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Is a GREAT game and a GREAT story!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game almost since the beginning. And i have been a Star Wars fan for 31 years now. Never will you have the opportunity to play in the vast world of Star Wars like you will in Galaxies. There are 12 planets and the space around the planets to explore, battle, and have fun.

Whether you like low key exploration, run and gun auction, "Player vs. Player", or linear story line adventures this game has it all. I know some of the early players gave up on the game because SOE changed the combat system. They basically changed it to a shooter from a turn based platform. But it is just as good of a game. The only negative thing that came with the "New Game Enhancements" a couple of years ago was less choices for each player to make. I won't get into details, but after the NGE we players could not make quite as many choices as to what our characters did. But SOE has been reversing some of those changes over the last couple of years and it is getting better and better.

Don't write this game off. The worlds are huge, and character/alien/beast varieties endless. And the gameplay styles are endless. Whatever mood you are in for the day, you will be able to find the correct kind of game play you desire. And come on, its Star Wars! I loved it when it first came out, and i love it still today. If you love Star Wars you will enjoy playing in this world!

Combat revamp killed the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this game from launch date until they game out with the stupid new combat system. I played the game non-stop to become a jedi. Then THey totally made jedi useless. They nerfed their powers and everything. but that wasnt the worst part. Later they made it so everyone could start as a jedi. all that work for nothing. Plus the combat system sucked. I couldnt get into it. The game at the beginning was great but then when they changed the combat style it all went down hill. this game is not worth getting now.

The greatest MMO blunder of all time...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

SWG was the greatest game ever made, until Sony Online Entertainment got there hands on it. I played this game threw beta and for the next two and a half years after the release. The game started off so strong it had everything you could ever want. The crafting/mining system was amazing, there were people who would just play this game for the crafting system it was that good. Its heart breaking to see what Sony Online Entertainment has done to SWG... how a company could completely change and dismantle the game after having such a large player base is beyond me. Why would you change a product that was doing so well?
Its very sad to see the state of the game today, seems to be geared at children. Why is everyone a Jedi? It used to be a great privilege to become a Jedi (I was the 4th to unlock on Bria). It used to require a lot of work/luck to unlock the Jedi slot. I remember that there was only a hand full of Jedi around, and now it's a started profession??? Kind of takes wow factor out of the game. After playing World of Warcraft for two years I still miss the original SWG. I wish they could bring this game back to its original glory, but there is no chance of that ever happening. The game is to far gone...
I wish they would release SWG II update the graphics and bring it back to the point right before the combat revamp! I would come back to the game, and so would 1000's of others.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME
-Just another Hardcore gamer

Rise and Fall of a GREAT Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I started playing Star Wars a little over four years ago now, at first it was great. Depending on my mood at the time I could either grab a blaster and go hunting or sit in my (In-Game) House and do some crafting. Things were made much easier for me because I had the support of a well established and very active guild at my back (which Included two real-life friends).

The Expansions, starting with Jump to Lightspeed and then Rage of the Wookies were both resounding successes in my opinion. In space, the ship controls were a little tricky for beginners but once you got the hang of it you didn't even have to think about pushing this button to turn or that button to fire... you just locked on, closed in and BAGGED whoever you happened to be aiming for. My favorite component of this game was the crafting (Droid Engineer/Tailor/Medic). This was always very easy for me because my guild was always very supportive, I rarely ran out of supplies thanks to the modification of the Bazaar terminals being linked planet/galaxy-wide. I could be on tatooine in my shop and order supplies from coruscant or Naboo.

Then, they (Sony/Lucasarts) took something that worked well and was a lot of fun that alot of people enjoyed playing every day (like myself) and Did to the game what the Death Star did to Alderaan... Instant, total and complete destruction for which they soon paid a dear price. Loss of players = loss of revenue = loss of popularity and VERY negative reviews all around. They basically took everything that I, among others, enjoyed about the game and completely eliminated it. Before this.. incident.. My player character was very strong in many areas, Master Artisan (Crafting/Surveying), Master Droid Engineer (again more crafting) and Tier 3 Rebel Pilot with Master Marksman as well as a tier 2 medic. It took me more than two years to get that far and the whole thing was destroyed in less than a week. I left for about five or six months and when I returned not only was I locked out of my own houses and unable to use any of my tools but I was forced to pass up all that I had worked for in order for my character to fit in to their new (and I must say, completely ridiculous) system. One of eight or nine character base-types, no crafting and probably not much else either. Rumors abound as to why they did what they did but I think they just took the easy way out, they did it because they could. They were constantly adding patches/hotfixes (most of the time without the approval or even the opinion of their player base) and with each new patch came new problems. A continually expanding game universe.. more like a continually deteriorating one.

I am very angry about what Lucasarts and Sony have done to this game because even to this day I have not yet found a game that is anything like what SWG used to be, chances are there never will be again.

The Farce is strong with this one...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: April 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Galaxies is a game of broken promise upon broken promise; ill-conceived updates, constantly shifting goalposts, bugs and poor content.

I beta tested this game pre-release and then played it for 18 months before quitting as a jedi (back when they were rare). Only one (out of 20) of my friends still play now and he only due to a 12 month subscription.

