After about 8 years of service, Star Wars Galaxies is set to officially go offline on December 15 after Sony Online Entertainment, Bioware, and LucasArts confirmed the end of the MMO game.
The servers are going to be gradually freed up for the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO game with the last set of servers to go completely offline in December.
As part of making sure nothing goes wrong during the process, the ability to auto subscribe to the game will be shut off on October 15 while the trading card game will be discontinued and unable to activate on September 15.
Sony Online Entertainment does have a final "thank you" gift set up for later this year involving a massive final quest being hyped up as a “galaxy-ending in-game event."
While the game wasn't as popular as other big name MMOs like World of Warcraft, declining revenues and sales with the need to release a brand new game in the Star Wars series ended up being the main factors in the decision to shut down the MMO.
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