Star Wars Galaxies - Patch Woes?

An anonymous reader writes "Now that Sony has restricted their Star Wars Galaxies forums to players only, it is unlikely that any non-players would know about the major problems happening with this game. The largest patch in several months was planned for release yesterday. A scheduled 4 hour downtime to install the patch turned into a 16+ hour downtime for most players, sparking a huge outrage in the SWG community. Sony's forums quickly became overloaded, and instead of responding to issues, the moderators went to work deleting as many complaint posts as they could. To make matters worse, once the servers did come back online, it seems that the patch has caused more problems than it has solved." Are complaints about SWG down to a vocal (unrepresentative?) minority, or is there a more general level of dissatisfaction with the game?

Comments

Is it really necessary...

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...to bring this sort of whine to /.? It's bad enough that this sort of thing fouls the SW:G fora.

It's underhanded and dishonest to bring your rants to places like /., just because the folks at SOE won't let you belittle the developers and curse and whine and rant on their forums.

Yes, the patch has a few problems. Yes, it took longer than anticipated to complete the patch rollout yesterday.

No, there is no grand conspiracy to undermine the game. No, the game is not dying. No, SOE is not censoring bug reports and problem discussion: they're locking threads from the myriad juveniles and emotional cripples on the SW:G fora who have nothing more to contribute than profanity-laden invective and threats.

It's a real shame I'm out of moderator points currently; this entire story needs to be modded down to the level of troll.