Star Wars Galaxies: JTL Release Date Confirmed

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Star Wars Galaxies: JTL Release Date Confirmed

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @02:45AM from the use-the-force-luuuuke0087 dept.

Thanks to GameGossip for the news that the Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed expansion has been confirmed for an October 27th release. The expansion adds space combat, two new player races, and a bunch of new emotes.

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GREAT! by Neck_of_the_Woods · 2004-10-20 02:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

Get ready for the "Tie Nerf", and "X-wing" buffs.

ebay x-wing sales.

and Why can't my a-wing have blaster shields?

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by blueZhift · 2004-10-20 03:06 · Score: 3, Interesting

With JTL coming out, I'm tempted to take a look at SWG again, especially since I now have the hardware to run it better. Still, I'm going to wait and see. It'll be interesting to see if the JTL action cannibalizes "ground" activities. I know it's all the same game, but I have a hunch that we're about to see something of a split.

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1. Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by falcon5768 · 2004-10-20 03:40 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  what Im interested in is if people on the ground will SEE your ship taking off and landing..
  In FFXI when someone leaves on a airship the people in the surounding area SEES the airship leave or fly overhead... which can really be cool if your in the next zone and the airship flies overhead for a landing in Jeuno. Likewise while on the airship you can see the ground with all the terrain changes and such.
  I mean if you cant even see the people leave in the starships then you can become very shielded to the fact the ability even exists.
  
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2. Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:15 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Nope you don't see the ship take up. You go to the star port and click a terminal, choose your ship and a loading screen comes up. All anyone on the ground sees is you disappearing.
3. Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by Dekks · 2004-10-20 07:18 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  To be honest, I wouldn't bother, I'm in beta and while its fun, I can't see it lasting me more than a month. The original Tie-Fighter still has a better engine than this and was more fun. Don't get me wrong, customizing your ship and reverse engineering looted ship parts is enjoyable, but once you've mastered becoming a pilot (takes about three weeks) and got the best ship, it quickly becomes mediocre. Thats my two cents.
4. Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by EngineeringMarvel · 2004-10-20 08:33 · Score: 1
  
  I played SWG for about two months until I got bored of the game. I started during the FilePlanet free trial a few months ago and I was not impressed with this game. There wasn't much to do since the game is mostly grinders and exploiters.
  
  I was tempted to wait it out until JTL was released, but I just couldn't find anything fun to do. Now that JTL is about to be released, I will not return to the game. SOE's reputation of not listening to the SWG gaming community is very poor. They did add content, but none of it was really fun, meanwhile, all the looming problems that most of the community wanted to fix remained as a problem. I suggest you don't go back to the game and save your money. I don't see SWG lasting too long.
  
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Don't be a sucker! by glowimperial · 2004-10-20 03:09 · Score: 5, Insightful

As a veteran SWG player, my advice is to stay the hell away from SWG and it's expansion for at least 3 months. It is extremely likely that the bugs that this expansion ships with and the exploits it makes possible will make the game suck even more for several months. The core game still suffers from serious problems that were known in its beta and have been irritating customers since launch.

They are trying to get this product to market before EQ2 and WoW divide and conquer the MMO retail dollar, and from SOE, an early or on time launch means you are paying to be in beta.
1. Re:Don't be a sucker! by idlethought · 2004-10-20 04:25 · Score: 1
  
  I think this is unfair. The majority of the problems that trouble players day to day are entirely new one created since the game launched. The Jedi Infestation, The (Revamped) Purposelessness of the Droid Engineer, The Eternally Postponed Combat Revamp.. But, if you consider the game far to bugged to play, then probably you need to increase your dosage. There are a vast and unmeasured sea of problems. But unless your terminally stressed and anal they aren't game-breakers. As for JTL.. well NDA.
Expansion by igzat · 2004-10-20 03:30 · Score: 0

a.k.a. another way for game companies to milk more cash from would-be buyers. Definitely much easier than releases a whole new game. An expansion can be put together in a matter of 6-7 months. I guess it has it's good and bad sides. Sorry, don't mean to be negative. I'm sure it's a decent expansion.

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Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth things. by Polarism · 2004-10-20 03:45 · Score: 2, Informative

This must mean the expansion is complete garbage if the NDA is still up (was up as of a couple days ago talking to the IGN site manager for SWG).

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hmmm Star - Wars by JavaLord · 2004-10-20 04:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, now they will try to add the "Stars" to the non-existant wars in Star Wars Galaxies. This will have little effect on the overall way the game is played.

