10 Years - Tell me your SWTOR-Y - Share your memories

[Darka]

I think there are many of us here who feel a little shocked that it is TEN YEARS since we started.

It is an odd mix of what feels like we started life time ago and only a few months back

 

So, lets celebrate

 

I'd love to hear your stories, memories of magic moments, friends who may or may not be playing still

Even great screen shots.

 

And special mention to all those who are now one with the force that we played SWTOR with

 

So, lets hear your favorite moments of the last ten years

[ImmortalLowlife]

This was my first MMO. When it launched, my twins were 5mo old and used to sit in my lap while I played. They'd sit quietly and be completely focused on the action on the screen. Now 10yrs later, they still enjoy watching me play. I actually created a character just for them. They picked the look, outfits, clothing, crystal colors, and everything. They choose the choices that character makes in the story. And they'll tell people they've been playing SWTOR all their lives.

[Darka]

This was my first MMO. When it launched, my twins were 5mo old and used to sit in my lap while I played. They'd sit quietly and be completely focused on the action on the screen. Now 10yrs later, they still enjoy watching me play. I actually created a character just for them. They picked the look, outfits, clothing, crystal colors, and everything. They choose the choices that character makes in the story. And they'll tell people they've been playing SWTOR all their lives.

 

That is some luck, with twins and having time to game, and then them sitting still?

The force was with you!

[MystyqeofXev]

My first go-round, I had finally saved up enough credits to buy Treek. This was pre-nerf, and she was a BEAST I'm not sure how much she cost, but she wasn't cheap, that much I remember. So, I'm back from my....second deployment, and I'm on fleet about 0200. The following convo ensues:

 

PC_1: "I'm thinking about getting Treek. Is she any good?"

 

PC_2: "Treek is better than most players"

 

Me: 'nodding'

[SaerethDL]

My fondest moment was a heroic moment. I was on my main at the time, a marauder.. I was running a guild and leading my first operation in swtor, Karraga's Palace.. We were all struggling and getting used to things, next up came Bonethrasher, we wiped a few times, and the guild was ready to disband for the night. I told them lets do this one last time, don't give up yet.. So we gave it our best, we were all on voice comms and I was giving out orders... 25% left on the boss... he was going down.. oh no... two people got knocked in the acid pit and died.. the healer went down later.. then the tank.. before you know it we were at 1-5% Left, I looked over and I was the only one left, me a lonely marauder thinking this was his end... I popped all my cooldowns.. people watched and encouraged me that I could finish him. Sweating and heart pounding I put this last saber in him and he went down moments before I was about to die. The whole teamspeak celebrated in awe... and I felt like a hero in that moment.. I had saved the run and the night continued on..

[ralphieceaser]

I think there are many of us here who feel a little shocked that it is TEN YEARS since we started.

I'd love to hear your memories

 

I kept coming back after taking breaks, not remembering what story choices my previous characters made so I kept starting fresh and refusing to ever use boosts because they take away my personal story choices.

 

Must have done balmora 30-40 times by now xD

[xordevoreaux]

10 Years - Tell me your SWTOR-Y - Share your memories

 

 

2013 July - 28 minutes after playing, someone in gen chat explained limits on FTP crafting. Subbed immediately.

2014 October - dropped my sub for 1 month because of life issues, missed out on Dr. Oggrob Holo.

2015 - became GL of active guilds on 2 servers, bouncing back and forth between them nearly every day.

2016 Dec - promoted someone to GL on Bergeon Colony and concentrated on my Shadowlands guilds.

2017 May - 30 guildies followed me to Ebon Hawk to start anew as Shadowlands was depopulating.

2017 Nov - Server merge. If only we'd known back in May, right?

2018 - 2021 Evolved from purely casual to a guild with a strong operations component.

 

...and today I've the best damn crew any guild leader could ever ask for.

Go team!

[Darka]

My first go-round, I had finally saved up enough credits to buy Treek. This was pre-nerf, and she was a BEAST I'm not sure how much she cost, but she wasn't cheap, that much I remember. So, I'm back from my....second deployment, and I'm on fleet about 0200. The following convo ensues:

 

PC_1: "I'm thinking about getting Treek. Is she any good?"

 

PC_2: "Treek is better than most players"

 

Me: 'nodding'

 

I mean, that conversation isn't wrong!

