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Do not be too proud of this technological terror....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 61 / 126
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars: Galaxies has been a terrible disappointment for me and every single other person I know who made the mistake of buying this game.

This game is the result of a number of risky game design "experiments" by lead designer Raph Koster (of Ultima Online notoriety). Namely:

1. Provide players with no playable content. Roleplayers will make your game go.

2. Completely abandon "loot". Make everything in the game available to brand new players. Enforce equipment "equality" at all costs.

3. Create a Star Wars world that has no space or vehicles in it. Players should be happy to jog.

4. Remain devoted to the Pokemon concept. Allow pets to dominate in all aspects of the game, leading all characters to become creature handlers.

Play this game only if you want a clinic in how not to design a computer game. This one is still half-baked and months away from approaching a playable, stable state. Even at that point, this is one of the worst games of all time, due to SOE's completely pitiful effort at game design.

I came to this game with 15 friends from the real world and from other games. 2 months later, 100% of them had cancelled. The game is the laughingstock of the industry!
Avoid this game at all costs!

please read before throwing your money and time away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I buy most every game that comes out. I have a 1900+ rating in AoC and hovered just below 2k in AoM when I played. I also play most of the other MMORPGS with the exception of DAOC, just not my speed.

I have never, ever seen a game that has this many catastrophic flaws and bugs. The server has been down at one point or another nearly every single day since it opened, and that is nothing....

A multitude of people have had everything they owned deleted out of the blue, most people have had some significant items deleted at one time or another. It is very hard to move to any new area of town without someone mentioning out loud that they just signed in and 'such-and-such' is now gone.

Creatures magically disappear when you fight them, usually just before they die so you get no credit for fighting them. They also teleport in clear view on top of you because the servers are apparently VIC28s.

There were a plethora of exploits known in the beta that they chose to ignore and let the people paying to support the game (which is still much less reliable than eves beta was, or EEs beta for that matter, which actually was buggy) use to advance to endgame levels that now have been made unapproachable for months to most. They embraced the "exploit early, exploit often" principle, mostly because a number of them play the game online....and also post on the website trashing anyone who has a problem with anything they do (under their player names, which doesn't denote that they are monetarily connected the game to anyone who hasn't happened to get to know them ingame), and delete totally legitimate posts (I have never had one deleted, but many of the ones that get deleted are just being deleted to promote a fraudulent image of the state of the game, which is terrible).

Worst of all, there are untold numbers of bugs that were known in the beta that made the game completely unplayable, but they chose to ignore so that they could release the game and force the fans of star wars to pay to support it for them (please keep in mind, I play most MMORPGS, this is so far out of the realm of the minute amount other games have done that it makes Shaq-Fu look like viable product).

There was 30 days playing time promised on the box. Out of the 30 days, there was a grand total of 1 that I was able to play without having a fatal error on their end make it unplayable. Having their faulty code damage stats as if armor was on 2 or 3 times over when no armor was on (making some stats negative :P) and insuring anything that touched you would kill you in 1 hit until the next day (or longer sometimes) when they would finally shake it off your character. Crashing for no reason and killing your character in the process, world comes back up an hour (or day, or 2) later and your character has huge wounds that force you to sit around in a hospitol for up to an hour...WHEEEEE. Deleting all your equipment and your money so you run around with starter gear trying to get money is real fun then. Having havesters dissapear with a weeks worth of gathering in them. Having entire suits of top grade armor regularly disappear when they are bought. All these things and thousands more were known before release and are acceptable to them (call their reps online and ask about the 30 days the box promises, they openely say could care less about any promises made and they will make no attempt to make ammends for charging you to play while their servers are completely unavailable. They released it anyway to make star wars fans (figuring they are loyal and could thus be exploited) pay for what is supposed to be pre-release troubleshooting and quality control.

