Almost ten years after the cantinas closed and the landspeeders came to a halt, developers finally gave fans some closure on what happened to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Galaxies, the critically acclaimed MMORPG - publishe🐎d by LucasArts and developed by Sony - that ran from 2003𓃲 until 2011.
Creative director Raph Koster and executive producer Richard Vogel recently discussed the demise of the game during The Game Developers Conference. As𒀰 stated in the opening crawl, "This is the story of the worst game to become a classic, and of the most infamous patch ꧋in videogame history."
The game was well-known, and not necessarily for the game itself, but more so for how fans played it. Although some of the most popular characters in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars franchise are the Jedi, Star Wars Galaxies did not want players to be able to unlock Jedi easily. The game was created in a way where a random series of activities and skills had to be obtained in order to unleash the Force, 𓄧however, playe👍rs were not told what. This caused more and more people to play as other characters, including entertainers, medics, traders and spies. It also drove gameplay to be more focused on worldbuilding, crafting and running shops, rather than completing quests. While this may seem like a bad thing, it was actually one of the most beloved things about the game.
However, Koster and Vogel said that those in charge of marketing wanted more of the Force, and they were “...told by marketing, 'You know what, to do a new marketing push we need Jedi in the game. We want Jedi by Christmas.'” A patch was added, which was a holocron - an ancient storage device used by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jedi and Sith - that told players how to unlock their Force powers. The game seemingly went downhill after that, as the fun elements of t🅘he game ꧑seemed to be leaving. People left and unsubscribed from the game in droves.
Vogel says that when the game was shutting down, they received a huge amount of positive engagement from fans. He stated "They created their own stories 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:living in the Star Wars universe and that was what made it special to them." So, who knows if we will ever get another Star Galaxies game, but since the Forcಌe is alwaysౠ with us, one can still hope.