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Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game simply does not deliver. I've played from the start and the game is still not ready for retail release. The number of non-functional professions and bugs is simply mind numbing. This game more closely resembles Pokemon than Star Wars - everyone in the game has a pocket monster that they use to attack other players and creatures with.
There is no content in this game. Most of the quests still do not work.
Game mechanics are horrid. Do NOT waste your money on this junk. After you buy the box you still have to pay $15 / month for a game that doesn't work! Don't waste your money.

SOE Has Re-Written the Game, Worst Star Wars game now!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.

However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.

There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.

Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs... You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game... and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's... as a side job.

The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.

All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.

Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users. I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way.. because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.

The game, at the present time... November 21st, 2005... the Game sucks. SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players... or they just never come out with the cxhange at all... Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the "promised" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game... Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.

SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game... two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players.. and them... because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.

The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...

Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content... instead of content designed for the correct time line. Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content... is far better then the current timeline content... which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.

Jedi's... You wanna play a Jedi... this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online. The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's... They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...

But no... they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.

How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?

In Star Wars: Galaxies... there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth... if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.

They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar... speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose "lost his way" ... how lame is that?

Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should.. because they hyped up being Jedi so much that "everyone and their mother" has one, or has played one... and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.

SOE is "claiming" all these changes are making the game feel more "Star Wars" like... however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones... removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession.. and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of... and ruined the combat system.

Do not buy this game.

If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series... or the new BattleFront series.

At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.

It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts... who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.

Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game... but for now... George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe.

Boycott Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 18, 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.

really pretty sad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was really hopeful about this game (because Ralph is the best) but less than a week after starting I find myself bored.

Too much time is spent running across huge empty cities, or across huge empty landscapes. The crafting is boring. The economy is broken. The combat is horrible.

There are way too many "annoyances that verge on insult"

Like the bank box window that opens really tiny behind the character's inventory window, every single time.

Like when the game crashes or gets bugged, and you have to restart, you are forced to wait through each of the splash screens with no way to bypass this self congratulatory delay by _all_ the companies involved.

There's a lot of good work and thought in this game, you can see it, but it's ruined by things like an awkward interface and bulky window frames that waste half your screen space.

Frankly, i would eagerly sacrifice the really annoying 3d rotation of every item in my inventory, in exchange for just a few more frames per second :( Yes, there's lag in the nearly empty cities. I guess it's all the fidgety NPCs.

DO YOU LIKE FRUSTRATION and PAYING FOR IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played SWG since it went public. The graphics and potential it gave when i first started was amazing.

After the first month the game lost its luster and it became a boring 'grind' for everything.

There is extremely poor Customer Service and if you have a problem 99.99% of the time you are out of luck - forget getting any help of any kind.

The great "Profession" you just mastered .. dont count on it staying the same for long - every porfession has benn significantly changed and will be changed over and over again - it seems they cant make up their minds on what each RPG skill is supposed to do.

You will most likely NOT make a Jedi character - there is some super secret path that only the hardest hard core players have the time to "Grind" away and then THROW all those weeks of work away only to start all over again and again and again ... its very boring.

anyway ... i made the mistake of getting a 6 month pass, when it is over, i will drop this game without a second thought.

OK at Best, Rushed to the Market

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has tons of content... if by content you mean vast expanses of nothingness and sporadic regenerating monsters with their spawning "nests". While scenery is nice at times, this game was a huge disappointment. Example: a 30 min jog to see the sarlacc pit (huge mouth in the sand Jabba throws guys in on the movie) to find that it is a 2D, non-interactive .bmp image laid horizontally in the desert sand. Oh, and it will take you at least 2 weeks of gameplay to master the weaponry and skills necessary to defeat a single 40-pound frog whose only defense seems to be in hopping at you and making noises. After becoming a master craftsman, sure you can make a lot of stuff..but you've spent so much time and effort in developing your crafting skills that you have minimal survivalist and combat abilities..which means the only point in being a craftsman is the accumulation of money from selling the stuff you make. While this may be entertaining for some, crafting and selling and crafting and selling and crafting and selling makes you feel more like a Guatemalan blanket weaver crafting for daily sustenance than an adventurer in the starwars realm. In truth, there is no point to this game... and any self-created goal, including opening a Jedi slot and becoming one, is MUCH MORE WORK THAN FUN!!!! I'm not going to go through the massive number and annoyance of bugs in this game...I really don't have the time. Just do a "swg" search on google and read through the results. My opinion is that this game was rushed to the market in fear of the much anticipated release of World of Warcraft by Blizzard.

NDA lifted - Some truth revealed by a BETA tester

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have been Beta testing this game for quite some time now and I was honestly ready to buy it up until the last update patch. Do yourself a favor, do not buy this game for another 6 months or so. It is not finished, I repeat IT IS NOT FINISHED. There are a ton existing bugs and server problems that will make it unbearable to play for quite a while. They have made any type of advancement take weeks to accomplish so that you do not advance into the unfinished parts of the game. You are honestly paying for open Beta testing. This is the status quo for online games nowdays (minus anything from Blizzard). I had high hopes for this game and was looking forward to its release, but now I am being forced to look for something else to entertain me. Only reason I gave it 2 stars was because the graphics are extremely well done.

Disapointed Star Wars fan...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Was hoping for the best but ended up being very disapointed.
Graphics are great but the game play suffers. Will give it another try in six months or so. Hopefully they will fix most of the bugs and maybe even expand it a bit.
Back to "Earth & Beyond" for now.

It's pretty fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It took me awhile to purchase this game because of all the bad reviews that I read here on Amazon from other players. I thought I would go ahead and give it a try to see for myself. I am glad I did. The game is really fun. I am a big Star Wars fan. I think if I wasn't, the game wouldn't be as fun as it is.

I have only been playing for about 2 weeks now. I have had a few problems with my pc locking up while playing in a highly populated city. That is the only problem I have encountered so far.

The graphics are awesome and the players are very nice. So far I haven't run into any "Drama" unlike UO which is filled with "Drama".

I think the monthly price is a bit high and hope they will consider dropping it a bit.

one of the worst games i've attempted to play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

access interface 8/10
very simple interface

paymment plan 3/10
their are not very many payment plans, and you have to have a gamecard or credit card(hich is not through a safe connection btw) to access your one month free!

graphics 9/10
the game has great graphics

gameplay 7.8/10
it is ok though kinda hack-and-slash with little rping in it

levels classes and such 4/10
charecters trees aren't easy to understand.

stats 2.5/10
no extra stats from raising certian branches or getting master.

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