Star Wars Galaxies Technical Difficulties

Thanks to several readers for pointing to a SWGalaxies.net post summarizing the multiple technical difficulties on both registration and game servers for the PC MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies, which launched within the last few hours. The registration servers were down or extremely slow through the afternoon of the 26th, and official word was "..a combination of hardware failures and some other unforeseen technical problems resulted in a severe load on the registration servers." These issues were resolved later on the 26th, and many were able to register their characters, but unfortunately all of the game servers are currently (11.30PM PST) down, as Sony "..found a serious problem with our database that is being worked on as we speak." We'd recommend watching the official site for more information as it happens..

Comments

it's ok actually

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, it's just a beta, next year when they release the full version of the game; you know, the version with the stars and the wars, these problems will probably be worked out.

One good thing

[Anonymous Coward]

The solution for the registration problems was to download Mozilla'a currect release candidate (1.4 something) and use that to register instead.

So one benefit of all this is that thousands of folks have now downloaded and used Mozilla that had probably never heard of it before today :)

Re:Han Solo Solution

[Winterblink]

Yeah but this is 2003... Lucas would make it so the server smacked Han first.