More Horizontal Progression please

[Nektulos-Tuor]

In SWG though. You needed other players for everything. Even crafting.
Armorsmiths needed "Tailors" to make certain parts for armor for them. Tailors needed Armorsmiths and Bioengineers to make clothing and special clothing with stats. (example!)

Combat players needed other combat players and social classes to buff them.

Social Classes needed all players to come watch them to make money.

As a fellow, former SWG Player (Ahazi!) I would like to point out that telling someone how SWG was is pointless.

As great a game it was, the game's numbers overall were abysmal and it would, in no way, survive the MMO market of today. Hell it barely survived the MMO Market of it's day.

Added to that, the two games are, by design different. SWG was a sandbox, through and through and XIV is not. You can turn a sandbox into a vertical game with ease, but the same cannot be said about a vertical one.

Numbers don't mean anything. SWG never advertised and SWG was released and was popular when MMOs were not. There were very few people in the world playing MMOs when it came out and was at its peak. Its subscription rate for its time is actually amazing.

WoW came out at the same time the developers were told to change the game, and that is when SWG lost over HALF ITS PLAYERBASE.

Nobody realized this yet, but SWG completely overhauled and revamped the entire game to make it less sandbox and more like World of Warcraft, which *gasp* made all said players move to world of warcraft. That is when they lost so many people.

You played SWG. You should know that WoW came out just before SOE changed the game. Which made them all MOVE to WoW.

They made EVERY single item in the game WORTHLESS, they made crafters worthless by removing decay. They did SO much to hurt the game. All Endgame gear was made worse then anything new crafted. They hit the reset button.. OF COURSE PEOPLE QUIT!