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Player petitions to save Star Wars: Galaxies lead to angry forum response and potential lawsuit threats by Sony Online Entertainment. Reasonable response or unnecessary bullying?
NoobFeed.com takes note of the insurgent uprising in Star Wars Galaxies, following its decision to shut down on December 15. Several players have congregated to file a law suit against SOE and are making demands. Madness or genius?
Star Wars: Galaxies is ending in December, says Sony Online Entertainment. SOE will make fan appreciation offers and have a "galaxy ending in -game event" to ends things.
Whether the game was just plain terrible or it just couldn't live up to its expectations, here is the GT Countdown to the top 10 disappointing games of the decade.
GameDaily gives its own take at which RPG style is superior in the categories of the classic RPG, the MMORPG, the tactical RPG, the action RPG, most emotionally engaging (contains FFVII and Mass Effect spoilers), and the overall winner.
Though you might not agree with everything stated, it is an interesting read on a topic that continues to spur the interest of RPG fans.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that they will be shutting down 12 servers on October 15th, as a result of the overwhelming success of the recent Free Character Transfer Service that has left certain servers with significantly low population, crowding other servers in the same time.
All players from these 12 servers will have the option of a one-way transfer to one of the 13 remaining servers.
"The Star Wars universe obviously has a stronger following than that of The Matrix however, and still years after launch, there are still plenty of fans roaming the vast reaches of Star Wars Galaxies. It has also become obvious that with Bioware’s Old Republic getting closer and closer to completion, the guys at Sony are feeling the heat, and it’s far too late to try and draw in new players to a rusting title. Sony Online Entertainment allowed free character transfers, and with the huge succes..."
"Galactic Hunters takes the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game in exciting new directions, for the first time giving both light and dark side players the chance to employ some of the most recognizable and legendary bounty hunters in the galaxy. Players can issue bounties on opponents with the all-new "target" keyword ability and reap the rewards of completed bounties with instant, stat-enhancing bonuses."
Like it or not, SOE has really done the best they thought they could with Star Wars Galaxies. I for one liked the original HAM system of the game and have since stopped playing. However, SOE keeps persevering, adding new content right and left. Their Chapter 11 update looks to include the Battle of Echo Base and will advanced the game's time frame to the beginning of 'Empire'. The article also says they will include Snowspeeders in the battle for players to pilot, which is a cool prospect I m...
When you think of LucasArts as a game developer and publisher, you immediately think of Star Wars, but believe it or not, what got the company on the map were games like Loom and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.
When LucasArts starting to make games for their famous Star Wars series, it started off to be very successful, with games likes X-Wing and TIE Fighter doing really well. After that, they never stopped and as a result, the games started getting worse. To this day, George and his te...
Station Voice - an SOE exclusive service powered by Vivox that allows gamers to talk to one another in game - is now available on EverQuest II and Star Wars Galaxies and is making its way to EverQuest sometime in the next month. Station Voice allows you to talk to anyone with both a microphone and headset, chat with any group in game (such as a party or guild), and tons more!