[Darka]

My fondest moment was a heroic moment. I was on my main at the time, a marauder.. I was running a guild and leading my first operation in swtor, Karraga's Palace.. We were all struggling and getting used to things, next up came Bonethrasher, we wiped a few times, and the guild was ready to disband for the night. I told them lets do this one last time, don't give up yet.. So we gave it our best, we were all on voice comms and I was giving out orders... 25% left on the boss... he was going down.. oh no... two people got knocked in the acid pit and died.. the healer went down later.. then the tank.. before you know it we were at 1-5% Left, I looked over and I was the only one left, me a lonely marauder thinking this was his end... I popped all my cooldowns.. people watched and encouraged me that I could finish him. Sweating and heart pounding I put this last saber in him and he went down moments before I was about to die. The whole teamspeak celebrated in awe... and I felt like a hero in that moment.. I had saved the run and the night continued on..

 

 

I love those moments, total grit and triumph!

[SteveTheCynic]

My fondest moment was a heroic moment. I was on my main at the time, a marauder.. I was running a guild and leading my first operation in swtor, Karraga's Palace.. We were all struggling and getting used to things, next up came Bonethrasher, we wiped a few times, and the guild was ready to disband for the night. I told them lets do this one last time, don't give up yet.. So we gave it our best, we were all on voice comms and I was giving out orders... 25% left on the boss... he was going down.. oh no... two people got knocked in the acid pit and died.. the healer went down later.. then the tank.. before you know it we were at 1-5% Left, I looked over and I was the only one left, me a lonely marauder thinking this was his end... I popped all my cooldowns.. people watched and encouraged me that I could finish him. Sweating and heart pounding I put this last saber in him and he went down moments before I was about to die. The whole teamspeak celebrated in awe... and I felt like a hero in that moment.. I had saved the run and the night continued on..

That reminded me of me and my guild versus the hovertanks in EC.

 

It was my first time in there, SM, and they explained clearly what everyone needed to do. The mechanics were going well, but we clearly were missing *something* because we failed the DPS check (not by much, but by enough, 5-10% health remaining on both of them) and the tanks enraged.

 

So, I'm on my Commando, off to the left (as seen from the entrance) while the guildies are scattered around, with a lot of them *in*between* the tanks. That bit's important because it meant they ended up being hammered by both tanks at the same time, while I was so far off to one side that only one of the bosses could hit me.

 

So seven out of eight went down in a few seconds, and dear Kylath (who attracted light-hearted complaints about making tanking for her hard because she did so much damage) just refused to die in the face of a pair of overgrown children's toys.

 

I bubbled, used the Adrenaline thing, and my self-heals and all the good stuff, and in between I just dished out as much pain as I could for the tank that was in range.

 

When it became clear to everyone that I wasn't going to /stuck to let everyone up for a second go, and I wasn't going to die either, they were all cheering me on in voice chat, and then the first one was dead.

 

Breathe.

 

And it went on, and after not all that long (it felt a lot longer), the second one was a pile of scrap, and I got busy scrayping my guildies' corpses off the floor.

 

Nobody complained ever again about Kylath's threat generation.

[Screaming_Ziva]

2013 July - 28 minutes after playing, someone in gen chat explained limits on FTP crafting. Subbed immediately.

2014 October - dropped my sub for 1 month because of life issues, missed out on Dr. Oggrob Holo.

2015 - became GL of active guilds on 2 servers, bouncing back and forth between them nearly every day.

2016 Dec - promoted someone to GL on Bergeon Colony and concentrated on my Shadowlands guilds.

2017 May - 30 guildies followed me to Ebon Hawk to start anew as Shadowlands was depopulating.

2017 Nov - Server merge. If only we'd known back in May, right?

2018 - 2021 Evolved from purely casual to a guild with a strong operations component.

 

...and today I've the best damn crew any guild leader could ever ask for.

Go team!

This all sounds very familiar.

[mirellha]

I will always remember the day i could finish all the datacrons, and the fleet ones!. I was and still am a very bad jumper. For some of those i spent sometimes several days trying to succeed. And i did but some others, husband did them for me, when i was over 1 month trying and he thought i would pull my hairs way too much. Yes i am that bad at jumping.

 

10 years later, i decided to start a new account and do again all the datacrons, including the added ones. And i am sooo proud. The only ones i could not do alone was Makeb (the long ones with a lot of platform), and the ones in Onderons. So husband did 3 datacrons for me some days ago.

