StarWars Games

Because StarWars is so damn cool, here's a couple of bits on upcoming StarWars games. Firstly here is a huge update on StarWars Galaxies (the MMORPG Verant game, Thanks VE) This is in response to the story yesterday, I Wanna Be A Stormtrooper!

We can do all of these things without having player stormtroopers. In fact, if you're a stormtrooper, most of these things are off-limits. A stormtrooper is shock troops and guards, and that is all they do. Heck, when one wanders away from his post guarding the Falcon in the first movie, he gets a call in under ten seconds demanding to know where he went! We don't see part-time stormtroopers anywhere in the fiction that I know of [...] letting you participate in politics, have your own player association, engage in crafting, visit the cantina, mine for rare crystals, and hunt wamp-rats--are much easier to do for you if you're reservists, covert ops, special agents, and so on. We even assumed people would get ahold of stormtrooper armor and pretend to be stormtroopers (we joked about having real ones, if they figured it out, shoot you on sight!). But BE stormtroopers? Nah--and THAT'S what I meant by saying "I just don't see any way to make stormtroopers work."