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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you want the same old Everquest gameplay with Star Wars characters and places buy this game. If you want a truly evolutionary MMORPG with features like creating your own town, being a politician, owning your own store, creating your own guild or playing as a dragon wait for Horizons instead. I just feel that before everyone goes out and buys this game which will probably be the most expensive MMORPG coming out ...they should really look to see what else is out there. The only thing besides setting that makes MMORPGs different from each other is features and while SWG has the most features compared to any other MMORPG SOE has released Horizons is the one that has the most truly worthwhile, unique features more than Everquest 2, more than World of Warcraft, more than Star Wars Galaxies (Do your own research if you don't believe me). These games are just going to sell because of their names and I'm tired of that happening!

The force is not strong with this one...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. You kill and kill and kill and kill and you never go anywhere. The player economy is a good idea but damn if its not hard to find people to buy really good stuff from. The quests never produce decent items and its STILL got too many bugs. As Akbar said, "It's a trap!"

Absolute waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Buy this game if you want the most bug filled and empty MMORPG released to date.
There is absolutely nothing Star Wars about this game other than the title and the backround. If you want Star Wars go buy KOTOR once it hits PC.
The interaction with all the characters from the movies is hollow and reduced to go kill this and come back. When you return you are given a useless or broken item.
Did I mention there is no loot in the game either? Forget about finding any cool weapons when you are out hunting all weapons and armour are player crafted and offer little variety.
Basic systems like chat are always breaking and the lag is worse than any game on the market.
Be warned STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE.

Crashes surpass fixes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I tore open the package and installed the software in a matter of minutes only to be disappointed, months after it's release date, that crashes dominate the gameplay. It takes a LONG time to build your character stats up only to have to reboot my PC due to another untimely crash. My system is only 1 year old and I run XP with DSL on 1GB RAM/256MB graphics. I would think my system specs would amplify gameplay yet I was wrong--for the most part that is. Aside from any negativity, the haunting visuals, surround sound, plethera of options, unique gameplay, immersive interaction, face-lifting engagement and wonderous joy altogether are on phenominal levels! If you are a Star Wars veteran, new or old school, this is a must have! It will consume your nights just trying to do a mission on foot for one of the locals (I prefer a couple cups of coffee when having this kind of slumber party.) This is truly on the heels of ground-breaking MMRPG's--maybe by year's end the servers will be full throttle to eliminate/greatly reduce crashing. Enjoy!

If I were you I'd stay far away!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's not worth the price of the box nor the 15 bucks a month. I spent 2 months playing and then they decided to nerf my character to heck and back. And they're preparing to nerf other professions as well, this is another beta test which people should not have to pay for. I am very disappointed. I was having fun but it's no fun when they release a game that they claim is finished only to have it drastically change in one sweep of the nerf-bat. Anyway you have been warned. Those that like it see the potential. I do too, but it's not there yet, therefore not worth the money to invest. Give them a year or 2 and maybe it'll be up to snuff then and the nerf-bats will be put away.

Good game, could be a *much* better experience

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think this is a good game. My brother and I have spent many hours of fun. Basically, you pick your character and decide which professions you want to take on. The game caters to people who like nothing but fighting (e.g. commandos or squad leader), or others who like to build really nice things (e.g. weaponsmiths can build weapons that do more damage than average), or others who just want to socialize (e.g. dancers, musicians or medics). As opposed to other MMORPG, it is possible to switch to an entirely different profession in the middle of the game. Also, money is usually not a problem as there are quite easy missions that bring in decent money, plus there are many generous players out there.

However, all this would be really fun if not for _all_the_bugs!!! Our fun has been dampened by the enormous number of _frustrating_ bugs. At the beginning, I was frequently losing connection. Sometimes I could play for only 10 minutes at a time. It's better now. Right now (08/24) there are bugs mostly with synchronizing with the server. Items just disappear from my inventory. Already, I have lost 2 really nice rifles and 7k units of a particularly nice resource. Pouf! they just disappeared, even as I had the rifle in hand. Money is not a problem, but time is: to get back the 7000 units of something takes (real) time and I am paying in real $$$ to play this game.

I got in touch with customer support through the in-game system, but it's been over a week and I have not heard back from them. Well, I did get a canned response on about 20 different issues, none of which pertain to me.

To conclude, good game, if you can put up with the bugs. As for me, I am an optimist and hope that all the bad programmers will be fired and that the good ones will remain to clean up the mess. So I subscribed for one more month to see how things go.

An Empire Divided is an Apt Sub-title

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, the division is between the cash paying customers, and the Sony / Lucas arts Bean Counters. I have been playing, and I cancelled my account as of last night, due to absolutely no customer service.

