Star Wars Galaxies FAQ Update

With so many MMORPG’s on the horizon, it’s going to be tough to decide which game to throw your money and free time at in the next couple of years. Think you have enough time for two of them? That’s more than I have but certainly I know many people will be switching from one to the other, perhaps even three. Believe it or not, there will be a time when EverQuest servers begin to dwindle down to a smaller community rather than the couple thousand per they are now. And just as they added servers to “fit” demand, they’ll begin migrating and combining servers to reduce the cost. But that’s not for a while now (the game’s still gaining in popularity due to the recent press coverage.. and the fact that there is no worthy competition at this time).

The game likely to take over EQ or whichever MMORPG is the leader (whenever it decides to come out) is creater-of-EQ Verant’s Star Wars Galaxies. Why am I sure? Well, look at the dud of a movie Phantom Menace. You knew that was going to rule the box office for awhile. This is the same thing, translated into a game. Not every Star Wars piece of gaming does well… but the massive projects such as Jedi Knight usually do. Star Wars Galaxies is multiple magnitudes larger than that and it has the strongest team (in terms of what’s out now) working on it. It’s virtually assured it will get a huge chunk of the MMORPG market and most likely the majority. Name alone can’t sell a game after word of mouth leaks out, so it’s going to have to have more than that. Read the often-updated SW Galaxies FAQ for the latest developments and common questions you may be wondering about, and whether this is the game that might get your monthly 10 bucks. =) Here’s a sampling:

3.03 Will I be able to kill Darth Vader?

At this point, you will probably not be able to kill Darth Vader, but some players may have the opportunity to interact with him. We would like to adhere to the continuity as much as possible; Vader is key to the trilogy, so you probably won’t be able to kill him (like you would really stand a chance against the Lord of the Sith anyway…)

3.08 Will my character’s species affect my skill selection?

No. We feel that players in Star Wars Galaxies should have the freedom to create the characters that they want, regardless of species. In addition, species in Star Wars are generally as diverse as we humans, and we want to capture that feel. We don’t want to pigeonhole any character into pre-defined roles, so you will be able to select from most skills available regardless of species. However, some species may receive modifiers to skills based on what they are naturally good (or bad) at doing, and a handful of skills could be limited to specific species if there is a logical, Star Wars-based reason for doing so (we might decide that only Wookiees can build and repair bowcasters, for example).