Star Wars Galaxies

IMO...

Of course it's a fake.  The idea behind it is they are creating an expansion, but they fired/laid off devs.  They have been dangling the Hoth carrot for a long time.  The have been dangling the DC carrot for almost a year with nothing to show for it.  Out of the blue they are supposed to have a fully renered cinimantic showing all the function of this expansion.

Every video they release for promo is in HD letter box format.  This one is in 4:3 ratio.  Everything they show has been modled elsewhere.   I have seen those ships modeled on quack forums as still photos.  The SWG is quacking in open source development.  All the tools to make this good looking video are available.

They are giving away a free play time in desparation.  A new competing SW MMO is coming.  The last box pack failed to sale.  The previous expansion was a huge mistake in the way it is released.

It takes money they know they will not get back from mistrust of customers to make an expansion.  To complete this they need devs.  But SOE decides to fire more.  How are they going to get this ready if they keep firing devs, send them to other projects etc...  They can't because it doesn't exist.  Just my opinion.

3 of the 4 ships are POB based.  There have been problems with the UI controls in the video that people have pointed out as reasons it is fake on the Oforums.

I could be wrong.  But it just looks like some smart ass fan/vet trying to stir things up.

This whole thing reminds me of when these showed up on Youtube

www.youtube.com/watch

www.youtube.com/watch

actually looks like something they worked on before the nge because there is no way the morons working on the game could pull this off.

Originally posted by tillamook

Fake I guess xD

 

www.massively.com/2008/10/16/rumors-of-new-star-wars-galaxies-expansion-most-likely-false/

 

I was really hoping SOE was that desperate.

strange that massive is sony owned yet they couldn't get a firm "no" from within their own company. soe hoping to stir some interest with this i see...

Originally posted by fordzilla

Originally posted by tillamook

Fake I guess xD

 

www.massively.com/2008/10/16/rumors-of-new-star-wars-galaxies-expansion-most-likely-false/

 

I was really hoping SOE was that desperate.

 

strange that massive is sony owned yet they couldn't get a firm "no" from within their own company. soe hoping to stir some interest with this i see...

Listen to the Voice Over...that sounds like my 13 year old nephew. ROFL!

Originally posted by Wharmaster

Originally posted by tillamook

Valara

This video was not created or produced by LucasArts or SOE. There are currently no plans for a retail expansion pack for Star Wars Galaxies.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?start=120&topic_id=766099&#8320566

 

LOL!!! Yeah, right....like I'd believe anything an SOE puppet said.

Remember Mustafar? They sold us that crap RIGHT before the NGE.

Sounds JUST like an SOE move, therefore, to sell it's few remaining players an expansion right before the game takes it's last shit.

The only thing that I would believe is if SOE said that the servers will be permanently shutting down in 15 mins.

Originally posted by Lateris

I liked the artwork for Mustafar but then came the NGE. But I have to agree the artwork has gone downhill. What I find "iconic" about this is that their art department for SWG doesn't really exists any longer. There are modders who are doing a better job such as texture updates for planets and even a full texture revamp for space. These are done by one person who get more accomplished in 3 months than the staff at SWG can get done in a year regarding textures.  I can see this being a fake. The talent is out there. If it is real what a burn!

Yes, I guess Hoth, the latest Halloween event and all the previous instances just magically drew themselves...

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Lateris

I liked the artwork for Mustafar but then came the NGE. But I have to agree the artwork has gone downhill. What I find "iconic" about this is that their art department for SWG doesn't really exists any longer. There are modders who are doing a better job such as texture updates for planets and even a full texture revamp for space. These are done by one person who get more accomplished in 3 months than the staff at SWG can get done in a year regarding textures.  I can see this being a fake. The talent is out there. If it is real what a burn!

 

Yes, I guess Hoth, the latest Halloween event and all the previous instances just magically drew themselves...

What does that have to do with what Lateris wrote?

Originally posted by pdxgeek

Originally posted by Obraik

Originally posted by Lateris

I liked the artwork for Mustafar but then came the NGE. But I have to agree the artwork has gone downhill. What I find "iconic" about this is that their art department for SWG doesn't really exists any longer. There are modders who are doing a better job such as texture updates for planets and even a full texture revamp for space. These are done by one person who get more accomplished in 3 months than the staff at SWG can get done in a year regarding textures.  I can see this being a fake. The talent is out there. If it is real what a burn!

 

Yes, I guess Hoth, the latest Halloween event and all the previous instances just magically drew themselves...

What does that have to do with what Lateris wrote?

Well it means that Lateris says that the SWG art dept does not do anything anymore and has not produced anything of note since the Musty expansion. Obraik's reply was to point out just some of the great work that dept has contributed. 
 

Was that really hard to understand that?