It's a busy day for Star Wars Galaxies, as Game Update 19 jumps to lightspeed with a trio of exciting events. First up is the return of Wookiee Life Day, "a time to reflect on the renewal of life and to remember those who have passed on." Wookiee Life Day was first introduced in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special and has become a beloved fixture of SWG since its inception a few years ago. New features to the holiday this year include the ability to plant a Life Tree anywhere you like, four new paintings, a Wookiee Life Day robe, a collectible badge, and an R2-D2 ornament.
Game Update 19 also brings the next chapter of the Witches of Dathomir, which began a little over a month ago. Players can travel to the planet of Dathomir and decide which clan of Force-sensitive Witches they'll align with: the Nightsisters or the Singing Mountain Clan.
Finally, a new expansion pack to the trading card game is available, titled The Price of Victory. You can read up on Game Update 19 at Star Wars Galaxies, and travel back in the Massively time machine to revisit our chat with SWG's Teesquared on the patch.
Reader Comments (5)
Posted: Dec 14th 2010 6:40PM Lateris said
Dathomir is a cool planet. I wish they would do a revamp of the Imperial prison on Dathomir. These maps are so huge in SWG that every planet could have a revamp with 100's of quest chains that lead into instances. Kudos to the dev who waited for a very long time to get his idea into game.
DX 10 mod for the win gents.
DX 10 mod for the win gents.
Posted: Dec 14th 2010 7:12PM notuba said
Wowzers, a SWG update?! You mean SOE is still fixing bugs and adding content and features to this old-ass game? O.O But I digress....
Let me reminisce for a bit, won't you?
SWG was my first MMO. I had played online RPGs, but not a subscription persistent world style of RPG like a real deal MMORPG. I was a... MMO virgin(?) at that point.
So many good memories from back then. I remember pre-ordering Jump to Lightspeed, and by doing so got a special speeder, the Flash Speeder, which was free to all characters on my account. I still have that account.
I had loads of fun playing SWG. Crafting was the best I have ever seen in any MMO I've ever played. Loads of fun, I tell ya. Then came the Combat Upgrade aka the CU. I hated it then. Maybe because it was different than what I was used to. /shrug Anywho, before I could get used to the CU, along came the death knell, the New Game Experience aka the NGE.
Long story short, I quit playing after the NGE was released and haven't been back. It was a GREAT MMORPG, had a ground game AND a space game. Try that STO, ha!
If SWG ever goes F2P, I may check in on the ol' gal. *still feels like crying at the loss of such a great sandbox by the maker's hand of doom*
Let me reminisce for a bit, won't you?
SWG was my first MMO. I had played online RPGs, but not a subscription persistent world style of RPG like a real deal MMORPG. I was a... MMO virgin(?) at that point.
So many good memories from back then. I remember pre-ordering Jump to Lightspeed, and by doing so got a special speeder, the Flash Speeder, which was free to all characters on my account. I still have that account.
I had loads of fun playing SWG. Crafting was the best I have ever seen in any MMO I've ever played. Loads of fun, I tell ya. Then came the Combat Upgrade aka the CU. I hated it then. Maybe because it was different than what I was used to. /shrug Anywho, before I could get used to the CU, along came the death knell, the New Game Experience aka the NGE.
Long story short, I quit playing after the NGE was released and haven't been back. It was a GREAT MMORPG, had a ground game AND a space game. Try that STO, ha!
If SWG ever goes F2P, I may check in on the ol' gal. *still feels like crying at the loss of such a great sandbox by the maker's hand of doom*
Posted: Dec 14th 2010 7:18PM smg77 said
Oh hey an expansion...oh...for the RMT scam "trading card" game. I'm really glad that the NGE allows the SOE developers to really focus on making SWG more Star Warsy and Iconic.
Posted: Dec 15th 2010 9:43PM claytondora said
lol@siding with nightsisters during imperial reign. great cannon work there guys.
Posted: Dec 15th 2010 9:44PM claytondora said
lol@siding with nightsisters during imperial reign. great cannon work there guys.







