The latest
Producer's Letter from the head of Star Wars Galaxies development is in! Chris 'Dotanuki' Fields offers up some encouraging words about the team's plans for
Hoth, which is now on the Test Center server. The Imperial side arrived first for intensive testing, and the Rebel portion of the instance should now be online for debugging as well. There's still no ETA on the new content going live, but testing on TC means it won't be long now before Hoth goes live. Fields compliments players on
the fun seen during the Halloween live event, and notes we may see it as a template for future events in-game. Fields also takes a moment to
reiterate statements we heard from SOE CEO John Smedley: Sony Online has no intention of shutting down
Star Wars Galaxies any time soon.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is still some time off, and they have content planned out for
SWG well through 2009.
Other future plans for
Galaxies include
a new 'promo drop' weekend for TCG cards. That'll be going on this weekend, and the drop rate for the cards has been increased to allow more players to participate! Fields' last note for the month is on Life Day, coming to the Galaxy Far, Far Away next month. Giant tress, gift-giving, a new speeder, and some wackiness inspired by the Star Wars Holiday Special will all be in the offing. Look for the giant wroshyr trees in Dearic (Talus), Doaba Goerfel (Corellia), and Wayfar (Tatooine). Good time to be a Galaxies player, for sure.
Nov 8th 2008 at 9:00AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bissrok said on 9:35AM 11-08-2008
Good time to be a SWG player? Compared to when? Last week? Personally, I preferred it when there were people to play with and there was more to look forward to than an instance featuring "super wampas".
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Lateris said on 10:00AM 11-09-2008
SOE has an expansion they stopped working on. It is to bad they can't release any of that content instead of this rehashed poop we are reading that will be SWG plan for the next year per SOE and Lucas Arts. SOE has had their hands tied with SWG per Lucas Arts.
I feel really bad for the community of SWG. They have been nerfed and swatted over and over again.They receive hand me downs from EQ II which frustrates me as I have played SWG since open beta.
Modders are doing what the devs will not do such as texture updates for the entire game. Some of those texture are amazing such as a complete revamp of every texture in space. And to top it off no one really believes that SWG will remain open except the die hards.
I am off to Eve Online.
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G said on 11:06PM 11-26-2008
Lateris said...
SOE has an expansion they stopped working on.
Which one would that be?
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