User blog:NightmareXL/Clone Wars Adventures: The Journey

Clone Wars Adventures is.... a place where I had a lot of memories that I have forgotten, but the ones I did not forget still stayed with me thankfully. Before this game was introduced to me, I was busy playing Club Penguin, SuperHero Squads Online AKA Hero Up, and some other games in Y8, Miniclips, and other websites. So it all started back in I think early or mid 2013 (Could've been December 2012. I dont remember the exact date unfortunately) when I was in grade 5 and I was 10 years old. I came home from school, waiting for my brother to come home too. My brother who was in grade 3 and was like 7 or 8 years old that time, came home and showed me a game called Clone Wars Adventures which his friend named "Hari" showed him in school. I did not seem interested at first since I HATED Star Wars. I was always aware of the Clone Wars TV show ever since the show aired in Cartoon Network but was never really interested to see it since it seemed lame to me. So I walked away from my brother and went to the washroom and then my room. My brother has already created his character and told me the game was really fun and encouraged me to go make my account now. So I opened up my laptop and made my character. Not knowingly, I put my real name as my CWA name which is Tajwar Khandaker. Reason being is because it told me to put my first name and last name, which I thought was talking about my personal info. I just kept my name like that since people already started to know me as Tajwar Khandaker. My brother made the same mistake but later on, his friend Hari gave him his account which was Hari Winner and he played with that account till the end of CWA. Anyways from that day when I made my account, I was actually enjoying the game a lot. My brother and I would eventually started telling all of our friends about this game. When I played the game, I was meeting new people online and was having fun playing the minigames, roaming around the combat zones, and hanging out in the Jedi Temple. Umbara used to be my number one favourite combat zone. I would often visit a lot of people's house lots and would hang out with the people that were inside. I would also sometimes get kicked out from house lots for no reason (probably because I was not a member). I was a non-member almost my whole life in CWA. I made plenty of friends but have forgotten a lot of their names. And I also did not interact with a lot of them even though they were in my friend's list (Whenever I would log in, I would get random friend requests from people and I would just go ahead and accept them lol). I was also invited to a lot of squads. I even remember some squads I was never really in but I have seen them. For example. The War Eagles, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dark Female Forces, Mandalorian Assassins. Those are like the only ones I seem to remember. The squads I have been invited to, most of them I forgot except one which was StormForge Battalion, which was ShadowForge Battalion when I joined. I remember being in one of ShadowForge's HQs and we were training. We were doing obstacle courses and people were calling me "War" and "Khan" since my name was complicated for them to say. I remember at one point I was not in ShadowForge anymore for some reason. Or I think I was kicked since an incident happened in that squad around like December when some guy named Dash Alphatracker started kicking out everyone from the squad (I was gone during the time that incident happend). Anyways moving forward, I only remember a few friends I made back in CWA. First one was Anthony ShadowForge, who I believe was the man who invited me to the squad StormForge Battalion, which is a squad I remember till this day. Second friend who I remember was Lizzy Victory, who I interacted with quite a lot of times. I remember talking about another MMO game called Star Wars the Old Republic with her. Next one is Kyp Cruiseskiff, who I spent time playing with during the final month of CWA. Darth Gaga, who was in my friend list although I do not remember interacting with her that much. Another friend I remember was Jade Silvernight, who I remember doing the Sith Academy mission with in Umbara. Another two friends I remember was Daiv Rangestalker and a dude named Boost (I forgot his last name but he was related to Daiv in the game), who are also the people I played with a lot during the final month of CWA. I also remember a dude named Jay (I forgot his last name too unfortunately), who I also spent the last month of CWA playing with. And lastly, there was this other friend... well.... not really a proper friend but her name was Shira Validwar, who my brother introduced me to during the final month of CWA. She was in my friend's list but the reason I say she was not really a proper friend was because she was extremely rude back in CWA, even though she was sometimes nice. So basically these