It is a shame and I am frankly stunned that Sony would allow this travesty to be enacted under their name :(

-true__ibnFrey

(Please save yourselves the frustration, lost time and effort. Eve online runs fantastically and is so well taken care of that it may well be the next long-term MMORPG to make it truly huge, AC2 has finally begun to listen to the gaming community and has been quietly building up a hard-earned fan base, a couple my buds play, Blizzard always comes through and there are other MMORPGS on the horizon (I can't wait for City Of Heroes ^^).)

**edit** for the fanboys trying to blame the systems of people who are playing this game and honestly trying to warn other people from getting robbed, here are my specs: hyperthreaded 2.8, 1G RAM, 160Gb hard drive with nothing but 3 games on it, GeForce fx 5200. This game does NOT work...on any system. Every person who has any experience with MMORPGs knows the truth that is the most poorly supported and designed game ever released, it is a total disgrace (eve and ac2 get back to you within small hours, often within 1, average time on tickets is about 3-4 days (long time to go without playing and still being expected to pay for it), and that is on tickets they don't accidentally delete, which has been right about half of them in my experience (which means queing up another 3-4 days wait of not playing).

*SIgh* I don't know what to say...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 26
Date: May 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It started as a game of skills,(one of a kind on the PC gaming market) as you moved up in the skill tree, you were given more enhancements, more moves, more excitement. When you mastered a tree, you had all the powers and could do basically whatever you wanted, go fight some tuskins, go hunt, succeed. It was pretty cool. It was even fun to group up with a bunch of friends and do the harder missions. It was different. You had a choice of soloing it, or grouping up to get some extra XP. It was fun. Roaming around the different planets and seeing the different creatures, different landscapes, the graphics were pretty amazing. I played this game with a bunch of people, form 16-45. It allowed all ages to immerse themselves in different ways. We had armorsmiths, weaponsmiths, I myself was a master dancer for quite sometime and really enjoyed it. I even got married in game in front of the whole cantina.

I have a lot of memories. Fond memories. But they are all gone now. Those skills I worked so hard for, are gone, master dancer, it means nothing now, all my friends they are gone, including the character I married. Why you ask?

Well a new upgrade was released, it was called the Combat upgrade. it changed that cool skill based system into a level system, (you can find those with EQII and WOW,) it put so many limitations on the game that many of us have left. We have begged for information from the development team and management, but we do not receive any information. They have literally ignored us. Then they tell you the consumer whom have never played this game that the "community" loves it. *sigh* some do, but most don't.

If you want a level up game go try WOW or even Guildwars, better graphics and less bugs. If you must have Star Wars, try one of the other games, this one is very sick and in need of alot of help. It will be a waste of money to pay them $15.00 a month when you can get Knights of the old republic and only spend the $50.00 that one time.

Just some advice for the consumer. It was a great game, but all the professions are gone. The excitement is gone. Most of all, the fun is gone.

A SW Fan & Gamer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: May 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was great at one point but has been completely redone. It is more like EQ2 & World of Warcraft now. If you are looking for either of these games with a Star Wars feel this is it right now. If you have to get this game I would not get the collector's edition. Its not worth the extra money and all you get are some funky glasses you can wear ingame

Star Wars a galaxy of no content

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: February 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well I have to say when I first got this game the first few monts were fantastic I had an awesome time leveling up my character hanging out with friends online and enjoying the game. Then suddenly I realized that after playing for 3 months I was doing the same thing I had been doing for the past 3 months just with harder monsters and no interesting stories and quests.

With all of my friends loosing interest due to lack of interesting entertaining content such as epic quests a solid galactic storyline and no space expansion I found myself bored and the game felt more like a job then a game. The game is designed beautifully but if you like to play rpgs to take part in moderately deep and interesting quests then this game is not for you. However if you like to make your own life this game is for you

There are also some major balance issues with character classes massive amounts of nerfs going on during the game and more. I must say that this game has lots of potential but it just does not have a high fun factor and replay value. Which is why I cancelled my account as well. I may check this game out in the future once a few expansion come out and more interesting engrossing content is added such as quests that take weeks to complete and are very rewarding with items and the story that unfolds. Until then this game will stay on the shelf where it belongs and won't be coming down anytime soon. If your looking for an MMORPG with more story I would sugges everques FFXI which has quite a nice storyline system and the upcoming World of Warcraft which has lots of potential in the content department.

