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IGNORE THESE REVIEWS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 20
Date: September 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All these reviews are silly, they are ALL reviewing star wars galaxies and NOT the game they are meant to be reviewing which is JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED.

Why do so many people wish to review a game they have never played?.

JtLS Hasn't Even Been Released Yet!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 23
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My god, some people are idiots. How can you review a game you have never played? The game will be released 10/26! Can these people read or what? I give this five stars to even the score from these fools who can't read this is a review for an expansion NOT the core game.

SWG = Too many broken promises, JTL will be the same

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

SWG has been out for over a year now, and in that time the Developers have not managed to fix the core game. Combat is a joke. Being a Rebel or Imperil is a Joke. Being a Bounty Hunter is a joke. Being a Smuggler is a joke.

The only working profession is the TKA (Star Wars Kong-fu)

In November of 2003 we were told that a Combat balance was on its way. Every answer to our profession questions sense then have been answered with ??wait till the combat balance??. Well guess what?. Fast-forward 9 months and all the good developers have been moved to work on JTL, and all promised fixes to the original game have been delayed for yet another year. A year has passed and almost all the professions are still broken.

It is wrong to use our monthly fee to work on a new product when the original product is so messed up. (...) Diehard fans are disgusted with the state of the game and disgusted with Sony Online Entertainment.

?This is not the Star Wars you are looking for?

This game is broken

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Save your money. As of April 27, 2005 this game is boring.

Massively disappointed...but still hoping

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: August 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing SWG for very close to a year now. I play as a jedi that I earned by "grinding" out 27 of the games 32 professions. Like many others that do play, or have played, this game I am a huge fan of the genre. I am writing this review to reinforce the statements made in the last few days concerning the state of this game, and to warn others who would be interested in playing it. This game has exceptional potential to blow away the MMORPG market. There is no doubt about that. It contains some of the most innovative ideas I have seen in ANY mmorpg. The graphics are top notch, as well as the user interface, considering the amount of controls required by a game of this size. The community is large, as well as diverse. The area that the game covers is immense and has lots of things to discover. Believe me when I tell you that the combat system both in the Player vs. Player and Player vs. Everything realms is completely unbalanced. There are players out killing the hardest things in the game solo. As well as players that "exploit" game bugs to destroy dozens of player opponents in PVP. The game "bugs" listing is enormously long and is quite frustrating. Especially when several players that I am close to in the game have lost hundreds of thousands to millions of credits (game currency) to these bugs. This is not to include server crashes where the game is "rolled-back" to the last good save-point. These roll-backs would cause you to lose literally hours of your time. What the others have said is also true. The fixes to these issues has been pushed back in order to concentrate the developers efforts on the new "Space Expansion". This expansion is being rushed into production as was the original game, which leads to more and more issues. I have no doubt in my mind that there will be SEVERE trouble when the expansion is introduced. Any SWG players can also count on the fact that the repairs will be few and far between. If you are curious I do continue to play in the hopes that someday soon myself and other dedicated Star Wars fans like me will finally be able to break through to SOE and aid in this game achieving its full potential. So there are two options...save your money for now, and wait for the fixes to come OR come on in and join in the fight to make the game better.

Alot of Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game in beta and am looking forward to the total release.It is well worth the amount and has so much in it.

Boycott Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played Star Wars: Galaxies for 782 days according to the /getvet command. I have purchased all of the expansions out to date. I was considering creating a second account. As of 11-17-05 my account is cancelled. The New Game, also known as the Starter Kit, is the third version of SWG and it is riddled with bugs and incomplete. It is a far inferior product to its previous versions as well. The NG was released after being kept secret for an unknown period of time and allowing players only a two week notice of it being published. Even less time was devoted to it being tested by sources outside of SOE. Trials of Obi Wan and the NG were released in such a manner as to call into question SOE's and LA's ethics. As represented by the employees who post to the forums SOE and LA are uncarring, glib, and/or vastly out of touch with the player community.

Most of these are not new complaints. However, with the release of the NG these problems have escalted to such a degree that the game is no longer playable. While some are content to merely switch games I am not. Simply changing the direction of the flow of money to SOE and LA will not get their attention. I am boycotting all products created by Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts. I encourage others to do the same.

I do not think my actions alone with effect SOE or LA one iota. In fact, I doubt anything will change their policies. The fan base for Star Wars and other properties is sufficiently numerous to mitigate any discontent portion. While some have predicted that the NG will cause the collapse of SWG I believe otherwise. It will lose many current players but those will be replaced by SOE's and LA's new target market. SOE and LA will later use the negative comments and future subscriptions numbers to prove that they were right all along and to dismiss anyone who opposes them as being knee jerk reactionaries who are against change just because they don't like change. Because most likely the next expansion will also bring a new version of SWG as SOE and LA attempt to copy whichever game is doing better then.

SOE Has Re-Written the Game, Worst Star Wars game now!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.

However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.

There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.

Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs... You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game... and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's... as a side job.

As for the Jump to Lightspeed Expansion... if you're on a bad internet connection then you won't have any fun here. Not to mention that SOE is now giving this Expansion away for free... and also announced a new Space Expanion coming out to replace this one most likely, which sucks for Space Content... sure the flight sim aspect of it and the combat aspect of it is fun, but other then that there is no real content to make you feel immersed in a Star Wars setting.

As for the rest of the game; The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.

All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.

Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users. I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way.. because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.

The game, at the present time... November 21st, 2005... the Game sucks. SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players... or they just never come out with the cxhange at all... Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the "promised" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game... Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.

SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game... two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players.. and them... because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.

The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...

Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content... instead of content designed for the correct time line. Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content... is far better then the current timeline content... which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.

Jedi's... You wanna play a Jedi... this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online. The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's... They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...

But no... they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.

How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?

In Star Wars: Galaxies... there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth... if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.

They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar... speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose "lost his way" ... how lame is that?

Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should.. because they hyped up being Jedi so much that "everyone and their mother" has one, or has played one... and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.

SOE is "claiming" all these changes are making the game feel more "Star Wars" like... however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones... removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession.. and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of... and ruined the combat system.

Do not buy this game.

If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series... or the new BattleFront series.

At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.

It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts... who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.

Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game... but for now... George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe.

Horrid

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

SOE ruined the game with the combat upgrade. Don't waste your money. They also have horrible customer service.

Stay away, FAR FAR away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

From anything that is even remotely associated with John Smedly (president of SOE). Unless you want to pay real life cash for virtual items in the game. That is this man's "vision" for the future of online gaming.

And SOE releases shoddy products in varous unfinished states of buggyness, and then they expect their customers to pay them to beta test their software for them. No thanks. Save yourself the time, money and headache and avoid anything this company comes out with like the plague.

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