Yet more from Star Wars Galaxies: that version of the 1943 eastern front for MMO developers.
Via Broken Toys and elsewhere, the New York Times is covering the Star Wars: Galaxies "New Game Experience" laugh-a-minute-because-I'm-not-a-subscriber apocalypse. I was initially surprised, but I suppose that virtual worlds are interesting enough to get into print, especially in the arts section.
It is serious knocking copy. At first, I thought that it was a freelance piece submitted on spec that had got lucky, but Seth Schiessel has been doing tech pieces for the New York Times for years. It's well-informed and well-researched, as well as strongly opinionated. No publicity may be bad publicity, but some publicity can be even worse. This article won't sell any boxes, that's for sure.