The game was originally released over 2 years ago, and in the opinion of most at the time well before it was ready. Many of the basic constituents (weapons for whole classes of characters, vehicles etc.) were missing as they were not ready in time for the launch. Content was entirely missing and the game could be any other MMORPG with a simple star wars skin tacked on in places.

Instead of fixing the bugs and adding content, the effort was directed at revamp after revamp, never finishing anything or polishing it until it shined, but scrapping and re-launching with new bugs and new problems.

Decide what you want to do with your character, spend months developing him/her along the path you want and then wait for the next publish to come along and render your choice useless as your profession changes radically, or in some cases is even scrapped.

The latest re-launch, known as NGE, scrapped the entire game and started again with a very dumbed down version losing the one redeeming feature: the diversity of characters (and the majority of players to boot.)

There have been rumours recently that SOE are to lose the franchise from LucasArts in the next year and their response has been denial stating "On our forums, we have shared early plans for game updates through Publish 34". This really doesn't say much as just prior to the release of NGE, SOE were posting details of future publishes which they knew would never be implemented.

Don't Buy This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game started off great when I first started playing it over 2 years ago but with the NGE it is no longer worth playing.
-Quest and missions are broken.
-Crafters and Entertainers are useless now.
-Servers are practicly empty even during peek hours.
-You used to be able to change your profession if you didn't like it or wanted to try something new. Now you have to delete your charactor and make a new one if you want to play a different profesion. speaking of professions swg went from 32 down to 9 professions.
-the biggest problem is with customer service. Sony Online Entertainment (the company that runs swg) is notorious for having the worst customer service in the online game industry (mmorpg.com or any other gamming website will confrim this)

A Wonderful Idea Given Into the Wrong Hands

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love the Star Wars story and universe. The movies, the books, etc. I remember sitting on my big brother's shoulder's for several hours, in a multi-block line waiting when the first Star Wars movie came out. I freely admit to being a geeky Star Wars fan. I am also an avid MMORPG gamer (online roleplaying games), and have played them for years. When I had heard that they were going to make a Star Wars-based online game, I was extremely excited. Then I learned Sony was making it. I gave them the benefit of the doubt anyway and tried it. This game is extremely bad. The concepts they used (and didnt), the graphics, the tech requirements, the long term playability. Everything about this game is quite simply...horrible. Do not waste your time or money playing this game, you will regret it, especially if you're a major SW fan. Sony in general has been getting progressively worse with games for years now. They're like the AOL of gaming online. Big and quite useless.

get WoW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks, NGE made it a wannabe console game with crafting. If you want real customer service and a real game get WoW, stay away from anything made by Sony. Played from july 03 to nov 05 and enjoyed every minute up to NGE. if you buy this, you may as weel just get KOTOR 2 its far more fun.

Caveat emptor

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Buying Star Wars Galaxies: $20
Installing and patching the game: 2 hours
Realizing that the manual you read during that time along with the strategy guide that you picked up talk about an entirely different SWG than the one you are playing and are thus useless? Priceless.

There are some games that are fun and rewarding to play. For everything else - there's Sony.

Sony Online Entertainment has turned this game into a severely bugged shadow of it's former self. A new first-person-combat system similar to planetside was shoved into the game, breaking the previous systems and returning the game to an Alpha-state.

If you're fine paying $15 per month for what is essentially an alpha-test on servers which are devoid of all but 10 - 15 players at a time, by all means; pick this up.

If you value the money you work for and would like to play what this game is trying to be - spend your money on Battlefront 2 instead. If you want a decent MMORPG, I suggest anything not marketed by Sony Online Entertainment.

Worst customer service ever.

"Bait and Switch" in the RPG world.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game back when it first came out, before any expansions or anything like that. It took a lot of time to get used to the interface and how it worked, but once you got the hang of it it became a rewarding and fun game.

Then came the expansions...

SOE and Lucasarts have been offering new planets to explore and space missions and quests to complete, but rather than focus on fixing the bugs during development, they have put these new programs into play with many glaring defects in it.

The latest "Improvement" to this game is called the NGE, or New Game Enhancement. What this managed to do to the game was cause a huge majority of players to leave the "lives" they had created. The gameplay is even buggier than before, with many of the abilities either firing late (after 5 seconds from when you activate them) or never. The quests, of which there are many, are very, very bugged and in many cases cannot be completed due to the "improvements". The much vaunted "player based economy" is crumbling because the NGE renders such professions as crafters, traders, artisans, and entertainers as, well, useless.

As for diversity in gameplay, the NGE has removed the vast majority of the professions available and forces everyone to play as one of 9 "Iconic professions". What does this mean? Well, if you have 100,000 people playing the game, and they have to be one of 9 professions, then that means you will have AT LEAST 10,000 other people out there who have the exact same abilities and skills as you. Needless to say, it gets boring, really fast.

The only thing about this game that is anything even remotely resembling fun to me anymore is the space combat portion, the "Jump to Lightspeed" expansion. However, once you have finished all the quests (took me less than a week) there is nothing to do in space but fly around looking for things to blow up. At this time, you can find a lot of veteran players who have cancelled their accounts, moved on to other games, or formed websites and petitions to SOE to bring back the older, original verion of the game. That should tell you something.
My opinion of this game? Its not worth it anymore. If you want a Star Wars first person shooter, get Battlefronts II. If you want a Star Wars RPG? Im afraid it has gone the way of Alderaan.

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