A little bug for sure and certainly not game-stopping, but it just shows how bad EA's/Dice's QA process is. This is by far the buggiest game I have ever played. Shit, to even get it to install I had to reboot into SAFE MODE. And installing 1.12 on a new copy is a crapshoot, you never know how it's going to turn up. EA is lucky that this game is actually fun - if it wasn't, myself and I'm sure many others would have given up a long time ago. I'm just resigning myself to not buy any "booster" pack until the core game is fixed.

Seems that someone who claims to have taken part in the "Los Angeles SWG research focus group" yesterday has posted details about the 2 hour session.
From their post:
"The discussion began with a round-robin introduction and telling what we felt the best and worst aspects of Galaxies are. Then the real discussion began. The moderator brought out three pamphlets. One, which I believe was entitled Paths To Power, outlined the implementation of a Dark Side/Light Side path a la KOTOR, for every profession. It also went into detail about re-doing missions as either side and seeing the different view on things, different abilities for each, etc. The group was very much interested.

The second was entitled "The Galactic Civil War" and I'm sure you can imagine what it outlined: bringing the GCW back to prominence. It discussed controlling Star Destroyers and Blockade Runners, but also seemed to deadlock players as either Imperial or Rebel. The third outline basically discussed morphing Galaxies into Battlefront II, complete with having iconic characters not only immediately available during your mission, but for you to be able to -- yes, you're actually reading this -- play as movie characters. The group was not pleased. Then he told us that these were possibilities for expansion packs, not publish updates.

The final question/topic was whether we'd choose any one of the pamphlet outlines to add to the game, or if we'd prefer for them to work on bringing things back that were taken out. As soon as he was done talking, the group said "Rollback" almost as one. The moderator seemed like he saw that coming, because he'd probably heard the term a dozen times already from the other groups.

So there you have it. They're either going to continue the trend of "Expansion Packs aren't necessary (nudge nudge wink wink)", or, if they go by what the focus group asked, we will see a rollback of some degree. The number one issue brought to the moderator when he asked about the biggest negatives in Galaxies was the lack of diversity in professions and the overwhelming letdown that was the NGE for people like musicians, creature handlers, smugglers, etc. He was finishing sentences for us because he had obviously heard quite a bit about it in the previous groups. THAT'S ALL FOLKS"

That certainly doesn't sound very good. I remember Morrowind running like a dog for me till I got a ... wait a second, it still runs like a dog. Hope Oblivion visited the optimization shrine a bit more often.

DDO is easily the biggest MMORPG let down in recent memmory. Talk about taking a huge franchise and throwing it away.

I would love to see the film based nearly entirely on the prince... there would be minimal dialogue, a lot of action and climbing, minimal mood setting music, etc - it would be a real change from your typical Holywood pap. Otherwise it's just playing off the PoP brand.