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Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches
If you already play the Massively Multiplayer Game Star Wars Galaxies, you're undoubtedly already aware that the Jump to Lightspeed space expansion officially launched today. For the rest of us, there are some details on the developer side regarding the ramp up to release available on the official site. Details on the experience of the new expansion is available at Gamespot and PC.IGN. More ... colourful analysis can be found on Grimwell's boards, and N3rfed has a post discussing the fact that the rest of the world has to wait until November 5th for their space-goodies.
MMORPGs should be free. Anything where they charge you to live is a ripoff.
Trivial?
I'm sorry, but $40 a month is DEFINITELY not trivial. Even $15 a month is a tidy sum and not to be considered trivial. Unless you happen to be another one of these snot-nosed little rich daddy's kids.
At $40 a month, plus the $50 for the original game and $50 every 6 months for the latest expansion, that's $580 a year. Even at $15 a month, that's $280 a year. For one, simple, freaking, game. A game you can play a max of probably 2 or 3 hours a day during the week (if you want to waste every day in front of your computer); and maybe another 6 or 7 hours a day each weekend (again, if you want to waste every day away in front of your computer).
Sure, if your parents spoil you, pay for all your little toys, and have a maid to wipe your butt, fine. But when you work 50 hours a week, and have 50 bazillion other responsibilities to take care of, you can only afford maybe 5 hours during the week and another 8 hours on the weekends, total. And that's only if you don't have any other hobbies - building rockets, fiddling with electronics, etc (like most geeks do).