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did swg fail
Koster’s final post-mortem: Did Star Wars Galaxies fail?
Jef Reahard
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April 27, 2015
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Raph Koster has wrapped up his Star Wars Galaxies retrospective with a blog post that asks whether or not the sci-fi MMORPG failed. It's a...
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