Star Wars Galaxies is a Star Wars MMORPG developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts. It launched in North America on 26 June 2003 and in Europe on 7 November, ran on a subscription and was Windows-only.
At heart it is a sandbox: players made almost everything themselves — blasters, armor, food, starships, houses, furniture and droids — so the economy rested on crafters. Buildings stood in the open world and formed player cities with elected mayors. There were more than thirty professions at launch, and the Jump to Lightspeed expansion in October 2004 added space and starships.
In 2005 the Combat Upgrade and the New Game Enhancements reworked combat and cut the professions to nine. The servers shut down on 15 December 2011 when the licence contract expired. Fans keep emulated versions alive on private servers.
