

It also claims that the project is 100% legal because of this.įrom hearsay accounts, SWGEmu going pretty strong, with a lively RP community. The team claims that it does not use any of SOE’s code, but has rebuilt the game from scratch.

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SWGEmu didn’t start up because of the game’s sunset, but came about because fans were dissatisfied with the combat upgrade patch (this emulator attempts to recreate a pre-CU environment). Yeah, so the Star Wars Galaxies crowd did not take to the abrupt cancellation of their favorite sandbox calmly, and several fled to the notion of emulators for salvation. So I was curious how many deceased MMOs have emulator clones out there that are keeping the spirit of these games alive. Again, I don’t condone it, but this is just something that fans do across all forms of entertainment - fan fiction, fan-made films and TV projects, restoring vaporware, remaking old games with new specs, mods, and so on. However, part of me thinks it’s cool that fans love these games so much that when an MMO is canned, dedicated players band together to keep it alive via emulators.

I’ve never had much interest in engaging with them, not just because of their shady relationship with the law, but also because of the sheer amount of bugs, workarounds, and potential to up and disappear if the property owner decides to levy the boom on them. MMO emulators fascinate me from a fan and academic standpoint.
