Customer Reviews

Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Collectors Edition

5 star:		(29)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

This game was great at one point but has been completely redone. It is more like EQ2 & World of Warcraft now. If you are looking for either of these games with a Star Wars feel this is it right now. If you have to get this game I would not get the collector's edition. Its not worth the extra money and all you get are some funky glasses you can wear ingame

It started as a game of skills,(one of a kind on the PC gaming market) as you moved up in the skill tree, you were given more enhancements, more moves, more excitement. When you mastered a tree, you had all the powers and could do basically whatever you wanted, go fight some tuskins, go hunt, succeed. It was pretty cool. It was even fun to group up with a bunch of friends and do the harder missions. It was different. You had a choice of soloing it, or grouping up to get some extra XP. It was fun. Roaming around the different planets and seeing the different creatures, different landscapes, the graphics were pretty amazing. I played this game with a bunch of people, form 16-45. It allowed all ages to immerse themselves in different ways. We had armorsmiths, weaponsmiths, I myself was a master dancer for quite sometime and really enjoyed it. I even got married in game in front of the whole cantina.

I have a lot of memories. Fond memories. But they are all gone now. Those skills I worked so hard for, are gone, master dancer, it means nothing now, all my friends they are gone, including the character I married. Why you ask?

Well a new upgrade was released, it was called the Combat upgrade. it changed that cool skill based system into a level system, (you can find those with EQII and WOW,) it put so many limitations on the game that many of us have left. We have begged for information from the development team and management, but we do not receive any information. They have literally ignored us. Then they tell you the consumer whom have never played this game that the "community" loves it. *sigh* some do, but most don't.

If you want a level up game go try WOW or even Guildwars, better graphics and less bugs. If you must have Star Wars, try one of the other games, this one is very sick and in need of alot of help. It will be a waste of money to pay them $15.00 a month when you can get Knights of the old republic and only spend the $50.00 that one time.

Just some advice for the consumer. It was a great game, but all the professions are gone. The excitement is gone. Most of all, the fun is gone.

Alright I've reviewed this game once and now that I'm out of the game I think it's time to do a second review. For those that don't know the game has pretty much turned inside out and died due to the NGE. I left at launch of the NGE not happy with the changes that were made very simple.

About 1 month ago I actually gave the game the true try with the full NGE in place. My opinion ranged from "Wow look what I missed" to "Wow look how they screwed this game up."

I created characters on 4 of the most active servers that I could find ran from place to place searching for people to group with and see what activity was on the server.

Needless to say I was dumbfounded. Lowcam Starsider, Flurry and Chimarra all were the servers I joinned. All VERY DEAD. Mos Eisley Dead. Theed Dead, Dantooine, Dathomir all the same. Over the course of a 14 day trial I could count on both hands how many people I encountered.

Entertainer's were nearly impossible to find. I encountered a total of 2 Entertainers to gain Entertainer buffs. High End Equipment from Venders or Bazaar no luck. I even searched through the map for venders listed on the map.

The outright hostility to the NGE SOE should have realized and reversed there decision. On Lowca every city I visted there were signs visible of Anti NGE and needless to say I couldn't belive it. Then upon visiting many of the popular hunting grounds I could see what people ment about the NGE killing the game. Death Watch Bunker, Fort Tusken, Hunting on Dantooine nothing there so what's the point in playing?

During the time I played it was during the Halloween spurt where Mos Eisley and Moenia were the two locations to go. Mos Eisley being that dead and figureing that city is the Starter City was sickening.

So needless to say I let my trial run out without resubscribing. I'll continue playing the other MMO and make the decision on if I'll play the Knights of the Republic MMO when it comes out and more material is available on it.

This game is not worth the headaches.

This game simply does not deliver. I've played from the start and the game is still not ready for retail release. The number of non-functional professions and bugs is simply mind numbing. This game more closely resembles Pokemon than Star Wars - everyone in the game has a pocket monster that they use to attack other players and creatures with.
There is no content in this game. Most of the quests still do not work.
Game mechanics are horrid. Do NOT waste your money on this junk. After you buy the box you still have to pay $15 / month for a game that doesn't work! Don't waste your money.

Well I have to say when I first got this game the first few monts were fantastic I had an awesome time leveling up my character hanging out with friends online and enjoying the game. Then suddenly I realized that after playing for 3 months I was doing the same thing I had been doing for the past 3 months just with harder monsters and no interesting stories and quests.

