Sony Online Entertainment has announced that on december 15, the servers of the mmog Star Wars Galaxies final offline will get. According to Sony, the decision has nothing to do with the recent attacks on its servers.
The number of available servers for Star Wars Galaxies players was in september 2009, reduced from 25 to 12, but by 15 december will the game no longer playable online, so of late John Smedley of Sony Online Entertainment know to Joystiq. According to Sony to have the attacks of hackers on PSN and a number of online titles, Sony has nothing to do with the decision to stop with Star Wars Galaxies; Smedley states that, after consultation with LucasArts decided to the servers at the end of this year offline due to ‘business reasons’. Furthermore, the contracts with LucasArts in 2012 expire.
Sony denies that Star Wars Galaxies is canceled due to a strong decrease in the number of players. Smedley believes that since the number of available servers in 2009 was reduced, and the player traffic is relatively stable. Nevertheless, saw Sony the number of subscribers in 2005 strong decline, after a number of updates, many changes in the gameplay, it was introduced in 2003 Star Wars Galaxies were made.
