{"id":12972,"date":"2011-07-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"making-star-wars-galaxies-free-to-play-isn-t-financially-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12972-making-star-wars-galaxies-free-to-play-isn-t-financially-viable","title":{"rendered":"Making Star Wars Galaxies free to play \u201cisn\u2019t financially viable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re one of the last four remaining Star Wars Galaxies players, and had hoped the game might be saved from its scheduled termination later this year by moving over to a free-to-play model instead, prepare to be totally disappointed because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]hat model just isn&#8217;t financially viable,&#8221; LucasArts tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idg-entertainment.com\/article\/news\/221126\/lucasarts-message-to-star-wars-galaxies-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\">GamePro<\/a>. &#8220;Changing the business model for an experience like Star Wars Galaxies takes a major investment and overhauling of the existing infrastructure of the game. We&#8217;re unfortunately at a point in our life cycle where a change of this magnitude is just not possible. The harsh reality is that we&#8217;ve reached a point where the game is no longer a sustainable business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained,&rdquo; adds Admiral Motti, via interstellar broadcast from the Empire&rsquo;s Death Star, where engineers are already prepping a huge laser battery to destroy the game servers. &ldquo;Suck it up and go play something else instead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never underestimate the power of budget limitations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972","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=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}