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Sony & LucasArts Muck Up The Force

Posted by Zonk on from the when-mainstream-press-gets-involved-you-know-you-screwed-up dept.

dakotamangus writes "Players of the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies are feeling a bit like the films' besieged rebel army these days. To them, LucasArts is the evil Empire, raining down terror in their alternate universe. Says Nancy MacIntyre, the game's senior director at LucasArts: 'There was lots of reading, much too much, in the game. There was a lot of wandering around learning about different abilities. We really needed to give people the experience of being Han Solo or Luke Skywalker rather than being Uncle Owen, the moisture farmer. We wanted more instant gratification: kill, get treasure, repeat. We needed to give people more of an opportunity to be a part of what they have seen in the movies rather than something they had created themselves.'" These latest mainstream press articles are just the latest examples of the profound backlash the NGE has wrought among the SWG player community.

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  1. Re:Wrong, Wrong, Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Her industry credits include such stellar titles as "*NSYNC Fantasy Phone Hotline" *shudder*

    http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/deve loperId,69075/

    WTH was Jim Ward (pres of LucasArts and V.P. Marketing LucasFilm) thinking??