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Do not buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had 3 accounts and played this game for more hours than I care to remember over the past year. Sony has ruined this game with their supposed upgrade. Sony has changed everything the game was and ruined what could have been. There is a users forum where they have deleted many posts that are not in favor of this upgrade. The technical service is non-existant with canned resopnses that of course blame you the customer for not upgrading your drivers or not upgrading your sofware. It really is bad. I have cancelled my 3 accounts and took my business elsewhere. Save your time and hard earned money. Do not buy this game

Don't even bother!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game will soon die. SOE is an arrogant company that does not listen to it's PAYING customers. Combat is so screwed up and the game is filled with bugs. Stay Away!

Great game gone bad..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 22
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing since the launch of this game. Its one of the best games Id ever played, however the premature launch of the new Combat Upgrade has brought thousands of its players to tears. Its horribly hindered by the bugs and coding errors thus making the game hard to play and understand. Also because this new upgrade doesnt even have an online manual(tells you that its still being tested) your questions go unanswered. I would recommend that you wait until they have finished the Live server testing of this game before you waste your money.

Combat Upgrade killed this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 24 / 27
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for over 1 year i was very happy with it and never thought of quiting. Unfortunatelly recent combat up(down)grade changed everything. this game is not worth playing anymore its no fun at all.

AWESOME GAME! Whiners be gone.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 61 / 94
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rate games by the degree to which they destroy my social life. I once thought Civilization III and Medal of Honor were bad, but Star Wars - An Empire Divided, could end a marraige or turn you into a hermit (at least in real life, plenty of friends can be made in-game). This game is AWESOME!

I've never seen a game this complex and engrossing. To start, you customize the character you want from one of six species, then modify the 3-D model's body, face, and features. You choose from one of five novice professions, which can branch to like 20 elite professions. For example, if you want to be an architect, you start as an artisan, concentrate on the homebuilding tree, gain experience, then become a novice architect and go from there. This is what originally interested me in the game, since I've never really liked fantasy. But the chance to become a medic, architect, or musician, instead of just a swordsman dwarf or archer elf, seemed interesting. Indeed, it has been.

The player economy seems to work very well. Because one person cannot be a master in more than two fields at once, and you can't have more than one player per server (each server is a galaxy), players cannot be self-sufficient. They have to buy and sell to get what they need. And with the diversity of demands, everything from tailors needing hide, to architects needing metal, to pistoliers needing more advanced firearms, the economy is quite vibrant.

The only complaints I have about the game are the server down-time and bugs. Yes, they could have waited in Beta more, but the more players they have reporting bugs the more errors they can find. In a game this wildly complex there will likely always be a bug or two. Like books, software isn't necessarily completed, it's simply released. However, instead of beta-testing for another 6 months, I'm glad they released the game now. It's worth playing, there's a bug report function in the game, and server downtimes are announced on the Star Wars Galaxies site. Also, your first month with the game is free to give you time to determine whether or not you like it.

There are lots of great things about this game, but one of the most interesting is the fact that you're dealing with other people, and you can make friends through this game. That, and that the escalations your characters go through while gaining experience are really neat. While a lot of players are upset that they aren't an uber-character straight out of the box, people who stick with the game grow attached to it because they make characters very strong. It's rewarding to come across a newbie being chewed to death by kreetles (large Tattooine insects), flailing for life, and you easily destroy all the bugs and their lair in six shots because you've mastered the Pistolieer profession.

The animated battles in this game are great. The characters dodge, roll, blast, shoot from under the belt, dive and shoot, trade swords, or parry pike thrusts. There's even an unarmed martial art in this game.

I've had the game a month now, and no one I know of has become a Jedi or opened a force-sensitive slot. Some fanboys seem upset about this. Well, just because it takes months to even discover how to become a Jedi, and there's no guarantee you'll unlock your character's force slot, doesn't mean the game is bad. On the other hand, if there's a Jedi in a galaxy, that player's a legend. This stands up with the esteem of Jedis in the movies. They're rare, legendary, and powerful. If you want to be an insta-Jedi you can always pick up Knights of the Old Republic.

Another thing about this game that's really cool are the player cities. I'm in one now, and it's basically all friends who play at the same time of day and have professions that compliment one another. We have a PA hall at the end of the street, then a street full of player houses, stores, etc. There are constant block parties and you never have to scrounge and scrape to get a hunting party going. We have doctors and entertainers in the PA hall, so if you come back from a hunt or mission or raid, the doctors and dancers and musicians heal you, you give them a slice of the mission reward, and everyone's happy. The artisans in our guild (tailor, armorer, weaponsmith, architect) give us discounts, since I supply materials, and money-trading is done within the guild in case someone needs to buy something big like a factory or whatever.

The game can be disheartening if you're just starting out. It's hard to find your niche in the economy, and it takes time to gain experience. But, so what? It imitates life. And if it takes you a month or two to gain an elite profession, just think how long it takes in real life. And in the meantime, you come across other people with your level of talent and you bond with them. Or, if you're not socially inclined, you can just be a lone wolf and take destroy missions for money.

