Star Wars Fans Flee Net Galaxy
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So what's the big deal? It's not merely that Galaxies players -- some of whom have been playing as the same character in the same virtual world since the game's 2003 launch -- liked the old version just fine. It's that the characters they've spent all this time building are gone.
"There is a sense of loss," says network security specialist Brian Orr, who had been playing two characters -- a master bounty hunter named DevNull and a Jedi Padawan named Chewbaccu -- for more than two years. "I attempted to play by the new rules for a few days. However, the gameplay was horrid, and the bugs were intolerable. Needless to say, I canceled my account."
