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SWG Leak Reveals Playable Jawa, Gungan Characters?

Posted by simoniker on from the jawa-jawa-jawa dept.

Anonymous SWG Fan writes "Through a 'Friday Feature' giving players a look inside the player-species statistics for their PC MMO, 'Star Wars: Galaxies' accidentally released the names of the secret two player species coming with the highly anticipated 'Jump To Lightspeed' expansion. This information was not supposed to be released until later this summer, but when putting up the statistics on current species, 'Jawa - 0%' and 'Gungan - 0%' appeared. They were removed almost immediately, but not before dozens of people had already posted about the mistake on the official Star Wars Galaxies forum." Update: 06/12 21:38 GMT by S : According to Community Manager Kevin 'Q-3PO' O'Hara in the same thread: "OK, OK, it was a joke. I will not confirm or deny any rumors about the two new species" - make of this what you will.

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  1. The devs are playing it off as a joke... by imyourfoot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... in the linked thread. I can that going either way; it could be true, or it could just be CMA. I have a hard time thinking they'd put gungans in there, though. With the widespread hatred (or at least distaste) for episode 1 and Jar Jar in particular, it seems like a player who picked them would be asking for trouble. Then again, I don't actually play SWG, so take that as the expert thought that it is (not).

    1. Re:The devs are playing it off as a joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's possible that this was deliberate - they "leaked" the information to gauge people's reaction. When it turned out to be unpopular, they could just claim that it was a joke all along, but if it had been a hit the races would have been introduced.

  2. SW Revisionism by bluethundr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...They were removed almost immediately, but not before dozens of people had already posted about the mistake on the official Star Wars Galaxies forum."

    C'mon man! The Star Wars universe has ALWAYS been about Soviet style revisionism with Lucas playing the part of Ulianov! Hey, it's HIS toy universe so if you don't like his choices well, he's already got his billions. so nyah!

    Need I go into specifics? Greedo...blah...George going all schizo on "Yes there is/No There won't be" a third trilogy (he claims both at various points in his career)...blah....Natalie Portman to be "photoshopped" into DVD release of SW SE ...blah....

    Long and the short, let's cut to the chase, shall we? When it comes to something that either will/will not happen with the Star Wars universe, whatever my degree of fanboy nerdniness on the matter at any given point in my life I just "go all zen" about the topic. Either it happens, or it don't. I just don't get my panties in a wad over ANY SW crap anymore. Or maybe, hopefully, I'm just getting too old to care! :)

    I do like SWG, but unfortunately life prevents me from getting too much into it. Plus, I was turned off by the lousy physics. Can you still walk through walls on this game, or have they fixed that?

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