Overall, it's a very cool game. There have been a couple development bumps along the way, but if your computer is a steady mount, this game will go nicely. Also, the bugs and servers have improved steadily in the past month. There's a lot more I'd like to say about how fun this game is, but the best thing I can say is go buy it.

Also, if you get the collector's edition, your character starts off with sunglasses, which aren't available or tradeable. Definitely look kinda leet and cool with those. Wish I'd bought 'em!

-- JJ Timmins

SWG Has Dropped the Ball

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The CU is a horrible experience, very rushed product to the market for paying customers to Beta Test for the up and comming Revenge of the Sith the Movie. I wouldn't reccomend this Product at all to anybody.

Ruined by greed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

SOE has dumbed the game down so that it not worth playing with its latest "Combat Upgrade" Everone has been "Balanced" in other words no-one is different. Buy WoW ow Guild Wars this game blows now.

SOE does not have you, the customer, in mind.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has brought set new standards for poor customer service and general business dishonesty with their game Star Wars: Galaxies. I have been playing SWG for close to three years now, since the day of release, and it has been one very long and frustrating adventure. The only reason I stuck with it was the developers continued lies that they were working to improve and fix the issues that players had with the game as it stood. SWG USED to be a unique Massive Multiplayer Online Game but with the recent "upgrade" it has turned into a cookie cutter MMO with the highest rate of bugs/problems, and lowest rate of customer service and satisfaction.

I am an adult, and a paying customer, yet I am treated by SOE customer service as if I am a child and ignored. We as customers were lied to as to what the Combat Upgrade entailed, we were lied to as to it's level of completion, and we were lied to in regards to what would happen when the game converted to the new system.

I highly recommend that if you are interested in playing a MMO, or interested in playing a game that puts you in the Star Wars universe, that you do NOT purchase SWG as it has little to nothing to do with the vision that was created by Gorge Lucas.

If however you enjoy a buggy and incomplete game, enjoy paying money to beta test software for a disrespectful customer service and development community, and enjoy being treated like a common hoodlum by power infused customer service representatives that SWG is the game for you.

I will never again purchase a game published or any way involved with Sony Online Entertainment, nor will I ever again purchase any Sony product or service. My experience was truly that awful.

Ryan Fisher, 25
Santa Barbara, CA

I loved this game before they ruined it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing SWG for nearly two years. I am not a power gamer. I am a casual gamer. Before the Combat Upgrade this game was really fun for me. I had a musician/rifleman character. I could hang out in the cantina when I was feeling social and I could go hunting when I wasn't. I even made friends with a lot of uber fighters and they would take me on great advantures. We went all sorts of places that I could never have soloed. I really enjoyed it.

And the best part was the community. People worked together with their guilds and cities to build things. We had all sorts of player-developed content like parties, weddings, contests, museums, etc. I really felt like a part of the community on the server. Everywhere I went people would wave and say "hi" to me. It was wonderful.

When we got news of the Combat Upgrade I really didn't understand how it would affect me. I only do combat part time. Surely it wouldn't be so bad, I thought. Well, I was wrong. Very wrong. Overnight, they took away most of the value of being a musician. We aren't needed by the combatants anymore. So, half my skill points are wasted. There is a respec option, but it is only good for combat skills, so that doesn't help me. My mastery of my elite combat profession is nearly worthless now. Unless you have two elite combat professions now, it is just too dangerous to fight anything. All my friends are quitting the game. Our community is dying. I am not sure what is left to keep me interested now.

I guess if you are a powergamer who does not care about the social aspects of a MMPORPG this game might still be fun. But if you liked any of the other aspects of what used to make SWG fun -- the roleplaying, the social aspects, being able to craft or entertain, being able to try a variety of things, etc., they have totally killed it for you.

I would not recommend starting now. I think even the hard-core addicts are going to be looking for something else to do with their time now.

The latest patch gave me all my free time back!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

That's because they changed the rules and I hated it so much that I quit playing. I have played this game for 1.5 years and finally got to Padawan only to have the rules changed out from under me.

Other people are quitting by the hundreds, even thousands. The game population has dropped drastically and the new rules almost force you to play as a group. The only problem with that is there aren't enough people playing to easily form a group.

It's no fun playing a game where the rules keep changing, especially when the "world" is supposed to be persistent and you are working toward long-term goals. Imagine working toward something that takes weeks, even months to achieve only to have the reward changed without your consent. What if, at the end of the month, your employer decided to pay you with a truck load of cherry pies instead of a nice printed check? What if the waiter at a restaurant brought you a veggie burger instead of the steak dinner that you ordered and paid for?

The game you get in the box is not the game you will be playing. As soon as you connect to a server, they will download a HUGE patch onto your PC that will totally change the game that is on your CD.

Stay away from this game and use your time and money for something else where you will get what you worked/paid for.

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