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Star Wars Galaxies - Patch Woes?

Posted by simoniker on from the whine-or-cheese? dept.

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?

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  1. it sucks butt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it sucks butt

  2. it's just a game.. by Scottarius · · Score: 0, Troll

    some people just need to get out a bit more. anything that huge is bound to have some problems, everybody throwing a tantrum about it isn't going to help.

    1. Re:it's just a game.. by jjhlk · · Score: 0, Troll

      Geez man, get a life. Go play some football or get an STD or something.

  3. Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone who is so outraged should cancel their subscription IMMEDIATELY. That is the only way that SOE will learn.

  4. To Heck with MMORPG's Give me more SMMORPG's by jameskojiro · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am having a whole lot more fun playing a Simulated MMORPG. You don't have to worry about buying a network adapter or worring about your cable modem. No lag time and no missing/dropped connections. So much more fun than waiting and waiting to do nothing. Ever since I started playing "dot HACK" I have been thoughly enjoying it very much. Why not just have them develop more games like this and when they figure out how to get all the network crap figured out then we can enjoy some real MMORPG's.

    (Just as long as they run the ALTIMIT OS)

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