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.
There's your problem right there, ArKhaine; you haven't even played it. If you had, you'd realize that there is no where to explore. It's all the same randomly generated landscape (whether it be desert, jungle, forest, etc.).
It's hard to immerse yourself into a game which lacks content. But, I guess you'd know that if you'd actually played it. Quite simply, there's only a few things you can do which are ongoing, and those few things run out in a matter of days. No content!
The issue is not whether it's an action game or a roleplaying game, the issue is that it's not even close to being finished. Yeah, people will buy it. Most likely because they haven't experienced it in beta or because they're Star Wars fanatics. I'm sure some people will even enjoy it, good for them. But as you can see, most of the beta people who have posted here and have experience with previous MMOGs say it's going to be bad at launch. Read some of the longer posts again, they explain why they think it's bad.
This doesn't mean they're biased. Bias means something is prohibiting impartial judgement. I really can't imagine most of these people have some ongoing hatred of Star Wars which would make them give a biased review just to tarnish the game's image. These are their observations about why the game is not ready to be released yet.
And seeing as you haven't even played it, you can neither give a biased nor an unbiased opinion of the game.
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds...
-Bhagavad Gita
It's hard to immerse yourself into a game which lacks content. But, I guess you'd know that if you'd actually played it. Quite simply, there's only a few things you can do which are ongoing, and those few things run out in a matter of days. No content!
The issue is not whether it's an action game or a roleplaying game, the issue is that it's not even close to being finished. Yeah, people will buy it. Most likely because they haven't experienced it in beta or because they're Star Wars fanatics. I'm sure some people will even enjoy it, good for them. But as you can see, most of the beta people who have posted here and have experience with previous MMOGs say it's going to be bad at launch. Read some of the longer posts again, they explain why they think it's bad.
This doesn't mean they're biased. Bias means something is prohibiting impartial judgement. I really can't imagine most of these people have some ongoing hatred of Star Wars which would make them give a biased review just to tarnish the game's image. These are their observations about why the game is not ready to be released yet.
And seeing as you haven't even played it, you can neither give a biased nor an unbiased opinion of the game.
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds...
-Bhagavad Gita
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Some people risk to employ me...
Some people live to destroy me...
...Either way, they die.
Some people risk to employ me...
Some people live to destroy me...
...Either way, they die.
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