Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

As a follow up to Andy's great E3
coverage (WTG guy, and thanks for the details on
WC3!), I wanna talk about what has caught my fancy
lately -- Star Wars Galaxies.
SWG is brought to you by a collab team from
Lucas Arts and Verant/Sony Online. I can't think
of a better matching of companies for this
project. Verant are the people who brought us
EverQuest ( or EverCrack ), the fantasy MMRPG
(Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game ) that
currently has approaching 400K subscribers,
including myself and many of my friends. You know
who LucasArts is unless you've been holed up with
the Unibomber for the last 20 years.
SWG will represent a pretty radical change to
the MMRPGs out there now. Harking back to my
MUD/MUSH days, if EverQuest and Asheron's call are
Hack'n'Slash MUD, SWG will be more of a MUSH --
centered around player built society and
environments and less combat focused. Set in the
StarWars "universe" between ESB and RotJ, it will
provide users with alot of ability to change the
world, build cities and more.
Several exciting features are on deck, including:

• Continous "world", there are not "zones" or
  hard barriers in the world. It is a smooth
  movement across the whole playing world.
• Players have the ability to construct
  structures in the world, building stores, staffing
  them with automated merchant NPCs, and making
  money. Build houses, bases, fortifications with
  automated weapons and more.
• No fixed character "classes", just
  amalgomating skills at different levels, so each
  character can be much more unique.
• Graphics, eye candy, and graphics.
• An add on to follow soon after initial release
  will add space combat and transit within player
  control.

In short, this is gonna rock.