Which Star Wars Galaxies Server to play In 2024? -WGA- 

I agree with your ending rankings except for Finalizer and EIF. I know you couldnt smash all the features and what not in this video, but you did a decent job. EiF is painful to me because of how low the population is, but they did at least do an interesting take on Jedi, that sadly requires doing group content when there are barely any people playing except on GCW or RP nights. Resto oh what do we say about Resto. I agree whole heartedly that I love the vision of the server. The combat is a great middle ground. Jedi is supposedly coming in January, but the unlock process leaves A LOT to be desired. As for server image? Yeah Aconite fucked it. I personally don't have a problem with Aconite but the image is hard to recover. Finalizer...I have no interest in vanilla SWG since there have been so many servers failed and still going that have done it better. Stardust is promising with EiF style combat, but its super early like you said. Legends is Legends. You want population and a smooth game? Play Legends. Hopefully they can get the economy under control soon.

Quality over quantity, why cant all the Devs just agree on one server and make it PERFECT rather than spreading their skills and time, and the population over many servers!?

I used to like restoration 3 up untill they wanted government ID to be uploaded to a 3rd party service website to log in. Under no circumstances should you put your self at risk for potentional future doxing over a game.

Just got back into SWG on legends. I’m impressed with the extra attention devs are giving it and it feels very alive.

Last year I tried out Restoration III, Legends, and Empire in Flames. I tried Finalizer briefly but it wasn't as long because I had to zip off to do something else. Population is a key issue for most of them except for Legends when I did these runs. Seems to still be the case. I preferred the CU era of the game when it was run by SOE but population on Restoration III was a problem. I was sold on the entire premise and different way of things with Empire in Flames. I appreciated the vision and what was actually done for EiF, but population was very low. I hated NGE but Legends had easily, by far the largest population. Population is vital because it affects how vibrant and alive a game feels seeing other players, grouping up, and of course, how the economy works. Low population disrupts all this, even if the intent and gameplay of the server is good.

Thank you for continuing to give this game attention

Legends has the highest daily population by far.

Personally I love SWGL, their website is beautiful too, and the fact that they're actually even doing new expacs and adding more features like gardening etc. just makes it freaking amazing. Did you hear about CoH and its revival from emu server to an official licensed server, greenlit by NCSoft? Imagine SWG and Vanguard SoH getting that same treatment! Liked and subbed!

I appreciate your coverage of SWG content.

Have you had a chance to check out SWG Evolv ? Trying to figure out if it has JTL, (Looks like it does?) rumour is few are flocking to that server and are liking it in 2024?

I played a LOT of SWGEmu in 2014, and did a lot of what the game had to offer for me. I decided to wait until JTL came and the wait is almost over after 10 years

Legends, baby! We received new Space PvP content this year, and yet another GCW update, is in-the-works. It's very rewarding to play, and doesn't have an "end-game loop", like a lot of poorer MMOs, out there. The more you dig, the deeper it goes. Working on decorating a cantina for the monthly Galactic Home Show content and getting into the new "beast taming" aspect of Beast Master, before setting up to take part in the new Ranching/Farming system (and also the baby creatures are the best-sized for decorating).

So, I've been interested in SWG for a hot minute, and got the install disks recently, I'm still shopping around for servers and this helped a ton.

I really love JTL, so my options are limited. I played on Legends and enjoyed it, but yeah, its NGE. I played on Resto from day one and I agree, it does have the best concept. I haven't had to deal with any of the drama that people mention. I dont really dive into the forums or the discord much either. My biggest gripe is that they broke TrackIr implementation somewhere down the line and won't fix it. Sucks because it was a core game feature and it massively improves the space experience. I get it, its a niche item, but still.

Never played SWG and just recently started playing on Legends. Found a guild my first day and already got to making some friends to help me learn the whole thing. Seems like it definitely still carries the highest population, lots of content new and old so it really just takes the cake. I want to try a server with an older version but for some reason Legends does seem like it has the most longevity to it given everything it has going for it.

the Resto staff did''nt even know it was resto's 3rd birthday today😆

I been really enjoying swg evolve server and been having a blast with the pvp ( ground and space) even with the server being small. I hope to see the server grow over time

The only bad thing, and something that limits the player base from exploding, is you still need the original discs for whatever reason. These servers would explode if they had digital downloading.

