Pex Farewell's Bash

With SWG Development Manager Pex leaving to a promising position in the SOE gaming community, Friday 6th and Saturday 7th have been chosen for a farewell cross-server visit. The event was very well attended with over 167 people attending the party on the 7th and likely as many on the 6th. Under a continuous roar of ovations, Pex, in full Destroyer Droid attire (6th) and in Geonosian attire (7th), thanked both the organizers (Mauric and Eugenie) and the crowd, while distributing accolade badges to everyone. This event typifies how players and developpers alike care about the game, showing support and encouragements.

Pex's speech was rather brief, greeting the server with a "Hello Scylla". Pleasingly, the speech's typos proved that it wasn't macro'ed despite being repeated on each server. Reminiscing on his experience in SWG, Pex mentioned that "it's been a fun five years at SWG, and I am going to miss it very much. It's the great people that make events so great and I hope that you'll continue to get together and have fun". Regarding a specific event, he recalled "the Ewok April Fool day event is one of my gems [...] nobody expects a 50 foot Ewok!" Asked about is future prospects, he mentioned his excitement, adding "change is good in my books. But I'll miss running events". It'll remain to be seen if Dar'Ness suggestion to have June 7th named Pex Day will stick till next year.

It was pleasing to hear about lag and drawing comparisons to the fall of Restuss or Coronet during the heydays. Both events had a different feel, the first event being mostly attended by veteran players active in their respective communities (such as the PvP crowd and community leaders) and players visiting more rarely ; the second event, seemed to have a wider audience with veterans and newer players alike (or perhaps, more alts :).

Overall, this shouldn't come as a complete surprise as this event was posted on the forum and the official site and relayed by community leaders within cities and guilds, and thus was primarily addressed to the hard core gaming community.