I think also that this star wars of galaxies deserves the status of staying active , it has made me feel better over the years when i started playing it .
The people i met have been of great influence in me live nowerdays .
And the fact they are gambling to something new shows its more Las Vegas venture then anything else that someone can come up with .

A lot do still play and the fact it has shrinked in the past to 4 main servers as highly populated and showing a lot of activity .
The decisions made by lucas arts were the fact before NGE in the first place that made SWG less interresting .
Sony online entertainment had just pre nge made a great effort to making it more playable in the first place .
But lucas arts had said in the end , that NGE should be called for and all should be changed while the game was live .

All of this comes down to one positive situation , and that is preparence .
Which i may add has benefitted sony online to experience this personally .
A lot of people here should be warned that it was not sony but lucas arts that have made it come this far and end on the 15th of december this year .

personally i am more disappointed to lucas arts , and not George Lucas himself .
Give him a break he has nowerdays nothing more to do with it but being the gala person who is the main host .

Greetings all who know me as noagl on chimaera, bria and farstar europe ,

LucasArts, you've messed up big. Again.

Who is the brains over there? Charlie Sheen?

If so, tell him he's definitely not winning with this decision.

I'm one of The first SW fan, i saw the first movie when i was seven. I'm in Swg for more than seven years and very disappointed with that bad news.
Please LA, don't close this great game and don't forget that Swg is the fan's favorite timeline.

I am also upset.

George Lucas and his troopers must have lost touch with The Force ... indeed a bad, bad sign.

Or is it that bad that poor George has been practicing with the Siths?

Either way, by pulling the plugs this way and refusing to continue the license they display a bad understanding of how the gaming community works, feels, and bond within a game.

Most SWG-ers that have played since 2003-2004 have seen many bad decisions but because SWG had something that no other game offer, then and still today, these players hung out with and enjoyed SWG.

No other game offers the sandbox play-style that SWG does, no crafting system comes even close, housing and furnishing, ground-and-space combined, PvP and PvE, collections, instances-and-heroics, simple quests and serial missions, RP or whatever-style, anything from friendly and bubbling entertaining twi'leks to rude shot'm'up pre-teenage commandos to dignified and soothing elder Jedi to witty smugglers to bartering shipwrights --- all in one package.

These gamers, some has played for almost 9 years straight (myself just a humble 7 years) have faced CU, XP-nerf, and worst of all NGE ... which in the end turned out in a different kind of game, but we still loved it (NGE: it took several years until LucasArts' enforced new generation actually worked as it should have done from day one) .

These gamers have spent real dollars on items to build homes which they have decorated with love and care, cities which they have laid out and decorated meticulously, to build gears which empowers them in PvP duels, etc. Even if they have not spent the extra dollars on TCG decks for those random loot cards they have over the years spent a considerable amount of dollars on subscriptions whereof a considerable amount of money makes for LucasArts' revenue.

The real dollars aside, a lasting gaming community gathers stuff and builds gears and homes that they expect to sustain. All of today's SWG-ers expect the day to come when LucasArts and SOE say that "we will not implement this game any further, but we will let it continue to run as is" ... something that has happened to many other games. Is that really fun? Who are you to even ask what I or any other human being think is fun, or not? As long as these "oldies" are satisfied with status quo which costs neither LucasArts nor SOE anything but the servers, why pull the license plug???

I am indeed upset, in my humbly opinion George Lucas and his troopers have failed to care and pander for a gaming community that for years have built a strong love for SWG and for each other. Let me tell you a somewhat sad story how strong these bonds grow:

Half a year ago many players learned that a player suddenly had died of sudden illness, it was in fact another player that grew worried when she did not show up in game as she used to. Almost none of us had ever met her in real life but we knew her via forums and in-game encounters. In-game a memorial was held for her, kind of a remote funeral, and I think many eyes grew dim by tears that evening.
This was not the first time I visited an in-game memorial, there have been many, because we care for each other, for those who have played year after year and they have shown helpfulness beyond what people usually do in real life.
Consider that ... gamers grow emotional and attached to each other, they do that through the means of a game.