The game has challenging me over the years, as i became gran'ma and much older

 

But my fondest memories on this game are people. There is always bad apples, but i can count them on my two hands I have been helped, pushed to go further, explained, and i could give back.

 

We are not the perfect community, but in the end, we are still a good one. And you can still put smiles on my face, so its all that matter for me.

 

So i want to thank you all for making this game great!

[Darka]

I will always remember the day i could finish all the datacrons, and the fleet ones!. I was and still am a very bad jumper. For some of those i spent sometimes several days trying to succeed. And i did but some others, husband did them for me, when i was over 1 month trying and he thought i would pull my hairs way too much. Yes i am that bad at jumping.

 

10 years later, i decided to start a new account and do again all the datacrons, including the added ones. And i am sooo proud. The only ones i could not do alone was Makeb (the long ones with a lot of platform), and the ones in Onderons. So husband did 3 datacrons for me some days ago.

The game has challenging me over the years, as i became gran'ma and much older

 

But my fondest memories on this game are people. There is always bad apples, but i can count them on my two hands I have been helped, pushed to go further, explained, and i could give back.

 

We are not the perfect community, but in the end, we are still a good one. And you can still put smiles on my face, so its all that matter for me.

 

So i want to thank you all for making this game great!

 

Those datacrons have BROKEN people, I am so glad they made them account wide. but you are so right'

Good people make these games great

[mike_carton]

Nobody complained ever again about Kylath's threat generation.

 

Kylath’s ‘Guard’ed as a matter of course now, I expect? :-)

[Kissakias]

best IP ever created from the crapiest game company ever.

[Stradlin]

Like most everybody, I showed up to TOR to get a huge fix of excellent BW storytelling in SW setting. I looked forward to TOR release for so long, followed the game ever since they announced it. Started playing towards the end of closed beta. Or maybe it was some early patch of open beta? Anyway.. I was physically very ill 10-11 years back and as a result, I was miserable and scared during and through the launch window of the game. That put a dampener on things and I just couldn't get into it. Stories I played back then (War, Sorc, Agent) certainly weren't bad but I couldn't get too immersed. Largely due to my RL, I'm sure. I edned up taking my 1st longer break like 3-5 months after release.

 

Sometimes I wonder if some of that lack of enjoyment somehow keeps echoing even now; I'm not exactly madly in love with stories of TOR. This is where the story of my own stops being sad!! You see, by late 2013 I was much more healthy and BW released Galactic Starfighter. Long story short, it immediately elevated SWTOR to entirely new heights for me. Experience of playing SWTOR as a Starfighter pilot is completely unlike anything in any other traditional MMO out there. It is mainly (like 85% GSF and 15% conquest) GSF that has elevated SWTOR as my favorite video game ever.

 

It is blessing and a curse really! On the one hand..it feels silly and kinda frustrating to look at this 200 million dollar MMO and see it mostly as a 200 million dollar waiting lobby for GSF. There'd be hundreds of hours of quality story and stuff that by now has diminished into elevator music in my books. While at heart of my attention and core of what I do, minigame developed on budget of few Mcdonalds coupons and 2nd hand shoestrings. - Which serves to underline what an incredible achievement GSF was from the devs who made it.

 

 

Social aspects ofc make a far larger magnet to keep me here than anything GSF would manage. Over the years, I've formed several life-long (I hope) friendships in TOR, which stretch across years and different games and vaning TOR related passsions with ease. Windshield and rear view mirror alike displays tons of great people, memories and really fun guilds and awesome sub communities.

Edited December 19, 2021 by Stradlin

[Akea]

I remember registering here as soon as I saw the announcement at E3 in 2008. This game was a must play and everyone in my Lord of the Rings Online kinship wanted to move here to play it. I was lucky enough to get selected for the closed beta in July 2011 and played on the Revan test server. I will never forget when I hit play the first time after creating my Jedi Sentinel. I loved every minute of my testing time and managed to play KOTOR between test phases so I could get more backstory. I've been here off and on since 2008 and have no plans of ever leaving entirely.

 

My two fondest memories are the following:

 

1)Getting farmed by the Imperials at the Republic base in Ilum. There's a plaque there now to commemorate our suffering while Imperial players farmed the turrets to build standing for PVP boxes.

 

2)We were in Eternity Vault and one of our healers started to fall when the platform collapsed during the Soa fight. I was on my Sorcerer at the time and managed to extricate her out of mid air. Voice chat went nuts and we went on to finish the fight.

