SWG:producer letter previews Hoth, Christmas events

From massively.com

The latest Producer's Letter from the head of Star Wars Galaxies development is in! Chris 'Dotanuki' Fields offers up some encouraging words about the team's plans for Hoth, which is now on the Test Center server. The Imperial side arrived first for intensive testing, and the Rebel portion of the instance should now be online for debugging as well. There's still no ETA on the new content going live, but testing on TC means it won't be long now before Hoth goes live. Fields compliments players on the fun seen during the Halloween live event, and notes we may see it as a template for future events in-game. Fields also takes a moment to reiterate statements we heard from SOE CEO John Smedley: Sony Online has no intention of shutting down Star Wars Galaxies any time soon. Star Wars: The Old Republic is still some time off, and they have content planned out for SWG well through 2009.