Star Wars Galaxies

 I saw this posted in another forum but I think it belongs in this one instead... here's a copy below:

 Ok folks, let me begin by saying that I do not expect you to believe what is written below in my post, but I feel obligated to pass along information that I have recieved from a friend who works for SOE. This friend of mine IS an employee of SOE and is in a senior enough position to be privy to what I am sharing. I will not give any more details on who this person is at SOE because my insider told me they are required to sign a fairly lengthy non-disclosure agreement and I do not want this person to be discovered

There is a lot of speculation going on within the company (even more than what is going on in our forums) as to what will happen over the next several months. Everyone there knows bad stuff is coming down the pipe but all of the managers and execs are being super tight lipped and/or have been directed to say nothing to support staff right now. Several of the employees have stated that SOE once was the pinnacle of game development and has now become the laughing stock of the online gamer community. Because the blunder by SOE was so great, many of the employees and devs fear about their ability to take jobs at other gamers firms because of how tarnished SOE has become now within this gaming world.

Things are really, REALLY getting stirred up down in Austin at SOE because of the fallout of the NGE. Nobody there expected what has become in regards to the number of customers who have cancelled their accounts. Before the launch of the NGE SOE discussed how many veteran accounts they would be willing to "sacrifice" when they pushed the NGE live and the resulting number has been almost 15 times greater than what was expected. Most of the Dev's dismissed the threats to leave being made by vets on the forums and pointed to the fact that the same people said the same things when the first CU went live, but that those people stuck around. SOE is admitting, at least internally, that they severely miscalculated and underestimated the dedicated player base's reaction to the NGE.
Right now the blame game is in full effect at SOE. All of the senior devs are pointing fingers at anyone but themselves and everyone is doing anything they can to distance themselves from being credited for making ANY decision to push the NGE live. Even people who were "pro-NGE" have repositioned themselves and are now singing a different tune. 2 developers have been let go, but have been allowed to remain working until the 2nd week of January because they don't want to sack anyone during the holiday season. The entire Customer Suport staff has been reduced 25% with more layoff expected. Those that were let go are allowed to remain on until Jan 1st. Many of the employees have begun to polish off their resume's in fear that even more layoffs are coming.

Lucas Arts execs have flow down to Austin to have some serious closed door meetings. Apparently, the execs at LA very very rarely come to SOE. The meeting took place over 2 days with every developer who was involved in the NGE being called into the meeting at some point. It was said that the atmosphere was like that of a courtroom where you felt like you were on the stand defending yourself. Apparently the license with LA expires in the first quarter of next year and renewal was not finalized before the NGE and now all of that is up in the air. Talks have begun with an outside company on buying the pre-NGE code from SOE and running a limited number of severs (at most 5) with a skeleton crew support staff. There aren't many details here as those talks have been very private and the only info my insider has is what was leaked to him by a dev that have been invloved in the initial talks with this outside company. There has been a few lengthy discussions about scrapping the NGE completely with a rollback involved.
Oh, and the game WAS in the initial development cycles for porting to consol (Xbox, Playstation) but now those efforts have been stalled 100%.
A memo from top exec has been handed down to all Devs and Community Relations staff on what they can and cannot discuss with the player base on the forums or in game. They are intentionally trying to be as vague as possible in feal that the more players know about what is coming, more and more will leave.

What's the date of this because it looks really, really old?

Originally posted by Estrus

What's the date of this because it looks really, really old?

it was posted today. but I'm not sure on the rumor date....

This was posted over a year ago I believe on several forums, including the official SW:G forums. It never came to pass, it was just a rumor.

It is old and totally unfounded. Like everything else that seems to get posted taking a dig at NGE.

...Old or new, true or not? I don't care!

As long as we keep on "reminding" everyone of what happened to the real SWG, this horrible NGE nightmare might finally end.

As mentioned before, if CocaCola could do it then so can SOE and LA!

Long live pre-CU SWG

This was from March or April of 2006. Not sure what date exactly but around end of first quarter of 2006. The year was up first quarter of this year. Hence the rumors of classic servers for the first quarter of 2007. Never happened cuz SoE renegociated with LA about the state of the game. Hence Blixtev was brought into the mix. I believe that SoE was given 1 more year to bring up sub numbers and fix the game. Hence we are getting things done a bit faster now and bug smashing like madmen. We wont know anymore till around first quarter of 2008. ( all my opinion and speculation based on years of SoE and LA investigations.) 

Originally posted by DarthMaulUK

It is old and totally unfounded. Like everything else that seems to get posted taking a dig at NGE.

Haha yeah like the subscription numbers that GreyPawn SWEARS are outstanding but can't give us...  LMAO, the NGE and its creators deserve everything that happens and is written.

SOE/LA might be the dumbest 2 companies in the gaming industry.  LA has a long track record of failed games...  If it weren't for Bioware making KOTOR so incredibly well, LucasArts would in itself be a tremendous failure.

This was posted about a year ago and though it definetely might seem like a rumor take into account what he mentions about SOE going to run SWG on only about 5 servers. Just a couple of days ago someone posted that they saw about 4-5 new server names. It could be that these new servers are the ones where they will transfer all the existing playerbase.