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Everquest in Space

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Do NOT buy this game. They have taken a totally unique system and turned it into one of hundreds of level grinding games on the net. They recently replaced a Skill based advancement with a level based system. If it were not for the level based abilities, the upgrade might be considered a step in the right direction. Don't waste your time, money and frustration on this game.

No longer playable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: May 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game used to be fun. Post-CU it is a completely new game. Any reviews that you read from before the CU are not reviewing the same game.

The new Combat "DOWNGRADE"...how to make a great game suck!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had been playing SWG for almost two years, and enjoying every minute of it...until Thursday, April 29th. SOE decided to totally revamp the game with a new Combat "Upgrade" system that completely changed the play of the game. If you like to solo, this is not for you. You'll be forced to group if you hope to keep your character alive and earn any kind of xp. I hated to leave, didn't want to, but SWG is no longer fun and a waste of money to purchase. If I could give it negative stars I would.

Game Over

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Since the implement of their most current upgrade (called the CU by it's community) the game has become slow and repetitive. I have never seen a game that was essentially combat based that had character classes that were consider non-combatants. It is ridiculous to think that someone would be willing to pay for an online game only to have them 'hire' other players to complete necessary quest for their non-combat character, only because the character class they have choosen is not able to handle any sort of attack (they can't even run from it). Now all you have are a bunch of players that have alot of time and money in character development that are being told they are now dependant on other players in order to be an active member of the game community.
You also have the removal of almost any sort of single player gameplay. I completely understand the concept of making the game a little more group oriented, but now it is a must. I also understand that it can be alot of fun to get together with other people and go on a group adventure. But most people I know are only comfortable doing that with established friendships with people they know either through a game they have played for sometime or personally or both. I know I have had alot of fun in the past playing co-op style missions in other games in the past, but that has almost always been with people I know and has ALWAYS been a optional way of playing the game, and that is simply not the case with this game any longer.
To the very few reviews that you will see from players giving positive feedback on the lastest CU(Combat Upgrade), I can only say this. These poor people are only trying to perserve something that was pretty much assassinated by the very people that developed it. The game is no longer fun.

Stay away from this ruined Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Combat Upgrade has made this game unplayable for all non-combat classes, alienated tens of thousands of players, resulted in a mass exodus from the game leaving every galaxy unpopulated - and SOE hires people to hype the game on these sites.

They teleport you into deep space for saying negative things about the CU - but smile and nod as some lickspittle curses you online or on their forums. They ban people for saying "so long" as "trolling". They ban you for giving constructive negative feedback, for disagreeing - hell, they even had a poll (which you could only vote once in per day per account) that throughout the early beta TWO WEEKS AGO never got better than 65% BAD ratings - they deleted this and tried it again every day. At the end it was hitting 81% BAD (1) on a scale of 1(bad) to 5(good).
They then claimed that only 50 people were disappointed. Then over 10,000 players signed a petition against the CU. All mention of it was followed by mass bannings.

Stay away from this game - it's a trainwreck.

Ever"StarWars"Quest - the Disgrace to gaming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When you buy this game, rely on these thoughts:

1) 65% of the available professions are useless due to the recent combat upgrade.

2) Veterans were stripped of their best items, countless hours of work, and were not compensated.

3) The game has no contect! You get your profession, you master it, visit "Points of Interest" and you're done. No more. That's it.

4) SOE literally screwed up all those people who bought Jump-to-Lightspeed. People who didn't buy it, now get it for free while the players who went through the trouble of finding bugs for it, now have to pay extra for Rage of the Wookiees.

********PAY ATTENTION: SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT IS ONLY INTERESTED IN YOUR MONEY. DO-NOT-GIVE-THEM-THIS-PRIVILEDGE********

Blizzard servers are THE BEST. I played Diablo 2 and loved it. Diablo 2 expansion and loved it. My first experience with SOE's game "Star wars galaxy" was a disgrace. And don't tell me I don't play, because in the game I'm a Jedi Knight. I quit my account. Some people call me crazy because I could've easily sold it, but I refuse to let someone else keep paying SOE for their idiotic mistakes.

DO NOT PAY FOR THIS GAME! SOE IS USING YOU TO BETA TEST IT! IT'S A BUG-HELL IN IT! CRASHES ALL THE TIME! SERVER IS DOWN ALL THE TIME! AND THE REASON FOR IT IS BECAUSE THEY'RE SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEES FOR CHEAP LABOR! SOME CSRs IN THE GAME BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH! DO NOT GIVE IN TO THIS PATHETIC CRAP!

