Star Wars Galaxies Forums Turn Player-Only

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @09:14AM from the can't-peek-over-fence dept.

mwbay writes "A note from the Star Wars Galaxies Forums indicates that starting today, SOE will be hiding the PC MMORPG's forums from the non-paying public. Raph Koster submitted this response [on the now-inaccessible forums]: 'It isn't really that we have anything to hide. We spend a lot of time on the boards here talking to you, and I don't think we have been shy about confronting controversial issues... But yeah, publicity is at the heart of it. The heart of the matter is will a game's Internet forums ever be a source of positive publicity post-launch? And I'd suggest to you that the answer is no... Someone who isn't a player has no idea exactly how widespread a given issue is.' It is certainly well within SOE's rights to do what they want with their boards, but isn't this a bit extreme?"

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Re:if you ask me... by Crockerboy · 2003-09-09 10:29 · Score: 3, Informative

Smaller than Expected? The games been out 2 months and they've already had over 275k accounts..making it the second largest MMOG in the United States..Second only to SOE's flagship product Everquest.

That is a hell of a lot of people, making this game a far cry from disapointing.