There are many bugs and problems with this game, which is based on Star Wars only in licensing the names and sounds. Perhaps, if they actually finished beta, and released something that was 75 or 85% functional, it would be worth a glance at, but as it is, you are paying for no service, a great deal of boredom, a broken economy, broken gameplay, and very little to do with actual Star Wars.

Two thumbs down

More Greed From Sony... Less Content

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This review will be short and sweet: save your money. Here's why...

As with the (disappointing) post-Verant International expansions to Sony's popular "EverQuest" franchise, "Star Wars: Galaxies" is very short on content, but very high on greed-driven programming choices. For one thing, forget about making multiple characters on the same account... a courtesy which nearly every previous "MMORPG game" ever created has featured. In "Star Wars: Galaxies," you are forcibly limited to *one* and "only one* character per paid account, period. If you play for 3 months, and discover that you hate that character, you must start all over again from scratch (and will have wasted your previous subscription fees, naturally). Unlike every other game which has preceded it, "Galaxies" does not allow you to try out different characters simultaneously until you settle upon the one which you like best. The only possible reason for such an imposed limitation is a simple one: GREED. Sony wants your subscription fees, and this is an obvious ploy to milk as much money from their subscribers as possible. I could accept this a bit better if the game content warranted it, but it does not (the game world is entirely too small and bland overall).

Additionally, when greed such as this so rudely limits the gameplay options, combined with the typically poor to nonexistant customer support (already made famous by Sony's infamous "EverQuest" experience)... well, such lack of concern for the gamer *frequently* becomes invasive to the gameplay experience itself.

And that's simply not very much fun, unless you enjoy roleplaying a sucker lining the pockets of grinning Japanese businessmen... um, no thanks.

"Star Wars: Galaxies" has (thus far) managed to disappoint nearly everyone who has courageously given it a try. Unless you are SERIOUSLY hung up on the "Star Wars" films, and simply can *not live* unless you get to be a Han Solo clone in an extremely limited gameplay world, I would recommend passing on this one. Save your money for a more promising game (such as the upcoming "Worlds of Warcraft" for example).

Another big thumbs down.

EDITING ADDITION: Back when I wrote this review in August, I was still waiting for Sony to patch and fix the immense number of bugs in SWG. I assumed (based upon Sony's infamous prior history of exploiting their customers and forcing us all to PAY to be Sony's beta testers) that SOE would eventually make the necessary repairs that this game required. After all, the game had only been released fairly recently when I wrote this review. Well, here I am still waiting for those fixes, and it is now October of 2003.

Have they finally properly patched and fixed the unbelievable plethora of bugs in Star Wars Galaxies..? They have not. What's worse... when you complain to them, they become condescending towards you, their paying customer, and attempt to make you feel as if you "simply do not get it."

Oh, I get it alright: SWG, just like most other Sony games, is simply a "get-rich-quick-before-they-catch-on-to-us-and-cancel" scheme. The various patches applied to this game have made the problems worse, not better. Classes have been nerfed to the point of being nearly un-playable, no one wants to play medics because they are generally unrewarding, hospital-type areas where players MUST go to heal up after battles are overcrowded due to lack of services, and generally, everything in this game seems geared toward making you wait days or weeks before you enjoy even a tiny amount of meaningful "progress." Days or weeks that you continue to pay for, whilst getting little to no satisfaction from either the game itself, or Sony's nearly non-existant customer support.

My advice..? I hate to say it, but at this point I favour a MASSIVE and TOTAL BOYCOTT of ALL products from Sony Online Entertainment. Since greed is apparently the sole motivation they have behind their various decisions and practises... then fine: hit them where they apparently live. Hit them in their wallets. I just did... I cancelled every subscription I had to ALL the Sony Online Entertainment games I had been playing, including EverQuest (after nearly 4 years)... another game SOE has managed to nearly destroy after buying the franchise from Verant International.

Jedi??????!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game can be alot of fun but I WANT TO BE A JEDI. I know that i would need to train and i dont want it to be too easy like KOTOR but I haven't seen a single jedi. If you are a Jedi please email me so i at least know your out there. The other professions arn't worthwhile yet, bounty hunters??? wheres the bounty??!!! I think i just had 2 high of hopes for this game and was comparing it too much to the original star wars trilogy.

I warn you!!! do not buy this game!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just want to tell you guys this. I bought this game and was like. "This is awsome!" but i never got to play it! I bought this at sam's club and after I left I noticed you after you spend $... on it you also have to pay like $... every mounth! I'm sorry it looks cool and all but its not worth it...no game is! I would maybe do that if I did not have other things to pay for. So this is just a warning....please do not make a fool out of yourself like I did.

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