SWG Wiki:News

2018
23 November 2018
 * SWG Wiki is now fifteen years old!

2017
23 November 2017
 * SWG Wiki is now fourteen years old!

2016
23 November 2016
 * SWG Wiki is now thirteen years old!

2015
23 November 2015
 * SWG Wiki is now twelve years old!

2014
23 November 2014
 * SWG Wiki is now eleven years old!

2013
23 November 2013
 * SWG Wiki is now ten years old!

2012
23 November 2012
 * SWG Wiki is now nine years old!

2011
22 December 2011
 * The Star Wars Galaxies Memory Book has been released.

15 December 2011
 * The end is here! Head to the Sarclacc pit on Tatooine to spend your last hours in the game together with other players. Jabba is waiting there and his entourage is ready to entertain you.

1 December 2011
 * That time is nearly upon us, the Star Wars Galaxies servers close in a fortnight. An announcement has been made regarding the final day's activities.

23 November 2011
 * SWG Wiki is now eight years old!

17 November 2011
 * Life Day returns to Star Wars Galaxies.
 * Game Update 22 also brings changes to atmospheric flight in ground PvP as well as other minor changes.

12 November 2011
 * Hotfix 21.7 brings some changes to Beast Master regarding Acklays.

18 August 2011
 * GCW2 arrives with Game Update 20 and brings massive capital ship Space Battles.
 * Also, Medic and Smuggler receive their expertise updates.