are the only people who I remember being friends with back in CWA. Moving forward, I never really got to experience CWA fully since I did not have membership and that nearly literally every single gears and weapons were for members only. I was always wearing a green padawan outfit, red hair, white skin (Even though I am not white lol), and with a stupid blaster. I remember when I stopped playing this game around November or December of 2013 (Which is when the dude named Dash Alphatracker started kicking out members from ShadowForge). During late February of 2014, I was at a friend's house with my brother. The person was one of the friends of our's who we introduced CWA to way before (His name in CWA was i think Hunza1 since he always names himself that on every games). He told us to get back on CWA again because everyone had free membership. My brother and I were pretty excited to hear that, and at the same time it seemed strange to us: How could we possibly get free membership? Our friend told us that his mom only paid for his Station Cash but he had the membership for free. We couldn't really believe him since he did not have his laptop during that time. So my brother and I went home to open up our laptop to see the website saying that the game will shut down on March 31st, 2014. Thats how everyone had free memberships. So from that day, I started grinding on this game. My brother..... he grinded too but not as much as I wanted to. During the final month of CWA, I mostly played with Daiv Rangestalker, Kyp Cruiseskiff, Jay, Hunza 1, and Boost (I played with other friends too but like I said already: I dont remember them). Daiv and Boost invited me to their squad which I think was a Mandalorian squad (I could be wrong) but I do not remember the actual name. This was also the month when me and my brother first met and had war with Shira Validwar since she was pretty rude to us and others. We were equal on our battles. In the lightsaber duels, Shira had most wins against me (literally crushed me lol). In normal duels, her and I were quite equal if I remember correctly. My brother managed to win against her a lot of times in normal duels which I was proud of him for. When it was a few days remaining until the shutdown, I managed to join back ShadowForge Battalion, but this time it was renamed StormForge Battalion due to the incident that happened few months ago. Me and the squad spent time doing squad runs on Felucia and were hanging out on some of the member's house lots. When the final day arrived, I spent my time with the squad one last time in their HQ. While I was fixing my music on the computer, I recognized that the CWA page was not there anymore and it said "This page cannot be displayed" in the SOE website. When that happened, I was just speechless and could not think of a proper reaction. Like I tried to reload the page but nothing worked. "They actually shut it down...." was the thought in my head. The saddest thing about this is that I was 11 during that time so I did not have any social media which was the reason I could not ask any of my friends or squadmates for their social media so that we can reconnect. I just thought that that was it.... that my friends were all gone. Like I did not even know their real names, contact info, or their names in Facebook or other social media because I did not have any social media myself. It felt like as if I just watched them die. A few days after it shut down, I went to the washroom and tears started coming out my eyes because the same thought came back in my mind which was the fact that I will never see the friends I made in CWA ever again because I never took their contact info. Till this day, I still regret not asking them. To be honest, even though I was really sad, I actually managed to move on from CWA very easily since 8 days after it shut down, I got a PS4. I spent three years playing games like FIFA 14 and 15, Battlefield 1 and 5, Destiny, DC Universe Online, Warframe, Call Of Duty Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, and Black Ops 3, and a whole lot other games. The main game that helped me move on from CWA was DC Universe Online, which is probably my number 1 favourite MMO game simply because it is a much bigger world than CWA and had so much more features than CWA. Plus, I have more memories in DCUO than CWA since I played DC for 3 years starting from 2014 and played CWA for a year. But that never changed the fact that CWA is what started it all. CWA is the reason I became an online gamer and CWA is the reason why I like Star Wars today. The remaining memories which I still remember till this day of CWA will not be forgotten. Around March of 2017, I started to search up CWA on YouTube to see videos of the game for nostalgia. On June 18th, I found a video called CWA Returning and it was about an interview of the YouTuber and a person named Firex. They were discussing about a CWA emulator that Firex and