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Boycott Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 166 / 207
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played Star Wars: Galaxies for 782 days according to the /getvet command. I have purchased all of the expansions out to date. I was considering creating a second account. As of 11-17-05 my account is cancelled. The New Game, also known as the Starter Kit, is the third version of SWG and it is riddled with bugs and incomplete. It is a far inferior product to its previous versions as well. The NG was released after being kept secret for an unknown period of time and allowing players only a two week notice of it being published. Even less time was devoted to it being tested by sources outside of SOE. Trials of Obi Wan and the NG were released in such a manner as to call into question SOE's and LA's ethics. As represented by the employees who post to the forums SOE and LA are uncarring, glib, and/or vastly out of touch with the player community.

Most of these are not new complaints. However, with the release of the NG these problems have escalted to such a degree that the game is no longer playable. While some are content to merely switch games I am not. Simply changing the direction of the flow of money to SOE and LA will not get their attention. I am boycotting all products created by Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts. I encourage others to do the same.

I do not think my actions alone with effect SOE or LA one iota. In fact, I doubt anything will change their policies. The fan base for Star Wars and other properties is sufficiently numerous to mitigate any discontent portion. While some have predicted that the NG will cause the collapse of SWG I believe otherwise. It will lose many current players but those will be replaced by SOE's and LA's new target market. SOE and LA will later use the negative comments and future subscriptions numbers to prove that they were right all along and to dismiss anyone who opposes them as being knee jerk reactionaries who are against change just because they don't like change. Because most likely the next expansion will also bring a new version of SWG as SOE and LA attempt to copy whichever game is doing better then.

Use to be a good game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 138 / 180
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This use to be a very good game full of depth. They just did a massive change to the game, hoping to get some of the market share from WoW. They tried to make it feel more "Star Warsy". What they did was tear it apart. It is no longer an RPG. It's also not a first person, or third person shooter. It really is nothing at all now. For anyone that has ever played a decent shooter, you'd laugh at just how bad this is. To speed up combat they just sped up the game. Animations look terrible now. Crafting and entertaining basicly has been taken out. They went from some 30 professions to 9 (7 if you take crafting and entertaining out). A major reason this game was so enjoyable was that you could do anything you want. Now, you're stuck into a profession darn near forever. You can't mix and match like you use to...ext.

This game lost a lot of players after the combat upgrade a few months ago. And, again they are leaving in droves. I see this game getting shut down by early next year. Don't put a lot of time (or any) into this game, it's about to go down the drain.

More misleading/deception from Sony.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 29 / 33
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ever heard the phrase "the third time is the charm"? Well, that doesn't apply to SOE's handling of Star Wars as a MMORPG.

Sony Online Entertainment has essentially released Star Wars Galaxies three times already in just over a two year time span. Each time, they pushed the game out before it was ready; meaning, paying customers were forced to endure a game riddled with bugs, which should have still been going through beta testing, and relying on SOE's promises of future fixes. Fixes which in each previous incarnation often took over a year to materialize, if ever. Most did not.
SOE's record of managing this portion of one of the most famous franchises in history has been abysmal. They've had a steady track record of broken promises and poor customer support/relations throughout. Add to that the deceptive marketing of its most recent expansion, The Trials of Obi-Wan. Gamers were encouraged to purchase this item, only to learn 2 days later that the game as a whole would be changed completely in just 2 weeks; something that had not even been hinted at any time prior. In fact, the game had just undergone a complete revamping only 4-6 months ago. With this newest incarnation, some professions, which they had only a short time prior announced revamps for in order to fix what had been broken in them since the game's initial release, as well as to make them more interesting and fit more completely within the milieu, were going to be completely removed and negating some of the rewards within the expansion.

The "New Game Enhancements" are really just a dumbing down of the original game and converting it from a MMORPG into a first person shooter in order to try to market to the console gamers. One of the features that had made Star Wars Galaxies unique was your ability to pick & choose your skills according to how you wanted to play. Want to be a Jedi Musician? How about a Dancing Armorsmith? Or, if pure combat was your cup of tea, how about a Bounty Hunter Carbineer? All of these were possible in the old system. Even in the second, Combat-Upgrade, version. Not any longer, however.

