Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
by LucasArts Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
Customer Review: Don't Buy This Game
Summary: 1 Stars
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)
Customer Review: A Wonderful Idea Given Into the Wrong Hands
Summary: 1 Stars
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. Customer Review: get WoW
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Customer Review: Caveat emptor
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
Customer Review: "Bait and Switch" in the RPG world.
Summary: 1 Stars
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.