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When's the new expansion coming out?
irukandji
Member Posts: 253
The last one was a year and a half ago.
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
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ROFLMAO.... whew...
Thanks, I needed that!
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
Yeah SWG isnt making enough to support itself anymore even with the severely reduced staff and complexity that came with the NGE its highly unlikely there will ever be another expansion unless they somehow stumble upon a perfect storm situation through a couple major changes to the game and by some miracle can strip off the extreme negative publicity (would probably take renaming the company, the game and hiring all new staff) and have a massive resurgance very soon.
Even the President of SOE has recently stated that the servers need to be merged soon. LucasArts shot that down, so the barren servers will remain barren.
Even the President of SOE has recently stated that the servers need to be merged soon. LucasArts shot that down, so the barren servers will remain barren.
Do you think LA is trying to sabotage SWG because of impending release (rumor) of SWG 2?
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
Even the President of SOE has recently stated that the servers need to be merged soon. LucasArts shot that down, so the barren servers will remain barren.
Do you think LA is trying to sabotage SWG because of impending release (rumor) of SWG 2?
I think it has more to do with the fact that nobody at LucasArts cares about the game, but they also don't want a product they are attached to being viewed as a failure (which is what merges would be an admission of). Keeping the status quo allows LucasArts to not even have to mention the game, since it will keep the game safely under the gaming press' radar.
As soon as servers are merged, almost every website and magazine will be contacting LucasArts and SOE asking if it is due t o the failure of the NGE.
Even the President of SOE has recently stated that the servers need to be merged soon. LucasArts shot that down, so the barren servers will remain barren.
Do you think LA is trying to sabotage SWG because of impending release (rumor) of SWG 2? Nah I dont think theyre stupid enough to sabatage their own game when the players would migrate on their own for the most part (if SWG2 isnt a total piece of garbage of course).
Besides SWG2 is still just a rumor theres no way they could have anything even close to starting closed beta without the industry having solid information.
Theoretically though I suppose you could develop something completely in house and keep it under wraps until release but why would you want to when hype is so vital to initial sales and high initial sales are important for getting a game off the ground?
As KOTOR III is supposed to be the next online Star Wars experience a new expansion would be a waste of time.
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*When pigs fly
*When SOE admits the NGE was a huge failure
*When SOE offers an apology and a Classic server
*When Server merges arent needed
*When SOE actually fixes a issue without changing the whole system
*When people Stop paying for crap
*When Shills stop trying to convince the world their game is the bestest
*When Fanbois see through their rose colored glasses
*When well you can fill in from here
NEVER.
SWG will never see another expansion.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
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It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
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Think of the investement they would have to do ....
First you need people -- no not 10k if that... lots of people.
Second... you need to have a good track record and show promise... (Need I say more here?)
Third you need to have a working base product that can sell itself... (Need I say more here as well?)
Like I said...somthing to be said for things or games that have success and a expansion....
I mean look at Star Wars Legos 1 -- whoda thunkit would be in the top 5 games of the year two years in a row..lol
SWG pwnd by Legos... now that says soooo much...
No there will not be another expansion, and it is not just a matter of the NGE either. Each expansion to the game before the NGE arrived was less then greated enthusiastically. What did not help was the way in which they were delivered. The first one robbed peter to pay paul. They neglected the core game development to focus on lightspeed angering many players. People do not buy expansions when they are angry about the way development is going. Then they bundled RoTW with the less then liked CU. Not to mention the issues with the expansion itself which were vast. Then ToOW came bundled with the NGE which resulted in refunding. The result is each expansion have a pretty poor sell through, and it probabally got worse each time. With the very modest population in place now coupled with the fact that not all will buy. Well you get the idea.
Realistically Lucas Arts has every reason to run Galaxies into the ground so they can not only get rid of the bad publicity, but they can then free up the license. The sooner they get rid of SWG the sooner they can build up hype for their next online property. Yes they can be that ruthless, and would gladly use their position to pressure Sony into giveing up.
