Hello and welcome to Star Wars Galaxies!

My name is Raph Koster, but on the boards I am known as Holocron. I'm the Creative Director for the game, which broadly speaking means that I am in charge of the game design.

Star Wars Galaxies has now launched, but as you know if you've played these games before, an online world is never finished. We have a full team working on SWG post-launch, with the goal of adding new features, fixing problems, balancing the game, and being responsive to you, the customer.

To this end, there's a few things that you can do to help us make your experience better, so that we can all keep working to make Galaxies as good as it can be.

• We'll have some folks on the boards reading your posts every day...

...to gather up issues and concerns and forward them along to the development team. Sometimes they may post asking for more information. The more you help us with this info, the faster we can help you. Rants, gripes, and complaints about problems aren't helpful, but specifics, concrete examples, steps to reproduce a problem, and details on your location, server, and character name can prove invaluable in tracking the problem down.

• We plan on doing regular updates to the game, with bugfixes and new content additions.

These new versions of the game will be posted on the server called Test Center in advance of making it out to any other servers. If you're interested on playing with the latest and greatest at all times, and are willing to help the rest of the community out by serving as a tester on possibly buggy patches, please check out the Test Center forum for details!

• We're constantly looking for ways to improve the game...

so expect us to periodically post threads asking for input on particular professions or playstyles. Your replies to these helps us enormously in setting priorities, so please do take the time if you can.

Those of you who went through the SWG Beta Test with us know that we're committed to always improving the game and your experience, and that we try to keep in constant touch with players. It may be a bit harder now that the game is so much larger, but we're still just as dedicated to making this the best online Star Wars experience possible.

It's time for the saga to start... the yellow text is crawling up the screen. Let's have an adventure together!

-Raph Koster,

Creative Director