Thank you for the video. SWG is a tough game to love, because it was actually three different games. The first two were amazing, but flawed. That’s what made them special. Of course NGE is the most popular. Restoration has me hooked, though EMU is calling me…all these emulators are made with love.

SWG for the win \o/ better than 99% of the crap produced now.

Awesome video!!! LOVE your editing!!! :)

Real question is which one is most painless to install? how the Dust install, just came back to SWG myself and 'Resto is still Besto' for me anyways :) Legends for the Events !

I was a former radiant server player since precu to Nge and I want to play again

You should review SWG:Beyond It's an NGE Server with a low populatior has been server for 4years, and TONSSSSS of new content. new custom Legendary/hardmode instances. arenas, crafting token system and jewlery, same for entertainer, tons of weekly events for server schedule. oh and also there is multiple world bosses with custom loot and such aswell!

Hold down shift to walk and drive slower, utilize it for rp :)

Currently playing on SWG: Attack of the Clones server and honestly it's really great. Has seasons, events, and a helpful player base. If you're going through the servers, I highly suggest giving it a shot!

I remember playing SWGEMU in early 2014 and boy did we have a blast with all the tweaky stuff, I remember someone went out and drew out like 20 krayt dragons to Mos Eisley. Bunch of us that decided to meet this guy head on waited near the cantina and man it was nuts! We barely survived, was fun seeing all the dead dance/med bots 😂😂 good times

All I play is the SWGEMU Finalizer and have done for years (including Basilisk before it) but I really need to try some of the other servers, especially Legends which looks interesting with the extra content like Bespin but I was never a fan of the NGE era. Would love to see JTL in the game again, that was so much fun back in the day when it first launched.

Seasons / leagues is a nice idea with boosted exp rates it would not feel so grindy, Although I would really love a new mmorpg like swg that every one could call home ^^

SWG:Restoration as a new player to SWG, you’re in for a treat. Play legends and you’re robbing yourself.

Legends all the way

Last time I played - EMU dead. SWG Restoration dead. Legends busy'ish, mostly AFK vendor players. Thanks for the vid!

Totaly agree about resto and it's such ashame and I feel so sorry for Halo . But if you want to play there you'll have to become an Aconite fan boy if you want to get anywhere with Jedi , so many players have told me . Stardust is a good server with a lot of cool things . Swg Evolve is another good server NGE but with expertise tree's and all prof's including Jedi .

i could never play NGE. the entire reason SWG flopped was because of it. i was there from start to end

Restoration is clearly the best server as it is something fresh from what all the others do while id does not stick to a 100% accurate CU implementation, but instead the devs are not scared to do some balancing and reshuffling of abilities to get better gameplay in pvp.

So, I've pretty much never played Star Wars: Galaxies. I tried once a long time ago but I didn't get very far. I don't even remember which server it was. This time I am much more serious because I've heard that quite a few people are playing now, with the emulator. This is an excellent guide, you summarize each server very well, so thanks! I guess I'll go with Legends, because it has the highest population. Population is very important in any MMO, but it seems crucial in Galaxies. My main complaint is that you can start as a Jedi, which is lame, because they were super strong and rare in the original Galaxies, based off what I've heard.

I didn't know about the rest... I'm on finalizer. And I love it

im someone who only got to watch my brother play during live, i really wanna play but have no idea what im doing half the time

4:42 can relate to the "punched in the face thing" at your door by SWG hater? my BIOS been hacked 3x now past 2 weeks!? (old PC need new more secure one) Good thing i live far North Canada, not so easy for a Hater to show up at my door (rofl) + Live literaly in a Bear-Cave ! come checkout SWG Evolve when you can, its good real good :)

i was so excited for resto 3 when it launched but it just turned into another nge server bring resto 2 back

AoTC launched Dec. 22 and is seasonal-- just needs more pop! This first season seems like a bit of a test server pre-season type of situation though. Hoping they can iron out all the issues (which they've done a fair bit of so far) and can get some hype come season 1

I took a break from the SWG scene and watched this video to see how things are going now and I do not see much change. 1. Legends has an amazing dev team most of which are professional developers and they do not halfway any content before putting it out. If you play on Legends anything you touch or try will work as intended and they have added a great deal to the game over the years. 2. EMU has good devs but they have been "working" on JTL for years and I have not seen any serious progress which rules them out for me. 3. EIF has some great stuff the but last time I played I ran into issues with some of their work not working quite right which has prevented me from trying them again. Resto and Dust I have not played so I cannot give my two cents on them.

