Galaxies To Beat World of Warcraft?

We reported previously on an interview with John Smedley being run by Gamespot. They've put up the second part of the interview, and in the closing paragraph John takes the gloves off. From the article: "One thing that I love about our company is that there is no 'quit' in this company. It's about making sure that we have pride in what we do. People within the company feel so much pride in this game that they want it to beat the crap out of World of Warcraft. That's something we feel very passionate about. We know we are capable of making the best stuff out there, and I'm proud to say that with the changes we're making in Galaxies, I think we're headed in the right direction."

But...

[ral315]

Galaxies doesn't have LeeRoy Jenkins!

Re:But...

[Lendrick]

HAAAAAAN SOOOOOLLLLOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

"Dammit, Han, are you high?"

"You nerfherder!"

"At least I have a power converter."

Re:Delusions of grandieur

[yammosk]

It's Star Trek - in a Movie format

Isn't Star Trek, "Star Trek - in a Movie format"?

Simply put.

[Anonymous Coward]

Galaxies is going to beat World of Warcraft like I beat my wife.

Which means it isn't going to beat World of Warcraft. ...and that I don't beat my wife.

No, seriously...I love her.

(awkward silence)

So...how bout that crazy weather?

Oh? Try this for evil

[SmallFurryCreature]

Are you an american? See many europeans on your servers? No?

Well that is because the european retail version is for the european servers only. A pretty nasty move as it means that I would be forced to play on servers along side the FRENCH and GERMANS!

If that isn't evil I don't know what is.

Oh you don't get what is so evil about it. Well how would you like a game server where 50% of the people talk in a foreign language spamming the chat channels in non-english begging for X repeatadly because nobody will answer them in their language? At least Sony allows me to play were I please. Remember that the people speaking in german or french are doing it because their command of english is even worse then mine. The only people in europe who do not speak english are 10 yr olds. German 10yr olds. ARGH

Re:Delusions of grandieur

[blood_rose]

Star Wars never has been lowest common denominator, and neither should SWG be.

Sorta like Episodes I, II, and III, right?

Re:A TRUE sandbox game would enable both

[ultranova]

SWG slowly rotted, partly because of bugs, partly because sony either encouraged or failed to discourage the use of quick paths to victory and partly because to many of the players allowed themselves to be drawn in by the lure of the xp grind.

Well, isn't being seduced by the quick and easy road to power a very fitting theme for a Star Wars game ?-)

Re:SWG vs Wow

[maxume]

Honestly, I had an awesome time just wandering around, seeing all there was to see and enjoying the environments.

Some people do this outside. I hear the air there is nice.

Yeah, That'll Work

[Databass]

"The second major portion is the implementation of "Fast Action Combat." We're going to strip out the current SWG "select target, start macros, wait for combat to end" gameplay and replace it with a much more engrossing, entertaining control scheme. "Fast Action combat" controls will be similar to action games that our playerbase is intimately familiar with (Diablo certainly comes to mind, as well as our own Untold Legends game for the PSP)." -John Smedley

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/10/ 1559208&tid=101 [slashdot.org]

"We're going to take down Blizzard's hit new game, World of Warcraft, by making our game feel more like Blizzard's ancient but still enjoyable game, Diablo! You hear that, WoW? You're going dooooooowwwnn!!"