[SteveTheCynic]

Kylath’s ‘Guard’ed as a matter of course now, I expect? :-)

Even before then, but the guild imploded a few months later as the group of humans kinda broke up, after the two founder/leaders quit the game for personal reasons (one moved somewhere she couldn't get good Internet service, and the other had to stop to make time to take care of his disabled son).

 

I inherited the Impside accessory guild, but the Pubside guild ended up assigned to the leader who couldn't get good Internet service, and as far as I know, she never came back, so the (in-game) guild probably ended up in "Inactive Guild" status.

[Darka]

1)Getting farmed by the Imperials at the Republic base in Ilum. There's a plaque there now to commemorate our suffering while Imperial players farmed the turrets to build standing for PVP boxes.

 

Hated that, if your side was losing people would get on their alts on the other side to join in

[Zarahemla]

After being burned in World of Warcraft (WoW), I got 10 real life (RL) friends and we all bought Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR), I even got the Collector's Edition (CE). Got to play the open beta. My favorite memory of WoW was using the Gold Dragon Kill Point (GDKP) loot systems in the pick-up-group (PUG) runs of raids (operations), so I found people on the SWTOR forums who also wanted to use the GDKP loot system, in SWTOR. Because I had been burned so bad in WoW, I said that if SWTOR didn't work out, I would quit all video games forever.

 

SWTOR started well, I had 10 RL friends to play with, and a guild that used my preferred loot system. Because the guild was formed on the forums, we were ported into the game, already a guild (we didn't have to collect four signatures in-game). However, after three weeks, all my RL friends and my guild had quit the game. My guild had asked all the founding members to pick a crew skill and try to get all the Best in Slot (BiS) recipes for every level. I was going to go for Artifice, as my main was a Sith Inquisitor (SI) and SI had bonuses to Artifice at launch. But the Guild Leader (GL) claimed that one, so my alt, a Sith Warrior (SW) was going to be the guild Synthweaving specialist.

 

None of my RL friends leveled past Alderean. I assume the developers (devs) thought that it would take months for the player base to level, when the game first came out, and instead it took weeks. Those players that hit max level, saw that the only raid was Eternity Vault (EV) and that the last boss was buggy, so they told the rest of the player base that there was nothing to do at end game, and everyone quit the game.

 

I tried to rebuild my guild, and while I did so, I would run the Belsavis and Ilum dailies, while working on getting the BiS recipes for every crewskill. However, while recruiting I was asked by another GL if I wanted to just join his guild, instead of rebuild. I told him that I wanted to use the GDKP loot system, and he said he would give it a try, if I joined. I joined and we did one run of EV, and I bid, but no one bided against me. So I got all the gear from EV on a single run. I wondered if the rest of the group didn't understand how the GDKP loot system worked, or if they already had all the gear. In any case, for less than a million credits (that was a lot back then) I got my Rakata set. It was a price I was willing to pay, because I figured I would never have to run EV ever again (LOL). (I had made my credits doing the Belsavis dailies, while trying to recruit for my original guild).

 

Karagga's Palace (KP) was released, and I was able to go on that run, but the GL said that we would no longer be using the GDKP loot system, instead using the /roll system. I asked why the change, and he said it wasn't fair to poor players. I argued my point, but to no avail. We did KP, but I never won a piece of gear - bad RNG on my part.

 

Explosive Conflict (EC) was released, and I was told that I would have to go from being on the raid team, to being a sub for the raid team, since I didn't have the gear from KP, to compete in EC. I said I understood. Even though I was a guild leader in my old dead SWTOR guild, I was just a regular member, not an officer, in this guild. However, the guild leader (GL) was going to be running EC, and there was supposed to be another run of EV at the same time that the assistant guild leader was going to run. The assistant guild leader (AGL) couldn't make it, so he asked me to run it. I asked if I could use the GDKP loot system, so I could get something for my time. He said sure. I did EV and got paid to help the new guild members gear up. Even though they didn't complain to me, they did complain to the GL. The GL got mad at me, and I told him that it was okayed by the AGL. He was upset, but that was how that ended.

 

At this point Bioware offered voluntary server mergers because of the declining SWTOR server populations. The GL pulled me aside and told me that I should probably stay on my original server (Mind Trick) as there would not be a spot for me in his guild that was moving to the new server. I had checked the new server and saw that all my character names were already taken, so I said okay, I don't want to lose my names anyway. I had alts in my original forum made, original GDKP guild, so I got someone to invite my main back, and I went back to recruiting.

