Episode LXXVI - DONUT WARS
It is a dark time for Star Wars: Galaxies
Faced with increasing Player unrest, The Shock
Imperial Dev Team impose more and more drastic changes
on the game, in an attempt to restore contentment to the servers.
After a somewhat bizzare skirmish with an online webcomic, involving 1200 donuts
elite teams of SOE scientists redouble their efforts on turning the tide of rebellion that even
now threatens to overwhelm Galaxies and bring massive unsubscribing indifference to every corner of
the network.
Meanwhile, on the remote moon of Slashdot IV, Bothan spies bring news of an amusing turn of events from deep
within an Imperial Research Facility...
Slashdot: Future Plans for SWG
Seems the pointed at article is in violation of some NDA, and has already vanished. However, one helpful Slashdotter has reposted the body text deep at the bottom of the comment thread. Read it soon, before the Imperial Lawyer Droids locate the hidden Slashdot outpost.
The basic gist of the thing is that the focus group was shown three possible ideas for an SWG Expansion - Knights of the Old Republic, a GCW PvP extravaganza, or Battlefront II. The focus group decided to pick none of them, and go for option four, "ROLLBACK!!1!", pretty much telling them what the rest of us have been saying ever since the NGE went in. What remains to be seen is just exactly how pig-headed SOE are going to be about the whole debacle now, as they seemed to be faced with a choice: admit they were wrong and rollback (embarassing), or have one of their MMOs actually die on them (also embarassing).
Frankly, I'm not sure another expansion is likely to impress very many players, past or present, given that the last one was made obsolete by patching within about two weeks...
All good fun.