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.
Urza, your forgetting 2 things. 1) it's a Beta, 2) The Beta Ain't over.
and 3 thru whatever) Just reading through your post is hillariously wrong on so many accounts, like swimming, the bazaar, combat etc etc etc.
WTF do people even sign up to beta test games, except to bitch about all the stuff that's not fixed, ya know there is a reason it's called a BETA.
What I'd really like Urza do to is take his post print it out, and on the 24th or 25th when the Beta is ended go back through his list and see if it's the same or not. I'd be money half his list would be checked off.
Edited for more content cause Urza just pisses me off to no end.
(Further Content here)
What is the goal of Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tourney, Quake3, Everquest, Planetside, Ultima Online, Anarachy Online, ETC ETC ETC? There is no end goal, except to achieve the best you can. In SWG the goal is to Unlock the Force Sensitive Character, keep them alive and Hopefully become a Jedi Master. As for Content? Yeah there is a bunch of open area with not much to do but random mobs, but hey look at EQ when it came out, and look at it today.
Not to mention Player Vehicles and Player Starship coming soon as well.
"The last successful MMORPG, DAoC , was stable throughout beta and shipped stable. Why? Because it was a second generation MMOG, and they learned from the past, and they made a stable gae like modern game designers should be able to do."
Funny I didn't know the game shipped yet, and of right now in beta it's pretty damn stable, as mentioned today when you sign on, the majority of any crashes they have now are due to outdated drivers.
"What happened guys? One of you must know how to set up a database so it doesn't crash the server every 3 hours. One of you must have designed a quest system at one time. Some of you helped design the most successful MMORPGs out there. What happened? On top of all the things missing from the game, don't any of you know how to set up a server so that it's stable?"
Um, ever hear of server loads? Noone can predict how hosting thousands of players in a game like this will do on a server, one of the things they do in the last stages of any MMORPG Beta is Server Balancing.
I give up, there are so many holes in his post it's disgusting. I think this is a person who was either a) in the beta for about a week and quit, cause they don't understand what BETA means, or b) has heard it all second via the beta boards or someone else who is in the beta.
This comment was edited on Jun 22, 14:21.
and 3 thru whatever) Just reading through your post is hillariously wrong on so many accounts, like swimming, the bazaar, combat etc etc etc.
WTF do people even sign up to beta test games, except to bitch about all the stuff that's not fixed, ya know there is a reason it's called a BETA.
What I'd really like Urza do to is take his post print it out, and on the 24th or 25th when the Beta is ended go back through his list and see if it's the same or not. I'd be money half his list would be checked off.
Edited for more content cause Urza just pisses me off to no end.
(Further Content here)
What is the goal of Battlefield 1942, Unreal Tourney, Quake3, Everquest, Planetside, Ultima Online, Anarachy Online, ETC ETC ETC? There is no end goal, except to achieve the best you can. In SWG the goal is to Unlock the Force Sensitive Character, keep them alive and Hopefully become a Jedi Master. As for Content? Yeah there is a bunch of open area with not much to do but random mobs, but hey look at EQ when it came out, and look at it today.
Not to mention Player Vehicles and Player Starship coming soon as well.
"The last successful MMORPG, DAoC , was stable throughout beta and shipped stable. Why? Because it was a second generation MMOG, and they learned from the past, and they made a stable gae like modern game designers should be able to do."
Funny I didn't know the game shipped yet, and of right now in beta it's pretty damn stable, as mentioned today when you sign on, the majority of any crashes they have now are due to outdated drivers.
"What happened guys? One of you must know how to set up a database so it doesn't crash the server every 3 hours. One of you must have designed a quest system at one time. Some of you helped design the most successful MMORPGs out there. What happened? On top of all the things missing from the game, don't any of you know how to set up a server so that it's stable?"
Um, ever hear of server loads? Noone can predict how hosting thousands of players in a game like this will do on a server, one of the things they do in the last stages of any MMORPG Beta is Server Balancing.
I give up, there are so many holes in his post it's disgusting. I think this is a person who was either a) in the beta for about a week and quit, cause they don't understand what BETA means, or b) has heard it all second via the beta boards or someone else who is in the beta.
This comment was edited on Jun 22, 14:21.
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