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avoid at all costs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 18
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Do not be fooled by the fancy new box or the 'exclusive' new vehicle. What began as a ground breaking, outside-the-box type of game ended up as a horrid excuse of entertainment that suffers greatly from 'me-too' syndrome. It seems that the developers just don't know what they want. They claim that they couldn't balance 32 unique professions, so they reduced it down to 9. One year later, they still haven't balanced the professions, and some of the bugs from 3.5 years ago still exist. If you don't want to believe any of the reviews here, just do a search on this game. You'll find many scathing reviews, and many of them are spot on. SOE/LA saw WoW's subscription numbers and made the mistake of thinking they could produce a game just as well as Blizzard did. They were wrong. It's time for the twin suns of Tatooine to set on this sorry excuse of bantha poodoo.

Avoid this one like the plague.

Don't believe the newer players

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is far from the original game that so many of us knew & loved.
The NGE is still in-effect, contrary to the other review found herein. All career paths have been gutted so that mastering them is far too simple offering no real challenge. The combat has been dummied-down to the point of feeling like a cheep third person shooter.

I played this since release up till about 3 months ago and the game has deteriorated to the point that most servers are relative ghost towns. This isn't the game it once was. I'd suggest steering far clear until a sequel to this game is made or an entirely new Star Wars online experience is introduced.

GAME RULES! DON'T LISTEN TO THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS, TRY IT FOR YOURSELF

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok first off, i'm a veteran player from the Pre-NGE (New Game Enhancements) Pre-CU (Combat Upgrade) and deleted my character and canceled my account out of anger when SOE screwed us when they came out with the CU and NGE reducing the 32 professions to 9 but still come on. I mean yeah this game still needs alot of work but its slowly coming back to its glory days. Many Servers are getting repopulated such servers as Ahazi and Bloofin with thousands of players on each one. Still a whole lot of things to do and they just recently brought back creature handler for all the old beast masters out there by adding a extra expertise tree to your previous ones. The player community is great and many great people out there to help you along. Me, I play on Bloodfin with my rebel toon Jaick Valrius a jedi and a leader of a very sucessful guild called New Republic Force Academy (NRFA). Its awesome, lots of fun. Of course you do get the people who will annoy you but thats what the ignore option is for. If you buy this game I highly recommend the server Bloodfin, best, most populated server out there, with dozens of people in each city. And hey, if you do play, just contact my toon and I'll be glad to help.

The mission system called legacy can be tedious (what game isn't) but in the end they get you up many levels in just a few weeks. Many cool items to own, and with the limited professions you can still make the best out of it. SOE may suck but they are trying and rumors are that they are working on a secret project that will introduce vehicle combat and player owned capital ships in space, yes thats right, its said sometime at the end of the year SOE will allow players to own their own captial ship be it a mon calamari cruiser, star destroyers, or dreadnaughts plus adding new planets. It sounds like SOE has big plans and people will be quite pleased when they introduce this into the game.

Again dont listen to the negative reviews, they are players from the old game and will complain untl the gamereverts back to the original. Try it for yourself, dont let others make your decision for you.

NGE has led SWG to the sucky side

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I thought with the introduction of the Combat Upgrade (CU) SWG was bad but this New Game Enhancements (NGE)has totally blown the game to shreds it is only a semblance of the former shell that WAS the great game SWG. This game is not worth it even if it is Star Wars. STAY AWAY

Headed in the right direction again! BEST STAR WARS GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: July 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I hope nobody's put off by the negative reviews below. These were mostly written after the NGE (New Game Enhancements) took effect, with disastrous results... I was one of those who believed the game was lost. But now I'm very happy to say things are getting so much better.

In the past two months, we've seen the return of Creature Handler as a profession (now it's called Beastmaster, and actually much better & more in-depth than the original CH!), new changes to the way our basic stats work, new quest additions including a Rebel themepark revamp (the Imperial themepark will reportedly be revamped in July), improvements to the new skill attachment/reverse engineering system, new elite harvester schematics for architects, the return of food additives for chefs, the return of treasure maps that actually work (and are MUCH harder, and yield 6 loot items per chest), and improved difficulty and balance in combat vs. npcs. This is the great new stuff I can think of right now, off the top of my head.

It's better. If you left the game months ago because it really started to suck (and it did start to suck), you'd do yourself a favor to join the many veteran players now returning to the game. I've been playing for over 3 years solid, and I know several long-time players just now returning after absences. Every single one of them (who I've talked to) are impressed with the changes, and feel we're on the right track again. We're really headed in the right direction now, and the new Devs are so different from the old Devs. Helios is GONE!! Yay!

Skill differentiation has vastly improved with the new expertise system, too. Whether you're the kind of player who likes pvp combat, or if you prefer crafting/selling, or if you're looking to participate in the Galactic Civil War... if you like building a city, leading (or joining) guilds, entertaining/buffing cantina patrons, hunting creatures or enemies in the wild, flying in space, mining/surveying resources... whatever it is, come back. Or start. This is the greatest mmoprg video game on Earth right now if you're a Star Wars fan. And Kauri is the funnest server, where we can say funnest! And other words. Kauri server! Wheee!

Broken four year old mmo Repackaged to steal your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's a carrot on a stick cheap WoW clone in a star wars skin. What used to be the most compelling and immersive mmo has been watered down into the biggest joke in online gaming history. Lots of bugs, glitches, server lag, downtime and zero customer support. There is no community, no content, nothing worthwhile whatsoever. A Complete Waste of Money and Time.

