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Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-nobody's-coming-to-save-them dept.

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."

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  1. May it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    rot in hell! They ruined what was a great game and alienated most of the existing player base. I am surprised it lasted this long.

  2. Re:Good by negRo_slim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have nothing against SW: Galaxies, but I'm glad to see it failing. If only because Sony owns it. I hope anything and everything that Sony touches fails miserably. They deserve it.

    I disagree.
    When I was a kid I enjoyed my Walkman, the Trinitron was great albeit a bit heavy. And EverQuest was quite spectacular for it's time.

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  3. A foot in the grave but not dead by tetsukaze · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sony is shutting down half the servers. One half, leaving approximately one other half. This is actually good for everybody. The remaining players will actually get to play with other people, the whole point of MMOs I'm told. In addition Sony gets to spend less money supporting the game which is good for them. Oh yeah, we get to rail on Galaxies. That's good too.

  4. Re:When will they get it??? by Fluffeh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't release a game and then change everything about it.

    You do if basically EVERYONE playing your game is asking that you do in fact change them. As a player, I wanted them to overhaul the combat system so that it actually promoted grouping with other players. That's the general consensus of everyone that played it. The downside was that while they did overhaul it, they totally repeated the same thing and made it ungroupable.

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  5. Re:Brillant! by Hork_Monkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you've never experienced the rage of when someone picked up the phone and interrupted the 3 hour download of 1 porn pic, you haven't lived.

  6. Re:Innovative features by rjhubs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but in what other game could running out of mana kill you?