Dumified Simplified Boring 'Uprade'

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played since last year I got it for Christmas. Was so awsome I wanted to play a purely skill based game (did the fantasy level for over 8 years online games and got sick of them). I have continued to play even after a 'Combat Upgrade' was installed and can honestly say that it is probably the worst gaming environment I have ever played in. I payed for a YEAR subscription when it was SKILL based. To answer ANY critisism that this is a knee jerk reaction I HAVE continued to play and try and try to enjoy it. Truly, do you enjoy pulled teath? Even the ones that said 'I love the changes' are now grumbling and more sad even more have sent me their good-bye emails *sobs*.
I was a hybrid crafter, fighter. Was super fun! Now it is BAD. The only thing that gets me going back is to play the space part of the game and do space mining. However, BEWARE even that is supremly buggy. It just locked me up AGAIN in space and the very Sad thing is, I just disconnected and left it there. I dont even get the urge to get back connected at all.
I PAYED FOR A DIFFERENT GAME! WHY IT IS NOW BAD!
Some points you might want to consider about the developers of he game: Why Impose a level base ontop of the skill? Answer: save money. Exported programing went overseas as well as CRS. They are now using code from the EQII to try and save more money. This puts it more in line with their other fantasy products but due to the original nature of the game it really mess's up the crafters AND skill system.
Why have the current NPC's and Animals become 'generic'? Due to the level base if anything is 5 levels above you, it is instant death. They got rid of individual characteristics of each type of 'mobile' in the game. Replaced it with a 'generic' bag either agressive or not. If the level is above you you die. If it is way below you get no experince. This 'simplifing' or 'Dumbifing' of the game makes it so the coding for each 'spawn' is simple and less server stress but BORING.
CERTIFICATON OF ANYTHING: Is now mostly tied to LEVEL. No more 'Skill' is involved in this. If you DONT hack and slash then it is again not only boring but near unplayable. This removal of proffesion tied certification to use things is again a result of the 'Level' introduction. Again to 'save money'.

End result: Exported jobs, dumbified game stats and functions, absorption of Development Function of game into their other products for simplification, Attempt to make it a short term cash cow! SAY NO TO STRINGY BEEF. That is what this is...

The End.
Ment

CU Upgrade ruined a good game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At one point in time I would have given this game 10 stars across the board without blinking. I said at one point in time though.
As of late the game has been ruined by the Combat Upgrade put in place.

If you are thinking about buying this game, save your money! Look in to some other MMoRPG instead.... preferably something NOT put out by SOE. They have a way of ruining things :(

-Sn0rph (Kelly Mattis)

4/26/05 swg died

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

my open letter to the people who reportedly get paid a salary at SOE:
SWG is dead. yes it had problems before. it was a grindfest and boring mostly. but now it's truly dead. the cu, despite massive protest and widespread dissatisfaction from the fanbase, landed like a giant bugged bomb looking to infect every server with it's merd3. you never fixed the original game SOE, so you had to re-do it into this pile of steaming tripe? oh well...your subscription numbers tell the story!!!! HAHA
I (AND EVERYONE ELSE I KNOW) WILL NOT PAY TO BETA TEST A BROKEN GAME, WHICH HAS BECOME INFINITELY WORSE WITH THE RELEASE OF THE COMBAT 'UPGRADE'!!!
major cu issues:
1. combat levels- the game breaker. makes swg a sad place devoid of skill in combat. higher level- boom!!! instawin button!!!!
lower level- ooooohhhhh sorry, shouldn't have even tried young padawan. with the multipliers to the higher level combatant and the reverse for the lower level schlub, that xyz monster just hit you for 45000 damage!!! HAHAHA IDIOTS!!!!
2. cool-down/warm-up...WHAT?!?!? YOU MORONS!!! HAHA
3. no more combat queue
4. forcing everyone to have to double master or more to get lvl 80 to be competitive (see 1.). IDIOTS!!!!! oh where oh where have all the crafters gone? where have the combat/crafters gone?!?!? TO WOW with everyone else!!!! HAHAAHAH
(BTW, SOE=IDIOTS for any further or previous usage of IDIOTS)
5. crafters screwed over, combat classes screwed over, jedi screwed over, damn everyone screwed over...

ROTW cancelled
SWG cancelled
SOE eat me you losers

Sheep?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Someone wrote a review saying that anyone who pans this game is a sheep, that we're just following ONE disgruntled person who didn't like the combat upgrade. Why aren't there any sheep following the people who LIKE the upgrade? Baaa!

Please do yourselves a favor, pay attention to the 90% of the people who are expressing their valid disgust with the combat upgrade. It has ruined a game that I loved. I don't want to quit because it was fun, I've grown attached to my characters, and I've enjoyed my online friends. But this is just not the same game, and it's not a game I want to spend time learning all over again.

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