SOE Bids Fond Farewell to Star Wars Galaxies
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I think on the last day, The Death Star should take out 1 planet every hour xD
But anyway, sad day for Galaxies, i've never played it (although i was going to a few years back, then WoW dragged me in ¬¬) but it looked like a decent game.
But still, TOR looks promising, can't wait <3
But anyway, sad day for Galaxies, i've never played it (although i was going to a few years back, then WoW dragged me in ¬¬) but it looked like a decent game.
But still, TOR looks promising, can't wait <3
I have mixed opinions about this.
In general I call "bullshit" on the claims because SoE is apparently still running "Clone Wars Adventures". What that means is that they are still dealing with George Lucas, and apparently still have access to the Star Wars liscence. If "Clone Wars Adventures" is going down, I have heard absolutly nothing about it, and honestly they are still pimping it as one of their new IPs pretty heavily.
SWG has enough players right now to continue making money, especially if some of the servers are condensed.
Don't get the wrong impression here though, on some levels I think it's a good thing to send a game off with a degree of dignity. Personally I think Blizzard should have done this with World Of Warcraft after "Lich King", but well... that never happened for financial reasons, irregardless of what would probably have been for the best for the IP and the eventual launch of WoW2.
While I'm sorry to see it go, I think Sony's desician is largely based on the amount of money the game is making, rather than it not generating a profit at all. After all why run those servers, if the same amount of space/electicity/personell could be used for something else that might potentially make an even bigger wad of profits. Of course it's not politic to say something like that, so we have the guys from the company engaging in bald faced lies to the fan base. I have no idea what they are thinking when they rant about not wanting to maintain the Star Wars liscence while saying "by all means, try our OTHER, kiddie oriented Star Wars game" as one of the options after the 15th when they open up their other games to SWG players.
All told I am hoping that when they do shut it down they at least have the class to release the code as pubic domain, much like what happened with Sierra's "Imagination Network" games like "Shadow Of Ysebrius". I know there is a major emulation project going on right now, and it would be nice if Sony's blessing, and perhaps assistance (with the release of the code) could help that along and give the implicit guarantee that they aren't going to start trying to send lawyers after them.
Still, as bad as the news is, I think it's made worse by the way Sony is going about it. I think this situation sort of summarizes what is wrong with the gaming industry as a whole. There might be good answers about the liscence and so on, but not justifying their desicians and claims while ranting about liscencing, while running another Star Wars game does not reflect on Sony in a positive fashion.
Truthfully I would think that after robbing their customer base with the "other OS" option, and then getting themselves hacked, that SoE would be desperate to keep what fans and good will it has. Shutting down SWG now, especially with the reasons being given (ie what seems to be obvious BS), makes me think that Sony is actively trying to commit corperate seppeku.
In general I call "bullshit" on the claims because SoE is apparently still running "Clone Wars Adventures". What that means is that they are still dealing with George Lucas, and apparently still have access to the Star Wars liscence. If "Clone Wars Adventures" is going down, I have heard absolutly nothing about it, and honestly they are still pimping it as one of their new IPs pretty heavily.
SWG has enough players right now to continue making money, especially if some of the servers are condensed.
Don't get the wrong impression here though, on some levels I think it's a good thing to send a game off with a degree of dignity. Personally I think Blizzard should have done this with World Of Warcraft after "Lich King", but well... that never happened for financial reasons, irregardless of what would probably have been for the best for the IP and the eventual launch of WoW2.
While I'm sorry to see it go, I think Sony's desician is largely based on the amount of money the game is making, rather than it not generating a profit at all. After all why run those servers, if the same amount of space/electicity/personell could be used for something else that might potentially make an even bigger wad of profits. Of course it's not politic to say something like that, so we have the guys from the company engaging in bald faced lies to the fan base. I have no idea what they are thinking when they rant about not wanting to maintain the Star Wars liscence while saying "by all means, try our OTHER, kiddie oriented Star Wars game" as one of the options after the 15th when they open up their other games to SWG players.
All told I am hoping that when they do shut it down they at least have the class to release the code as pubic domain, much like what happened with Sierra's "Imagination Network" games like "Shadow Of Ysebrius". I know there is a major emulation project going on right now, and it would be nice if Sony's blessing, and perhaps assistance (with the release of the code) could help that along and give the implicit guarantee that they aren't going to start trying to send lawyers after them.
Still, as bad as the news is, I think it's made worse by the way Sony is going about it. I think this situation sort of summarizes what is wrong with the gaming industry as a whole. There might be good answers about the liscence and so on, but not justifying their desicians and claims while ranting about liscencing, while running another Star Wars game does not reflect on Sony in a positive fashion.
Truthfully I would think that after robbing their customer base with the "other OS" option, and then getting themselves hacked, that SoE would be desperate to keep what fans and good will it has. Shutting down SWG now, especially with the reasons being given (ie what seems to be obvious BS), makes me think that Sony is actively trying to commit corperate seppeku.
I am not much for MMORPGs, but SWG was one of them that I was able to really get into for a time. It is sad to see it go, but it has been on life support for a while.
If they made it free for the last couple weeks or something, I would go so far as to install the station launcher on my new computer just to hunt for one last bounty before it was all over.
If they made it free for the last couple weeks or something, I would go so far as to install the station launcher on my new computer just to hunt for one last bounty before it was all over.
This.RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:
Ive looked at SWG v ToR they look nothing alike...Im sure a diehard SWG fan is someone who enjoys the...whatever it has that made it original (sandbox MMO) and look at ToR its just World of Star Wars...or KotOR w/ annoying people taking my quest items...
We've all seen the robotic AI and character appearence...
Since SoE doesnt want SWG anymore....can someone else pick it up from LucasArts?
I wonder if there will be a rise in Private Servers...
