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well Id are quite social, so let's the salon chat about the rumour of the day grow and multiply...

how do you feel about Lucasart prying SW:G from SOE's cold undead hands ?

O the rumor !

O the hope !

O the angst !

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Maybe they'll fix the game so that there's not a gazillion Jedi waltzing around and salvage other scraps of continuity.

It's just a rumor and I won't give much about it yet.

May the Force be with you all!

yet there are some interesting job offers on the lucasart site.

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I hate to say this, but I think I'd rather SWG stay in SOE's cold undead hands. LucasArts isn't a horrible videogame company, per se, it's just that I can't think of any game they've directly made in the past seven years or so that I truly loved. Now, some of the games they've licensed to other companies... that's entirely different. SOE has much more experience maintaining and running a MMORPG, so I'd rather they kept with it. That doesn't mean I don't wish LucasArts would put their foot down for the sake of continuity.... but that's easy for me to say; I wouldn't be losing a jedi if they did.

-Siela (Valcyn)

Hard to say... Lucasarts has changed over the years & has they own fair share of deserved problems. They used to be a powerhouse in gaming, but lately they've been farming out their bread & butter StarWars titles while making crappy non-StarWars games in-house. It has cost them a lot in their reputation & in actual dollars lost when one of their outside developers doesn't get it right.

Believe it or not SOE is not the only company screwing up StarWars. Raven did a crappy job with Jedi Academy... which was a real dissapointment, because the prequel (JKII) that Raven also made a few years earlier was such a damn good game. Republic Commando has non-StarWarsy music, animations, & sound effects, & looks like Unreal in StarWars costumes. And Battlefront, while not that bad, is simply Battlefield 1942 ina starWars universe, with no real story & more of a multiplayer fragfest with AI in place of real players in single player mode.

There has been at least 50 people laid off at Lucasarts within the last few months... could it be that they are hurting, or that someone is simply changing things for the better over there? I hope they are tryng to get back to what they did best... kick-ass StarWars games! And if that is what they intend, then I would be fine if they take over this game... at least toimprove all the actual front end content & gameplayissues that we see & play, & keep SOE around to optimize the back end stuff to keep the servers up etc.