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Turmoil has engulfed the galactic republic. The transmogrification of character development in outlaying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a deployment of updated starter kits, the greedy LucasArts-SOE federation has stopped all creature handler classes while the citizens of the Old Republic endlessly debate the motives behind this alarming chain of events.
The latest public outcries are brought to us courtesy of Yahoo! Games as they examine the reasons behind the relaunching of Star Wars Galaxies and its efforts to appeal to more casual gamers. Apparently, hardcore fans of the original MMO have even resorted to defiling copies of the new starter kits on store shelves. I feel a great disturbance in the Force.



















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Has it not been long enough a time for the different mmorpg people to start reppin by vandalising other games' boxes and what not? C'mon Eve people start maintaining your territory!
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In the Cit-ay....City of Heroes...keep it rockin'...
I can't wait until people start drive-ganking.
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Now they have a mess on their hands.
idiots.
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I loved reliving the part in Empire Strikes Back where Han and Chewie spend 18 hours killing rabbits in order to be able to shoot at bigger rabbits better. It was so evocative of Star Wars.
Or it was a sign of how completely derivative and fundamentally flawed this game was from launch.
After two days I was so bored and annoyed I created a toon named Jorge Lukas who astonishingly resembled George Lucas with uncanny realism.
I ran around and suggested to people they could tip me to beat up George to make up for Episode I. I made a ton of money.
Then I ran around asking people to teach me "Screenwriting II"
I got banned and never played again.
It's obvious they're trying to make this SW - WoW now.
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MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER... Well, with people leaving in droves (my friend-list with over 100 entries has only three people still playing), one can now do a /who in Coronet City, Corellia and instead of having "the list was truncated because there were too many players that matched your enquiry", it now says there are THREE players, one of which is yourself.
ONLINE: Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but instead of playing 8 hours per day or more when I have time, I log on for an hour now and then to see if any friends are on, play the trader profession and make some stuff, or lament the loss of all my pets when they cancelled my Profession of Master Creature Handler that I've played and earned over the last two years. There are very few players "online" anymore.
ROLE PLAYING GAME: Sorry, but this is no longer an RPG... It is now an FPS or FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. It is UNREAL TOURNAMENT and DUKE NUKEM with over-sized maps that never reset. Problem is, there are no FPSs that you pay a monthly subscription for, are there? FPSs are FREE to play. You buy the game and then that's IT. You don't keep paying and paying and paying for an FPS. SOE & LA don't deserve your money for this idiocy.
Let's change the acronym to something more honest. Really Uninteresting Idiotic Nonsense Especially Designed From Original Requirements Consequently Augmented with Stupid Hacks, or RUINED-FOR-CA$H
Account Cancelled, refund for ToOW (Mustafar) obtained, waiting for six-month subscription to expire. Grossly disappointed, and vainly hoping they'll revert back to the REAL game so my friends and I can come back and play, but knowing the game is history, and will close soon, and that sometimes it's just kinder to let something die than to try to keep it alive with extraordinary measures.
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MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER... Well, with people leaving in droves (my friend-list with over 100 entries has only three people still playing), one can now do a /who in Coronet City, Corellia and instead of having "the list was truncated because there were too many players that matched your enquiry", it now says there are THREE players, one of which is yourself.
ONLINE: Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but instead of playing 8 hours per day or more when I have time, I log on for an hour now and then to see if any friends are on, play the trader profession and make some stuff, or lament the loss of all my pets when they cancelled my Profession of Master Creature Handler that I've played and earned over the last two years. There are very few players "online" anymore.
ROLE PLAYING GAME: Sorry, but this is no longer an RPG... It is now an FPS or FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. It is UNREAL TOURNAMENT and DUKE NUKEM with over-sized maps that never reset. Problem is, there are no FPSs that you pay a monthly subscription for, are there? FPSs are FREE to play. You buy the game and then that's IT. You don't keep paying and paying and paying for an FPS. SOE & LA don't deserve your money for this idiocy.
Let's change the acronym to something more honest. Really Uninteresting Idiotic Nonsense Especially Designed From Original Requirements Consequently Augmented with Stupid Hacks, or RUINED-FOR-CA$H
Account Cancelled, refund for ToOW (Mustafar) obtained, waiting for six-month subscription to expire. Grossly disappointed, and vainly hoping they'll revert back to the REAL game so my friends and I can come back and play, but knowing the game is history, and will close soon, and that sometimes it's just kinder to let something die than to try to keep it alive with extraordinary measures.
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