Who ever said playing video games wasn’t constructive? LucasArts is promising a free luxury yacht to anyone who’s been a registered Star Wars Galaxies member for at least six months. That sounds like a good deal to us. Except, of course, it isn’t actually a proper boat. It’s not moored off the coast of any beautiful Mediterranean island, and its decks aren’t crowded with nubile, tanned young ladies in bikinis. Instead, it’s just a virtual space ship upgrade that loyal players will be rewarded with if they invest in the latest Star Wars Galaxies expansion pack - Jump to Lightspeed.
The confirmation of the first full retail expansion pack also marks the first birthday of Star War Galaxies, which has now accumulated half a million registered users, making it a genuinely massive multiplayer online RPG.
Jump To Lightspeed, offering 15 new spacecraft, four new professions and two new species is due for release this coming October.