This game isn't at all about wars and it really won't be about stars either. It's the sims online in a "star wars" like theme. I would expect the emotes and new player races to have a bigger impact on the game than space combat.
FUCK THE NDA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 04:50 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm in beta, and happy to answer any questions you might have. To answer your first, yes it's more of the same "plenty of potential, half-assed implementation with a side order of mind-numbing fun-draining grind" you've come to expect from Sony Online Entertainment.
1. Re:FUCK THE NDA by Dekks · 2004-10-20 07:21 · Score: 1
  
  I concur sir. 3 Weeks of casual playing to master pilot, see all ships and pilot most of the ships. So whats left? I'm sure the new content will unfortunuately be one large impossibly hard mission each month e.g "Rebels, attack this star destroy being defended by 1000 ties/Imperials, defend this star destroyer being attacked by 1000 x-wings" a la corvette.
Great! by antigrimace · 2004-10-20 04:58 · Score: 1

I know I can wait! Now back to modding Fable. >=)
track record by Zhirem · 2004-10-20 05:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

For what it is worth:

SWG has a VERY sketchy track record. The company that runs it has been at best deceptive about where the game is going and getting bugs fixed, balance issues addressed, give some point to the Galactic Civil War, etc. etc. etc.

Do NOT expect JtL to be ANY better than SWG was at launch. Buggy, laggy, etc. Read up on some of the forum information at it appears that the JtL expansion is more poorly developed than Earth and Beyond was. That speaks volumes.

Frankly, SOE nor LA will ever see another dime from me. And with good reason. HUGE potential squandered. If LA retakes leadership and implementation of this game, it MIGHT get better, but I have little faith of that either.

The new crop of MMORPG's will chew most of the meat out of SWG, and leave it what it deserves to be: an also ran.

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1. Re:track record by aelbric · 2004-10-20 06:14 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Agreed. When the developers admitted that they didn't put a lot of thought into the Galactic Civil War I knew this game was an implosion waiting to happen.
  
  And now they're going to try and add space combat? Be afraid, be very afraid.
  
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Goodbye by jlefeld · 2004-10-20 07:00 · Score: 1

Guess it is time to say goodbye to a friend.
JTL...thumbs down by Comrade64 · 2004-10-20 08:57 · Score: 1

Better yet, don't come back until they really get finished improving it and making all the changes. I loved playing SWG at first...I even had a blast roleplaying in it. I played one of the tradeskills that was unltimately broken at launch and made it work well...very well...I was pulling in millions of credits a day..then the devs completely revamped my profession and took away my really good things to make and threw in the holocron rampaged that made it really suck. Everyone was grinding holocrons for their Jedi, and then they changed that. It just cheapened the game to basically reveal how to become a jedi. It should have been a huge secret forever and then people could just enjoy playing the game. They should have fixed the skills that needed fixing when they needed it, adding tweaks and pokes when they needed to instead of retooling the whole game engine in cycles that have far outlasted the game's playability. I loved this game and they destroyed and cheapened it.

Now, it's less than a mediocre game that still has more than 80% of the promised improvements just over the horizon of the future. We should not be paying for new races in an expansion. Maybe a new planet or six, but not two new races. Have many MMORPGs made a routine commitment to add new content and new races for free? They keep pushing off the needed improvements to get the expansion out there and they've just made a confused pile of worthless code and content that is about to get thrown into the trash compactor when the game folds next year.

I tried the JTL Beta. I keep trying it every week even though I get nasty-grams every couple days wishing me to come back to beta...I'm there!! I was just on!!! I'm trying to like it!! But I don't.

I was in SWG in beta and I had high hopes for it. October 27, 2004, will be known in throughout the galaxy as the day SWG finally died..it's also the same exact day my subscription runs out.

BTW-I don't think Lucas Arts could do anything to help SOE improve it. Look at the crap GL did to the GL revised editions of the movies. (Let's not open that discussion again, but just say that change can be good, and can be bad). If they improve..and there's a chance, then I might be back, but it will take months for them to improve it, and months for them to prove it to me.

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Re:Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth thin by Cosmik · 2004-10-20 10:38 · Score: 1

Huh? No NDA-breaking info was said here.
JTL by masterjn · 2004-10-21 02:09 · Score: 1

Swim away! Swim away! Swim away! SWG = Nerf this JTL = Nerf this (in space) Swim away! Swim away! Swim away!
Re:Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth thin by Polarism · 2004-10-21 07:15 · Score: 1

I know, but the mere fact that the NDA is STILL up a week before retail release....

is not good.

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