It's time for a change.

This entry is about the game Star Wars Galaxies. If you know nothing about it, you can probably ignore the rest.

I'm just not playing SWG any more. The motivation to fire up the game hasn't been there for many months. I've been playing since launch, and I was watching the development of the game for almost as long before then. I've had great times, and many awesome memories. I've also made some incredible friendships, which I'm truly grateful for. I consider many of my friends there some of my favourite people online.

But I feel like I'm deluding myself. This game has never been in a finished state. There were major problems since day one, and almost all work done on the game since then has been trying to fix a broken game. I'm tied of being told "great things are coming" and "these problems will all be fixed with the next upgrade". Well I've lived through CUs and NGEs and all kinds of fixes, and yet the game is still being fixed. Other MMOs, many of which haven't even existed as long as SWG, are pushing out new content and expansions while SWG is building dubious "fixes".

So, when this month's subscription runs out in about 25 days, I'm going to suspend my account. I'll keep watching the SOE forums to see if there's anything that tempts me back, and of course I'll keep coming here. I consider CFA to be bigger than just SWG. No reason it can't be a game-spanning guild/group. I'm actually planning to give EVE a try, which is where Golgy is now playing.

I'm going to put all my cash into my houses to keep them going, and I'll leave all of my stuff where it is, in the event I return one day.

Why now? After putting up with SWG for 3 years, what was the last straw? Four letters: AT-RT. Why on earth should noobs get an awesome vehicle like that, while vets get NOTHING. That to me just shows SOE's attitude to their valuable long-term players. They don't care. After paying them for three years they should be kissing my butt, not kicking it.