{"id":12669,"date":"2011-06-30T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"angry-star-war-galaxies-players-threatening-to-sue-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12669-angry-star-war-galaxies-players-threatening-to-sue-sony","title":{"rendered":"Angry Star War Galaxies players threatening to sue Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony might be planning to close down the Star Wars Galaxies servers in December, but they&rsquo;re not going down without a fight. Not the cool kind of fight with lasers and X-Wings and AT-ATs and stuff, though, just a regular boring 21st century fight with bits of paper. They just don&rsquo;t make fights like they used to, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on VentureBeat that has subsequently been removed (via<a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5816933\/some-star-wars-galaxies-players-arent-taking-the-end-of-their-galaxy-very-well\" target=\"_blank\"> Kotaku<\/a>), a bunch of angry players are planning to file a class action lawsuit against Sony, but not &ndash; as you might expect &ndash; to keep the game open, or at least not directly.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently since the announcement of the game&rsquo;s closure, fans have been petitioning on the forum to turn the game into a microtransaction-supported free-to-play MMO, and their efforts have been locked down because &ldquo;promoting an online petition causes disruption within the community and does not provide gameplay feedback that our development team can use&rdquo;. Of course, so does closing the games servers, but that&rsquo;s another matter altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of this class action lawsuit getting anywhere are probably close to just about zero, however, since forum users did sign one of those pesky end-user licence agreements that Sony loves so much.<\/p>\n<p>The saga continues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15259-Star-Wars-Galaxies-players-threaten-to-sue-Sony?p=468127#post468127\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Star Wars Galaxies closure<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}