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Do yourself a favor and don't buy this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 26
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

LucasArts Ltd is obviously grabbing for more money banking on the name Star Wars to sell this. The SWG:Starter Kit is part of the NGE experience. The NGE Experience was tested for only 2 weeks on the games Test Server. It was announced the day after a digital download only expansion went live. They have since then offered a refund for the Trials of Obi Wan expansion.

When you first pop this in, you might get a sense of wow, this is great. The opening tutorials are fairly well written, complete with voice overs from Han Solo and cutscenes. However you'll lose that pretty fast once you leave the starting area and head to Mos Eiseley on Tatooine, I don't recommend as a starting player you leave Mos Eiseley for a while, best to explore there.

The controls are far from intuitive. You have to use WASD key movement and the controls are a throwback to the 80s and 90s at best. You cannot control movement with the mouse. In combat you will sometimes freeze even when you are doing things right for no apparent reason.

There are many other glaring bugs. There are no quests after your reach level 30 with your combat toon when maximum level is 90, if you are an entertainer or trader you only have about 4 or 5 quests. Its pretty sad actually.

Experience through the mission terminals, the alternative to quests is very slow and very tedious. In addition it seems that for the most part you loot junk, I mean hide/bone/meat you can sell to traders, but you are more likely to get organs,brains, hearts etc when killing creatures which have no game function.

If you enjoy beta testing you might like this. But it certainly is not worth the money for the starter kit and the 15 dollars a month that it will cost you.

Not Fun Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although the original Star Wars Galaxies that released in 2003 was the best game I ever played, this is nothing like it. The developer's at Sony and Lucas Arts lie to their player base and simply do not communicate and this combination led to the atrocity they now call Star Wars Galaxy (NGE). The game has an incredible amount of game-breaking bugs that not only ruin immersion, but bring you to a halt in the game. The UI is not customizable and completely non-user friendly. There is no longer a true MMORPG flavor since all the character are cookie-cutter duplicates of nine professions. If you are in a room with 10 people, two are guaranteed to have the EXACT same skill set. I would not advise anyone to buy this game.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you want a first person shooter based in the Star Wars universe get Star Wars Battle Fronts II.

If you want to be just like Han Solo or Luke Skywalker get Star Wars Battle Fronts II.

If you want to pay for the privilege of play testing products for Sony then this is the game for you. It is full of bugs and barely playable.

If you want a combat driven RPG then play World of Warcraft.

If you want a good MMORPG set in the Star Wars Universe then you're out of luck. Sony and Lucas Arts had a playable game but this "new" and improved version is just sad and did I mention very, very buggy. Sony's attitude seems to be, "Why pay people to play test the game when we can charge people $15 a month to play test it for us."

After two years of playing Star Wars Galaxies my wife and I have canceled our subscriptions. Don't make the same mistake we did in thinking that we should hang in there that Sony was working on making a better product. Sony was just stringing us along to sell us more buggy junk.

Don't waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Complete, utter, nonsense. Everything that was fun and wonderful about the game has been smashed into pieces by not one, but two curbs... The New Game Enhancements system do the exact opposite of their intended purpose, instead of fixing the existing bugs, and changing the format into a more user-friendly mode, the NGE system is full of downfalls and frustrating elements. Don't waste your money on this, check out the SOE SWG forums for yourself for proof. BTW, I'm not some noob kid, I'm 30, and I've played this game for over two years. Cancelled 2 accounts last week.

So much promise but so little delivered

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

They have taken a wonderfully rich and diverse game and made it into a cookie-cutter MMORPG except that the other games on the market don't have as many bugs.

It's sad but after two years of amazing game play this one is done for.

This game had an amazing crafting system that allowed people to have fun playing an online game without having to do combat. That system has been dumbed down and made obsolete. They have added in quest rewards and loot drops that give players weapons and armor that is way better than anything that crafters can currently make. They also removed decay from the game so players only have to buy one suit of armor and one weapon and never need anything again.