Do NOT buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm on dialup, and the game said it can be played on dialup. Well it can't. After 50 straight hours spent downloading the patches, I finally got to start the game. It was as boring as boring can be. Plus, at dialup speed, just forget it. I complained to Sony and they were "gracious" enough to refund my monthly subscription money. But I'm still out the $20 I paid at Walmart.

I'd give this game negative stars if that was an option. No use rehashing what the others have said. The missions are pointless, unrealistic, take forever to complete, and grant you very small rewards.

This game is a complete STRIKE OUT.

Great Game...for a day or so...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big Star Wars fan, and couldn't resist buying this game. The graphics were great, but everything else was simply either broken or not there. Gameplay is far below average for an MMORPG, there is practically no player interaction except when someone needs something. The PA (Player Association) system was a great idea, except that the features it grants players hardly ever work. The GuildChat option to talk to your PA buddies is down a 1/4 of the time, and they've already had 1 major incident were all PAs were disbanded. On top of many, upon many bugs in the game, the PvP is pointless since there is 1 class that can decimate all others in 1-2 shots. And if your one of those being lured in by the hope of getting a Jedi character, buy Jedi Academy, because it is unlikely that even the people who have been playing since first day of release will open their Force-Sensitive Character Slot for at least a few more months, and even if they did, whatever they did to do it has nothing to do with how you do, its completely random. There is no Jedi you can go and talk to and all of a sudden you become a Jedi, you must complete a series of tasks (which are designed to take months to complete) of which noone is told what they have to do, to open the Force-Sensitive Character Slot, and only that character is capable of becoming a Jedi. Its a total rip. If all of that appeals to you, then this is your game...

Star Wars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: July 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played most of the mmorpg's out there today, and I think by far this is the worst one yet. Unless you like the idea of spending hours killing alien insects and birds. You cannot even be a jedi right away, you have to unlock the force sensitive character slot which has been said will take up to a year for the casual player. The game is very buggy and there is nothing intuitive about the controls. You are only allowed one character per server, and the servers have a limited number of people allowed on at one time. So if you have a character you want to play on one server, and its full you won't be able to play him/her. The only good thing about this game is the skill system, other than that, i would rather not have wasted my money on it.

DON'T BE ANOTHER SWG VICTIM!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: July 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

SO MANY PROBLEMS!

The SERVERS ARE HORRIBLE. CRASH! LAG! LOST CONNECTIONS! CAN'T GET ON A-L-L D-A-Y! I'm writing this now waiting ... hoping ... praying ... to maybe get on and play a game I AM PAYING FOR.

The game is also immensely HARDWARE AND DRIVER CRITICAL. If you don't have the latest stuff and you're not PC savvy, prepare to spend many long hours with Tech Support. Then there are the almost DAILY PATCHES (that's right: you're BETA TESTING for them -- and PAYING FOR IT).

When this game works -- it'd be almost enjoyable if it weren't so TEDIOUS. Maybe you want to be an Artisan? Be prepared to dig in the gound for materials for COUNTLESS HOURS! Want to be a Marksman -- you'll have fun killing TENS OF THOUSANDS of bugs and other critters. B-O-R-I-N-G! There is NO HEROIC ELEMENT at all to this game. You're not gonna be Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. Forget it.

Do yourself a BIG FAVOR -- stay away. Me, I'm not continuing after the first free month. Lord knows, I wish I could get my money back.

Worst MMORPG Launch Title Ever.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pointless, monotonous and completely underdeveloped. This game might improve within 6-12 months, when the developers actually finish it. Makes me feel like I paid for a movie and was only allowed to watch the previews. Horribly boring combat system, broken quests, empty zones and an absolute pointless game.

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