The next Star Wars MMO has been in development for quite some time. Rumors, and details do not appear out of thin air. They come from some place. So while it might not be official yet, or released to the public covered by industry NDA. Chances are that there is a very refined demo already makeing the rounds as we talk here. First off the MMO market is growing, and second SWG did rather well until Sony ran it into the ground with bad business, development, and public relations practices. To think that Lucas arts is going to waste valuable development time is naive.
The moment the NGE exploded was the moment the next MMO war set in motion.
Well look at things from another angle: the game currently is doing poor, no doubt on that, in order to boost subcriptions they know full well they need content, and thats why they must make some form of an expansion to the game,current content is like a dry well, even rehashing the old content will not suffice.
The way i see it is... expansion or they will over time lose more players, and its allready lost too many players they have to roll the dice again.
You are makeing a rather large assumption. Sony as a company has alot of problems, and Galaxies sadly is at the very bottom. While it might lock up a license, or supply a very modest income. This is not where the company is willing to take losses, or invest large amounts of money. Most likely they want to squeeze the resources of SOE division towards provideing content for their new console. They cannot take a loss on their new Playstation. They are already bleeding themselves to put it out. John Smedley would have a hell of a sales pitch.
SOE is already committed to a variety of projects. Half a dozen other live games, and three or more in the pipe. That is just for the online RPG market. They also went on a recent buying spree, and are a major developer for the new console. To be blunt they are stretched thin, and will be lucky to not show a loss as a division even as their company is going to show a loss for the year.
Eventually something is going to have to give as is, and the most likely would be Galaxies. Any money spent on that game could go so much further elsewhere a new game for the console for instance. The game is a total disaster area, and would require expensive rehabilitation. The code is horrid mess. The license is a drain on funds. The public perspective is awful. All this and there is no guarantee that Lucas Arts would even renew. Especially since the property is hot, and only getting hotter with the current console wars. Microsoft alone could double or triple any offer Sony made. With a larget install base includeing both the Xbox, and Vista combined with Xbox live. Microsoft could offer a much larger possibility for player base.
Sony would have to look past it being bad business, and actually think that it was a worthwhile risk with no guarantee of success.
They won't do an expansion because they would lose money on it. The game has too poor of a reputation and too small of a playerbase for an expansion to turn a profit. An expansion wouldn't revive the playerbase, since it isn't a lack of content that drove most of the former players away.
There will never be another expansion released for the game. There aren't enough players left to make one profitable. That was the reason they canceled the last one they were working on.what you have just written here is absolute rubbish
the reason an expansion wasnt developed last year was because the poll results for content vs fixes came out in favour of bug fixes
so the producers ordered the devs to fix the game and then start releasing content
now the game is all but fixed - they are releasing new content
rebel themepark revamped - azure cabal quest line
in chapter 7 there will be the imperial themepark and new heroic mob quests that require whole groups to defeat
there should be an expansion next year - the devs said no expandion for the this year
they are also addressing the issue with groups - group sizes and xp values
please get your facts right before posting please
And thats the last one it will ever see. SWG is on auto pilot until its sunset in favor of a new, un-tainted, SW mmo, and it'll be nothing but fixes and damage control until then, milk as much money as they can from the players that are left, and try to improve its image a tad in the process by bringing back some stuff from prenge here and there (from past experience, usually half assed bastardized versions of what we once had, but i guess somethings better than nothing, when youre fed rotten gruel daily, even cold oatmeal looks like a royal banquet, lol).
Makes me sad, in one way I'll be happy to see SWG put to rest when it happens, the NGE tainted it beyond repair in many ways, but I also cant help but think what a kick ass game we couldve had, if only the last 2 years hadnt been wasted on failed revamps, and instead had been put into developing/balancing the original precu game, what a friggin waste of great potential, /sigh...
"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now.
We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
what you have just written here is absolute rubbish
the reason an expansion wasnt developed last year was because the poll results for content vs fixes came out in favour of bug fixes
so the producers ordered the devs to fix the game and then start releasing content
now the game is all but fixed - they are releasing new content
rebel themepark revamped - azure cabal quest line
in chapter 7 there will be the imperial themepark and new heroic mob quests that require whole groups to defeat
there should be an expansion next year - the devs said no expandion for the this year
they are also addressing the issue with groups - group sizes and xp values
please get your facts right before posting please
This was intended to be irony, right?