Star Wars Galaxies

Julio Torres Producer's Letter - 11/02/2005
Greetings Star Wars Galaxies Players, Fans, and Other Denizens of the Galaxy:

My name is Julio Torres and I am the Producer on Star Wars Galaxies for LucasArts. We wanted you, the great members of the Galaxies community, to be the first to hear some exciting news about the current and future plans for Star Wars Galaxies!

Over the past year we have been working hard to respond to feedback we have gotten from players, fans, focus groups, and other research. This feedback has ultimately centered on one key area: the game does not feel like a heroic Star Wars experience. Currently, the early game has a steep learning curve and there is no clearly defined path of advancement or adventure. Many of our fans who bought the game did not see enough Star Wars style action early-on and ultimately left our world. It is our goal to change this and improve the experience for all players.

We are introducing a series of game enhancements to Star Wars Galaxies this month that include both significant enhancements to the live game as well as a completely redesigned experience for new players. The primary areas of focus include combat and profession and character development. The combat depicted in the Star Wars films, fiction, and canon that we have all come to know and love is fast-paced, action-packed, and visually intense. In order to stay true to the Star Wars fiction as well as to make the combat system more engaging, we have shifted the turn-based paradigm towards a much more engaging fast-action combat system where you control every move! After receiving feedback from members of the community, conducting extensive focus tests, and evaluating the combat systems of other games in the genre, we are confident this new fast-action combat truly delivers what players, fans, and gamers have come to expect from a Star Wars experience.

As mentioned earlier, combat is not the only area where we decided to focus our improvement efforts. We have also improved and brought more clarity to the profession and character development system.

Changing a live game is never easy. We realize that players do not like to have their experience altered. These enhancements will take some getting used to and for that reason we lined-up some incentives for the current players to enjoy as our thanks for your loyalty to our game.

We value our community and want you to stay with us. Our goal is to continuously improve the Star Wars experience, the one we all know and love from the films and fiction; action-packed, story-driven, Star Wars fun. With these features and enhancements we are setting the stage for incredible things to come for Galaxies with more announcements happening in the coming months.

I'd like to thank you all for your continued support of Star Wars Galaxies and for making it one of the premier gaming experiences online today.

May The Force Be With You,

Julio Torres, Producer - LucasArts
 

EPIC FAILURE

I just wanna know what the fuck were them focus testers thinking when they thought the new UI and targeting was better? I mean WTF were SOE and LA thinking....... someone musta been on drugs. I can see where they were coming from with the class based system even though it fucking sucks compared to what we had before but that made sense but fucking the NGE on the whole and specially after the CU........ did they really expect it to save the game?

"In order to stay true to the Star Wars fiction ..."

The NGE has made a mockery out of the Star Wars lore - As long as it was "new and exciting" to the target audience the SW canon was happily ignored by the devs (some of which had no idea what it was in the first place).

How want to know how "extensive" is fucking extensive.

Originally posted by ihatenoobs01

Julio Torres Producer's Letter - 11/02/2005

 

 My question is why are you dragging up a letter 3 years old just to whine and bitch??? Its not going to suddenly cause CU and NGE to go away and does nothing but cause yet more flame wars for a game thats damn near dead as is. I mean seriously, its been 3 years and no amount of whining, bitching and flaming on forums they dont even look at are going to change anything. They have already said they will NOT make a Pre-CU / NGE server so its time to stop living in the past and either play the game as it is or move on. But dragging out letters from 3 years ago just to whine and boost your post count is the very definition of LAME.

Originally posted by Windstryder

Originally posted by ihatenoobs01

Julio Torres Producer's Letter - 11/02/2005

 

 My question is why are you dragging up a letter 3 years old just to whine and bitch??? Its not going to suddenly cause CU and NGE to go away and does nothing but cause yet more flame wars for a game thats damn near dead as is. I mean seriously, its been 3 years and no amount of whining, bitching and flaming on forums they dont even look at are going to change anything. They have already said they will NOT make a Pre-CU / NGE server so its time to stop living in the past and either play the game as it is or move on. But dragging out letters from 3 years ago just to whine and boost your post count is the very definition of LAME.

OK, then you can continue to deal with this IMMORAL and CORRUPT company. These threads keep popping up to educate people in the ways that SOE had screwed their subscribers.

Most people on this board know that pre-CU/NGE will not come back.

Also, no amount of YOUR WHINING will stop anyone from posting here.

