You know, it’s kind of astonishing how much hate there is for SWG.
Yes, it got a lot of things totally and utterly wrong — even during the halcyon pre-CU and pre-NGE days — but it also did some very ground-breaking and interesting things which have kept people subscribed for five years in spite of all the bad stuff that’s happened. Just consider that fact for a moment.
So why doesn’t SWG get more respect?
And, more to the point, why are people on the TOR forums taking the POV than anything featured in SWG must be avoided like the plague, to the extent that they want to go in totally the opposite direction with TOR? It doesn’t make sense.
To be completely clear, I fear there will some serious cases of throwing the baby out with the bathwater if we’re not careful. Dismissing ideas for the sole reason that they were in SWG is, to put it bluntly, a short-cut to thinking. And it will come back to bite you, me and the devs on the bum, in some areas, I am utterly sure of it.
I’d like to see SWG get afforded some respect for the things it actually did right, and its concepts and ideas get a fair airing, rather than being instantly dismissed for the “crime” of originally appearing in a game that so many of you, clearly, have a serious problem with.