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: SOE can't see the forest for the trees
Summary: 1 Stars
This game has been out for around two years. In that time, SOE has implemented huge, massive changes to the game, TWICE. In each instance, the first CU (combat upgrade) and now the NGE (new game enhancements), SOE said they were implementing things that the players wanted. However, existing players did NOT want either of these "upgrades." The problem is there have been loads of bugs since day one, and SOE has never bothered to fix them! Almost everyone I've spoken to or played with agrees that the way the game is now is like a beta test. After two years, and SWG is STILL in beta? And there are bugs that have never been fixed? SOE is also notorious for its terrible customer service.
I played the game for six months. It was pretty fun, something I would have continued, though I don't like combat. I liked the social and crafting aspects of it. But now I am severely limited in what I can do. Plus, the new combat system is unwieldy and makes me nauseous.
This is a completely new game. It's like SOE keeps changing it. They should have just kept the thing in actual beta this whole time.
I'm a very disappointed former SWG player. It's just not very fun anymore. All there is to do is kill stuff, level up, and go kill more stuff. If you're seven years old, are a rabid SW fan, and like first person shooters, then this might be the game for you.
Otherwise, pass on it.
Customer Review: Unfortunate changes
Summary: 1 Stars
This isn't the original Star Wars Galaxies where you could "Experience the greatest Star Wars saga ever told -- yours." No this is where you are brought in to experience the exact same saga as everyone else, or at least everyone else in the game. No longer is there a dramatic and personal series of decisions made to pick up the skills that interest you and make your character entirely unique, now you get exactly the same skills as everyone else, pretty much regardless of what iconic profession you choose. One attack does damage, one heals, one for defense, and that's about it. Don't let them tell you that the turns have been taken out, it's still who fires first wins. All the weapons are about the same effectiveness, all the armor is the same, some is just uglier than others.
With lush textures and beautiful planetscapes, detailed and very sexy characters for guys and girls to oogle, and some very Star Wars sounds included, this game looks and sounds fabulous, but this is little consolation to the unfortunate gameplay, the user interface that covers the beautiful visuals, and the severe lack of balance testing that makes the game very unrewarding to play at even higher levels.
The opportunities you have in the game now are about following a predetermined series of quests that likely don't have anything to do with your character or how you want to develop him/her. At it's best it's become an interactive book, but with less imagination or creativity involved. At it's worst it's a waste of time and money with frustration and dissappointment lurking around every corner. The game was far far better at launch than it is today, and I consider myself lucky to have had 2 years of enjoyment with it, but anyone picking up the title now may consider themselves lucky to have 2 weeks enjoyment with it.
Customer Review: Game has been ReCoded over, and over, and over......... Different game now, sucks now....
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
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.
Customer Review: Going, Going, Gone
Summary: 1 Stars
If you want terrible customer service, buy this game.
If you want to left click until your wrist hurts, buy this game.
If you want shallow and uninspiring gameplay, buy this game.
If you want hours upon hours of your play time thrown out on a whim, buy this game.
If you want to feel neglected and abused, buy this game.
In all honesty, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. The rest of the reviews speak for themselves.
Customer Review: Don't buy this
Summary: 1 Stars
The developers of this game have done just about everything to alienate their customers. Just about every update to the game has introduced as many bugs as corrected bugs. They have announced updates that have never come to pass. They have made changes to the game that make your character obsolete. There have been bugs in the game that have remained unresolved for years.
Simply put, don't waste your money on this piece of garbage.