Star Wars Galaxies Chapter 6 Interview

RPG Vault had the chance to sit down with LucasArts’ Jake Neri and Tim Temmerman for a brief interview about the upcoming Chapter 6 update for Star Wars Galaxies.

Q: Why do you believe this will be attractive to players who have been in the game for a while, and also to those who started relatively recently?

A: When SWG was first released, it included a profession called Creature Handler that was ultimately removed from the game when we re-vamped it in 2005. It was a well-loved feature though, and players had been asking for this functionality to return to the game for some time. The team took a look at what players loved about Creature Handler, and expanded on it, ultimately creating the Beast Master system.

The entire development team spends a great deal of time listening to current player feedback in the forums, on the test center, and in community chats, and well feel really good about the features we’re releasing in Chapter 6, and how the players will respond to them.

As far as newer players are concerned, they should definitely enjoy this new, robust pet system that will allow them to have a stable of pets suited for all types of gameplay.