What do you think of the Sentinals Republic? I just did a search and found (at least) 28 different servers..........it's NO WONDER, the populations can be low.

>"I want this server to succeed so badly I love what it brings to the table!" >Talks ill of Resto in every SWG video Hopefully people saw my response to your former video and understand Resto a little better. Still waiting to feel that "punch"

I'd like to preface by saying I appreciate any/all people still working on SWG in 2024 no matter the iteration. It's amazing how long this beloved game has survived. That being said, I'll never understand how the NGE iteration of the game ended up being the highest population and quality emu server. It changes the original concept of the game so much it doesn't feel like SWG to me. Honestly my favorite era was the CU because it cut out spamming in combat, the graphics got a nice boost (excluding bloom), and there was the 2 new planets at that point. Restoration was my ideal server I was waiting for since the original swgemu was announced some 15-20 years ago lol, so it's sad what's happened but I still have a toon on there, same as Legends just cuz. Just so tired of migrating servers due to nonsense. I wish there were just 3 main servers out there, one PRE-CU, one CU, one NGE. Anyways, thanks for still covering SWG. I subbed. So cool the game lives on, and I'm curious to see how AI can be used to update the game not only visually, but maybe it can be used to fix a lot of the game engine's weird issues it's always had.

Unfortunately, I can't play Legends cuz of my shit ISP. So, I only have a few options such as Infinity. Have you heard of Infinity? Have you played it? What's your opinion on it?

You DID ABANDON US when's the last time you uploaded a swg video. Hmm? Hmm!? 💔😂 j/k it's been about 3 years since I played restoration.

Anything attached to Levariss will eventually be a Dumpster Fire!

Do you still recommend Restoration 3 to play? Or is finalizer way more populated im conflicted on which to play

Man…..I recognize thst combat anywhere!! Hehehehe

If I have to find a copy of the cd just to play I’m not doing it. It seems interesting but I have to jump through hoops to figure out how to play the game.

I want to rebuild my melee spy of 2007

Infinity has been great for me. You can make progress pretty quick so it's perfect for those who work.

I've soooo enjoyed Stardust 2.1. Come try it out! :)

I honestly was not aware of all the shadiness that accompanies Restoration 3 before I made an account. But it's the only way I can play SWG sadly, since I don't own a copy and ordering one can be outright expensive. Restoration having a digital download definitely is a huge advantage to have. Not to mention even if I haven't played Legends, I honestly like the classless system better. To me, it's what makes SWG unique since plenty of MMORPGs do a class system.

Definitely avoid restoration, I rather play legends but currently stardust. I am an avid player on star dust and it is incredibly fun. if star dust goes down, im going back to legends. I will never go back to R3. Star dust is not NGE, CU or pre cu it is really completly different and yes the combat system is awesome. Population isnt there yet but we are gaining numbers.

Wow.....I'm an old fart and enjoyed SWG tremendously...unfortunately, no way to recover my old toons (that I know of) so, a pain to begin at zero again. I didn't realize there were so many servers. I'm currently on Finalizer but I see very low population and old players (like me) returning struggle with low pop and getting back into game.

I’ve seen more updates on JtL in the past few months than I have in the past few years combined. If I were a betting man, I’d readily put some down on 8-12 months. Seems like every dev team dropped whatever they were doing to pitch in.

Attack of the clones server has seasons and it’s awesome! It’s new, but it’s awesome

Seasons... That would make me pass. I am not a fan of wiping and starting over. So no, everyone would not play.

I love swg legends i jus wish i could switch my xp gain to 1x i know people like 2.5x xp gain cause it gets you to end game stuff faster. But i outpaced the quest and was easily killing mobs with no difficulty

Do you have to have the disc that play any of these servers or do they provide the files needed to play on them?

Didnt even add SWG Beyond which is sad as it has a lot cool PVE Content and a chill community. less pop then legends but over all it has a stable server and lot custom instances like legendaries and hardmodes.

