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New Update for Star Wars Galaxies

by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 04, 2006 11:55am PDT

Related Topics – LucasArts, StarWars

LucasArts has announced that the Chapter 2: The Talus Incident update for Star Wars Galaxies is now available. The update features a new adventure, a Profession Expertise System for Jedi and Bounty Hunters, additional Galactic Civil War PvP bases, and character appearance enhancements.

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totally forgot this game existed.

Aug 04, 2006 12:15pm PDT

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totally forgot this game existed. : burning eye
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  Seriously, does anyone play it anymore? If so, why!? : Azure013
  - They are either die hard SW fanboi's or SOE fanboi's where in their minds neither can do no wrong no matt... : bored

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oh the behind the scenes dev tales I could tell about this game. Suffice it to say it was a comedy of errors. So many rushed patches and arbitrary decisions during development which completely disregarded what people actually wanted.

RIP - this game was fun for the first 8 months if you got into the wonderful economy it had in the beginning.

Aug 04, 2006 4:45pm PDT

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oh the behind the scenes dev tales I could tell about this game. Suffice it to say it was a comedy of er... : grandmasterlee
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  so, you were on the team when it was released? Why did they release when they did and not wait about 6... : Nation
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    Because it was deemed "good enough" and the PR engine was already in motion. : grandmasterlee
    - Thank you for stating something I and and other beta's knew at the time. It was pushed out because of th... : bored
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  The economy was great the first few months, I had great fun setting up shop with prime real estate and be... : kingmofo
  - and too bad cross server harvester farms destroyed that economy : grandmasterlee

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And in related news, the recent SWG episode causes crash to desktops within the first 10 minutes of a new player's game! Some empirical links:

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/88922
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/89008

Please, if you haven't tried SWG and are interested in the game, please do yourself a favor and stay the hell away from it.

Aug 04, 2006 5:53pm PDT

And in related news, the recent SWG episode causes crash to desktops within the first 10 minutes of a new... : xpaladin

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The best update they can make is the one that turns the servers off.

Aug 04, 2006 5:45pm PDT

The best update they can make is the one that turns the servers off. : jonin

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it bugs me because it'd be easy enough for SOE to fix this game... but they dont...

Aug 04, 2006 12:42pm PDT

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it bugs me because it'd be easy enough for SOE to fix this game... but they dont... : Bantis
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  Played this for awhile, I was also in the beta. This game will never be fixed. ever. Mostly because SOE ... : vertdang
  - Did you play it with the NGE, and if yes, what do you think of the game with them? The original releas... : yuried
- They won't fix it, no. Fixing it would mean having to go back to the release game and working from there ... : sinclair4217

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Video of the new features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQyULYBDxk

Aug 04, 2006 12:13pm PDT

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Video of the new features. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQyULYBDxk : dangerdoggie
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- That looks like the gayest thing ever : peetabix01