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Star Wars Galaxies

June 14th, 2004

I haven’t been playing games lately, which is strange for me because I have always been a gaming freak. I think I backed off from gaming when my daughter was born and backed off even more when she stayed awake longer for me to play with her. So, I would mainly just play games at night when she went to bed. But for whatever reason, I just stopped playing (I was playing Beyond Good & Evil at the time) and didn’t seem to care to play anything again.

But…

I was surfing on the Net the other day and found out that Sony was giving out a free 14 day trial to Star Wars Galaxies - a game I have wanted to play for a while. It’s a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game), where you create a character, chose a profession, and then play around on the planets of the Star Wars stories. It’s very detailed and takes many hours away from your life. I really like playing and I like seeing all the cool Star Wars culture, but I kinda can’t wait for my trial to be over. It’s very addictive and it is such a timesink. I would much rather not have been exposed to it, to be honest. But, it’s so fun to play! I have found myself thinking that the $30 every 60 days isn’t that much to spend on a game. It really sucks knowing that I’m probably just advancing my character for nothing since I’ll just quit after the trial is over.

Maybe something else will distract me…I doubt it.

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