Star Wars Galaxies: JTL Release Date Confirmed

Thanks to GameGossip for the news that the Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed expansion has been confirmed for an October 27th release. The expansion adds space combat, two new player races, and a bunch of new emotes.

GREAT!

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Get ready for the "Tie Nerf", and "X-wing" buffs.

ebay x-wing sales.

and Why can't my a-wing have blaster shields?

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

[blueZhift]

With JTL coming out, I'm tempted to take a look at SWG again, especially since I now have the hardware to run it better. Still, I'm going to wait and see. It'll be interesting to see if the JTL action cannibalizes "ground" activities. I know it's all the same game, but I have a hunch that we're about to see something of a split.

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Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope you don't see the ship take up. You go to the star port and click a terminal, choose your ship and a loading screen comes up. All anyone on the ground sees is you disappearing.

Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

[Dekks]

To be honest, I wouldn't bother, I'm in beta and while its fun, I can't see it lasting me more than a month. The original Tie-Fighter still has a better engine than this and was more fun. Don't get me wrong, customizing your ship and reverse engineering looted ship parts is enjoyable, but once you've mastered becoming a pilot (takes about three weeks) and got the best ship, it quickly becomes mediocre. Thats my two cents.

Re:Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

[EngineeringMarvel]

I played SWG for about two months until I got bored of the game. I started during the FilePlanet free trial a few months ago and I was not impressed with this game. There wasn't much to do since the game is mostly grinders and exploiters.

I was tempted to wait it out until JTL was released, but I just couldn't find anything fun to do. Now that JTL is about to be released, I will not return to the game. SOE's reputation of not listening to the SWG gaming community is very poor. They did add content, but

Don't be a sucker!

[glowimperial]

As a veteran SWG player, my advice is to stay the hell away from SWG and it's expansion for at least 3 months. It is extremely likely that the bugs that this expansion ships with and the exploits it makes possible will make the game suck even more for several months. The core game still suffers from serious problems that were known in its beta and have been irritating customers since launch.

They are trying to get this product to market before EQ2 and WoW divide and conquer the MMO retail dollar, and from SOE, an early or on time launch means you are paying to be in beta.

Re:Don't be a sucker!

[idlethought]

I think this is unfair. The majority of the problems that trouble players day to day are entirely new one created since the game launched. The Jedi Infestation, The (Revamped) Purposelessness of the Droid Engineer, The Eternally Postponed Combat Revamp.. But, if you consider the game far to bugged to play, then probably you need to increase your dosage. There are a vast and unmeasured sea of problems. But unless your terminally stressed and anal they aren't game-breakers. As for JTL.. well NDA.

JTL...thumbs down

[Comrade64]

Better yet, don't come back until they really get finished improving it and making all the changes. I loved playing SWG at first...I even had a blast roleplaying in it. I played one of the tradeskills that was unltimately broken at launch and made it work well...very well...I was pulling in millions of credits a day..then the devs completely revamped my profession and took away my really good things to make and threw in the holocron rampaged that made it really suck. Everyone was grinding holocrons for t

Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth things.

[Polarism]

This must mean the expansion is complete garbage if the NDA is still up (was up as of a couple days ago talking to the IGN site manager for SWG).

Re:Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth thin

[Cosmik]

Huh? No NDA-breaking info was said here.

Re:Isn't the NDA still up? lol way to stealth thin

[Polarism]

I know, but the mere fact that the NDA is STILL up a week before retail release....

is not good.

hmmm Star - Wars

[JavaLord]

Well, now they will try to add the "Stars" to the non-existant wars in Star Wars Galaxies. This will have little effect on the overall way the game is played.

This game isn't at all about wars and it really won't be about stars either. It's the sims online in a "star wars" like theme. I would expect the emotes and new player races to have a bigger impact on the game than space combat.

FUCK THE NDA

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm in beta, and happy to answer any questions you might have.

To answer your first, yes it's more of the same "plenty of potential, half-assed implementation with a side order of mind-numbing fun-draining grind" you've come to expect from Sony Online Entertainment.

Re:FUCK THE NDA

[Dekks]

I concur sir. 3 Weeks of casual playing to master pilot, see all ships and pilot most of the ships. So whats left? I'm sure the new content will unfortunuately be one large impossibly hard mission each month e.g "Rebels, attack this star destroy being defended by 1000 ties/Imperials, defend this star destroyer being attacked by 1000 x-wings" a la corvette.

Great!

[antigrimace]

I know I can wait! Now back to modding Fable. >=)

track record

[Zhirem]

For what it is worth:

SWG has a VERY sketchy track record. The company that runs it has been at best deceptive about where the game is going and getting bugs fixed, balance issues addressed, give some point to the Galactic Civil War, etc. etc. etc.

Do NOT expect JtL to be ANY better than SWG was at launch. Buggy, laggy, etc. Read up on some of the forum information at it appears that the JtL expansion is more poorly developed than Earth and Beyond was. That speaks volumes.

Frankly, SOE nor LA will ever see another dime from me. And with good reason. HUGE potential squandered. If LA retakes leadership and implementation of this game, it MIGHT get better, but I have little faith of that either.

The new crop of MMORPG's will chew most of the meat out of SWG, and leave it what it deserves to be: an also ran.

- Zhirem

Re:track record

[aelbric]

Agreed. When the developers admitted that they didn't put a lot of thought into the Galactic Civil War I knew this game was an implosion waiting to happen.

And now they're going to try and add space combat? Be afraid, be very afraid.

Goodbye

[jlefeld]

Guess it is time to say goodbye to a friend.

JTL

[masterjn]

Swim away! Swim away! Swim away! SWG = Nerf this JTL = Nerf this (in space) Swim away! Swim away! Swim away!