Star Wars Galaxies Gets Resurrected After More Than A Decade
Star Wars Galaxies Restoration 3 is celebrating seven months of growth. The free, fan-made project to bring back the 2003 cult-classic MMO has seen nothing but success since releasing last May, and it’s got big plans for 2022.
According to a recent news post from the development team (via PC Gamer), Star Wars Galaxies Restoration 3 surpassed 11,400 accounts with over 12,000 characters since last year. The vibrant MMORPG features 90 guilds, 43 player-run cities, and over 10,000 PvP kills. Since launch, Restoration 3 has improved its server back end, gifted players with a Galactic Fortitude system, and created an incredibly informative website with a fully-functional wiki. Not to mention new quests, new content, and hundreds of squashed bugs.
In 2022, Restoration 3 plans to improve the fan-made game further by bringing even more features from the original Star Wars Galaxies back from the dead.
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Star Wars Galaxies first arrived way back in 2003 as a cult-classic MMORPG. Players would enter into the Star Wars universe as one of 10 species specializing in a number of different professions, choosing between the Empire, Rebellion, or remaining neutral in the galactic conflict. Although Galaxies started out as a turn-based RPG, an infamous update in 2005 brought rudimentary real-time first-person shooter combat which was extremely poorly received and is often blamed for Galaxies' eventual demise.
Sony Online Entertainment (now known as Daybreak Game Company) shut down the Galaxies servers in 2011, but a source code leak in 2013 made the game's code freely available to all. Several Galaxies emulations have popped up since the
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