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Star Wars Galaxies

Looks like SOE effectively destroyed the game, especially by releasing these New Game Enhancements (TM) in a VERY bugged state. It’s not even an early Beta. If you want to see the soap opera unfold, check out the SWG forums, where even John Smedley, SOE president now has come in to do some damage control. Guilds are leaving for Wow, galaxy threads are filled with Goodbye threads, I seriously doubt they can reverse the damage.

Enough on this subject now, I am currently checking out Eve on line and City of Villains. Eve looks very complicated, so it might be fun. Battlefields II is keeping me busy as well, although I suck at it :).

Sony Online Entertainment – Bad Business Practise

Update: Soe is now offering a refund, probably due to the massive complaints they received and/or to avoid bad presss.

I played SWG for a few months on the European Infinity server. Especially in the 1st 2 months or so, I had a lot of fun. (Thanks to OneHungLow, Cara, Azul, Skevans, Cami, Zaknafein and others I might have forgotten). But the constant changing of the game, horrible lag and especially the huge bugs, made me quit and pick up WoW and now City of Villains. Also their price of $30,- for yet another expansion (trials of Obi Wan) with little content pissed me off. But I still read the forums and listen to the Galaxy Report podcast to see what’s up.

Much to my surprise, there was a LOT up on the forums today when I checked them out, read about the new combat upgrade (though they call it new and exciting changes this time around) :

Star War Galaxies revamp announced, ONE DAY after expension goes live. SOE deceived their customers into buying a $30,- expansion, knowing most of the stuff you can get in that expansion will be useless once this revamp goes live on Nov. 15th.

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WoW – The Burning Crusade

Finally the news is out, the rumours turned out to be true, there will be a World of warcraft expansion called the Burning Crusade. Read all about it on Gamespot and the Blizzard site. Most interesting things are the max level will be raised to 70 and the Horde will get a new race, the blood elves. Those newbie grounds will be very crowded once this expansion will come out :). Definately am looking forward to this one, but it’ll probably be a while before it’s released.

Burning Legion screenshot (Gamespy)

More screenshots at gamespy.

Civilization 4

Civ4 Logo
Ever since the early I’ve been playing Sid Meier’s excellent Civilization series. Civ 3 didnt really do it for me, but the now released Civilization 4 really plays even better than Civ2 :). Games take quite a while so I’ve only been playing 2 games at the lower difficulty levels, but it’s been a lot of fun. Sid himself appeared on the Kojo Namdi show of WAMU 88.5 (American University Radio) . The link has an hour long program where Sid talks about the new game and recent trends in the gaming industry. Also read the excellent review at gamespot.

Also check out the CivFanatics website and forum for great strategy tips and chitchat on civilization.

Concept Art Navy Seal

New torrents on Btree.org

Just a few picks of the ones, that I’ll soon check out, amazing how fast you can listen to recent shows these days. I remember the days where it would take weeks before a crappy cassette came in the mail…

Dave Mattews Band, Sept. 3rd 2005
Gov’t Mule, Sept. 1st 2005 Antwerp, Belgium
Gov’t Mule – 31st August 2005 – Paradiso, Amsterdam

And last but not least Los Lobos. Wonderful life band, you should definately check this out: Los Lobos 2005-07-31b Orange Court, Naeba, JPN .