SWG doing this bad?

Krurk · Post by **Krurk** » June 12, 2004, 8:38 am

Noticed this link

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140938.shtml

Seems like FilePlanet is giving out free SWG downloads and 2 week trial memberships already, alongside the $9.99 Planetside download.

I have no interest in either, but I do find it amusing that Sony appears to have hosed it on those games.

VariaVespasa · Post by **VariaVespasa** » June 12, 2004, 9:21 am

Standard marketing promotion, they make more on a 3 month subscription than they do on selling the box, so its well worth it to try for more subscriptions. T'aint no big news.

*Hugs*
Varia

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 12, 2004, 9:49 am

Sure it's a standard marketing promotion... For a game that isn't doing that good.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 12, 2004, 12:42 pm

SWG took more time than I expected to get to this point.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 12, 2004, 1:03 pm

Sure it's a standard marketing promotion... For a game that isn't doing that good.

EQ was doing this well before it's numbers peaked. I see it as a sign of box sales dropping a certian %. I don't see it as the gloom and doom of a game.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » June 12, 2004, 2:28 pm

Tried swg for about an hour, played like total shit on my comp, I could hardly tell what was going on. Its gone now

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 13, 2004, 10:15 am

Could also be a marketing strategy to bring new people onboard for the space expansion which comes out soon.

noel · Post by **noel** » June 13, 2004, 1:36 pm

Sionistic wrote:Tried swg for about an hour, played like total shit on my comp, I could hardly tell what was going on. Its gone now

I had the best hardware available to play SWG at the time of it's release, and it still played like total shit.

You could use a GeForce 3, 4 or an MX, OR a 9800Pro, with a P4-3.06 and a Gig of RAM and you'd still only get 30-35 FPS max with all detail turned up. That might not seem that bad, except when you consider that the performance was identical for all three of those video cards...

The engine for that game sucks ass. The game itself is even worse. I keep wondering when they're going to add the Star Wars to that game.

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » June 14, 2004, 2:42 pm

Almost a year after release they finally admitted:

"We do not think the current holo-grind system of becoming a Jedi is healthy for the game, and we want it to stop as soon as possible."

I almost died laughing when I read that.

(background: in order to become a jedi, the original system required you to master 6+ profession/advanced professions. holocrons would give you 'hints' about which of the various professions you needed to master)

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 14, 2004, 3:29 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:
Sure it's a standard marketing promotion... For a game that isn't doing that good.
EQ was doing this well before it's numbers peaked. I see it as a sign of box sales dropping a certian %. I don't see it as the gloom and doom of a game.

EQ gave away free software and two week trial memberships in it's first year of release? I can't remember that far back.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 14, 2004, 4:35 pm

Aslanna wrote:
Fairweather Pure wrote:
Sure it's a standard marketing promotion... For a game that isn't doing that good.
EQ was doing this well before it's numbers peaked. I see it as a sign of box sales dropping a certian %. I don't see it as the gloom and doom of a game.
EQ gave away free software and two week trial memberships in it's first year of release? I can't remember that far back.

No, they didn't.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 14, 2004, 5:31 pm

They should have given us a free month for time wasted downloading GoD.