24 June 2011
 * It has been announced that Star Wars Galaxies is due to shut down on 15 December 2011.

23 June 2011
 * With Hotfix 19.20 the Empire Day and Remembrance Day celebrations are back!

9 June 2011
 * Eligible accounts can claim the Huj Mat Rug.

8 June 2011
 * Hotfix 19.19 contains a few bug fixes and makes several old weapons obtainable again.

31 May 2011
 * Hotfix 19.18 marks the end of the Bonus Everything Weekend.

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 * Hotfix 19.17 unveils a space expansion to the Player Bounty System. Fishing also gets some love to address various issues raised by the playerbase, and related to Leaderboards, Elusive Fish, and fishing baits.
 * All accounts are getting a The Price of Victory Choose a Loot Card and 3 free TCG booster packs of their choice.
 * As part of the Welcome Back Program, all subbed and unsubbed accounts are credited of 45 days of free game time, and given an ingame Bounty Hunter Statue depicting Boba Fett's ship, the Slave I.
 * The Star Wars Galaxies servers are back online. A Bonus Everything Event is taking place till Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:00 a.m. PDT!
 * Official SOE Update: ''Today, SOE released more information about our services and the “make good” program here: http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/recentupdates.vm. We also wanted to let you know that we just announced our complimentary Debix “AllClear ID PLUS” identity theft protection program in the United States. For more details, click here: http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/debix.vm
 * Official SOE Update: All Galactic Civil War point decay has been suspended and inactive citizen removal time temporarily increased by 14 days. Item and vendor expiration timers have also been increased by 14 days. More information on SOE's "Make Good" plan to come!
 * Official SOE Update: We received several questions and comments relating to the criminal attack to our network and would like to address some of the most common questions today. See full details here.
 * Official SOE Update: Customer Service notification emails are being sent out to our customers with the information that is found at http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/ . Some of these emails are being sent from the email address Sony_Online_Entertainment@soe.innovyx.net . This email is for informational purposes only and does not ask for any information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. If you have any questions feel free to contact Sony Online Entertainment at 1-858-537-0898.
 * Official SOE Update: In response to many inquiries, we wanted to reassure you that all of your characters and items are safe and awaiting your return. We continue to work on the issues as fast as we can, but unfortunately the servers will not come up today. Thank you for your continued patience; we expect to be back up very soon.
 *  Important Customer Service Notification:  check http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/ for full details.
 * And it's... Bonus Everything Weekend with Hotfix 19.16.1!
 * With Hotfix 19.16, Character Transfers in Star Wars Galaxies are now permanently free! Super Fan Spring Fever has come to an end.
 * It's Super Fan Spring Fever with Hotfix 19.15! Comes along with improvements to the Fishing system, and a few cosmetic and profession tweaks.
 * Hotfix 19.14 is here and provides a few fixes, tweaks and improvements. Guild/City Waypoint/Travelpoint System can now be managed beyond the Guild Leader/ Mayor. Jabba's Palace can now be seen from Wayfar.
 * Various tweaks and improvements with Hotfix 19.13, including enhancements to the Guild Recruitment tools. Also, something else has gone terribly wrong in Dr. Fool's shop. Log in on April Fool's Day to find out what.
 * To help those affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, SOE is doing a fundraising event in many of its games. SWG is included. This weekend you will be able to purchase "A Stuffed Tauntaun Toy" loot card in the TCG for $5. For every one purchased, SOE will donate $10 to the American Red Cross. Plus you can use the item to grant your character a new wearable title, Compassionate Soul and still keep it as a house decoration.
 * Hotfix 19.12 provides a massive update to the Entertainer profession while Player associations get a set of new management tools to streamline recruitment efforts.
 * If you did not receive the Yoda Bobble Head and you believe your account qualified for it, let Zatozia know by posting here.
 * It's Hotfix 19.11. Opening the Challenge Painting Container will let you select one of the five paintings from the Ewok Festival of Love Paintings Challenge. The Guild Wars System is largely improved.
 * All active Star Wars Galaxies™ accounts in good standing have been flagged to /claim the Yoda Bobble Head in-game house decoration!
 * Ewok Festival of Love has ended with Hotfix 19.10. Additional ways for guilds to PvP (both inter-guild and intra-guild) have also been added.
 * Hotfix 19.9 includes tweaks and fixes to Beast Master and Fishing.
 * Hotfix 19.8 marks the end of the Bonus Everything Weekend..
 * Hotfix 19.7 kicks a Bonus Everything Weekend! Ewok Festival of Love bugfixes and tweaks to Officer are also there. Lastly, the Fishing Leaderboard gets some interesting improvements.
 * The Ewok Festival of Love is back with Hotfix 19.6.
 * Enjoy our new Wiki Achievements System!
 * We've reached 9000 articles! Thanks to all the contributors.
 * A profession pass is made possible with Hotfix 19.5 while a variety of general fixes and tweaks hit the live servers. To allow more fluid PvP battles in Restuss, the troop dropships have been disabled.
 * You may have experienced an issue recently, with a missing Editor Toolbar. It was due to a general upgrade of the MediaWiki software. Administrator Servian just found a fix for this, so happy editing SWG'ers!
 * Hotfix 19.4 fixes more WoD bugs and secures Bazzar transactions.
 * Hotfix 19.3 fixes a WoD bug.
 * Hotfix 19.2 marks the end of Life Day and the return of the Dearic GCW Invasion. Add to that a load of fixes and tweaks to the WoD content. Also, there are new spider/beetle DNAs available to Beast Masters.