Biggest problem people have with SWG servers is most of them have a ton of hoops to jump through just to play the game. Why would people want to deal with 'you have to wait for an admin' to let them play, or 'you must have a copy of the game' which you either have to get from ebay or from some questionable means? Once the various servers stop this, they might get a ton more players. After watching this video I thought, hey ill try out stardust, nope gotta get admin approval...ok how about legends, nope gotta have a copy of the game....sigh, nevermind ill go find something else to play :(

I just want a server with CU or Pre-CU with all the content from all the expansions (New planets, and space, etc) Adding new planets and playable species on their own how some of the mentioned servers have done. Is that so much to ask for? Lol Why wont they all just join forces?

i got the disc still just need a. brand new computer unless They Nade it For the Ps4 or Ps5

the biggest advantage of R3 is that it is the most accessible. its the only one that i could find where i could just download it and play. all the others required me having a disk of the original game and jumping through crazy hoops manually updating and patching the client, and my pc doesn't even have a disk drive with R3 its just make an account, download the launcher, then go.

Aw man, SWG Infinity got a mention of "Infini-err they're all good" 😂 That's the server I play though. Great video though.

Can anyone run SWGemu? The reason I ask is I'm from the SOE days, I think I started a year after release, still have my original CDs/DVDs and I've always wanted to play pre-CU and post-CU Jedi. I believe I joined post-CU and even then Master Jedi were really powerful back then. So always had a dream when I saw SWGemu appear, to run my own server just for myself to be able to put in a bluefrog and give myself Master Jedi :)

Can’t comment on the others but I’m really enjoying Legends.

Just for the record you skipped SWG Beyond, the solution to Legends Tarkin Doctrine devastation.

also, watching my bro on the private servers there was ALOT of personal BS haha

The best , most innovative, before its time, combat, crafting, housing, pet creation, the holocron Jedi system, the village jedi system, the space exploration and the space in swg was a whole game on its own, If they brought back swg, it would make Lucas film so much more money if they use the playing card aka loot card for monetizing it. The private servers already have more players then swtor, reason I go after swtor is cause ea BioWare freaked about having 2 online Star Wars rpgs at the same time, even though they are two totally different types of rpg experience. Swtor is a linear non sandbox and non player sustained in game economy without having to use any real life money to start making money and getting other cool things u want. Swg has all the mmorpg 15$ a month which most people paid more a month when renting games, we paid 15 to play one game, it is the opposite of swtor, the bloodfin style server is the best imo, pre cu combat , with nge era loot and housing, publish 12 everything crafting, to harvesting , with stuff like areas missions , alert raids added to the game but playing like pub 12

i wana see more muscles Built Just Like MasEffect

Wish they would upgrade the graphics for current and next gen systems.

Legends is really the only place to be. Other servers have great ideas for sure, but they also either don't have even close to enough people playing, or are poorly run, or a combination of both. 😢 Quality over quantity is a term I see thrown around a bit. However, in the case of this game specifically, you do actually need a decent population of people playing. Thankfully, Legends has both quality AND quantity.

Legends all day.

I'm convinced JTL isn't coming for EMU, at least not for a long time. 2024 or 2025 is absolutely no way. Even 2027 is generous.

Ultimately, I wanted to like Legends, but Legends is post CU. This means, for me at least, it takes away everything that makes SWG special. It's basically a generic MMORPG with 9 uncustomizable classes at that point. I might as well play WoW, FFXIV, or hell, SWTOR. Not to say Pre CU isn't without it's issues. To put it lightly, it was developed by a team that was a genius at creating a sandbox environment and level system, but horrible at making actual balanced content and gear. It was magical when the combat system didn't have a meta. But once it did, you could make a character that can solo farm mobs that were intended to be brought down from a raid, and get the best weapons that way. And then everyone had a character like that, and it just makes it so 90% of the professions are useless, and ruins the point of the game.

swg Infinity is popping off

Did you play live if so what server?

SWG Battle Royale with a ladder and seasons and parkour and everyone has a perm. Zoom to Lightspeed, fr.

