Star Wars Galaxies to Shut Down

This week's Community Spotlight is a bit different than our usual spotlights. Today, we're focusing on what the community is saying in the wake of this week's announcement that Star Wars Galaxies will be shutting down later this year. Star Wars Galaxies has had a long and tumultuous run as a game that was once heralded as the ultimate sandbox experience only to fall from grace with the launch of the New Game Experience or "NGE". The implementation of the NGE was divisve to say the least, sparking a mass exodus of players from the game, a downturn the game just never recovered from, despite SOE's ambitious and continuous updates to the service.

So what are MMORPG.com community members saying in reaction to the announcement? We'll be focusing on the responses in Aktalat's thread.

Zinzan doesn't feel many gamers will be bothered by the news:

This has always been a talking point, would they let two SW mmo's run at the same time or would TOR be the end of swg credits. I guess now we know.

Doubt many will be bothered, SWG is the shining example of how to take a brilliant mmo, release it too early, break half the classes, reduce the game to profession grind and then piss off the entire community by completely changing the game into a watered-down version of itself at which time they reaped the biggest single exodus of gamers i think we'll ever see in an mmo.

Misles finds the announcement somewhat bittersweet:

This is one of those bittersweet moments. A part of me is glad to see the abomination that is the NGE now crashing horribly to the ground. And then again, the other part of me is sad to see the IP being shut down. Has Sony Online Entertainment not learned from their star war galaxies credits? Have they not learned that if it wasn't broke, they shouldn't have fixed it? And I hope you get what I mean by that analogy.

All I have to say is god bless and god speed Star Wars Galaxies. May you find eternal peace after such a long time enduring your pain.

"You where the Chosen One! You were suppose to destroy the Sith, not join them! You were suppose to bring balance to the Force! Not leave it in darkness!" -Obi Wan Kenobi