Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per Account

frotty writes "The developers of Star Wars Galaxies recently announced that the game would only allow a single character per purchased account on any server. This has outraged some, and relieved others." Click on the link to see the reasoning behind this move.

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Breaking SlashDot News!!!

[dagg]

Breaking News!:

As of tomorrow morning at 9:00AM PST, slashdot users can only have one userid.

Tomorrow Morning::

All usernames except for CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco are deleted. It turned out that every single identity on SlashDot were alter-ego's of those two individuals. This is all one huge marketing scheme.

Re:Breaking SlashDot News!!!

[geekoid]

I knew I was the figment of someones imagination..

how disapoointing its theres.

Joke! I left my typos in, I mean its not like Taco will notice.

Those bastards....

[tgrotvedt]

....I believe they are limiting the characters in an evil plot design to get some of these people laid!

That's a tiny server

[product byproduct]

It can only store a single ASCII character per purchased account?

Re:That's a tiny server

[scumdamn]

My name will be LukeSk~1!
This onerous policy will prevent me from staging a fight between my characters of LukeSk~1 and DarthV~1. DAMMIT!

Re:It's a Video Game People!

[Stalyx]

What do you mean its not important!! wait till i get my force grip.. I will crush you like...... er /me addicted /me hangs head in shame /me takes light saber and slashes wrists

UNIX is better

[bockman]

It allows up to 8 (!) characters per account. And with some extensions, you can have even more!!!

Re:I can see how some would like it.

[darien]

... they can milk the Star Wars franchise/MMORPG combination for quite a lot of Money with a capital M.

If LucasArts can achieve that with just an "M", surely one character ought to be enough for anybody?

WAIT A SECOND!

[LiberalApplication]

Real life is single-character-per-server, and I'm still surrounded by griefers and idiots who aren't accountable for their actions! Admin! Admin!

...but seriously though, I very much hope that SCS will increase player-accountability. Heck, I very much hope that SCS will increase actual RP. With only one character to work with, perhaps people would be more willing to really *play* their characters and flesh out the Star Wars universe.

After all, what would ruin the experience of living on Tattoine more than being constantly subjected to conversations like this:

A) Psst! Hey, Bob, it's me. Al.
B) Bob? Dude, you're a CHICK!
A) Yeah, I know. I just finished watching "Bring it on" so I wanted to be a hot acrobat for a day.
B) Dude! You're hot! Let's go back to my hut.
A) Uh... I think I'll go make a Wookie instead. C Ya.

(some time later)
B) Dude, you are one HOT Wookie! Let's go back to my hut.

Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per

[quintessent]

Jar Jar Binks made this statement to the press "Meesa nosaa liken dis, knowsaaaa, aaaaah [inaudible], oopsi."

The spokesman for Darth Vader had this to say, "We are unable to comment on this decision at this time. You don't have a problem with that, RIGHT?"

According to a press release, Luke Skywalker had this to say: "No! No! It's not true. That's IMPOSSIBLE!"

Han Solo and Princess Leah were occupied and unable to comment.