The NGE – that’s, Star Wars Galaxies’ New Recreation Enhancements, the patch that mainly broke SWG, drove out many of the playerbase, and took years to get better from – turns 19 years previous this fall. I apologize if that makes you grown inwardly since you have been there and that’s a very long time, however I swear I’ve a motive for pointing it out, and that motive is that we’re nonetheless utilizing the time period immediately.
If an MMORPG or multiplayer recreation does some form of huge overhaul that’s clearly unhealthy and flawed and silly and doomed, this style nonetheless refers to it as an NGE second, even individuals who by no means performed SWG and barely know what the NGE was. (And people folks do exist, bless their hearts; I noticed someone on Reddit asking what the CU and NGE meant simply final week.)
We kinda want a brand new time period; at this level, it’s tremendous dated, and apart from, I do know there are some MMOs that screwed up means worse than SWG. Which MMO overhauls have been truly worse than the NGE – and what could be a greater time period to explain them?