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John Smedley On The New Galaxies
Gamespot has part one of an extensive interview with SOE CEO John Smedley about the recent and controversial changes made to Star Wars Galaxies. From the article: "Star Wars never hit that excitement level around here. It never got--there never was a critical mass of people here that wanted to play it. So we knew we could do way better. And I guess as much out of a love for making these kinds of games, even though that sounds corny, though it's true, we wanted to make this game better." We had our own talk with Mr. Smedley not too long ago.
The NY Times article is a perfect example of what has happened to many of US!!! The veteran SWG player base who've played since or launch, often with multiple accounts -- were very powerful, wealthy and able characters in game. SWG was the only game I played, even though I own many many games. These were *VERY* happy times for me, making friends in game and me and my brother reliving our childhood. This article serves to inform the public who aren't privy to the game concrete proof that the NGE was a failure -- not Mr. Smedley's and the rest of the SOE goons twisted take on reality.
My request to SOE is to release the original server code to the community and let us do it ourselves. As far as content is concerned, the player base was the content for me. Since my entire guild and brother left after the NGE, the new game just isn't worth it. My reasoning is this - I paid $80 for your game. Now the product is totally different than what is written on the game box. The manual is freaking worthless because the game is so different.
It sounds to me that since EQ2 isn't doing as well as they hoped, SOE just opted for a half-assed remake of SWG instead of SWG 2? Either that or a developer went postal on them in an unusual way.
Well here's a free idea to SOE: Allow players who reached the end game ne allowed to create areas, items, etc. I played on a mud (genocide) and when you reached the highest level a player gets to create their own realm.
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Piki Punobi [SK]
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