his DEV Team were working on. I never knew what an emulator was but I took a big guess that when they said emulator, they meant remaking the game. They video said something about a Google Plus community of CWA. I never knew CWA had a Google Plus community so I quickly joined. I was surprised and mad at the same time. I was mad at myself because if I had a gmail, I could've joined the community years ago when CWA shut down. I have seen quite a few familiar people from CWA like Naria Darkknight, Adam Bloodstream, Gun Good, Austin Redcluster, LexiTano Cute, and Soap Kyle (These are people who I have seen in the game but do not remember being friends with). The community even had their own Discord server which i joined once I made my Discord account (Btw the CWA community are the ones who introduced Discord to me). Unfortunately I still haven't really met any friends I remember back in CWA. I mean Austin Redcluster and I had a talk and he said that he remembers me and that I was in his flying houses. I find it strange because he had over one thousand friends back in CWA and remembers me out of all of them, and I vaguely remember him (Although I think I do remember being in flying house lots). I also met Shira Validwar on Facebook. I tried to talk to her but she seemed like she does not remember me at all. I thought she changed but she still seemed quite rude and felt like the same old person she was back in CWA so I stopped texting her and tried moving on. I also met a man named DarkHorseTV who was known as Volcom StormForge back in CWA. He was the first one to welcome me into the community and I was surprised that the first person I met in the community was part of my squad. I do not really remember him back in the game but he told me that he remembers me a bit. Later on I saw the name Leven 727 in the community. The name Leven sounded familiar and I saw that he had a YouTube Channel. So I decided to visit it and that is when I found out that this was indeed Leven StormForge from CWA AKA the leader of our squad. I finally remembered him and I couldn't believe he actually a YouTube channel with videos of the squad from CWA. I managed to find myself in his last CWA video and I was literally flipping out. I was pissed at myself again because I was looking at the comments and saw quite a lot of the squad member kept in touch with each other, which I also could've done. Then I decided to regroup and recreate our squad with Volcom. I decided to create a Google Plus and Facebook community for StormForge but Volcom made a Discord server for it which was way easier. We actually managed to regroup with 6 original members in our server, including Leven. Another original member General Shafer who I got someone to send a message to received it and responded that he will come in contact with me as soon as possible, but has not texted me yet. While I have been in this Discord community of CWA, I have been hearing about a lot of squads and people who I never knew back in CWA. I have heard about the Dark Nebula squad for the first time and also heard about their leader Xalandra Nova who I never knew back in CWA. They were apparently the most popular squad in CWA and that a lot of people hated them. I joined their squad's Discord server and actually got along and became friends with a lot of the members. Members like DarkEmperor Snake, Rogue Silvernight, Zin, Logan Var Lo', Davish, Han Aryxbomb, etc. I also managed to meet Xalandra Nova for the first time. While all the members of that server were kinda and friendly, I did not quite find Nova that friendly. Even though she was not rude to me, something about her gave me the vibes of Shira Validwar, especially after hearing how most people described her. I learned that StormForge and Nebula were at war back in CWA which I also never knew. The members who I met, all of them seemed very nice, kind, and friendly, so I decided to get our squad to have an alliance with their's when the emulator comes out. The final decision has not been decided yet but we will wait and see what happens. Today, I am getting along with a lot of members in the community, even though I had a problem with a few which got over with now. I am still waiting and hoping to at least meet one friend who I remember from CWA. That is why I always wait for new members to join the Discord server so that I can welcome them and ask them for their name so that there could be a chance of one of them being a friend I once knew. Even if I do not find them, I still made new friends here from the Discord community and reunited with squadmates who I forgot or never got the chance to meet in the game. People like Gmjjr AKA Biggs Dartbomber, Willis Shadow, Logan Var Lo', Anthonyn99 AKA Katar Bladestorme, Rogue Silvernight, Soap Kyle, Sio Cryoburst, DarkEmperor Snake, Joshua Exospeer AKA Chowder, Austin Redcluster, Volcom StormForge, Rake Redcluster, Commanda Panda AKA Anthony Laserspire, and others.