Star Wars Galaxies Date & Subscriptions [Jun 17, 2003, 2:45 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A press release
on The Star Wars Galaxies Website (thanks Jody Overstreet and SWG
Warcry) has a release date for the Star Wars MMORPG as well as a description
of the game's subscription plans. Here's a bit:
LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment Inc. today announced Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, the highly anticipated initial installment of the first Star Wars massively multiplayer online (MMO) game series, will release June 26, 2003. The Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided online fan community now exceeds more than 500,000 registered members.
At launch Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided will offer four subscription plan options: Month-to-month - $14.99; three months - $14.00 per month; six months - $13.00 per month; and 12 months - $12.00 per month. By subscribing to any of the latter three plans, players can expect savings of up to 20 percent over the month-to-month rate. Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided has a suggested retail price of $49.95, and includes a 30-day subscription to the game. A special collector's edition, which includes a book of game-related art, in-game wearables, pewter figurine, lapel pin and patch, and a signed manual, will be available for a suggested retail price of $79.95.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan and have been looking forward to this game. As one of the select few hundred to participate in the beta 1 I was understandably excited. I waited through all the lag, server outages, downtimes, bugs, fixes, patches, more bugs, tweaking, etc and waited and waited. And suddenly SOE announces the game is shipping?
I sighed.
Unfortunately, what most of these posts here are saying about the game not being ready is true. It needs probably 8 to 12 months more before the bugs and gameplay problems can be fixed and tuned. And $15 a month is simply crazy! How can they honestly charge us that to further beta test this game for them?
Being a huge Star Wars fan I buy pretty much everything, but I refuse to buy this when I know it isn't ready. Maybe in another year I'll pick it up.
I sighed.
Unfortunately, what most of these posts here are saying about the game not being ready is true. It needs probably 8 to 12 months more before the bugs and gameplay problems can be fixed and tuned. And $15 a month is simply crazy! How can they honestly charge us that to further beta test this game for them?
Being a huge Star Wars fan I buy pretty much everything, but I refuse to buy this when I know it isn't ready. Maybe in another year I'll pick it up.
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