11 Dec 2023, 16:05

@GF said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

What gets me specifically is doing that in Star Wars. That really, really doesn’t seem to me like the draw of the franchise.

there’s a specific portion of the fantasy that is often iterated on that just about owning a starship like the Millenium Falcon and living that sort of life, which is where a big chunk of the inspiration for Firefly came from, for example.

space trucker games also have a significant fan base overlap I imagine, so “play a sort of simulation game you already enjoy inside an IP you also coincidentally enjoy” doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. certainly explains why so many SW MUDs/etc were like this in the 90’s and early aughts.