With all of my friends loosing interest due to lack of interesting entertaining content such as epic quests a solid galactic storyline and no space expansion I found myself bored and the game felt more like a job then a game. The game is designed beautifully but if you like to play rpgs to take part in moderately deep and interesting quests then this game is not for you. However if you like to make your own life this game is for you

There are also some major balance issues with character classes massive amounts of nerfs going on during the game and more. I must say that this game has lots of potential but it just does not have a high fun factor and replay value. Which is why I cancelled my account as well. I may check this game out in the future once a few expansion come out and more interesting engrossing content is added such as quests that take weeks to complete and are very rewarding with items and the story that unfolds. Until then this game will stay on the shelf where it belongs and won't be coming down anytime soon. If your looking for an MMORPG with more story I would sugges everques FFXI which has quite a nice storyline system and the upcoming World of Warcraft which has lots of potential in the content department.

This game has tons of content... if by content you mean vast expanses of nothingness and sporadic regenerating monsters with their spawning "nests". While scenery is nice at times, this game was a huge disappointment. Example: a 30 min jog to see the sarlacc pit (huge mouth in the sand Jabba throws guys in on the movie) to find that it is a 2D, non-interactive .bmp image laid horizontally in the desert sand. Oh, and it will take you at least 2 weeks of gameplay to master the weaponry and skills necessary to defeat a single 40-pound frog whose only defense seems to be in hopping at you and making noises. After becoming a master craftsman, sure you can make a lot of stuff..but you've spent so much time and effort in developing your crafting skills that you have minimal survivalist and combat abilities..which means the only point in being a craftsman is the accumulation of money from selling the stuff you make. While this may be entertaining for some, crafting and selling and crafting and selling and crafting and selling makes you feel more like a Guatemalan blanket weaver crafting for daily sustenance than an adventurer in the starwars realm. In truth, there is no point to this game... and any self-created goal, including opening a Jedi slot and becoming one, is MUCH MORE WORK THAN FUN!!!! I'm not going to go through the massive number and annoyance of bugs in this game...I really don't have the time. Just do a "swg" search on google and read through the results. My opinion is that this game was rushed to the market in fear of the much anticipated release of World of Warcraft by Blizzard.

SO MANY PROBLEMS:

* Things that do not work as stated: many professions and items are plain broken.

* Horrible LAG at times, up to 20-30 seconds or even a minute at times to execute a command.

* Inexplicable server crashes and losses of connectivity -- frequently; and then it will take a half-hour to get back into the game while the server loads.

* Server rollbacks -- Lost data, lost experience, missing inventory items (lots and frequently): don't get too attached to anything.

* Virtually DAILY bug patches both at the server and client ends. Yes, you're paying them to beta test their stuff. What a deal Sony has going on!

* Currently 2 hours of DOWN TIME on the servers for maintenance EVERY DAY.

* An entirely worthless and apathetic Customer Support (sic): buncha DMV rejects. Every email I have from them, after I've sent a detailed complaint, gets a useless "form letter" response. And FORGET finding them in online group chat.

* WHERE'S COMPLETE DOCUMENTATION? The manual is horrible, more interested in being Star Wars-y than informative. Customer Support (sic) while telling you to READ THE MANUAL for any and all help you might want, is happy to tell you out of the other side of their mouths that there are new and undocumented commands. Yes, that's right: YOU CAN'T HAVE ALL THE RULES!

* A gigantic amount of game-related information is simply unavailable in the game. The best source of game information is not the game, but from fan sites.

* /bug reports are NEVER answered. At last check, there were over HALF A MILLION bug reports filed. Amazing! The game's a month old! Now they've put a cap on how many bug reports you can send. What? Is 500,000 bug reports too embrassing that they have to limit adding more?

And this list doesn't touch on any of the MANY problems with the game itself --

* WALL-TO-WALL TEDIUM,
* NO SENSE OF STAR WARS EPIC,
* GOOFY PLAYER ECONOMY,
* VERY LIMITED ROLE-PLAYING,
* ARCANE INTERFACE,
* BROKEN GRAPHICS (things floating in mid-air, standing next to a giant cube that says "Default Appearance" on it, magically moving waypoints).

And -- WORST OF ALL -- their primary focus is NOT in fixing these problems, but in coming out with new features. STUNNING!

I have really tried to like this game -- but enough is enough. What a waste of good money.

