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Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite
Impy the Impiuos Imp writes "Sony is apparently merging out of existence half its Star Wars: Galaxies servers. In spite of a number of innovative features (three health bars, choreograph-able dancing, music you can coordinate between several players, 'your own R2 unit and 3PO,' programmable droids, and so on), a complete overhaul of the combat system, designed to simplify it and make it more action-oriented, actually drove away more people than it attracted. It soon thereafter retired to that great, Sony one-fee-for-all stable of aging and also-rans in the sky. Still on life support, it was preceded in death by Sony foster brother The Matrix Online."
In a move borrowed from Gilette, Sony will relaunch as Star Wars Galaxies 2 with five health bars.
Good job trying to be clever with the title and summary, but which is it!?!? "Encased in carbonite" or "out of existence?" Man, that's as bas as CNN anchor Kyra Phillips saying that a dancing Imperial stormtrooper looked like it needed some WD-40 the other day, as if stormtroopers are robots or something. Blasphemy. Now I'm angry.
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Mr. cyberjock1980? George Lucas is on line one for you.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You don't release a game and then change everything about it.
It sounds like they did a bang-up job of recreating the George Lucas Experience.
Never give up, never surrender!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
Only if they had a compelling environment, interesting characters, but extremely unfortunate dialogue.
I'm 28, and I have.. So we've got that narrowed down pretty solidly.
That's nothing MY health bar has five bars AND VIBRATES!
It's been a long time.
You can easily judge by telling this old joke:
"What do net addicts and navy pilots have in common? Both freak out when their display shows them NO CARRIER."
If they laugh, they're old enough.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.