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: Worst game ever - DO NOT BUY
Summary: 1 Stars
They made a trial and a tutorial that seems nice but the real game is 100% broken. Game is just about unplayable. The makers of the game, SOE and LA, say it will be months before it is playable. But they still charge you $15 a month to play an unplayable game.
Check all the game review sites. They all say this is the worste MMORPG in the history of online games.
Customer Review: The Worst Customer Service You'll Ever See!
Summary: 1 Stars
This game was very good when it was launched in 2003, very buggy but nonetheless very fun. Since then SOE / Sony / Lucasarts has proceeded to create too many new bugs to count and has consistently failed to correct the old ones. The customer service is the absolute worst I've EVER seen, not only in mmorpg's, but as a business in general. Simple requests and bug reports are either completely ignored or replied to weeks or months later with generic responses such as "working as intended" or "will be fixed in an upcoming patch". The changes they have made to this game (Combat Upgrade and the recent NGE) have seriously downgraded the game and have sent roughly 80% of the players scrambling to other games. In summary, if you're looking for a great Star Wars game you've found it, only two years too late. If you still decide to buy this game be prepared for laggy and buggy gameplay and the worst customer service you'll ever experience. Read the player forums at [...] for more reviews supporting this SOE trainwreck. I will never purchase another SOE game or Sony product as long as I live and this experience has caused a lifelong Star Wars fan to lose some of his love for Star Wars as a whole.Customer Review: This is no longer the game I paid for.
Summary: 1 Stars
Two years ago when I purchased the game, it had absolutly amazing graphics. Players enjoyed a wide variety of professions, one could be an crafter, fighter, Doctor, even a Jedi (with much hard work), and could even mix up the professions a bit to make a custom character to suit ones needs. Now there are only 9 professions, including Jedi, players once having selected the profession of choice are forvermore stuck in that class.
Scale of 1-10
Graphics: 9
User interface: 1
RPG Genre theme: 3 (this game is more FPS than RPG)
Customer Support: 1 (customer support fails in all respects)
with all the other RPGs out on the market now, no need to waste money on this one.
Customer Review: STAR WARS GALAXIES IS DEAD
Summary: 1 Stars
First off let me say that I used to love this game. I played it for 2+ years.
NOT ANYMORE - THAT GAME IS DEAD AND BURIED
Before NGE (New Gaming Experiance), what they called it when they gutted the entire game and pushed a pre-Alpha to live, I liked being able to run around on the ground doing stuff, questing, hunting with friends, jumping into a ship to go into space to shoot down starships... I liked just hanging out with people in it and chatting, the player based economy... The wonderful multibranched tree profesion system that let you do a little of this and that and have fun, and drop the classes/profesions when you got tired of them and try new things...
All of that has been removed.
Most of the vitrolic reaction that you will see here is due to a monsterously botched "upgrade" that was done over strong objections, and pushed out to the live servers WAY before it was ready. The called this the "New Gaming Experiance" or "NGE".
Selling points on SWG these days include:
- A player economy taht has been ruined.
- Crafting that is now pointless.
- An unplayable level of bugs.
- Went from 30 professions down to 9.
- Years worth of in game work wiped away.
- Bad/non-existant quests and experiance to advance.
- Their custmer service is bad or non-existant.
- The interface is the worst I have ever seen.
- Even chatting with other people is now painfully hard.
(So much so people have left for this reason alone!)
- Consistantly good content is broken or removed.
- Your complaints will be at best ignored.
- The player comunity has been destoyed.
- They never have been good about fixing bugs.
Seriously, it is horrifingly bad now.
* There is more that I could say about the way this game has been run, and is being run that would be true and *REALLY* negitive. Amazon says I am not supposed to be spitefull so I will merely point you in the right direction:
Do not buy this game until you have checked out the forums on the official site, be advised that views that they don't agree with there are often deleted. Check out their posting guidelines and read between the lines. At least on person who worked for them in customer relations and actually told customers the truth and did not lie on command to us was FIRED for it.
Don't just take my word for it. Do a google search too on NGE and SWG. This game is ruined and SOE cannot be trusted to ever run a good MMORPG ever again.
I am *VERY* sad to make this review. I used to like this game, and it is not just because they made changes I am annoyed, but because they could not even get them working before forcing them on us. That all the unique and good things in the game were destroyed.
Not all MMORPG's are like this, so don't play this one. :(
Amazon sells many good MMORPG's might I sugest looking at one of the following instead:
World of Warcraft
City of Heros
City of Villians
When they come out:
Dungens and Dragons Online
Star Trek Online
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Customer Review: Star Wars Rip Off
Summary: 1 Stars
When I bought this game, it was great, fast, fun, and so much to do. You could make money crafting, or as a doc, or on missions plus there were thousands of people to play with.
Now the game has been completely revamped twice with dire results to the game. over 90% of the player base left the game. Sony keeps pushing for new releases to sell and never fix the bugs.
Run from this game. It is no longer playable. I spent a lot of time and effort in this game, and now everyone has left it including myself.
If was a devoted customer of the Star Wars games, I only wish I had been treated like a customer instead of a chump punk. I will never buy another game that Sony or Lucas Arts is involved with.