Entertainers are equally useless now and are just plaing being ignored by the developers.

The game is being morphed into a console game and soon it will only appeal to 11-12 year old l33t d00dz and everybody else will have found something better.

Bad Bad and Worse than Bad!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Be prepared to pay $15 per month to be let down by simple minded developers who do not care one bit about keeping their customers happy. This was once a game full of potential, but has since been stripped of all originality, complexity, and fun. Sure you can be a jedi, but it's the weakest profession in the game (even after you've leveled all the way up). Nothing like the movies. Star Wars deserves better!

Beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There are enough negative reviews to explain the poor changes to this game...my only point to make is that when you see alot of disparity in ratings, look at the rating history people have. Go through the 5 stars and see if they're real or just pumpers/employees that have a 'horse in the race'

There aren't many that have history, which should raise a red flag.

Should just fixed bugs and left game play alone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: December 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the Game from launch to the 2nd anniversary. I stayed way longer then I should have. I kept giving the game a chance. The devs did their best to make those chances go away. I did really enjoy the game. I played and mastered all of the professions with multiple characters. When I settled down I made to about the Half way point for Jedi. I almost quit about 1 and 1/2 years into until I ran into a guild that was little like this in attitude and the kept me going for another 6 months. I left when to many changes were made that kept making alot of the guild member want to leave and figured that time for me to go also. I for the casual gamer who doesn't mind it taking forever to get something made and getting things done in general it wasnt a bad game. So many options to choose from. Just seemed that anytime you got to a certain point in the game where you liked your character, the Devs would make some massive changes and ruin the experience. I am still trying to figure out how they new I was enjoying the game to make the changes on me.

"Starter Kit" is just that... to level or play past intro you looking at $60 more minimum

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Lies even on the box. Box says choose between 30 professions? There are 9 to choose from (and you cannot change)! Just more false advertising to get sales...

SOE is flat out slimy! They had to issue a refund for Trials of Obi-Wan. Very likely due to the attention of their illegal business tactics (bait and switch), so that they could avoid a class action law suit for this very game. Then they refuse to answer any questions by the community. Even their own boards have become nothing but banning players that speak of any problems in the game, while not addressing any of the issues being brought up.

Game play.
This game is in beta testing. If you buy it, you are paying to "work out the bugs" of the system. The community that was once there is now gone. There is nothing but ghost towns and empty servers.

The sad thing is the first 30 levels are somewhat fun. (They do this hoping you subscribe) However, after this there is no content what-so-ever. They have not fixed any bugs or done anything to enhance game play past lvl 30. What is even worse is that you are required to buy another $30 expansion just to be able to level once you get to lvl 30, and shortly after another $30 expansion to level higer. So they are creating a money pit and hope you get stuck. So donot let the cheap starter kit price fool you. It is just that a "starter kit". You looking at another $60 right off the bat in expansions just so you can level. That is not including your $15 monthly fee.

There are also rumors flying that this game is going to go to x-box 360 or/and PS3 and that the CPU version will be destroyed around Feb. This is because they are using this version to test so that the consol version can be complete.

Stay away. If you buy the starter kit you will find that in 4 months the game will be unplugged and you will be forced to buy it on x-box 360 or ps3. Any time in the cpu version will be wasted, you will get no transfer reward for prior play (this is happening now to people who played past version). SOE is simply trying to get your money and "testing" to help pay for the console version. And hoping the lure of "Star Wars" and their add campains sway you.

a good game gone down the tubes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This used to be a diverse and interesting game that a person could play for hours on end. The recent changes which saw the removal of many of the features that made it good has not been an improvement. The new interface is childish and difficult to use. This live NGE version is full of bugs.
Customer service from SOE is the most appalling I have ever seen in my life. To pay each month for a game that is constantly in flux, where there are no answers from the customer service about anything pertinant and where the paying long term customers are systematically being removed from the game by the constant nerfs and lack of customer service in favour of a younger demographic goes beyond dirty tricks.

Spend your money on a company that actually cares to keep its customers happy.

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