Star Wars Galaxies has really shifted gears towards instant satisfaction for their replacement player base. I say replacement because the vast majority of the original game players have vacated the game after Sony and Lucasarts overhauled the game at the fundamental level and made it a complete different game experience than people origninally bought. To add to their quest for instant gratification, they are now giving players the ability to instant travel from anywhere on any planet with the exception of Kashyyk. Players will now be able to build a free ship, called the Rattletrap, that can be called anywhere on a planet surface to take them to any space port or shuttle port on the same planet, thus cutting out travel time.
Convenient? Sure. Fun? No.
One of the greatest things about this game was the massive scope of the planets. They were huge, on foot it would take hours and hours to cross a planet from one end to another. Even with vehicles it was still a task. But that was part of the adventure. That made you feel like you were on the planet, the travel was a part of the immersion, and the new Star Wars Galaxies development team puts the finishing touches on the death stroke to this once fun game.
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