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ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE MMORPG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

1. Even if you could play this game for free, it's atrocious (I won't bore you with all the details as to why this game sucks - read all the other reviewers for that info).
2. If you are a Star Wars fan, look away...if you play this game long enough, you will go to the dark side and learn to hate Star Wars.

Stay clear of this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I started playing the game about 2 years ago. When i started there were 32 professions that you was able to play and although they were time consuming to master, They were fun and i made many friends while playing. This is no longer the case as you will see later on in the review.
SOE charge £10 a month subscription to play on the server, or to basically rent a character space.
Anyway now to my reasons that i would steer clear of the game: Sony announced a new expansion JTL. I bought a hard copy of the Jump to lightspeed expansion which was £20 and enjoyed it. In the space of a year they bought out another expansion rage of the wookies i then decided to buy a hard copy of that also (another £20). Althought i felt quite annoyed when buying the rage of the wookies expansion they were giving away Jump to lightspeed along with this on hard copy. (I prefer to buy hard copies of the game and try not to opt for the digital download) So basically i had bought JTL twice. Annoyed i still carried on playing and thought SOE wouldnt screw their player base again. So i carried on spending the £10 a month to play as well as the other monies i had spent on paying for the expansions. Then SOE announced that they would be releasing another expansion "The Trials of Obi Wan" This time it would not be released on hard copy but only available via digital download. This time i had to pay another £20 but i wasnt able to have a hard copy of the game this time i had to download it. There were loads of promises that this would be a great expansion pack and that there was going to be loads of new loot on the new mustafar planet. I was pretty excited about this as i had completed my jedi grinding and needed something new to do within the game. Then the day after recieving this expansion on the download it was revealed that there was going to be a mass overhaul of the game. It was going to be changed into a FPS sort of game with 9 professions that you get locked into. There is no more changing professions like when there were 32 starting professions and if you want to be a new profession you will have to start from scratch, hence SOE making more money of the people that play this game as grinding a profession can be done in either a few days or a few months.(Depending on if you are a powergamer or not) Jedi is now an out of the box profession that every one can start with (and after playing it on the test center i would say 90% of the players will be jedi.) All what i had worked for over the past 2 years was going as of the 15th November due to the NGE. I tried out the new version of the game on the test center servers and thought oh well maybe i can adapt to this even though at this point in time i had spent £300 playing this game. The next time that i logged into the game i was greeted with a message saying that everyone that is currently playing the game will be recieving the Jump to lightspeed expansion for free and it will be downloading to them in the back ground. This was the straw that broke the camels back.
I feel personally betrayed by SOE as does most of the player base that used to play this game. Also another point is that everytime an expansion was released so was some other part of the starwars franchise. For example when rage of the wookies was released so was Starwars Episode 3 in cinemas, When Trials of Obi Wan was released so was Starwars Episode 3 DVD. I am afraid that there is nothing to save it now. Except the people that will be playing via their xbox or PS2 as this is what the game seems to be preparing for.
Most of the player base is leaving as they feel that they have been slapped in the face by SOE. This game will eventually die a death. This game was an excellent MMORPG and i had many hours of fun playing my character. It was time consuming but i enjoyed it while i played. I would tell people now though if they are going to try this game i wouldnt bother, Unless you enjoy clicking a mouse button 300 times to win a fight against an animal or player. If button mashing is what you enjoy play this, otherwise steer clear.

Ruined

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has been completely ruined as of 15 November. A host of changes was made to the game, which have basically made the game unplayable. Half the Professions you will see in the game manual no longer exist. Waste of a decent game.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly from SOE and this by far is the worst.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been a vet since day 2 of SWG. I was the leader of Corbantis's only Imperial Role-play guild for almost two years before this destroyed all we had built. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly from SOE and this by far is the worst.

This "downgrade" has been in the planning for over a year according to SOE yet they only announce the change two weeks prior to it's publish? This stinks to high heaven of trying to squeeze the last drop of blood out of your veteran community before scrapping them to bring in a new generation of console gamers to SWG.

Make no mistake SWG is now a console game and that is the focus of SOE. A vast interactive world has been dumbed down to a simple yet clunky point and click system where aim bots and carpal tunnel syndrome will run rampant.

No answers are given; no information is handed out except spin and lies by SOE. Read all you can before wasting your money on any SOE product is my advice.

Game Changing totally yet again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is being changed totally again on November 15th. It will be an FPS game with professions reduced to 9 from 32. You wont be able to switch professions any longer as you used to be able to. It has been simplified a lot probably for its imminent release on the console market.

Some things may improve. A more quest based system of skilling for example but the new system hasnt yet been applied to all the planets and certainly wont be by the time this goes live next week.

However the major problem is SOE released a new expansion the Trials of Obiwan last week. And in this expansion promised new content for professions such as Creature Handler. Within a day of taking the money for this expansion they announced the new upgrade to the game and that Creature Handler was being totally removed from the game. A dubious and reputedly illegal business practise, promising content in a product then removing said content after taking the money.

Players are currently looking in to taking legal action over this. As SOE have a policy of not making refunds for digitally downloaded purchases and are refusing refunds on the new expansion.

Id advise waiting before considering purchasing this product. And be warned that is is now a totally different game to the one currently mentioned in the advertising.

