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: Good gone bad
Summary: 1 Stars
This once was a thoroughly enjoyable game. The new changes to the system that came Nov 15, 2005 make this a laughable MMORPG. There are still MAJOR issues with lag (less than 10-30 FPS). The alot of the game still remains bugged. The combat system is slow and simple. If you have played any other online games, don't waste your money or time on this one.Customer Review: Waste of money and time
Summary: 1 Stars
Game is totally ruined as of 15 November 05, save your money for WOW, EQ, or if you want SW go for Battlefront. Customer Review: SWG RIP
Summary: 1 Stars
The first exodus occured after the legendary Combat Downgrade. Now the NGE update has left most cities a wasteland. When I started playing there were so many people outside the spaceports you could find groups all the time. It was fun. Every character was different. I had maxed out all my skill points with no advanced professions. I could do a bit of crafting, medic and kill most medium level critters. It was fun. Then came the CU. I could no longer use any of my weapons. This forced me to specialize a bit but still not too bad - I even got glowy (on my way to becoming a Jedi). Now becoming a Jedi used to take months of grind (16 weeks to padwaan absolute minimum) but I started. I was about halfway through. Now that is all wasted. The elimination of professions and replacing them with character types is just dumbing it down. The new combat system will appeal to some but not those who want to keep their mouse from breaking. Each downgrade they apply to this game loses them more players. People were crying out for bugs to be fixed. But instead they keep throwing the code away and introducing new ones. Expect to see some server consolidation, at the rate people are leaving most have only a few weeks live.... I used to enjoy this game but now SOE have acted like school yard bullies and taken all the fun out of it...
UPDATE 11/18
After playing the NGE for a few days or should I say trying to play it, the game should now have negative stars. The controls are totally crazy. They have tried to speed things up, but with the controls being moved from the mouse to the keyboard it makes movement crazy. The function keys seem to have been lost, oh wait does the PS3 keyboard hve F Keys? It is clear that is where this is headed... I really tried to like it but it just gets worse. I have a couple more weeks on my account, but I am not renewing....
Update 2006
Ok so I stayed a few more months, but my account was cancelled in June. I nearly sold my character on ebay but I could do that to anyone. I so wanted it to work. But you now rarely see anyone else. Gone is all the interaction. Gone is the fun. If you want to fight with a lightsaber get one of the Knight games. Do not even think of buying this.
Customer Review: Terrible.
Summary: 1 Stars
Terrible Customer Service, Terrible Customer Relations, Terrible GUI, Terrible Balancing, Terrible Bugs.
They need to create a new genre for this game....
MMPOS... Massively Multiplayer Piece Of... well, you get my meaning.
Customer Review: Steer clear unless being ripped off is your thing
Summary: 1 Stars
I started playing the game about 2 years ago. When i started there were 32 professions that you was able to play and although they were time consuming to master, They were fun and i made many friends while playing. This is no longer the case as you will see later on in the review.
SOE charge ?10 a month subscription to play on the server, or to basically rent a character space.
Anyway now to my reasons that i would steer clear of the game: Sony announced a new expansion JTL. I bought a hard copy of the Jump to lightspeed expansion which was ?20 and enjoyed it. In the space of a year they bought out another expansion rage of the wookies i then decided to buy a hard copy of that also (another ?20). Althought i felt quite annoyed when buying the rage of the wookies expansion they were giving away Jump to lightspeed along with this on hard copy. (I prefer to buy hard copies of the game and try not to opt for the digital download) So basically i had bought JTL twice. Annoyed i still carried on playing and thought SOE wouldnt screw their player base again. So i carried on spending the ?10 a month to play as well as the other monies i had spent on paying for the expansions. Then SOE announced that they would be releasing another expansion "The Trials of Obi Wan" This time it would not be released on hard copy but only available via digital download. This time i had to pay another ?20 but i wasnt able to have a hard copy of the game this time i had to download it. There were loads of promises that this would be a great expansion pack and that there was going to be loads of new loot on the new mustafar planet. I was pretty excited about this as i had completed my jedi grinding and needed something new to do within the game. Then the day after recieving this expansion on the download it was revealed that there was going to be a mass overhaul of the game. It was going to be changed into a FPS sort of game with 9 professions that you get locked into. There is no more changing professions like when there were 32 starting professions and if you want to be a new profession you will have to start from scratch, hence SOE making more money of the people that play this game as grinding a profession can be done in either a few days or a few months.(Depending on if you are a powergamer or not) Jedi is now an out of the box profession that every one can start with (and after playing it on the test center i would say 90% of the players will be jedi.) All what i had worked for over the past 2 years was going as of the 15th November due to the NGE. I tried out the new version of the game on the test center servers and thought oh well maybe i can adapt to this even though at this point in time i had spent ?300 playing this game. The next time that i logged into the game i was greeted with a message saying that everyone that is currently playing the game will be recieving the Jump to lightspeed expansion for free and it will be downloading to them in the back ground. This was the straw that broke the camels back.
I feel personally betrayed by SOE as does most of the player base that used to play this game. Also another point is that everytime an expansion was released so was some other part of the starwars franchise. For example when rage of the wookies was released so was Starwars Episode 3 in cinemas, When Trials of Obi Wan was released so was Starwars Episode 3 DVD. I am afraid that there is nothing to save it now. Except the people that will be playing via their xbox or PS2 as this is what the game seems to be preparing for.
Most of the player base is leaving as they feel that they have been slapped in the face by SOE. This game will eventually die a death. This game was an excellent MMORPG and i had many hours of fun playing my character. It was time consuming but i enjoyed it while i played. I would tell people now though if they are going to try this game i wouldnt bother, Unless you enjoy clicking a mouse button 300 times to win a fight against an animal or player. If button mashing is what you enjoy play this, otherwise steer clear.