2010
16th December 2010 14th December 2010 14th December 2010 30th November 2010 23rd November 2010 18th November 2010 11th November 2010 4th November 2010 21st October 2010 7th October 2010 30th September 2010 23rd September 2010 15th September 2010 2nd September 2010 19th August 2010 3rd August 2010 20th July 2010 15th July 2010 1st July 2010 29th June 2010 24th June 2010 23rd June 2010 15th June 2010 11th June 2010 10th June 2010 3rd June 2010 1st June 2010 27th May - 1st June 2010 25th May 2010 18th May 2010 18th May 2010 11th May 2010 4th May 2010 22nd April 2010 15th April 2010 31st March 2010 23rd March 2010 16th March 2010 25th February - 2nd March 2010 11th February 2010 5th February 2010 26th January 2010
 * A few minor fixes with Hotfix 19.1.
 * Game Update 19 heats up with the Witches of Dathomir Theme Park and Life Day.
 * The Price of Victory, 7th TCG expansion, is launched with a serie of new Loot Cards.
 * Hotfix 18.6 allows players to convert the Decorative Fedora Hat and the Decorative Whip Belt to wearable equivalents.
 * Hotfix 18.5 adds fixes to the Fishing Leaderboard system.
 * Hotfix 18.4 introduces some long awaited fixes picked from the Senate Master Issue List, tweaks aspects of the Game Update 15 Invasion system and marks the end of the Galactic Moon Festival.
 * Hotfix 18.3 slips in some fixes to the WoD prologue and some anti-spammers counter measures.
 * Game Update 18.2 marks the Witches of Dathomir Prologue.
 * The Galactic Moon Festival 2010 starts up again this year in preparation for Halloween. Visit Mos Eisley or Moenia to join in with the fun!
 * Hotfix 17.10 completes the 7 Year celebration by adding the final gift, and introduces the Rare Loot System.
 * The long standing "Fishing" mini-game is given a few tweaks, which include the addition of a Galaxy wide Fishing Leaderboard with Hotfix 17.9.
 * The Year 6 Gift is released along with Hotfix 17.8.
 * Our sister wiki, the Clone Wars Adventures Wiki, is launched to coincide with the release of SOE's new Star Wars MMO.
 * Hotfix 17.6 brings a new level of competition to the game with the GCW Leaderboard, and introduces the Year 5 Gift.
 * Hotfix 17.5 brings staggered invasions into the mix and introduces the Year 4 gift.
 * Hotfix 17.4 marks the end of Empire Day 2010 and introduces the Year 3 gift.
 * Hotfix 17.3 brings a few minor bugfixes to the game and unveils the SWG seven year logo.
 * Hotfix 17.2 is actually a large update, including major tweaks to the Bounty Hunter profession, a revamp to player placed factional bases, GCW perks and restrictions, and even more items becoming undefined, among other things.
 * For a very limited time, the Star Wars Galaxies™ Complete Online Adventures Premium Plus Pack is on sale in the STEAM store for only $4.99 . That’s 75% off the regular price. The sale ends Friday July 2, 2010, so don’t wait!
 * Hotfix 17.1 unveils the first of the 7 gifts awarded to celebrate SWG's 7 years anniversary, and adds community requested tweaks to the new Empire Day vehicles.
 * The Empire Day and Remembrance Day celebrations are back with Game Update 17! Also around 40 more items become undefined including the Officer Stims and TACs, while a first shipment of Storyteller Props get clearance to be deployed inside player structures.
 * The Xfire software now fully supports Star Wars Galaxies in all the known client contexts. A complete Guide to using Xfire with SWG is now available.
 * A new TCG scenario, "The Followers of Baba" is available. The first time you defeat the scenario, you will receive one (1) Battle Worn Composite Armor Kit (7SWGP6) loot card.
 * After much some discussion, a new look for the SWG Wiki page has been created. Slowly but surely, the new features will be cached and uploaded, so you should start seeing the changes over the next few days. Leave any comments or feedback on the Main Page's Discussion Article for the admins to read!
 * Hotfix 16.14 updates more than 500 items from to undefined.
 * Hotfix 16.13 adds the 81 and 84 month Veteran Rewards to the game: Neural Recon Network Terminal, Star Destroyer Console Row, Star Destroyer System Console.
 * Hotfix 16.12 brings a new Chapter Gift in the form of three undefined paintings. Also the Cracktooth Narglatch and the Wing-clipped Hawk Bat can now be found in The Warren.
 * Double everything weekend in Star Wars Galaxies, Double XP, GCW Points, GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Chronicles XP, Chronicles Silver Tokens etc. For detailed informations, head to the Star Wars Galaxies forums.
 * To close the ESB Anniversary celebration, the fourth and final gift given to players is the Luke Skywalker Costume Instructions in Hotfix 16.10. For those who claimed all 4 ESB gifts, they received a Holocron of Destiny which means more rewards once you answers its mysteries... A new exclusive Shock Collar is dropped by the Undead Rancor in the Quarantine Zone, and players can now buy the Jabba's Sail Barge in Aurilia.
 * A new TCG scenario, "The Skull" is available. The first time you defeat the scenario, you will receive one (1) Max Rebo Band Diorama (7SWGP4) loot card.
 * For this 3rd week of celebration, players get the Princess Leia Costume Instructions as a publish gift for Hotfix 16.8. Aside a variety of updates done to Jedi, Beast Master, beast mutations, the Geonosian Caves and a few new loots and rewards added to existing content, more than 150 items see their  status permanently removed.
 * The 30th Anniversary Celebration continues with Hotfix 16.7. Players logging in this week will discover the Han Solo Costume Instructions as their publish gift. A Snowspeeder ITV is introduced as a new Hoth reward while costumed players now get to sit and dance!
 * The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary Celebration has begun. Log in through May 10th to receive the first publish gift for this celebration, the Lando Calrissian Costume Instructions. Hotfix 16.6 introduces a new tradable loot drop from Unkajo, while Jedi receives quite a few improvements and tweaks.
 * Along with the April 2010 Bug Bash Update, log in and discover the new loot that awaits you from heroic encounters, enjoy more storage for Vehicles or Mounts in your Datapad and pick up some new rewards from faction recruiters with your GCW invasion tokens.
 * The TCG "The Shaman's Staff" scenario is now available! The first time you defeat the scenario, you will receive one (1) Armored Backpack (7SWGP2) loot card.
 * Tomorrow April 1st, there is a 24 hour day event. Dr. Fool is at it again with his crazy toy creations. Don't miss out on the Toy Recaller player title if you didn't get it last year. Event begins at 12AM PDT, April 1st.
 * Stronghold of the Lok Revenants is the Game Update 16, featuring a heavily extended Nym's Themepark, important space updates some impacting the tide of the GCW, and a variety of profession tweaks and bugfixes.
 * A new TCG expansion goes live, Threat of the Conqueror (scenario Loot card: Winged Quenker Poster). Also, until March 16, 2011, players get to choose the TCG set of their 5 monthly free booster packs.
 * Double everything weekend in Star Wars Galaxies, Double XP, GCW Points, GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Chronicles XP, Chronicles Silver Tokens etc. For information see Hotfix 15.7 or head to the Star Wars Galaxies Page.
 * The Complete Online Adventures Premium Plus Pack is now including 6 ingame Gifts (STEAM store)
 * The Ewok Festival of Love returns.
 * Forces are under siege and the galaxy is at war with Game Update 15. It's the Galactic Civil War Update.