 

For the first server merger, there were players on the general chat of the fleet, saying they were going to be hold outs, and they wouldn't transfer servers. This gave me hope that I would be able to cobble together a guild. I began running black hole dailies, and there was no one to play with. I would do a /who and I would be the only person online. I would then go to the republic side and do the same thing, and no one would come up. I was the only person on the whole server. Occasionally I would see someone else online, and I would ask if they would join my guild, so we could do the 4-man heroic (now a 2-man heroic) on the black hole. If they joined my guild, I would give them 100,000 credits (this was a lot back then). Sadly no one who I gave credits to would ever log back in and play again. I assumed they just transferred servers, taking my credits with them.

 

Bioware then did mandatory server mergers, and I was pleased to hear that we would all be going to a new server, instead of some people going to an existing server. That meant whoever had the most /played time got to keep their character's name. I only lost one character name in that server merger and was then on the Shadowlands server.

 

I tried to rebuild my guild on the Shadowlands server and was again approached by a GL asking if I would rather join his guild. At this time, I was running EV and KP for my small guild, but to do harder content, and to use the GDKP loot system while doing so, I was open to the idea. He said we could use the GDKP loot system on any operation that I was the raid leader for. His Empire (Imp) guild was playing second fiddle to his main guild, which was on Republic side (pub), and he wanted to build it up. I used the GDKP loot system running Hard Mode EV, KP, EC and Terror from Beyond (TfB) and Scum and Villainy (SnV). I would split the pot 10 ways, so all 8 raid members would get one share, and the guild bank got 2 shares, that would be used to buy and upgrade the guild ship and pay for repair bills and guild ship summons. I earned 50 million credits for that guild (that was a lot back then), before the GL told me that he was stepping down as GL because he lost interest in the game. I asked who the new GL would be, and if they would still let me use the GDKP loot system. Even though I was GL of my original forum made, GDKP guild, I was just a regular member, not even an officer of this guild. I was told that the new GL was someone from the pub side guild, that I had never meet. He assured me that when I pointed out that my GDKP runs had paid for the guild ship on Imp side, that the new GL would let me keep doing that loot system. The old GL quit, and I introduced myself to the new GL. He said that I was not allowed to run my raids during my normal scheduled times, as he wanted that time to run his own raid groups. I asked about the GDKP loot system, and pointed out that it had earned the guild 50 million credits. He said we would no longer be using that loot system in his guild. I asked him that if I couldn't run my raids during my time, and couldn't use my loot system, why I shouldn't just quit his guild and go back to my origional forum made guild. He didn't have an answer for me, so I quit. I feel bad I didn't get to see any of that 50 million I donated to his guild, but I did tell my guild members that I planned to go back to my original guild. Those who had done operations (raids) with me told their guild member friends, and all of a sudden 100 guild members from that guild came with me to my original guild. His guild died and my original forum made guild was up and running. We kept doing the GDKP loot system, and my original guild was able to buy a flagship and unlock all the rooms, and buy a Dromand Kaas (DK) stronghold. This was my favorite time in SWTOR.

 

At this time, I was getting burnt out from the game, and talked to one of my friends (friend 1) who had come over with me, to see if they wanted to be guild leader. They said yes. I took a six-month break from the game, and when I came back I logged into the guild stronghold and saw that they had changed the name of the guild, and that I was no longer a member of it. I did a /who new guild name and found that one of my friends (friend 2) who had come over with me from the last guild was online. I asked for a guild invite, and she gave me one. I asked about friend 1 and she told me that he had run the guild into the ground, how she had been the only active member, and that she asked him to make her GL or to at least kick all in-actives out of the guild and rename it so they could start over. So he had kicked me out of the guild and renamed it to make her happy. I was kind of surprised I got kicked, as both friend 1 and friend 2 were Facebook friends with me, and had my RL phone number. However, I was not married to the old guild name, and was just happy to be in the guild again, although as a regular member (not an officer), but I went back to raid leading.

 

Friend 1 was now burnt out from the game and instead of asking my opinion on who should be the new GL when he quit the game, he just gave it to friend 2. I would have liked to have been a GL again, since it was the only founding member of the guild, but I got past it. Friend 2 had me skip being an officer and go straight to AGL.