It's being dumbed down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was a great game. I spent a lot of time playing it and did quests, visited Star Wars locals and saw Star Wars characters. I liked this game I really did, now they are going to dumb it all down in the name of "playability". No more class trainers and leveling up just got insanely easy. It looks like 90% of the game will be Jedi in about 6 months of this update. It's going to be boring and the game will lose much of what made it Star Wars.

SOE's Money Pit

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: July 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First to Chris Knight-totally agree with you on your review of SWG. You about pegged all the major problems with it. Did a little research There were not a massive amount of jedi the Star Wars Universe until many years after the Battle of Endor. Historally SOE is wrong about a lot of jedi between the Star Wars New Hope and the Empire Strikes back. Not going to even mention about the faults of the CU. This has been kicked around enough.

As for the game itself. Its pretty much on life support these days, SOE doesnt releaize this yet. This Game is dieing fast. After CU I am not sure if the average person wants to waste $15 bucks a month to beta test for something that should have been fixed in the first place. SWG is now a 2 year old engine

If you have to play an online game, try WOW-althrough patch 1.6 has it issues with War Craft, there is the yet to be released D&D online in November and hopefully Star Trek Online around 2007

Don't buy this game or any other SOE Game including Everquest or Everquest 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is run by Sony Online Enterainment, they have poor customer service, the game is bug riddled and these bugs will never get fixed.

SOE will at a wim change the entire game play overnight, with changes that are not what the established player base want. They are planning to change the game on Nov 15th from an MMORPG to an MMOFPS style game. This is not an RPG style game any more it is set to be a FPS style game.

The playerbase is outraged at the changes. The main reason, ONE DAY after they release an expansion that SOE charged 30 US Dollars for they announce the change from MMORPG to MMOFPS which in turn renders more than half of the content in the expansion useless.

Avoid This Game At All Costs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'll start with my summary before anything else: avoid this game at all costs! There's nothing more to it than that.

Now, the question is why? I've played Star Wars Galaxies since launch. It was a fun game. It was one of the best games I've played. There were relatively few bugs, there were quests, and there was an extensive profession system.

There was. Star Wars Galaxies no longer exists. They screwed over their customers after 2 years of gameplay. Expansions were just a means of getting more money before altering the game entirely. You can no longer switch professions, and there are only 9 professions. Jedis are now available to everyone, and they are terrible.

I could continue on, but it only goes downhill from there. Do not buy this game. They just want your money.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to see what this game is really like now, you need to read the reviews in the Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit and ignore the earlier ones here. A lot of these reviews are old, and that is a BIG difference. Had I written this review before October/November, I would have given it praise. If I wrote it before June, possibly 4 or 5 stars. They changed this game OVERNIGHT (In November) and right after everyone preordered the expansion! It was all one big scheme.

Once The Best is now The Worst Game EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I played Star Wars Galaxies: Ane Empire Divided during it's beta phase, it was the most amazing, immersive and fullfiling game I'd ever played. A major statement for a game veteran like myself. I thought I would be playing it for years to come, and did truly stick with it for two years. I watched the most disturbing decline of quality ever imposed upon a community by a developing company. The game literally changed entirely, classes were wiped, the remaining were given extreme handicaps which made them useless in combat, skills were dumbed down, the whole format changed directions in one of the most drastic and devastating moves I have ever witnessed post release.

This is one of the saddest stories about an amazing game, completely limitless in potential, turn into a half-baked, uninteresting, confined and dumbed-down version of it's former self. As a result of systematic changes after it's released that altered the entire game style, thousands upon thousand of people left Star Wars Galaxies for other MMORPG's (Namely, World Of Warcraft.) Had they stuck to their post beta product in the state inw hich it was released, it would stand as one of the finest games on the market. This is a worst case scenario of a development company shooting itself in the foot multiple times in an effort to 'improve.' How this game is still struggling along, I do not know.
They have changed the game to such a far degree that they have had to release things like 'Starter Kits' to get people acquainted with the new style. The new style is great if you're three years old and trying your first mmorpg, desiring no real challenge or individuality or entertainment. The beauty of the old Game was that it was for everybody, the hard-core gamer and the casual gamer; the social group or the loner. The world was huge, wholly interactive and alive. Now it's dismal and benign. It was never a grinding game, it was all encompassing and left to the player to create their own experience. Sadly, that was before it became exactly what people were trying to get away from. Now SWG is it's own worst enemy.
When I began I was a nurse who worked in a hospital in the City of Keren. I'd have combatants come in, and we'd chat as I healed their wounds and I made many friends. The implementation of player cities, once something we eagerly waited for, segragated the community and destroyed spontaneous interactions, diminished the necessity of casual players not affiliated with a player city and created massive dead-zones where the NPC cities once sat. From that point on the game went downhill, instead of allowing spontaneous interaction it created a forum for forced societies, a series of cities in which cliques gathered and anyone unfamiliar was alienated. Then they weakened the classes entirely, especially the beloved 'Creature Handler' quest while actually removing many of the subclasses forcing players to become too similar, and their behavior in combat mechanical. So weak were are the classes now that you are forced to group, because soloing is virtually impossible.
The gaming community has already erected an RIP marker for SWG. It's former incarnation is considered a grea loss to those who loved it. What stands now is a mere shadow.
Don't waste your time or money on this game.

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