"In 2007 we saw a huge number of new and former players re-joining the Star Wars Galaxies community, and we attribute that directly to the high-quality features and content we've added to the game over the past two years," said Tom Nichols, senior director of online for LucasArts. "We look forward to continuing our work with Sony Online ( Read more... )

For anyone who has played both Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft... I've recently noticed that the jungle sounds of Stranglethorn Vale sound almost exactly like that of Kashyyyk. Ah, brings back memories of tearing through the Kkowir Forest on my Varactyl... *sigh*

Well I have finally done it, I have canceled all my SWG accounts. It was time really, the period of SWG has come to a close. I have written a bit on why I have decided this and a little of my SWG journey. It's under the cut and I will warn you it is pretty long and probably won't be of much interest to anyone who hasn't played the game.

( Here it is )

So yesterday SWG servers were supposed to be down until 5pm CST for the NGE stuff and I was content in starting up the game after I got back from Karate class. Well my interent stopped working around noon yesterday and wasn't coming back up. I even called Tech Support and they said due to the storms it could be possible that some areas were out of ( Read more... )

lol...But as of 22 minutes ago, SWG as we know it came to an end. Servers are down until 1700 Tuesday thus taking away the game we all knew and loved and bringing forth the NGE (New Game Experience). I haven't spent a whole lot of time on Test Center playing all the new stuff, so I can't really give much opinion on it just yet. The quests are fun ( Read more... )

Trying out the new MyLJ thingy and its pretty handy and niftyo ( Read more... )

You have quite a treasure there in that Horadric Chu-Gon Dar Cube!

hahaha I am so easily amused at times :P

Sadly I am short one hard drive now, yep my good ole trusty Abydos drive died on me. Not a huge data loss or anything, it was just mainly a backup drive for install files and documents. I've had that hard drive for about five years and its been in and out of every computer I've owned, shuffled about, tossed here, thrown there and yet it still ( Read more... )

( Ramblings about TV shows and some new books )

Well yesterday after I got off work instead of sleeping I decided to grind some more in SWG. Well after loosing all days worth of xp due to SOE changing the xp and making it totally horrible they finally changed it back (Im guessing because of its huge negative response from players and people cancelling their accounts) and I ended up playing for ( Read more... )