Making Galaxies fun again: An interview with the developers of the Star Wars Galaxies PreCU Emulation Project
by admin on Dec.01, 2008, under SWGEmu Developer Chats
Taken from: CrunchGear.com
There’s a group of developers who are trying to resurrect the old, fun version Star Wars Galaxies with the Star Wars Galaxies PreCU Emulation Project. The “CU” stands for Combat Upgrade, a term Sony Online Entertainment, the game’s harebrained developers, concocted to described the game-breaking changes it made to the combat engine. Longtime players of Galaxies, my brother Gabriel included, hated the Combat Upgrade.(“Upgrade? More like downgrade!”) Gabriel, who helped me write that Hitler Twitter video and is now a freshman at NYU, spoke with the project’s developers last week in order to figure out what makes them tick.
This is their story, as written by young Gabriel…. Read on..