Crafters in the game have had virtually all individuality removed from them. In the old system, the quality of the resources used in crafting an item could greatly enhance its capabilities. This is no longer true and any items purchased is virtually identical to any other, regardless of the quality of materials used. Another issue, prior to the original launch of Star Wars Galaxies in 2003, Weaponsmiths were promised by SOE that there would be no lootable weapons that would be able out perform crafted weapons; otherwise, why bother buying weapons from weaponsmiths when you could get a better one for free by doing some quest. That promise was broken with the release of named quality weapons (Exceptional, Legendary, etc) and weapons with had various sorts of Damage over Time properties (poisons, fire, disease). This led to a rush of players all trying to find what sort of creature/NPC dropped this sort of loot and then camping them in order to obtain these items.

In addition, all the quality items and resources people had spent 2+ years acquiring in order to provide the very best merchandise for other players to buy were just negated virtually overnight.

If you have a masochistic desire to be abused by a company with no concern for its customers issues, who regularly make/break promises, who force a broken product on you with the nebulous promises of fixes down the pike, then Star Wars Galaxies is for you

Huge Ripoff, HORRIBLE game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 27 / 31
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing this game for about 2 years. But now, it's totally changed and is a total ripoff.

Don't buy it. Don't even think about it. Save that $15 or go buy WoW. This game is dead. They screwed their player base. Lied to them about where the game was headed and then basically told all of us to shove it when we said we were unhappy.

If you looked at the forums for this game, you would see how bad it is.

In a couple months, they'll close the doors on this game anyway. No reason to waste your money

STAR WARS GALAXIES IS DEAD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 27 / 30
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say that I used to love this game. I played it for 2+ years.

NOT ANYMORE - THAT GAME IS DEAD AND BURIED

Before NGE (New Gaming Experiance), what they called it when they gutted the entire game and pushed a pre-Alpha to live, I liked being able to run around on the ground doing stuff, questing, hunting with friends, jumping into a ship to go into space to shoot down starships... I liked just hanging out with people in it and chatting, the player based economy... The wonderful multibranched tree profesion system that let you do a little of this and that and have fun, and drop the classes/profesions when you got tired of them and try new things...

All of that has been removed.

Most of the vitrolic reaction that you will see here is due to a monsterously botched "upgrade" that was done over strong objections, and pushed out to the live servers WAY before it was ready. The called this the "New Gaming Experiance" or "NGE".

Selling points on SWG these days include:

- A player economy taht has been ruined.
- Crafting that is now pointless.
- An unplayable level of bugs.
- Went from 30 professions down to 9.
- Years worth of in game work wiped away.
- Bad/non-existant quests and experiance to advance.
- Their custmer service is bad or non-existant.
- The interface is the worst I have ever seen.
- Even chatting with other people is now painfully hard.
(So much so people have left for this reason alone!)
- Consistantly good content is broken or removed.
- Your complaints will be at best ignored.
- The player comunity has been destoyed.
- They never have been good about fixing bugs.

Seriously, it is horrifingly bad now.

* There is more that I could say about the way this game has been run, and is being run that would be true and *REALLY* negitive. Amazon says I am not supposed to be spitefull so I will merely point you in the right direction:

Do not buy this game until you have checked out the forums on the official site, be advised that views that they don't agree with there are often deleted. Check out their posting guidelines and read between the lines. At least on person who worked for them in customer relations and actually told customers the truth and did not lie on command to us was FIRED for it.

Don't just take my word for it. Do a google search too on NGE and SWG. This game is ruined and SOE cannot be trusted to ever run a good MMORPG ever again.

I am *VERY* sad to make this review. I used to like this game, and it is not just because they made changes I am annoyed, but because they could not even get them working before forcing them on us. That all the unique and good things in the game were destroyed.