Seasons i.e. Regular wipes, Star Citizen is that by de facto, because they suck, and yeah they have a ton of players, but their engine is cutting edge. main reason i support SC is in hopes it can be modded to be SWG 2

3:55 "For some reason.." (the population on EiF sucks) The reason... a toxic, narcissistic, unprofessional leadership team that gets off on abusing the players. Think the old phrase "cutting off the nose to spite one's own face". I've watched them alienate or outright boot countless passionate, loyal, long time players for bullshit reasons. They ban more people than new people who want to stick around are coming in. The rest get driven away due to the lack of respect and playerbase. Also I would like to point out, that while they do have some cool and unique stuff, the core expansions are not there. And there is little to no solo content.... they get off on making world bosses and dungeons that require a whole team of people.... all the while making sure that no people are around to play... Server could have been great WITHOUT certain people being placed in the positions they are in. And I don't mind naming names if anyone is curious to know. Some people lack the character to ever have any sort of authority over other people in any environment. Thats the majority of the team on EiF.

Yeah NGE destroyed this game but I heard EMU was cancelled so I gave up. I guess I can play again.

Heeeeeee's baaaaaaack!!!!

Is there a way to play swg legendd and swgemu finalizer on the same PC? NOt at the same time but one at a time?

I’m playing in the Aotc server is skill trees no levels which I like with so far I’ve seen a few people around nothing crazy but I’ve been on for a few hours only

Should give SWG: Evolve a try. It has JTL and its a different take on a CU/NGE Hybrid than Resto. CU imspired skills but with NGE Combat and NGE Expertise.

Liam Lightsun DMG-I.

I was play SWG:evolve last month, the professional and skill xp part is very interesting, people should try play and understand it. this month, I focus on swg beyond, 7 chars can be on line at same time, that make me spend less time on survey and sample, very good server for newbie like me, to understand and try the trader, craft part. re3, is not good for me, I like afk use macro to sample, already quit it

Legends is going down hill fast and way to many very stupid CSR's on Legends is part of the reason why Legends is going to die off :0

Empire In Flames. End of discussion.

Dont play EIF unless you are friends withy Abi. if you are you will get loads of stuff. if not you get nothing

I really wanted to get back into SWG but i have been spoiled by the combat system in WoW. Someone told me there was a server with similary combat to the one in WoW,not game mechanics or skills but i mean more like the UI,targeting and such...SWG just feels a bit clunky.

Throwing out my 2 cents about Stardust 2.0. I'm the current Jedi Counsel leader on the light side and at the moment the most active armor smith on the server. I absolutely love the changes lev has made for stardust. The combat and client are the smoothest I've ever played on an emu server. Yes our biggest problem right now is population, after the server came back up there were a good number of people but there was a very bad problem that resulted in Lev being forced to wipe again after about 5 or 6 weeks of the server being up. It sucked alot but it was unavoidable. He has since made adjustments and started some new practices that will make sure that never happens again but it was still a rather serious blow to the community. Lev and the admin team did what they could to help people get going again but one of the admin team was found to be doing some admin abuse and again lev did swoop in to correct the issue, removed that person from the admin team and did what he could to eliminate the ill gotten resources/items and it minimized damage, it again caused several more people to leave. Also there was a good stretch of time there where jedi and BH had to go through alot more balance changes and it did end up eating alot of development time. Right now the balance is pretty god damn good for jedi and BH, but the constant tweaking and back and forward even though it was necessary, it caused some more people to leave. Id really recommend anyone reading this to come give stardust a try. It really is top notch with what lev has going on here and what they have planned for the near future. Overall the community we do have is helpful and there really is no toxic behavior or anything going on at all. All we need is some more folk who want to come and hang out and hopefully help get the GCW stuff off the ground. Hit me up on there send a mail to either Tersidre or Lootbin.

Legends its not even up for debate, ppl are just wasting their time playing any other server

Why EIF doesn't have a large player base? Its heave NR dev. NR have better loot tables and greatly out number Imp in GCW. NRs only play during GCW so its like 30 NR vrs 7 Imp. Dead server.!

Me and my Friends wants to play on PreCU or CU. Which server is recommended?

I enjoy Restoration a lot I do want the server to succeed because I think it’s awesome just wish more people played. I did play legends it’s just that you can AFK grind a toon to 90 which kinda takes the fun out of it for me. Also I heard somewhere that Jedi wasn’t all that viable in PvP but don’t quote me on that it’s been a hot minute since I played