
IF they have the common sense to make space combat twitch based, AND they make it decent, it will survive on the SoE back burner for a little while. I couldn't even begin to guess how long, but I think it'll persist for a good minute.
They're scrapping the entire jedi system and making it quest based from what I hear. Talk about 20/20 hindsight! At least the devs have at least *some* integrity. That PA I mentioned came up with probably about 200 seperate theories, and many derivitives of those 200 on how to become a jedi, and every single one of them ended up better than the reality of it.
If they screw up jedi a second time, and botch the space expansion, they might as well just pull the plug because they're done. |