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Boycott Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts., November 18, 2005
This review is from: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Quick Reference Guide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Spiral-bound)
I have played Star Wars: Galaxies for 782 days according to the /getvet command. I have purchased all of the expansions out to date. I was considering creating a second account. As of 11-17-05 my account is cancelled. The New Game, also known as the Starter Kit, is the third version of SWG and it is riddled with bugs and incomplete. It is a far inferior product to its previous versions as well. The NG was released after being kept secret for an unknown period of time and allowing players only a two week notice of it being published. Even less time was devoted to it being tested by sources outside of SOE. Trials of Obi Wan and the NG were released in such a manner as to call into question SOE's and LA's ethics. As represented by the employees who post to the forums SOE and LA are uncarring, glib, and/or vastly out of touch with the player community. Most of these are not new complaints. However, with the release of the NG these problems have escalted to such a degree that the game is no longer playable. While some are content to merely switch games I am not. Simply changing the direction of the flow of money to SOE and LA will not get their attention. I am boycotting all products created by Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts. I encourage others to do the same. I do not think my actions alone with effect SOE or LA one iota. In fact, I doubt anything will change their policies. The fan base for Star Wars and other properties is sufficiently numerous to mitigate any discontent portion. While some have predicted that the NG will cause the collapse of SWG I believe otherwise. It will lose many current players but those will be replaced by SOE's and LA's new target market. SOE and LA will later use the negative comments and future subscriptions numbers to prove that they were right all along and to dismiss anyone who opposes them as being knee jerk reactionaries who are against change just because they don't like change. Because most likely the next expansion will also bring a new version of SWG as SOE and LA attempt to copy whichever game is doing better then.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Why?, December 26, 2004
This review is from: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Quick Reference Guide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Spiral-bound)
Ok Prima and all the major Cheat Books are releaseing and rereleasing editions to books based on MMORPG's. The point is within a matter of months a guide dedicated to this type of game shall be obsolete. I fell victime to the first round of these books when Star Wars Galaxy came out. With it I got the book thinking "Cool something to help me" figureing this was my first MMORPG. Upon opening the book and loading up the game I realized how pathetic the book was. The skill trees in the orginal edition were changed within a few months by Sony's Devs when they revamped the Bounty Hunter Skill. Also the books inadequete with the listing of skill trainer locations and other locations as well figureing SOE can and will change the location of static NPC's at there chooseing. The orginals did not cover Player Cities nor could it since they are created by the players and figureing to have all listed they'd have to run through ALL servers since this game runs on multiple servers and each player city is in a different location. Oh did I mention there's a Combat Revamp and since the publication of this book Jump to Lightspeed's been released? That means new Trainers, Starship docking locations and many other JTL related items. If you want to throw money out the window by all means buy this and all the other MMORPG books. If you want to find out how to be good seek out people in game and befriend them and as you get to know them learn the tricks of the trade. Otherwise you buy a book and it may be correct as of the time of it's writeing but within a matter of months it'll be obsolete especially with SOE's plans on relaseing more expansions for this game. These books do not teach exploits, cheats and quick ways how to beat a game as you'd expect from a guide. Either way Exploiting is illegal and against Terms of Service and is the quickest way to getting banned. Take this as a grain of salt if you want but if you buy any of these than I hope you get enjoyment out of it and then when what I said comes true than remember I told ya so.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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guide doesn't apply to the game, June 8, 2005
This review is from: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Quick Reference Guide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Spiral-bound)
well....being as they changed the game, the guide no longer applies AT ALL...if you still want to buy one, email me and i'll sell you mine as i sure as heck don't need it anymore...
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