Star Wars The Old Republic MMO is already making it's presence felt with it's release date looming late this year Sony Online Entertainment has announced it's shutting down SWG for good.
This is due to the lisencing complications of having two Star Wars themed MMO's running at the same time. SWG has been around for 8 years now, it had it's big decline when it changed it's PvP system and saw it's population start to diminish greatly. They've had to resort to merging the servers due to not enough players, but of course they put a positive spin on that somehow:
"Populations have stayed pretty steady for a long time now. In fact, we recently merged a bunch of servers to help the prime-time population," said John Smedley of Sony Online Entertainment.
"The decision to shut down SWG is first and foremost a business decision mutually agreed upon between SOE and LucasArts."
"There's another Star Wars MMO entering the market, and I think it's going to be terrific," he said. "It's going to fill a large hole, and we're certainly happy to see Star Wars players be taken care of and get into a game that's going to be great." Smedley said.
They are pretty confident that these current subscribers will move to SWTOR as Sony seems to think this will be a suitable replacement. Which I tend to agree with, if the current player has chosen to stay this long it's because they truly love the Star Wars theme and will continue to play even though all of their hard work to level up characters becomes worthless.
Let's hope Sony can redeem itself with SWTOR, they really need to after the Playstation hack and now shutting down SWG and being forced as playing SWTOR as a replacement.
we're certainly happy to see Star Wars players be taken care of and get into a game that's going to be great." Smedley said.swtor credits swtor credits
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