LA has failed to support their own fans. In all respect, George Lucas has turned his back to the groups that he so delicately sketched and made us feel with in the SW-movies, those who supported Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and many others. It is sad to discover that Mr. Lucas has turned his love to mammon and the Emperor, that he has lost contact with The Force under the pressure of profit. I am shocked.

Zimoon @ FarStar (earlier Chimaera and earlier Gorath)

I know that this thread is likely to fall on deaf ears at LucasArts, but I really wish both them and SOE would consider the fact that the people playing Star Wars Galaxies (especially those that have been there for quite some time) regard it as more than just a simple video game. It may be easy to write us all off and shuffle us along to The Old Republic, but the fact of the matter is that TOR is not the game that we have grown to love over 8 years, Star Wars Galaxies is.

TOR is likely to be a fantastic game, but I simply fail to see how both can coexist. SWG is a sandbox-style MMORPG set in the SW universe, whereas TOR is a dialogue-driven themepark MMORPG.. Both have their merits, but at their core they are just two entirely different styles of gameplay. Why can't we have both?

As someone who had experienced all of the good and bad with SWG over the last 8 years, I can only ask that LA/SOE reconsider this decision.. So many of us love this game dearly, and it would truly be a significant loss to see it shut down forever.

To Lucas Arts,
I am extremely upset with your decision to shut down SWG. I've invested FOUR years into this game and put in a LOT of work. You have turned your back on and snubbed your fan base. SWG is the ONLY MMO where a whole lot of women play. Why? Because the SoE development team put so much variety into what you could do in game that made it extremely enjoyable for a whole lot of people.

I liked SWG because I could compose music or make nice clothing and make my characters look exactly how I wanted them to. I could do battle, I could fly in space.

I've never been impressed with BIOWARE's games. Usually they over promise and under deliver. And I've followed what they do for years. I doubt, as flashy as it is, there is the same variety and fun things that appeal to a wide audience of people. Other than questing or "fighting", and the general MMO stuff, and flashy bells and whistles of dialog and animation, I am certain it in no way will compare with the community in SWG.

You were still making money from SWG. Plenty of people played. I put in a LOT of time and effort for you to kill my characters, city and all the work I devoted.

That, and guess what? Many people don't have the money to buy new computers to play SWTOR. I certainly can't afford the software now or the new PC. Plus if you do to me what you did in SWG, why would I want to invest in that?

I do think if you had any respect for people and human beings you would not have shut down SWG. The decision to do so indicates you are much like the evil empire. Greed and power, and destroying all respect and devotion of many fans. You have crushed us.

I'll not be investing time and money to play one of your games again. I honestly cannot believe how BAD you are at business decisions and how badly you treat your customer base.

here's hoping that SOE's "new project" is a new and improved SWG2. lol so long in the futrue

LucasArts doesn't owns SWG, SOE does. dang

I've played the SWG for 8 years. sad news.

not sure, how can we save SWG?

Yet consider this, before the news of SWG shut down I was planning on playing and paying for both games. After this - I'll be paying for none.

Exactly ... I was actually already signed up with my guild for TOR ... We were going to play both ... after being reminded how LucasArts treats its paying customers I won't be playing TOR ... plain and simple

All,
Over the years, Star Wars Galaxies has become a place for the fans of the Star Wars universe, those who literally grew up with the franchise, to exist in, and get closer to the universe that we love.

Please reconsider your decision to end Star Wars Galaxies. We understand that the decision to discontinue the game is a business decision, and if you could communicate the grounds for making said decision, perhaps a mutually beneficial agreement could be reached. You have a base of customers willing to give you their money, in exchange for this product; why throw that way? Thanks for your time and attention.