Not all MMORPG's are like this, so don't play this one. :(

Amazon sells many good MMORPG's might I sugest looking at one of the following instead:

World of Warcraft
City of Heros
City of Villians

When they come out:
Dungens and Dragons Online
Star Trek Online

- D

Poor Support/Poor Design

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

This game, as it curently stands, is a very poorly designed and executed first person shooter. The controlls are clunky and non-intuitive, the interface is ridiculous, and much of the game is buggy and simply broken. Scanning the forums for this game indicate that customer service and support for the game are incredibly bad. I reported a problem I was having using the Customer Service ticket system (took quite a while to even figure out how to access this) and received an obviously cut and paste response that had very little to do with the issue I was pursuing and simply indicated that the reps were "aware of the problem".
Sadly, although I love Star Wars, and love the idea of playing a character in a Star Wars universe, this game simply isn't very fun.
Instead of this game, I would recomend Star Wars Battlefront 2 or Knights of the Old Republic 2. Both are significantly better games.

If you love bugs and poor customer service, SWG is for you!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The combat makes me sick to my stomach. It's absurdly fast, and you have to keep your enemy targeted. The enemy runs much faster than you do, and they tend to congregrate together, so you run the risk of aggroing all the enemies at once. And then dying. I can't seem to stay alive. And did I mention the movement makes me sick?

The game is now a level-quest. You quest, you kill, you level up. End of story. End of game.

This used to be a diverse, multifaceted game with 36 professions. You could mix and match skill sets to come up with what you wanted. This was one of the selling points of the game, originally. But now it's all gone. Pick from 9 "iconic" SW professions, like TooOneBee (21B). You know, that iconic medic droid who healed Luke. Uh huh. Oh, and Jedi used to be sort of rare, because it took forever to get there, rightly so. Now you can start as a Jedi! Not that you can do much though.

If you are seven years old, and like first person shooters and are a rabid Star Wars fan, then get this game.

If you are intelligent and even remotely mature, and like to immerse yourself in a well thought out SW universe, then pass on this. It's too bad that's it's gone so downhill.

Oh, the new player tutorials and the first 10 levels aren't bad. They did add some good stuff to it, mainly to hook all those new players they will need since all the vets are quitting. But once you get past that, there's not much else to do but kill kill kill.

It's very much a downgrade. If you *have* to get it, try the free trial before you waste your money. Or go look at the SWG forums.

Stay Away From This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for over a year. In that time they had TWO major changes to the game. In both changes all your armor weapons and other equipment changed stats and things that were very valuable became worthless. It is very disheartening to spend 100's of hours building up yuor character only to have all that effort trashed. Now they have changed the combat to a First Person Shooter style and with all the lag on the servers it has become unplayable. All the patches they release are full of bugs and their Customer Support is terrible. I could go on forever but in short save your money and buy something else. PacMan would be more enjoyable than this garbage.

You mean there are other people on this server?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this since it went live all those many moons ago, through the combat upgrades through to the NGE. I stayed longer than most vets, I only cancelled my account a couple of months ago, as I wanted to give them a chance. Well they blew it. You used to interact with others. You had to dive into a bar to fix your BF and while you were there you could interact and make friends. Well they got rid of that a while back. Eventually they sort of brought it back with entertainer buffs but not like it used to be. People got groups to together to run missions. Now until you get to the high level missions which require you to be strong most can easily be soloed. The AI which used to be good got dumb, though that was happening long before NGE otherwise I could not have soloed the Warren! Now you're lucky if you run into anyone else. The servers seem deserted. Strange ghost towns devoid of other players. They talk of making it more Star Warsy. Well this is set between Ep IV and V. Exactly how many Jedi were there then? Had SOE just fixed bugs and added content to the original or even the CU releases, I would have recommended you try this. Now it a waste of money. Remember there's a monthly charge!

Far too many bugs and poor customer support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you want to get into the Star Wars world I recomend Star Wars Republic Commando instead (GREAT gameplay, no monthly fees).

In SWG, I got tired of running into bugs for most of the adventures/quests I decided to take. I would not recomend to pay for it. It seems to be a lot of new online games being released to play an old and buggy one.

Player chat rooms and forums need to be moderated/filtered a lot to control upset clients from expresing their justified frustration.

It could have been a VERY nice and fun online game (some people say it was, before changes SOE introduced some time ago)... but instead I find it now very buggy, poorly patched, poorly supported and full of inconsistecies.

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