Sure they are. But the big thing about the emu's is you get a bunch of high school kids (or younger) trying to run these things, the servers crash or they're buggy, and once you take all this stuff out of the equasion, the player base is so small it's not really that fun.
I would even pay to play on an emulator that was handled properly (I mean I'm talking like $1.00 per month, not 15) just to have somewhere to play it.
I've been playing SWG for about 3 weeks now and I hardly have time to play it. *I* think the target audience for a game like this is ritzy kids who don't have to work for a living or office bums that sit and play games all day instead of pumping out those TPS reports, or those smelly PC geeks that live in a singlewide trailer with a fractional T1 and server cluster.
Not to mention the blasted system requirements. I knew a guy that got suckered into buying a new Compaq last Xmas, and the VGA card doesn't have a snowball's chance of running the game, even more, the MB doesn't have an AGP socket.
The more and more big companies try to make you pay for things, the more and more people will come out of the woodworks with free work-arounds. Look at Ultima Online: A 4 million plus player base of 15 bucks a month, and they wanna gripe when 250 or so turn to the "dark side". (That was back in 2001, its probably about 500,000 freebies now)
But rest assured, an emulator is coming, and I for one support it.
Looks around nervously for the software police...
I would even pay to play on an emulator that was handled properly (I mean I'm talking like $1.00 per month, not 15) just to have somewhere to play it.
I've been playing SWG for about 3 weeks now and I hardly have time to play it. *I* think the target audience for a game like this is ritzy kids who don't have to work for a living or office bums that sit and play games all day instead of pumping out those TPS reports, or those smelly PC geeks that live in a singlewide trailer with a fractional T1 and server cluster.
Not to mention the blasted system requirements. I knew a guy that got suckered into buying a new Compaq last Xmas, and the VGA card doesn't have a snowball's chance of running the game, even more, the MB doesn't have an AGP socket.
The more and more big companies try to make you pay for things, the more and more people will come out of the woodworks with free work-arounds. Look at Ultima Online: A 4 million plus player base of 15 bucks a month, and they wanna gripe when 250 or so turn to the "dark side". (That was back in 2001, its probably about 500,000 freebies now)
But rest assured, an emulator is coming, and I for one support it.
Looks around nervously for the software police...