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Broken

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 24
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At the beginning the game is fun. This soon fades however as broken game mechanics and an even longer stream of broken promises continue to ruin the game. My verdict : avoid it until its fixed and ready for play.

A Grinder's Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 24
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Where to begin?

As stated in other reviews, not only does the core game, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, combat horribly done, but anything else you do is pretty much bugged as well.

In this game, all the non-combat professions are a grind and the economic system is screwed up. No one will touch you if you have not mastered your chosen crafter's profession, and the amount of crafting you need to do is horrendous. You will find yourself grinding out simple items and destroying them simply to advance.

And heaven help you if you're a Smuggler. The smugglers, to my knowledge, went live a month before release. They are an unfinished profession with a horrible skill tree. The developers made us many promises, but the smuggler profession currently has no target date. All we know is that it will be fixed after the Jump to Lightspeed.

If you take into account the Combat Rebalance and the suppposed fixed to the game that are suppose to take place, a single profession's problems are on the bottom of the list.

Forget ever doing PvP, and don't expect anything particularly challenging in PvE. With the buffs, you can cut through swaths of foes. Without them, a nest of womp rats will eat you alive.

The developers "fixed" one profession for their supposed Combat Rebalance 7 months ago. They've given Jedi (the supposedly smallest group in the game) higher priority in fixing the core game than everything else.

In closing, you may want to look at this game again in Summer 2005. But not now. I would recommend getting yourself a different game like City of Heroes, Lineage II or if you can wait, for the World of Warcraft.

The game has a Star Wars look to it, but it is most definitely missing the Star Wars feel. Do not buy the Jump to Lightspeed or the Empire Divided.

Core game unfinished

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 27
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The main SWG game is unbalanced/unfinished, very buggy and incredibly boring after a month or two. The developers don't care about the opinions of their own customers and are trying to push out this expansion when 99% of the players are telling them to fix the main game before adding more bugs through an expansion. Stay away from this until the main game (which you must buy to use this expansion) is fixed through combat and galactic civil war publishes.

A Dream come true that will leave a bitter taste

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 25
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When Starwars Galaxies the online roleplaying game was announced Star Wars fans the world over rejoiced. We would finally be able to run around Tatooine, take a drink in a cantina in Mos Eisley, and maybe even become a Jedi. With Jump to Lightspeed the exciting realm of space combat and exploration will be added to the core game. Great you may think, Ill be able to buy an X-Wing and battle the empire, and although that maybe true I would caution you to not expect too much. The core game has been live for a year now and there are still many bugs. The whole combat system has been promised a revamp for 8 months now and its still not happened. The Jedi system has been re-worked in such a way that normal 'non-jedi' are now the poor cousins. There are still bugs in the game I reported myself during Phase III of the Beta and that was over 12 months ago. Recently there was even a bug with the bug reporting facility so you couldnt even report a bug. I have hung up my blaster and mothballed my speederbike. There are better online games around now and more due before christmas. You would be better spending your money trying something new rather than hoping this expansion will 'put the fun back'.

Try before you buy. . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Many customers are upset with the lack of response from the development team in this game, a small handful are "ok" with the response because they have not played the game long enough to get a true feeling for things.

After the announcement that development of the game will stop to ensure this expansion hits store shelves on time, the majority of the community was very upset this is true. The game as a whole is very stable and has some content included, but is seriously lacking overall for story.

If you really want to play the game, I suggest that you visit the main Starwars Galaxies website and try out the 14 day trial of the game, before you decide to purchase the game or this expansion. Do not simply listen to the opinions of those posting here, try it out and see how you yourself like it, and interact with other players in the game and on the forums to form your own opinion.

As far as my opinion as a Starwars fan, someone that loved the original movies as a kid, and grew up loving the concept, I have quit over lack of content and development. The direction of the game to me seems very short sighted and the line of dialog between the customer base and the developers is far from amazing, it's almost non existant.

If you want to envolve yourself is player verses player combat with a lightsaber in a MMO setting, this game is just what you're looking for. If you think you're going to design a character out of the other base 32 professions, establish a yourself as a role player of sorts and interact with people in a fun and friendly manner, you will likely be let down.

I think many people can enjoy this game, but it won't be one of those things you decide to play for several years, the average play time so far seems to be 3-6 months for most people before they give up from lack of content and a large number of "minor" problems which have been neglected since the game was released over a year ago.

