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Summary: As Expected
Review: Whatever the angries tell you, this game is far worth the price.
The 3rd MMORPG I'm playing is graphically the best one. The value added is the Star Wars universe, you really feel in and it gives you another experience of the saga.
Small con: I try hard to find Amiral Ackbar
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Summary: horrible!!!!!
Review: The monthly fees are horrible why cant you play it for free??? you've already spent so much on the game
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Summary: Save your money
Review: After playing this game since release, I would suggest that you save your money and look elsewhere for an enjoyable game experence. The software is full of bugs, which leads to frustration instead of fun. Support is terrible, an we will have the new version out soon so you can pay another 50 bucks to have the bugs repaired in this release. Shame Shame on them.
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Summary: Not much to do
Review: This was my first online RPG and I enjoyed the game a lot for the first two months. The reason I enjoyed it in the beginning was the fact that it was Star Wars and it was fun to play online with my friends. But once that wore off, I started to look for something to do. I joined a guild, bought a house, went to all the planets, and played many professions, but after that (that was the end of my second month) I found there wasn't a lot to do. Don't get me wrong the graphics are great, but there is no goal, no direction, and no overall storyline to feel like you are a part of the Star Wars universe. The other thing that made me cancel my account was the bad promises. Player cities, creature mounts, and vehicles were all suppose to be implemented with the launch. They wanted to get the game out early so the postponed these a "few months" Almost three months later none of these are in the game yet. I wouldn't even expect all three to be out even by the end of the year!
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Summary: Don't wait for "the bugs" to be fixed ...
Review: The bugs everyone talks about are negligible. I'm playing on a system that doesn't meet minimum requirements, and I'm doing just fine. Sure, there's annoying little things like sometimes I'll have a few little glitches and failures, but nothing that has "ruined the game" for me. However, if you're planning on playing on dial-up, well, I have no idea how much lag or "bugs" you'll have to deal with. I have DSL.I have now been playing for close to a month, and I can say this is by far the greatest gaming experience ever created, that I know of. The entire economy is player driven. You can't just walk into anonymous shops and buy items that you need. Instead, nearly every shop in game is player owned and operated. Something like 92% of items used in game are made by actual players. Compared to Everquest, there is just no comparison! The skill tree so beats the hell out of traditional "leveling." In everquest, I always thought it would have been cool if my Warrior could pay a handsome fee to cross train in a few minor Cleric or Druid skills. In Star Wars, you can be a full time fighter, but still work on medical skills, crafting skills. The sky is the limit with this game. No pun intended. One MAJOR piece of advice. I would recommend you buy the Prima guide, as well, and read all the chapters pertaining to in game play and character creation. Until I did, the game looked far too complex. Also, make the official Sony Star Wars Galaxies website your best friend. Unlike the Everquest chat boards, which were just filled with random suggestions and complaints, there is real information to be found. Again, community oriented. Some of us who play SWG really love it, and we're more than willing to help new players.
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Summary: Not Ready for Primetime
Review: Good potential, but it was released too early. This game has the ability to be the best MMORPG, but it fall way short of that will all of the bugs. Wait about a year and then it will be good.
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Summary: G00d Game
Review: Honestly i only played the game for about 2or 3 hours at my friends house. But within that short time also watching my bro play it is a VERY impressive game. You could custamize your character soo much it was scary. I have heard of some bugs in the game but i havent ran into any so far. There are a few updates coming out such as mounts. You capture creatures and ride them. Player cities (make your own city with others and get voted to be the mayor) and things like speed bikes and stuff like that. Overall I was impressed by the graphics on the game and enjoyed it. The many classes and proffesions you could get was amazing. I think its a a good game and put it on your to buy list.
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Summary: Not for international players
Review: Best not to buy this game if you are in Asia or Australia. All game servers are in the US and they all go down everyday for 1.5 to 2 hours in primetime playing hours (evening). It's ok for US players as this is early morning, but for the Australasian time zones, forget it. 2 hours downtime everyday is just madness!
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Summary: please read before throwing your money and time away
Review: 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).
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Summary: Ownzors you
Review: Can this game get any better. Those poor noobs with 56Ks think they'll be left out, yet even they can join in the mayhem. This game takes RPG's to the next level, and doesn't addict you like EverCrack. JK. Seriously, this is the best SW game ever!
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