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Gamers show way on demise of favourite products

Sony Online Entertainment has announced it will be shutting down the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Star Wars Galaxies on December 15.

The game has been running since 2003 and its successor, the very hip-sounding The Old Republic, is imminent, so such a move seems understandable. Except some fans are not happy about it, and as we all know, when Star Wars fans are displeased, they like to keep their opinions very much to themselves.

Just kidding. According to VentureBeat, 2500 players have petitioned Sony to turn it into a free-to-play game funded by the sale of in-game pretend things. And others are threatening to bring a lawsuit against Sony.

Defrag feels for the fans.

Goodness knows, if we could spend half our life in the movie Die Hard, we would and if anyone tried to take that away from us, we would be on the extreme side of miffed.

But we're pretty sure you can't sue a company because they stop making something you really like. Otherwise, Defrag would have had Nestle in court years ago, as part of a class-action suit seeking damages for the emotional trauma caused when they changed the recipe for the Milo Bar and introduced that new abomination.

We mean, seriously, every other chocolate bar on the market now comes in a zillion varieties, with a different kind of nut or a slight variation in the shape of the bar; couldn't they have kept making both? Or did they have to make room in their product schedule for Milo porridge, which sounds kind of disturbing for reasons we can't quite pinpoint. Also, how come Defrag can't buy Milo B-Smart any more? The swines.

Err, anyway, where were we? Oh, that's right: suing people for annoying us. We hope the Star Wars people are successful in their mission, because that's a precedent we could make use of.

For instance, we'd sue half the publishers of half the news organisations reporting on Justin Timberlake buying a minority stake in the sale of MySpace last week. Sure, it's an entertaining story, especially since Timberlake played tech entrepreneur Sean Parker in The Social Network, which invites lots of jokes along the line of "what, he also voiced Artie in Shrek the Third; does that mean he can be king too now?"

But really, headline writers, couldn't we have had a few less variations on the one theme? Nearly every one played on the title of 2006 single SexyBack, with headlines along the lines of "Timberlake to bring the sexyback to MySpace" or "Timberlake to bring MySpace back". Would it have killed someone to go with "Timberlake 'N Sync with MySpace" or "Is Timberlake justified in trying to save MySpace?

Operation Games Online and Offline

The principle of the sport is terribly simple. The player needs to use tweezers to get rid of varied objects from the patient’s body while not triggering a negative response. The types of issue the player wants to remove range from water on the knee to a frog within the throat. Responses usually involve shrieks of pain, grumbles and pleas for mercy that are hilarious for children, along with flashing lights. During this game, it is the flexibility to recognize objects by bit alone that’s developed. Instead of a flat board with the figure of a patient, the player is confronted by a large electronic, talking head. Inside the pinnacle are varied shapes. The players are dealt cards with a shape on each. They need to reach into the head and fish out the shapes that match their cards.If the player is just too slow or too rough the top’s nose lights up, a buzzer sounds and therefore the operation is asserted a failure. Many PC games provide simulations of aspects of the medical world. ’911 Paramedic’ deals with the kind of emergency situations that an everyday event in an exceedingly busy hospital. ER The Game takes you into the world of ER, the TV show, ‘Sarah’s Emergency Space’ is about first responses to patients getting into a hospital. ‘Let’s Operate’ could be a easy game where a player tries to follow a wandering line with a scalpel. Just as Cavity Sam screeches in anguish if you are clumsy, the patient in this game cries out if you stray from the line. There’s a additionally a time part to add to the pressure. In this case, the passing of your time is represented by the draining of a blood bag that adds a pleasant ghoulish touch. A lot of more subtle games that provide older children (13+) the prospect to be told regarding operations involve such things as knee replacement surgery or heart transplants. These games typically come back with a robust educational element. Some are made particularly for academics to use in the classroom and have supporting notes and prompt activities. The educational tag hasn’t stopped these games being in style with teenagers who ask for them out to play with or while not the classroom experience.

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