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LucasArts and Sony officially deny Galaxy rumors

by: Chuck -
More On: Star Wars: Galaxies
We just got a nice statement from LucasArts about the rumor that surfaced yesterday that Lucasarts was going to pull the Star Wars license from Sony, effectively shutting down Star Wars Galaxies.  We didn't post the rumor here because it didn't make a lot of sense given the recent re-launch of the game last year.  Here's the official statement.

LucasArts and SOE have no plans to “sunset” Star Wars Galaxies. The two companies will continue to work together as partners in making Star Wars Galaxies the ultimate online Star Wars experience.  As has been announced several times previously, LucasArts and SOE are 100% committed and determined to continue to support Star Wars Galaxies together, especially with our renewed focus on improving the game for existing players through robust publish and content offerings in 2006. On our forums, we have shared early plans for game updates through Publish 34, which can be found here.

Additionally, LucasArts and SOE will be hitting the road this April and visiting several cities across the US with a series of Community Summits in an open “town hall” format where players can meet face-to-face with development team members, ask their questions, voice their concerns, as well as meet and hang out with fellow Star Wars Galaxies players.

There's no official word on the other rumor the rumor that creative lead Ralf Koster has left the company to work on Bioware's new startup.