Broken Promises for a dying game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played Star Wars Galaxies from 2003-20006, Even though the game had little Star Wars in it, I stayed because of the friends I made in game.

I finally quit because of the following reasons, and no I was never a power player, never had a all powerful Jedi, and didn't quit because I lost my edge.

One major problem in the last year of gameplay was the broken promises made by the SWG team, they would show hints of great things coming in their fan events, and they would never come about, such as guild spaceships etc, what was shown at the fan event they said later was just something they were "playing with" and never meant as something going live, so the tease at the fan event was nothing more than a tool to keep players interested and playing.

Trying to get World of Warcraft players by copying WOW, and it's obvious since the NGE that devs, who the president admitted they all played WOW were there stealing ideas in some vain attempt to get WOW numbers, and as one article said at MMPOG.com about SWG,"The release of WoW caused SOE/LucasArts to radically alter the originally planned "rebalance" to an "upgrade" that not only incorporated many of Blizzard's features, but also added a ton of bugs to boot. SWG was simply not compatible with a linear style WoW gameplay. Those who wanted WoW's features were already playing WoW, without the bugs." if you play or played WOW you can see how much they are taking from that game and trying to incorporate it into SWG, which isnt compatible with the SWG game itself, causing major bugs and tech problems.

Lack of new content, while SWG devs are trying to incorporate WOW gameplay into SWG, they have basically dropped new content, they started after the NGE makine quests for lower levels and working their way up, so in fact if you are playing the game, you are paying while they rebuild the game from the ground up to make it more like WOW, in essense paying to beta test, I refused to do that.

Bugs and more Bugs, bugs that never was fixed from it's launch or still around, new bugs created as they tried to incorporat WOW gameplay into a game that wasn't made for it, and it seemed every patch they made to fix a bug, it would make 10 more bugs.

That are my main reasons I finally quit the game, I felt I was wasting my money, I got tired sitting around waiting for new content to arrive, and I wasn't paying for something that isn't finished, like paying for your new car while they build it.

a game with serious problems

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am willing to give a lot of leeway to a game if it allows me to play in the Star Wars universe, but this game has so many problems it's nearly unplayable.

* The graphics are extremely dated, like something from the mid-1990s. Compared to beautifully rendered games like Guild Wars... it's just no comparison.

* The controls for the game make the most basic tasks -- targeting an opponent and then attacking them -- an exercise in frustration. Essentially, it's impossible to simply select a target and attack them, as you can in every other game I have ever played. Guild Wars, again, is the high water mark here.

* The Player-vs-Player mechanics are utterly borked. There is no separation between areas that are "safe" and areas that aren't -- there are no safe areas. If PVP is enabled, it is enabled everywhere. There is also no separation or discouragement for players of wildly different level attacking each other, meaning that anyone who enables PVP is instantly killed unless they are at least 70th-80th level.

* The game only permits you to have two characters per server. Two. 2. T-W-O. That's ridiculous. Every other MMO game I have played permits at least six.

The last straw for me was the idiotic name filter.

I had played a Jedi up to level 20, and was working on another character when I ran into a peculiar error message. When attempting to create a character named "Siobhan", I got an error message that said names of famous Star Wars characters and planets were not permitted.

Um... what? Since when is the name "Siobhan" a Star Wars character or the name of a planet?

So I went on the Star Wars Galaxies forums and asked if this was a famous planet or character that I'd somehow never heard of. The answer was... ye gods, it's just too ridiculous. The answer was, "Because the name filter won't permit any name that has the letters H - A - N in it."

Ethan. Chani. Hannibal. Vaughan. Nathaniel. Siobhan. "...han..." is a very common series of letters in names. And none of those names are permitted? You're kidding me, right? They weren't kidding.

You know, there are so many, many things wrong with this game (I have listed only a few), but I struggled through and persevered for a couple of weeks because, by gosh, it's Star Wars. I will go a long way and forgive a host of faults just to play in the Star Wars universe.

But that was just the last straw. Any game with that level of obnoxious, overt stupidity built into it is simply not worth my time.

I really, really look forward Bioware's MMOG.

Finally, a word about the "New Game Experience". A great many forum posts and reviews focus on this game update from 2005. News flash: this is 2007. GET OVER IT. Complaining about something that happened in 2005 is just pathetic, particularly when there are more than enough things to complain about in the game as it is TODAY.

So Much Potential, Wasted...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved the idea of this game, played it from the first weeks it launched, until about ayear later. Some people will tell you the New Game Experience or the Combat Upgrade killed Star Wars Galaxies. Truth is, they released the beginnings of a decent game, and never finished it. The NGE and CU just swapped out one unfinished system for another. I hope someday someone other than Sony remakes this game right.

The Return Of The Roleplayers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

They're coming back...

Is it the reintroduction of Creature Handler/Bioengineering and the nostalgia for old pets? The new Storyteller tools that allow you to build scenarios, complete with combatant NPCs, and all manner of props and special effects? Is it hardcore roleplayers who, after tasting the beauty of Lord of The Rings Online, found themselves nostalgic for the more complex and nuanced gameplay and community of SWG?

I really don't know. Maybe it's just this new collection of SWG and its expansions at one very low price.

As an old Starsider hand, speaking to old veterans of the unofficial roleplaying server, the roleplayers are back. Old PAs and new ones are popping up. RP cities are repopulating. How long this will last nobody can say, but so far it's been a fun ride for me for the last several weeks and it only keeps building steam.

May as well check it out, right? Look at that price. C'mon, ya know ya wanna.

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