2009
18th December 2009 15th December 2009 14th December 2009 20th November 2009 4th November 2009 13th October 2009 1st October 2009 10th August 2009 25th June 2009 23rd June 2009 6th June 2009 29th April 2009 12th March 2009 10th February 2009 13th January 2009 12th January 2009
 * The Official Star Wars Galaxies Page is now live on Facebook!
 * Wookie Life Day comes back in Dearic, Wayfar, and Doaba Guerfel.
 * A new TCG expansion goes live, The Nightsister's Revenge.
 * Star Wars Galaxies is now available on Steam!
 * It's that time again for the Galactic Moon Festival.
 * Game Update 14 brings the challenging Death Troopers content.
 * Announced as the new big system at Fan faire, the Chronicles Master System hits the live servers in Game Update 13.
 * Game Update 12 is focusing on Engineering Traders. Many new Droids are added along with Cybernetics.
 * The SOE Fan Faire 2009 takes place in Las Vegas, where it is announced a quest tie-in will turn an Imperial controlled city into a zombie asylum. The Chronicles Master System is unveiled. Plans for a GCW update are also announced.
 * The 6th anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies is celebrated with Empire Day in Game Update 11.
 * Battlefields come with Game Update 10, creating four new PvP zones.
 * Game Update 9 adds new houses with windows that can be created by Structures Traders.
 * Player cities and player associations get a major revamp with the addition of the 90 day house pack-up and guild ranks in Game Update 8.
 * It's Game Update 7 and the Ewok Festival of Love, along with a Spy profession update.
 * The Free Character Transfer service starts today, and runs until the 31st March 2009.
 * Game Update 6 adds the Appearance Tab and marks the end of the Life Day 2008 event.

