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Last week or so SOE announced a ground-up revamp of Star Wars Galaxies, in an attempt to bring it more in line with the action-adventure films, and presumably slightly further away from the sit-back-and-craft MMOG that it could sometimes be. One particular aspect of the update has the diminished community up in arms: Jedi is now a starting profession.
While Jedi used to be something that happened to you after mastering professions and meeting (at the game's choice of time) a mysterious Old Man who "ascended" you, now it's a free-for-all, and who doesn't want to be a Jedi? This has occurred to the designers of course, and we suppose they're thinking, so everyone will be a Jedi. So what? Rebel Jedi vs Imperial Jedi, party on!
Glowy multicolour sticks as far as the eye can see, it'll be like 1992 all over again ... (still, it can't be worse than Darth Christmas. Can it?)
Meanwhile, Slashdot has taken the bantha by the horns and has been granted an audience with John Smedley. They're trawling their community (90% oldskool diehard SW fans?) for questions which will be put direct to SOE's CEO. Oh boy, this should be good!