Originally posted by Windstryder

Originally posted by ihatenoobs01

Julio Torres Producer's Letter - 11/02/2005

 

 My question is why are you dragging up a letter 3 years old just to whine and bitch??? Its not going to suddenly cause CU and NGE to go away and does nothing but cause yet more flame wars for a game thats damn near dead as is. I mean seriously, its been 3 years and no amount of whining, bitching and flaming on forums they dont even look at are going to change anything. They have already said they will NOT make a Pre-CU / NGE server so its time to stop living in the past and either play the game as it is or move on. But dragging out letters from 3 years ago just to whine and boost your post count is the very definition of LAME.

Damn near dead is not dead enough.

Besides...there IS a solution for those of us who still love the old game...

Yeah, it worked real well.  /sarcasm

8328 of 8328 Officers shown (100%).

The Officers shown have all in all 21924353 PvP Kills (2632 average).

Last week the Officers shown gained all in all 217630 PvP Kills (26 average).

Of the Officers shown there are

794 Bounty Hunter (9.53%), 1393 Commando (16.72%), 77 Entertainer (0.92%), 2809 Jedi (33.72%), 1343 Medic (16.12%), 815 Officer (9.78%), 425 Smuggler (5.1%), 546 Spy (6.55%), 126 Trader (1.51%),

3764 Imperial (45.19%), 4564 Rebel (54.8%),

1081 Captain (12.98%), 856 Colonel (10.27%), 1975 General (23.71%), 2868 Lieutenant (34.43%), 778 Lt Colonel / Commander (9.34%), 770 Major (9.24%),

464 Ahazi (5.57%), 749 Bloodfin (8.99%), 700 Bria (8.4%), 446 Chilastra (5.35%), 273 Corbantis (3.27%), 190 Eclipse (2.28%), 721 Europe-Chimaera (8.65%), 538 Europe-FarStar (6.46%), 161 Europe-Infinity (1.93%), 375 Flurry (4.5%), 423 Gorath (5.07%), 247 Intrepid (2.96%), 35 Kauri (0.42%), 202 Kettemoor (2.42%), 276 Lowca (3.31%), 220 Naritus (2.64%), 259 Radiant (3.1%), 149 Scylla (1.78%), 306 Shadowfire (3.67%), 633 Starsider (7.6%), 191 Sunrunner (2.29%), 109 Tarquinas (1.3%), 287 Tempest (3.44%), 137 Valcyn (1.64%), 237 Wanderhome (2.84%),

The only population numbers $OE releases on 25 servers.  Sad.

RIP Kauri

And here are the stats from the high water mark for GCW officers July 20th 2007:

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11574 of 11574 Officers shown (100%).

The Officers shown have all in all 20763779 PvP Kills (1794 average).

Last week the Officers shown gained all in all 683696 PvP Kills (59 average).

There were 1361 promotions, 677 demotions and 421 respecs (Full Respec-Stats).

Of the Officers shown there are

1560 Bounty Hunter (13.47%), 1812 Commando (15.65%), 140 Entertainer (1.2%), 3926 Jedi (33.92%), 1859 Medic (16.06%), 573 Officer (4.95%), 391 Smuggler (3.37%), 1075 Spy (9.28%), 238 Trader (2.05%),

5390 Imperial (46.56%), 6184 Rebel (53.43%),

1461 Captain (12.62%), 1379 Colonel (11.91%), 3253 General (28.1%), 3091 Lieutenant (26.7%), 1132 Lt Colonel / Commander (9.78%), 1258 Major (10.86%),

558 Ahazi (4.82%), 786 Bloodfin (6.79%), 658 Bria (5.68%), 503 Chilastra (4.34%), 436 Corbantis (3.76%), 419 Eclipse (3.62%), 693 Europe-Chimaera (5.98%), 502 Europe-FarStar (4.33%), 472 Europe-Infinity (4.07%), 493 Flurry (4.25%), 704 Gorath (6.08%), 526 Intrepid (4.54%), 286 Kauri (2.47%), 311 Kettemoor (2.68%), 431 Lowca (3.72%), 344 Naritus (2.97%), 465 Radiant (4.01%), 461 Scylla (3.98%), 441 Shadowfire (3.81%), 429 Starsider (3.7%), 316 Sunrunner (2.73%), 296 Tarquinas (2.55%), 367 Tempest (3.17%), 350 Valcyn (3.02%), 327 Wanderhome (2.82%),

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