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• The DEVs, and SOETyrant in particular, stated that in a letter to the community that the DEV team was going to try and concentrate on making much more refined Publishs, with extended testing, to try and weed out more bugs, so that they did not slip out to Live.


• SOETyrant stated that the CU testing would take as long as would be needed, to make sure that the Combat Upgrade was fully sucessful, with minimal issues.


• The GCW changes were released to Live, before a lot of issues were resolved.


• Tiggs made a post that stated that Publishs would be changed to a two week cycle, which resulted in many moreissues being relased to Live.


• SOETyrant becomes silent on the forums, not be heard from since.


• Press releases of the Rage of the Wookiees expansion are announced to a number of gaming sites, including the LucasArts site, before solid information was released from SOE.


• An interview with Tyrant mentions that Tyrant is in between projects.


• LucasArts.com, and not SOE, releases a job listing for Tyrants old position.


• LucasArts sets the RotW release for May 5th and lists the upgraded combat system as one of its features. (Meaning that the Comat Upgrade must be completed before the RotW release.)


• TC-5 is brought up, with the CU Open Beta.

Ifyou connect the dots, a picture is formed that clearly shows who is really in charge of the current rapidprogression of the Combat Upgrade.

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http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=108758

I've heard that all star wars games that deal with episode three content must be released on or before May 5th. This goes for X-Box, GameCube, PC etc. All EP3 games are coming out on the 5th. This could possibly be confirmed with any game store.

IE: Lucas Arts says you must do it, you must.

It's not even remotly news that LucasArts is the driving force behind all the rushed half-assed releases we have seen (I'm quite sure they are also the ones responsible for the too early initial release of SW:G). LucasArts is well known to push their contractors to overoptimistic releasedates resulting in more and more buggy and/or half-finished products released under the LucasArts Brand.

And it's also no news at all that the LucasArts / SEO relation is not much different from the usual relations between publisher and studio (meaning, the suits at LucasArts define the way we are heading, not the contracted studio which is doing the "dirty work"), this is however not 'LucasArts' specific, this is how the gaming industry works .

If I am allowed to give you a piece of advise, if you ever thought about working in any way in the "gaming industry" or something somewhat "related" to it, you want to reconsider this, trust me, I went through that already and am glad I'm outta there (many, many reasons, but one of them is that the suits *know* they usually can get away with products of very poor quality resulting in no chance at all - due to deadlines given - for the actual developers / artists / whatever to produce something at a quality level that is somewhat satisfactory).

Message Edited by darmokVtS on 04-13-2005 10:52 AM

The half-assness of EP 1 and 2 is proof enough of Lucas' lack of respect for fans and quality of product, I figure SWG is just another one of his half-assed projects.

i lost respect and faith in Lucas after viewing EP1...

worst.
episode.
ever.

I actually liked it. I even would have liked the Gungans if not for Jar Jar. They showed good taste - they didn't like him either. I had to keep reminding my husband that he was in there because this is a movie that is more than patially meant for kids. Not that I am supporting Jar Jar - he definitely could be removed without me shedding a tear. But I do admit I have no idea what kids these days find funny. A sponge with square pants. I just don't get it.

His nickname was Tyrant before he started with SOE.

I just double-checked other episode three games. The only one I could find was the RPG game

Paks
Master Ranger/Master Creature Handler
-I support ATK play

I believe Tyrant left the same week that Calandryll left to "be closer to his family on the East coast."

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Vorpaks wrote:
I actually liked it. I even would have liked the Gungans if not for Jar Jar. They showed good taste - they didn't like him either. I had to keep reminding my husband that he was in there because this is a movie that is more than patially meant for kids. Not that I am supporting Jar Jar - he definitely could be removed without me shedding a tear. But I do admit I have no idea what kids these days find funny. A sponge with square pants. I just don't get it.

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Sponge Bob is the man

I liked EP1 & 2 myself as well, most people seem to forget that they are meant for kids and not over-critical adults, and sure they aren't
as gritty as the original trilogy but thats 25+ years of technological advancement for ya.

JarJar just replaced C3PO in my opinion, one annoying character for another.