 

The first thing friend 2 did, after making me AGL was to invite her Player vs Player (PvP) friends to the guild. Those PvP friends were toxic, and caused drama in the guild. The other officers rebelled, and Friend 2 stepped down from being GL after a month, giving me GL. I returned the guild to being a family friendly guild, and friend 2 and her two pvp friends left the guild. Sadly the other officers left too, so I was back to being in a dead guild.

 

I again rebuilt the guild again, and we had another round of server mergers. This time I was moved to Star Forge, and I didn't lose any of my character names. We recruited some quality players and were able to do Nightmare (NiM) EC, TfB, SnV, 3/5 Rav, and ToS. I was then removed from the team, because we had two SI healers, and my numbers were less than the other Si. They went on to do NiM DP, and Hard Mode (HM) Duxon. The Friend 2 came back with one of her PvP friends, admitting that the other PvP friend was toxic. She claimed the PvP friend she wanted to bring back was reformed. I didn't want to hold grudges, so I brought her and her PvP friend back to the guild.

 

A year later, drama was building up between her and the raiders on the NiM raiding team. I was burnt out, so I asked friend 2 on the phone (I had her RL phone number) who I should make GL (thinking she would say she wanted it back). Instead, she said she didn't think anyone I was thinking about would make a good GL, and the guild would fall apart without me. I called for a guild meeting among the 10 officers, 8 of them had drama associated with them. to air out the drama, so I could offer GL to them, and the others wouldn't quit if one of them became the new GL. Some of those officers quit the game, rather than deal with the drama. The day after the drama meeting, I had ano officers meeting, where I went down the list of officers in alphabetical order, who should be the new GL, and if they wanted me to remain GL, how they would get rid of the drama so I wouldn't be burnt out anymore.

 

All the officers agreed that I should remain as GL, and they would begin acting like adults. I then got to her name, in the list (she was about middle of the list), and she said that she thinks this guild is sexist, and that I am sexist, and that she is quitting the guild. She then left the discord call, as did her PvP friend - who I had also made an officer, and she DMed me asking me to delete her RL phone number, and she removed me as a friend on Facebook.

 

I had to fight back tears, but I deleted her RL phone number immediately. The other officers, still in the call, could hear it in my voice, and asked how I was doing. I then realized, I had offered her GL, to a guild that I had spent my entire adult life cultivating. I had no college degree, I had no wife, I had no kids, I had not prestigious job. All I had was this guild, and I had offered it to her, twice, and she declined it, calling me the second worse slur there is for my trouble. I then realized that out of the 10 officers, three of them were women. Not quite 50% but not bad for an organization in a video game. I shrugged off the label and the officers unanimously wanted me to retain GL.

 

However, three months later, all officers save one quit the game, or quit the guild. Because I got a new job, I could no longer raid lead, as I had done before. My activities in SWTOR became going on Twitch, and teaching new players the game, and inviting them to the guild, or selling my Refer-a-Friend (RAF) link to players. I estimate that I had helped over 1,000 players on Twitch, and around 10% of those joined my guild. If the people who used my RFA link trusted me to not scam them, I would offer them a chance to join my guild. Figured trust was an attribute I wanted in a guild that was built on the GDKP loot system. Converting credits into cartel coins was a way to safeguard against inflation. SWTOR then killed the GDKP loot system, by making loot auto distributed, and SWTOR also killed the RAF program. I tried out Galactic Seasons to see how viable that was at earning cartel coins, and you can read my findings here: https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=997130 Sadly seeing the negative responses on that forum post got me to realize that the SWTOR community is more toxic than I thought.

 

Not sure what there is to look forward to for the next 10 years of SWTOR. I still have guilds on both Empire and Pub side that are big enough to get large yield conquest rewards, and over 700 people in my guild Discord, but I just feel like I don't have anyone to play with. I feel like if I hadn't made that promise to give up video games all together, if SWTOR didn't work out, that I would have quit SWTOR for good a long time ago. But no, if I do quit this game, you can't have my 37 billion plus credits or my 200k plus cartel coins

[Darka]

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WHAT A RIDE!!!

Man, I have run a guild for 15 Years, I can relate to the highs and lows of guild stuff.

They can be brilliant and stressful

 

Thanks for sharing

 

What was your original guild called?

[tuulem]

I remember going with my boyfriend to pick up his copy of the collectors edition of the game and balking at the cost of it. Him: I hope I like this game.

Me: It's £70! Better for you that you like it!

