Random Video Game Talk

[JeffHCross]

That was the problem that Galaxies ran into. EVERYONE wanted to be a Jedi, which is just stupid.

No, it's not stupid. That's what the majority of Star Wars fans would choose to be, given the choice. What's stupid is a) that Galaxies didn't know that ahead of time; and b) after making it a massive effort (though rewarding) to become a Jedi for months (or maybe even a year), then they made it easy, pissing off every subscriber that had gone through all the work previously.

I wish I could think of an NCAA equivalent to discuss it here, but there's simply no equivalent, without bordering on the ridiculous.

And while Smooth and MVP are right that you need some Dark Jedi to offset the Jedi, that wasn't the problem. The problem was that Galaxies was supposed to be in the "original" Star Wars universe, where Jedi were rare. That was the aim going in -- having a Jedi character was a major accomplishment. It became easy though, and then the NGE (New Game Experience) was an absolute disaster.

Galaxies is a perfect example of a franchise that did way too much to try and get the "casual" fan while turning off their current fans left and right.