The expansion, Jump To Light Speed will likely be the exact same thing. It will most likely be stable, ie not crash your machine. But the content will not be very in depth, and will only keep you busy for somewhere between 12-36 actual hours of gameplay. If you're a casual gamer that gets to play 2 hours a week, then you might get 2-4 months of fun out of it. If you tend to play 5-10 hours a week or more, this expansion will run out of content in the first month.

This will leave you with random PvP interactions until enough people figure out combat exploits. Then you will loose every battle unless you yourself decide to take advantage of the same exploits as everyone else, just like the ground game has been for 12+ months.

Main game unfinished

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 26
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The main game (which you need to play this expansion) is very buggy, it's unfinished and extremely unbalanced. In short it's no fun at all. The developers are ignoring their own customers by releasing this expansion while the main game is in such a poor state, full of huge KNOWN problems.

Stay away from this expansion until the main game is fixed. Trust me, you don't want to waste your money on SWG in its current state.

SWG is betting everything on JTL

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 24 / 42
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) was launched with a great deal of fanfare last summer. It was fairly well received - despite the extreme number of bugs that plagued the game from the very first day. Fans of the Star Wars genre and veteran online players alike were both impressed by the shear potential of the game. The SWG Development Team at Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) went through a trial by fire last fall and this spring where the fans of SWG hope they learned their lessons.

SWG itself is poised for Publish #9 on June 22, 2004 - wherein the vaunted revamp of the entire "Jedi system" will be begun (the original system that was shipped with the game was a complete failure involving monotonous "grinding" of skills.)

This is the first step that will continue with the complete overhaul of the combat system and the player vs. player war (or "Galactic Civil War") system. Both of these systems have been completely redesigned - because again - the shipped versions were failures in every estimation (including the developers) once they were seen in the field.

The final step to this overhaul will be the launch of the Space Expansion in this expansion package - "Jump to Lightspeed". Untold numbers of current SWG members have put their accounts on hold awaiting JTL. SOE is literally gambling everything on this expansion. Should JTL be plagued with the same numbers of bugs and system failures as the initial version - all those fans that have "hung on" or return for JTL will in all likelihood finally surrender.

So over the next few months SOE has this last chance to put all of the lessons they've learned into effect and achieve the game its fans are hoping for. They have a waiting audience eager for the resurrection of SWG that JTL represents.

Buyer Beware, you don't get what you see

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 24
Date: July 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing since Beta, and was a part of the community for two and a half years before that. This game is NOT what is advertised, and will not be for at least another year. The game developers have recently announced that there will not be any major fixes to the game until after they have published the expansion, which it should be noted they have stated may also be the basis of any new content for some time to come.

More than 1/3 of the professions in this game flat out do not work, including several that are integral to SW canon, such as Smuggler and Bounty Hunter. The most basic game features remain broken, such as spawn rates, resulting in completely empty planets. PvP and the Galatic Civil War were recently shot in the head by making any PvP players subject to farming by Jedi, who kill PvP'ers in order to advance. And to top it off, the Galactic Civil War we were recently informed will NOT be fixed as part of their monthly updates, but will be ANOTHER expansion you have to pay for.

The boards are public, and I highly suggest anyone thinking of buying this game not only read them thoroughly, but also look for recent articles on sites such as IGN and Gamestop. They wasted over $250 of my money. Don't let it happen to you.

This game is the completion of Lucas's destruction of SW.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: July 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you care at all about Star Wars, you will hate this game. I have gone from a Star Wars nut, with a 2,000 piece unopened toy SW collection to someone who cares no more about SW than Star Trek, because: 1) Ep 1 and 2 AND 2) because this game is the worst abomination I have seen in an MMORPG. This game is so painfully stupid, I can't bring myself to log on although my account is good until October. Trust me, you'll like it at first because it's pretty, but soon it will start sticking knives in your temples, and you'll say, "THIS is NOT Star Wars."

Ready for release

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: August 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok I've been playing SWG since beta and bought it on release. Yes true there were some bug some were major and MOST were minor. But If you had seen it in beta you would have put it on the shelf in a week and never touched it again. The Devs are constantly working to balance out the game. just like anything else this takes time and even the best programmer can't forsee that a change won't break something else. I plan on getting JTL on the first day. It will diffinately add to the game and I'm not going to be surprised if there is a bug or too. After all it is just so easy for someone to sit here and make a comment about how crappy a game is because of bugs. When they have never sat in the programmers seat.

Ok Bought it playing it and am loving it. Is it perfect No but no game ever is otherwise game developers wouldn't be putting out patches. So don't Knock it unless you have actually played JTL.

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