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@Sephirah

Why make it an MMORPG then? Why have a subscription fee if they don't want to keep you playing and paying? Just price the box at 200 bucks and walk away.

To all the people down-voting me, I'm going to laugh when you realize that this is just like every other single MMO on the market with an end-game treadmill. Oh, new content? We just moved your treadmill over here, it will take you a couple of hours to get to it, then you can start running in place again.

And after that 200 hours, the treadmill begins? How about some player-created content?

@Space Cobra: Why do you think this is out of SOE's hands? What has led you to believe this? The license is not expiring for another 18 months, why close it in 6 months? Isn't it just as likely that the populations have dwindled to a point where the meager money being made from SWG no longer outweighs the benefits of removing the NGE stone from around SOE's necks?

Every time SOE has done something bad, it seems that some people, and I'm not saying you are one of them, but some people always find a way for it not be SOE's fault.

@ed anger I guess Blizzard is a joke to you too, since their first expansion came out over 2 years following the release of Azeroth. Just think how much more of a joke this little independent studio is than Blizzard. Those pieces of crap. They should just shut the game down now and go live in a hole.

Preach on, brother. I agree with you that there is no 'journalism' yet in the gaming industry. I think the industry will be much the better without what amounts to an echo chamber for feedback. Maybe we'll stop seeing clone upon clone and sequel upon sequel.

So, is this the Japanimation take on the DC Universe? Those FX don't look right to me in the comic book / super hero setting. And are those oversized weapons?

Somebody commented that the bean-counters at EA would not let them lose money on this. EA, like any business, takes risks with its money. They have a good idea that this will make money, or they would not deem the risk worth it. However, I'm sure EA said the same thing about Warhammer (WAR), and look where that is.

So this is a Japanime Fantasy MMO then?

I loved having my own Weaponsmith shop in SWG. Back when you were required to buy all your gear from other players was the hayday of that game. I had a Master Weaponsmith/Master Merchant with several vendors and a fully decorated store with samples of all of my weapons displayed on the walls.

I'd rather see a game like that again. Hell, maybe one day SOE will swallow their pride and release a classic server, or the source code.

"...so the game is seamlessly integrated with the TV series," says SOE president John Smedley.

Well if HE said it then it MUST be true.