I buy most every game that comes out. I have a 1900+ rating in AoC and hovered just below 2k in AoM when I played. I also play most of the other MMORPGS with the exception of DAOC, just not my speed.
I have never, ever seen a game that has this many catastrophic flaws and bugs. The server has been down at one point or another nearly every single day since it opened, and that is nothing....
A multitude of people have had everything they owned deleted out of the blue, most people have had some significant items deleted at one time or another. It is very hard to move to any new area of town without someone mentioning out loud that they just signed in and 'such-and-such' is now gone.
Creatures magically disappear when you fight them, usually just before they die so you get no credit for fighting them. They also teleport in clear view on top of you because the servers are apparently VIC28s.
There were a plethora of exploits known in the beta that they chose to ignore and let the people paying to support the game (which is still much less reliable than eves beta was, or EEs beta for that matter, which actually was buggy) use to advance to endgame levels that now have been made unapproachable for months to most. They embraced the "exploit early, exploit often" principle, mostly because a number of them play the game online....and also post on the website trashing anyone who has a problem with anything they do (under their player names, which doesn't denote that they are monetarily connected the game to anyone who hasn't happened to get to know them ingame), and delete totally legitimate posts (I have never had one deleted, but many of the ones that get deleted are just being deleted to promote a fraudulent image of the state of the game, which is terrible).
Worst of all, there are untold numbers of bugs that were known in the beta that made the game completely unplayable, but they chose to ignore so that they could release the game and force the fans of star wars to pay to support it for them (please keep in mind, I play most MMORPGS, this is so far out of the realm of the minute amount other games have done that it makes Shaq-Fu look like viable product).
There was 30 days playing time promised on the box. Out of the 30 days, there was a grand total of 1 that I was able to play without having a fatal error on their end make it unplayable. Having their faulty code damage stats as if armor was on 2 or 3 times over when no armor was on (making some stats negative :P) and insuring anything that touched you would kill you in 1 hit until the next day (or longer sometimes) when they would finally shake it off your character. Crashing for no reason and killing your character in the process, world comes back up an hour (or day, or 2) later and your character has huge wounds that force you to sit around in a hospitol for up to an hour...WHEEEEE. Deleting all your equipment and your money so you run around with starter gear trying to get money is real fun then. Having havesters dissapear with a weeks worth of gathering in them. Having entire suits of top grade armor regularly disappear when they are bought. All these things and thousands more were known before release and are acceptable to them (call their reps online and ask about the 30 days the box promises, they openely say could care less about any promises made and they will make no attempt to make ammends for charging you to play while their servers are completely unavailable. They released it anyway to make star wars fans (figuring they are loyal and could thus be exploited) pay for what is supposed to be pre-release troubleshooting and quality control.
It is a shame and I am frankly stunned that Sony would allow this travesty to be enacted under their name :(
-true__ibnFrey
(Please save yourselves the frustration, lost time and effort. Eve online runs fantastically and is so well taken care of that it may well be the next long-term MMORPG to make it truly huge, AC2 has finally begun to listen to the gaming community and has been quietly building up a hard-earned fan base, a couple my buds play, Blizzard always comes through and there are other MMORPGS on the horizon (I can't wait for City Of Heroes ^^).)
**edit** for the fanboys trying to blame the systems of people who are playing this game and honestly trying to warn other people from getting robbed, here are my specs: hyperthreaded 2.8, 1G RAM, 160Gb hard drive with nothing but 3 games on it, GeForce fx 5200. This game does NOT work...on any system. Every person who has any experience with MMORPGs knows the truth that is the most poorly supported and designed game ever released, it is a total disgrace (eve and ac2 get back to you within small hours, often within 1, average time on tickets in SWG is about 3-4 days (long time to go without playing and still being expected to pay for it), and that is on tickets they don't accidentally delete, which has been right about half of them in my experience (which means queueing up another 3-4 days (I've had 2 that took 8 and 10 days, respectively) wait of not playing).

I'm on dialup, and the game said it can be played on dialup. Well it can't. After 50 straight hours spent downloading the patches, I finally got to start the game. It was as boring as boring can be. Plus, at dialup speed, just forget it. I complained to Sony and they were "gracious" enough to refund my monthly subscription money. But I'm still out the $20 I paid at Walmart.

I'd give this game negative stars if that was an option. No use rehashing what the others have said. The missions are pointless, unrealistic, take forever to complete, and grant you very small rewards.

This game is a complete STRIKE OUT.

I have played SWG since it went public. The graphics and potential it gave when i first started was amazing.

After the first month the game lost its luster and it became a boring 'grind' for everything.

There is extremely poor Customer Service and if you have a problem 99.99% of the time you are out of luck - forget getting any help of any kind.

The great "Profession" you just mastered .. dont count on it staying the same for long - every porfession has benn significantly changed and will be changed over and over again - it seems they cant make up their minds on what each RPG skill is supposed to do.

You will most likely NOT make a Jedi character - there is some super secret path that only the hardest hard core players have the time to "Grind" away and then THROW all those weeks of work away only to start all over again and again and again ... its very boring.

anyway ... i made the mistake of getting a 6 month pass, when it is over, i will drop this game without a second thought.