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I have a bad feeling about this...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 211 / 289
Date: July 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have 60+ hours invested in game so far and I am ready to cancel.
What is "Star Wars"- Heroic Adventures, Intense Battles, In-Depth Universe, Humor and Tragedy.
What is "SW Galaxies"- Repetition, Hack/Slash/Repeat, Mine/Craft/Delete, endless and pointless.
What "SWG" should have been- A SPACE faring RPG game featuring 100's of distinct planets each with a different personality and culture, rather than being planet-bound on 5-10 huge planets, vast and formless, culturally confused, dotted with MOBs. It should have been a chance to hop into battle vs. NPC armies or PVP squads, rather than the typical hard-to-form/find groups system to hunt down vicious snakes, butterflies and frogs. It should have featured quest-like missions personalized for character type, rather than mission terminals dispensing notes you must deliver to Grandma Ackbar reminding her to soak her head in saltwater before bed. Here are your 43 credits and 5 faction points, repeat this 160 times to make Lance Corporal.

what the heck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 98 / 282
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

How can you write a review if the game has not been released yet?

The CURB has destroyed SWG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't waste your time, money, or dignity with this game. This is _NOT_ something that George Lucas has a lot of say in, and trust us when we say _IT SHOWS_. Sony Online Entertainment is utterly clueless, and they have shown it with this "upgrade".

This is the exact thing those of us, hundreds of us, maybe even more, were all stating during the Beta phase. I, and countless others like me, started testing the Beta the very day it was up on TC. Right from the beginning we stated immbalances, problems with PvE combat, problems with the new skill prequesites, problems, problems, problems.

You know what happened to our daily posts?

They were *ahem* "archived" *ahem*

Yea.. Archived right into the Trash Bin.

And now everyone is going through this garbage live. At least _we_ were experiencing things on TC, there was the (false) feeling of still having some hope that things would get better. The worst part about the experience on the TC servers was they barely let the Jedi players test things. I don't even think I saw Jedi players until the last 5 to 7 days (no, I'm not a Jedi player.). The whole Beta only last a little bit over 3 weeks. Three weeks?!? And it's on live already?!?

They needed _way_ more than three weeks. They basically ripped the entire class/level system from EQ2, tried tossing the level part of that system on top of the already-existing skill-based system, and look at the mess we've now got.

Class/Level systems _do_ work, as long as the game is designed around that functionality. Most RPG games out there are class/level. However, when you take 1/2 the system from one game, and try blanketing another entire system with it, you will break things.

While I was on TC I tried full melee-only templates, I tried full ranged-only templates, I tried combinations of the two. All-Ranged was the best. However, things in the PvE world were still whack, and of course now the rest of the people are seeing what things are like. The public is _not_ happy. I admit, there are people who enjoy it. But the negative response is utterly over-whelming.

It was over-whelming on TC, and it's even more-so now in-live. Just look at the reviews at Amazon.com: Clicky

Lack of developer input. Lack of customer consideration. Lack of good judgement. Lack of taking to heart, all the brilliant customer feedback us that helped test things were dishing out on a dialy basis.

I posted copies of some of my more detailed TC Forum posts, just in case things were "archived" as they were, here: Clikity Clakity

Many of us who helped out on TC really tried to stop this mess from happening. We tried to help get them to produce and release a balanced, playable, fun, new-user attracting, veteran-player keeping product. And not only did they ignore those who helped test (most of us almost every day right until the very end), but they even pushed everything, in all it's buggy glory, to the live servers EARLY.

You wanna find a nice MMORPG to play (and not worry about a monthly subscription, which ROCKS!), check out Guild Wars instead.

SWG no longer playable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 30 / 33
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Save your time, money, and dignity. Play something else. This was the greatest game ever, then they "upgraded it". Now I'm canceling 4 accounts and apologizing to my friends and family for wasting my time on it.

Disapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 30 / 33
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It was a sad day 26 April 2005. Sony totaly destroyed this game and what it was like. Don't bother buying the game. If you dont believe me or other commets posted here just do a search and you will have no problem finding others that are disapointed/mad/hurt. If you purchase this game you will be back purchasing another. Sony is going to go down for this. They dont listen and dont care, and this will eventually be thier downfall.

If the game ever gets released....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am sure this game will have its bad qualities along with its great ones, but to when will the people who were not brought into the beta get to see it? it has missed 2 major release dates and has features in the game constantly dropped. I think they were right about the april 15th release date, but mistakenly put 2003 instead of 2005

Don't listen to Fanboi's

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Summary:

Overall: 1
Gameplay: 1
Graphics: 2
Sound: 4

System:

CPU: 1.7 P4
RAM: 640MB PC-800 RDRAM
Video: GeForce3

General/Summary: I was a beta tester, and with the NDA gone I can tell everyone that, "This game is not out of beta yet!" Anyone who purchases this game on June 26th will be paying full MSRP to participate in open beta. Bugs abound, and not even little annyoing ones, but HUGE gamestoppers. Buyer Beware! At least for a period of time from release to at least 3 months or so.
Gameplay: There seems to be a lot of depth to what you can do at first, buy a house, get married, splice professions... Be a gunfighting doctor musician etc... But any way you slice it... It gets pretty old FAST.

Graphics: Ok... Have you all seen the publicity shots and videos from E3? How everything is nice and curvy and there's Environment Reflections out the whazoo, and beautiful shadows and lighting effects? Well, so have I, and I'm not sure what game that is... but it's not SWG... In fact the Devs even admitted to putting a cap on the graphics, at least in the beta I was playing no more than 3 days ago. As they are, they aren't awful... But they're getting a low score from me for misleading advertisement. By the way, there's (was) a bug that kills your character if you have shadows activated in the city and are using an ATI card.

Sound: The saving gracec of this game, if you close your eyes and don't touch the keyboard or mouse... at least it SOUNDS like Star Wars, even if it doesn't look, play, or feel like Star Wars. So you can probably enjoy that aspect... that is until it crashes due to a C++ Runtime error for no apparent reason.

Combat Upgrade

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 24
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is now nothing like it was stated on the original box. It is a sloppy mess of EQ2 style play overlayed on a Star Wars look. There are many bugs cause by the current "upgrade". Customer support is minimal at best. They took a working game and made it into a non working one. SOE basically has shown total disregard for their customers with this. Many customers complaining and their words are ignore or erased on forums board. I would not suggest this game even for the die hard Star Wars fan. lacks many qualitys that you would come to expect from a Lucas design. I think the name should be changed for it is not Star Wars anymore.

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!

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