Almost half SWG servers to close
A dozen give in to the dark side.
LucasArts is to close 12 of the 25 Star Wars Galaxies servers.
It's all because of the "overwhelming success of the recent Free Character Transfer Service", according to an official post in the SWG forum.
The servers will close at 5pm PST on 15th October. You have until then to transfer characters for free. Character creation on the servers has already been shut down.
"We hope that you will continue to play on one of the 13 thriving Star Wars Galaxies servers and look forward to sharing many more new and exciting Star Wars themed adventures with you in the coming months as we introduce the Chronicle Master System, Death Troopers, and the upcoming Galactic Civil War enhancements," LucasArts stated brightly.
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Despite the improvements since 3 1/2 years ago (when I quit after the NGE fiasco) it is still a buggy, shoddy game - the space combat remains brilliant however....they should release a standalone game round it!
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Positive spin fail.
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Hopefully Old Republic can be what Galaxies should have been.
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+1
The thing with swg is that the devs idea about what people want was radically different than what players really wanted. Especially ideas of one dev (not going to mention his name beginning with S) about locking everyone in wow like 'iconic professions'. Culminating in the nefarious NGE.
I really hope that the fan based swg revival efforts will work out at the end. Old republic, from what I saw, only copies and pastes wow mechanics, with a layer of what city of heroes already has, that is a lot of stories to cover the grind. Not really my cup of tea when I think about star wars game.
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Totally agree, loved it until the NGE hit. When I first saw the notes for that, I thought it was a joke post. I never thought any company could be so stupid, especially after all the negativity surrounding the CU. How wrong was I
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Now who's going to fix Vanguard?
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They built, in a hurry, a new game on top of an engine not equipped to handle it, called it a patch and effectively deleted SWG. I imagine The Old Republic will be great, but I don't see it as a SWG replacement.
Oh well. Play them off, keyboard cat.
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