Ask John Smedley About Star Wars Galaxies. Late last week, Sony Online Entertainment announced a fundamental revamp in the way that the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG will be played. The Everquest-like autoattacking gameplay and multitudes of player classes are being removed. This marks the most dramatic change ever made to a MMOG already live, and Sony Online President John Smedley is willing to take questions from the Slashdot community about the changes. One question per comment, and we’ll send the ten best questions on to Mr. Smedley. We’ll post his answers as soon as they’re returned. More details are available below, as are some preliminary responses from Mr. Smedley about the broad picture they’re aiming for. [Slashdot]
Apparently Sony wasn’t satisfied with driving off many long-time players (including me) with their previous redesign of the game. Now they’re getting rid of the last traces of the original system and making it just like every other generic level-based MMORPG. Naturally this won’t prompt me to renew my subscription. In fact, Sony Online Entertainment has done such a good job of demonstrating bad faith and incompetence that I dropped my Matrix Online subscription when SOE bought it.
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