2008
16th December 2008 20th November 2008 26th August 2008 13th August 2008 29th July 2008 19th June 2008 27th May 2008 29th April 2008 3rd April 2008 13th March 2008 6th March 2008 12th February 2008 15th January 2008
 * The Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game expansion, Squadrons Over Corellia, is launched. It's also Life Day time again.
 * Battle of Echo Base is the new Heroic Encounter in Chapter 11. The Character Transfer Service gets a load of improvements.
 * The Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game, Champions of the Force, is launched.
 * The SOE Fan Faire takes place in Las Vegas, where amongst other things, footage of the upcoming Battle of Echo Base is revealed.
 * Game Update 5 reveals two major features, the in-game Web Browser and the Integrated Voice Chat. Also, Beast Masters and Munitions Traders get a profession pass, the latest leading to a complete revamp of the Weapon Crafting System.
 * The Meatlumps Theme Park is added with Chapter 10, along with two key features, the Group Pickup Points and the Improved Community Search. Mustafar instance mechanics are also upgraded to the Heroic Encounter standard.
 * It's Game Update 4, made of Commando, Officer, and Smuggler profession and expertise updates, and a new stackable DoT system.
 * Bounty Hunter and Jedi get important updates in Game Update 3.
 * Chapter 9 marks the release of the Exar Kun Heroic Encounter. Storytelling Blueprints are also added.
 * Entertainer and Medic updates are on Game Update 2's menu.
 * SWG Wiki now has a new look.
 * Smuggler and Spy are the first two professions to get a profession update pass in Game Update 1
 * A long awaited Space update hits the Live servers with Game Update 8 and the Nova Orion Station content in the new Ord Mantell space sector. A new Heroic Encounter is also added, the Lost Star Destroyer.

2007
9th November 2007 1st November 2007 25th June 2007 March 2007
 * Chapter 7.1 adds various bugfixes and tweaks, introduces the /showinstanceinformation command (/showi), and restricts access to the Restuss PvP zone to CL75+ players.
 * Chapter 7, a Collection of Heroes, launches with gigantic additions: Aurilia, Heroic Encounters, Collection System, UI improvements, ...
 * SWG Wiki is now part of the Wikia Network.
 * SWG Wiki introduces AuctionAds.

2006
11/15/2006 09/04/2006 08/20/2006 August 2006
 * 2 years SWG Wiki → Support the Wiki with just a few clicks or donations!
 * Added "Random silliness &copy;" to the homepage. A random image will be displayed each time you refresh the homepage. Made with Plasq's Comic Life
 * Take the extremely short SWG-Wiki survey! (closed)
 * Several updates, design changes, Darth Vader user icon is back, Google functionality added

2005
04.07.2005 07.06.2005 21.03.2005 13.02.2005 02.02.2005 10.12.2004 07.12.2004 01.12.2004 23.11.2004
 * SWG Wiki is featured on the latest SWG Newsletter. You can check it out here.
 * SWG Wiki celebrates its 2000th article!
 * SWG Wiki banners are available for download.
 * SWG Wiki Forum is now open (had to be closed because of security issues)
 * SWG Wiki - 2GB of webspace are now available! --Webmaster 16:58, 3 Feb 2005 (CET)
 * SWG Wiki gets listed on the Friday features! Star Wars Galaxies Fan Sites!
 * Firefox search plugin Thanks to Angmar !
 * Image uploads enabled for sysops
 * Site launch "This is awesome! Excellent work!" Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl Community Relations Manager