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Do not buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for 2 months and it had periods of severe lag even though I am on a T1. It's rather pointless to begin playing this game now; as with EverQuest and UO, the people who have been playing this since the beginning are ridiculously powerful. Takes ages to gain levels in this, and with little reward at each consecutive level.

Worst part of all: I attempted to cancel my account before I was automatically billed, but their web site was down. I called them up and they said they would cancel it, but the next day I logged into my online banking account only to find that they had billed me again. They refused to refund me, saying it was "against their policy." What did I miss here? They had a web site failure, then I called them up and they failed to do what I told them to do. Then they billed me again. Oh yeah, and there are only a small handfull of people at tech support (often times only 1), and they have HEAVY accents that make it nearly impossible to comprehend what they are saying. Just a little personal opinion of mine.. if you are serving a group of people with whom you do not share a common language, you should not be in the customer service center.

Warning : EA Games has Closed these Servers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

EA Games decided to close out the game on Setpember 22, 2004 so it can no longer be played. Please keep this in mind when purchasing this game.

Rushed, and Ruined

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I too have been in on the beta test, and my advice is to stay away from this game. It's fun when you first start playing, but after a while you figure out that there's not much to do.
To make things worse this could have been a really good game if Westwood had bothered to bring some of the flight sim people in on game development. Instead you have a pretend flight model that only funtions in 2D. No free flight at all. No dogfighting, no acrobatics. You just point on a map where you want to go, push a button, and off you go. (It's bad). On top of that, everytime Westwood patches new stuff to the beta, they make the game worse, and less fun.
It doesn't matter that the beta testers tell them it's bad.
Westwood just wants to get it out on time.
They might get it straighted out a six months after the release, but by then hopefully someone will put out a good space game.

This Game is Worthless

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played the Beta Test for 5 days and that was enough!

In this game you do the same basic tasks over and over again forever. You approach an enemy and you shoot it as fast as you can. When you get better, you have better guns and missiles and you attack stronger enemies/objects. But, it's still the same "basic experience" over and over again...

Earth and Beyond

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: September 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game but I've read the reviews from other gamers and I feel that this game is just a ploy to get the space war fans first before Star Wars Galaxies comes out, which from the reviews looks to be incredible and will definatly lay this game to waste. SWG took the cake at the game show 1st place. I think anyone concidering buying this game should think twice and read the reviews for Star Wars Galaxies and compare them to this game reviews and see for yourself. Save your pennies... its only around the corner.

don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all.
The game itself is visually very pretty, but there is little to no content, the network is constantly lagged, and expect 0 support for any problems you have. You may think that I am exaggerating when I say 0 support, but it is no lie.
Don't waste your money on this game.

DO NOT BUY!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this brief as I have many more important things to do...
SAVE YOUR MONEY! DO NOT BUY THIS OR PAY FOR THE MONTHES! Beyond level 50 or so, levelling is like pulling teeth. Exploration and trade experience can only be gained through MIND-NUMBING activities...examples: Truck-driving around the universe to gain levels at a rate of one per ten hours, litterally camping job terminals for upwards of twenty-minutes only to do nothing but point and click a destination afterward...Even combat gets boring after a while. Trust me, I've played this for monthes - after level 50 it is almost no fun.

Dont buy this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wasn't horrible while it lasted. except for some serious balance issues and lack of content. However this game was canceled. You cant play it anymore the most you will ever get to do is watch the intro so unless you need the box for your collection. I would not buy this and I can't believe they are still allowed to sell this. Want a good spaced based MMO go with EVE Online. It doesn't have much in the way of PVE content, but the PVP contents is expansive and beyond any MMO I have played. With a complete Player based economy and only a small portion of space patroled by npc's. (There are 5000 solar systems to set up shop in so even the npc petroled areas are pretty big) you don't have to be a pirate, but the danger sure makes being a trader more interesting. you really don't like danger. then you can still run missions, trade goods, and mine ore in high security space, but its not nearly as valuable.

Pre order -- Warning!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: September 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Warning! The registration code which comes with the pre-order beta test offer does not work. (You only find this out after one 800mb and one 300mb download).

The support phone numbers listed to resolve this problem are either busy, or disconnect you after following the voice menu.

Dont buy this product for the "play now" offer -- it does not currently work, and support is not available.

Nothing to See Here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game gets _incredibly_ boring after 2 months of playing it. It is full of bugs, the developers don't seem to care, and make promises they can't keep. Recently they've added more features that have simply introduced more bugs. This game is an unfinished product and frustrating to play, do not buy this game. I would suggest the upcoming Eve-Online instead if you are looking for a space RPG, it looks much more promising.

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