Star Wars Galaxies - Fastest Selling MMOG Ever

Thanks to several readers for pointing to a LucasArts press release announcing Star Wars Galaxies has attracted more than 125,000 users in its first week, an all-time MMORPG sales record, and something LucasArts call "..the single most successful introduction of an MMO to date." This PC MMORPG is thus far proving extremely popular, despite teething troubles, and the press release also mentions the development team "..is working on a variety of new features, such as player-owned ground vehicles and player cities, along with substantial new content to be added on a regular basis throughout the coming months."

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So they sell it fast. Big deal

[Anonymous Coward]

The whole point is to keep the players in game so you can feed off them like some cheap crack dealer.

Give it 6 months then look at the figures. A lot of friends who left the MMORPG I play in have since come back to the game (Neocron), so the taste of the game is going to appeal more to SW Fanbois and EQ junkies. :)

Re:So they sell it fast. Big deal

[analog_line]

I play DAoC, and there are a hell of a lot of people who I WISH would leave and go play Galaxies instead.

The unfortunate thing is that too few of them actually are. Else it'd be a much more civil atmosphere to actually play the game as opposed to getting lectured for not supporting your realm, or not falling in line behind some self-styled gestapo.

And if this was surprising....

[analog_line]

...you obviously don't live on the same planet as I do.

Not only that, it's likely to take a lot from Everquest, as so far as I've seen, it's designed to be the single most addictive thing on the planet next to crack and refined sugar. Everything seems to be designed to make it harder than ever to put the thing down for a few hours and go to sleep, never mind holding down a job.

Staying WELL away from this bugger. I am SO not interested.

Please stop these boring SWG advertisements

[samsarajr]

Please stop these boring SWG advertisements - we've heard enough already and the game it pretty boring. Account will run out by the end of this month thank god...

Re:Fast selling...but can they maintain it?

[Winterblink]

I agree, totally. The industry's not stupid, they've clued in a long time ago that we'll shell out money up front for a broken product. That, and in the case of MMORPGS, we'll continue to shell out money for a broken product. I can understand patches to fix things like balance issues and bugs, but what they did with SWG is appalling. It's half the game it should be; I mean come on, it's STAR WARS for pete's sake, where's my space ships? The starship combat? Coming in an expansion pack they say, when it should have been there in the first place. Let my voice of dissent against his crap be heard, with my wallet (or the lack thereof).