 

I bought the digital version of the game about 2 weeks later to play with him. I rolled a bodyguard hunter, he was a marauder.

 

He lasted until he got to level 50, then quit to go back to WoW. I stayed. £70 down the fresher... On the bright side, I inherited a Malgus statuette.

 

I quit for a year or so after I gave birth to my second spawn, but came back and named chars after both my spawns nicknames.

 

But what do I remember most?

 

Recent challenges. I remember completing all of the master mode of the FE/ET chapters solo to get the achievements, because I didn't realise they could be done in a group. Some sweat, crying, coffee. Much wine.

 

I remember that after weeks of work, I got Sprint Champion and screamed so loudly that I scared the sh*t out of my cat!

 

I remembered that when I looked over at the twin suns over Tatooine, that I also hated sand.

[MystyqeofXev]

I remember going with my boyfriend to pick up his copy of the collectors edition of the game and balking at the cost of it. Him: I hope I like this game.

Me: It's £70! Better for you that you like it!

 

I bought the digital version of the game about 2 weeks later to play with him. I rolled a bodyguard hunter, he was a marauder.

 

He lasted until he got to level 50, then quit to go back to WoW. I stayed. £70 down the fresher... On the bright side, I inherited a Malgus statuette.

 

I quit for a year or so after I gave birth to my second spawn, but came back and named chars after both my spawns nicknames.

 

But what do I remember most?

 

Recent challenges. I remember completing all of the master mode of the FE/ET chapters solo to get the achievements, because I didn't realise they could be done in a group. Some sweat, crying, coffee. Much wine.

 

I remember that after weeks of work, I got Sprint Champion and screamed so loudly that I scared the sh*t out of my cat!

 

I remembered that when I looked over at the twin suns over Tatooine, that I also hated sand.

 

I don't know why, but that made me laugh.

[Darka]

I remembered that when I looked over at the twin suns over Tatooine, that I also hated sand.

 

 

It does get everywhere

[OldVengeance]

I think there are many of us here who feel a little shocked that it is TEN YEARS since we started.

It is an odd mix of what feels like we started life time ago and only a few months back

 

So, lets celebrate

 

I'd love to hear your stories, memories of magic moments, friends who may or may not be playing still

Even great screen shots.

 

And special mention to all those who are now one with the force that we played SWTOR with

 

So, lets hear your favorite moments of the last ten years

 

I was spoiled for a lot of the story, but there were still a lot of moments where it really hit home, memorably.

 

The Darkside Jaesa, corruption and romance arc was probably one of the most satisfying stories they've ever done in the game. Not every class story character and crew fits exactly how I might have wanted to RP the character but the Sith Warrior story was spot on. In a quest to destroy the Jedi, taking their most prized pupil and making her my own, and watching her become a powerful servant of the Dark Side; it's exactly what I was hoping to experience as I play a Sith Lord.

 

I think the Warrior was also the first PC I completed Act 1 with, and I think that was the first moment I realized how great that sense of accomplishment could be in completing game's stories.

 

The Jedi Knight story was probably spoiled for me the most, but I still really enjoyed it. It had some really impactful moments. I found myself really feeling that impeding sense of dread in the Act 2 Finale, for example, as we fought our way through the Emperor's Station. Plus, the Kira romance was amazing, she is in my in my favorite Bioware romances.

 

Doing Kotfe for the first time was a whole lot of fun. It was so new and exciting and felt like a new dedication to the story, which I appreciated. The fact that there was a lot of mystery and uncertainty was fun and engaging, even if they ultimately didn't deliver as much of the old characters as I would have liked.

 

Finally getting to see my Consular become romantic with Nadia after Ossus. Honestly, as short as it was, that scene was such a thrill that it is a strong contender for arguably the most excited I've ever been playing this game. I hadn't expected to be able to do that for so long, I thought my Jedi consular would be one of those "Faithful to the Jedi Code" people, but when I learned Nadia would be romancable by female Jedi, I realized it was perfect for her.

 

The Agent storyline, perhaps one of the most fun and engaging in the entire game. It was so different from all the others, that it stood out. I remember being really impacted by the Act 1 choice. I made a bold decision to go out on a limb and became the Hand of Jadus. I remember feeling really guilty afterward, and worked that into the character. But I eventually felt so happy with my choice afterward as I realized how reactive and far reaching that choice was. Plus, then the Act 2 Shadow Arsenal arc so compelling to me, despite every other Act 2 kind of dragging.